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First, hipsters were going to spell the end of western civilization. And, now, western civilization is going to spell the end of hipsters. In the latest edition of NOW, Joshua Errett (Torontoist's co-founder, for what it's worth) argues that hipsters are so totally over, thanks in no small part to a certain Barack Obama. Maybe Errett's just being ironic (or post-ironic?). Or maybe Sarah Nicole Prickett—justifiably cited as something of an expert on hipsterdom in NOW's article—was sorta right.
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I feel compelled to make some small commentary on these articles so im doing it here.
1. I really don't see the irony in the hipster thing that people tend to attribute to it. That was more of a 90's deal. Those beautiful blond girls are wearing those fur hats and coats cause they like em for reals, not as some sort of post post modern critique on something.
2. Despite what she claims Sarah Nicole Prickett looks like a big hipster to me but then that's the problem with the hipster label. It dosn't really mean anything and just about anyone can be called a hipster. People tend to use the label when they want to have a little self satisfied sneer at someone.
What's a hipster?
One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool
Bias - Hipsters are notorious for not recognizing themselves as hipsters while claiming to hate hipsters and hipsterdom.
I'm astonished by the fact that the article implies that hipsters will simply disappear. That's utter nonsense.
Just like every other subculture in the last 100 years, it will evolve into something else when it hits the mainstream. There will ALWAYS be a subculture. It's a natural, organic process too. Hipsters from 5 years ago were fairly different from today's. The mainstream exposure just accelerates the evolution.
Five years from now, there will still be hipsters. They'll just go to different places at night, wear different clothes, listen to different music, and be labeled something other than "hipster".
Hmm... I think I shall start up the hipster/emo movement and call ourselves hemo! Yes, the world shall tremble at our bi-polar feet! But alas... I am too apethitic.
Rek, that is the actual definition of hipster taken directly out of the hipster handbook.
"Hipsters are notorious for not recognizing themselves as hipsters while claiming to hate hipsters and hipsterdom" is also a biased opinion. The "hipsters" who say things like that are just vying for attention in their social group, claiming non-conformity to satisfy themselves from the fact that they are huge pretentious douche heads
From the South Park season 7 episode where Stan becomes a goth kid:
Goth Kid: If you wanna be one of the non-conformists, all you have to do is dress just like us and listen to the same music we do.
Jimmy: Stan says that your a cont, your a cont, Stan says your a contttinueing source of inspiration to him
Now that's CHANGE that I can believe in.
"being cynical is fun, and it gets you pussy."
whoa, i must have missed something on this one.
all being cynical got me was less friends and yelled at by my dad when i was 16 for being an asshole all the time.
I've thought of myself as a bit of a hipster since 2000 ish. I don't think it carried the same connotations in west end Glasgow then as it does here now but I still consider myself a bit of one. whatever. I like 50 because it tastes good and its cheap. I've never liked Tennents.
"I've thought of myself as a bit of a hipster since 2000 ish"
re-reading that sounds hella wanky. but it is true.
StayMaitland - Is that the hipster handbook by Vice, or the hipster handbook by Urban Outfitters?