Full Circle Jerk

By David Topping

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.