<p>I actually hate that word, but the idea is intriguing to me. A group of so-called nonconformists who all conform to a certain image. (Living paradoxes! What fun)</p>
<p>You know the type- they shop at thrift stores and Urban Outifitters, care deeply, almost obsessively, about music, are culturally literate but never politically correct, show general disdain towards anything "mainstream", wear thick, black-framed glasses, and are, on the whole, environmentally friendly vegetarians.</p>
<p>They're fun to meet/mock (don't we all know a hipster or two?), and they all seem to fit the stereotype. </p>
<p>This girl in my gov class is the living embodiment of everything hipster. The only thing stopping me from breaking her massive hipster glasses to pieces is that my gov teacher is a track coach with massive legs and I’m afraid he would squish me if I did that.</p>
<p>Well living in Berkeley, I feel like we have more than our share of hipsters. I’ve gotten kind of used to it. At first they really annoyed me but now I’m sorta like whatever, do your thing and I’ll do mine. The funny thing is that they’re all really obsessed with getting into UC Berkeley, and the rest of our class is obsessed with getting away from Berkeley. I guess they feel at home here.</p>
<p>I’ve always been sort of intrigued by the possibility of blogging from a “cool” coffee shop with a pair of rimmed glasses gracing my face and a peppermint latte in my mitt. </p>
<p>I dunno, though, it seems a little too mainstream…</p>
<p>All of my siblings and even my parents say that they can see me becoming a hipster as I go off to college. I must say that I’ve always had a quiet respect for the hipsters I’ve known–not the chumps who wear skinny jeans and scarves, but those guys who go to bizarre concerts, march to the beat of their own drum and leave some of the most hilarious (but esoteric) statuses on Facebook…</p>
<p>And Madison–the quintessential college town that it is–is a hotspot of hipster activity (think: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) so who knows what I could turn into in four years…lol ;)</p>
<p>I know a lot of people who fit parts of the hipster stereotype, but I don’t really think of them has hipsters… they’re just interesting people.</p>
<p>Oh, except my math teacher. My math teacher who’s almost 40 has been a hipster since forever. He’s from NYC and lives in the alternative part of the area where stores sell vinyls and weed paraphernalia. He was a hipster before the term hipster was cool. True story.</p>
<p>@michael2
God, there are some weird people on Youtube. That’s why I love it. </p>
<p>@dfree124
Hahaha!!! Nice anecdote.</p>
<p>@alwaysleah
I didn’t know Berkeley was a home for hipsters! I always thought they clustered in urban areas. I guess hipsters have many natural habitats. </p>
<p>@Wiscongene
Ahhh, an aspiring hipster…You know what, you should go for it. College is the best time to do weird and crazy and interesting things. I wish you the best of luck! </p>
<p>@corvids
They are interesting people. What I don’t like is that they all seem to follow a “recipe” on how to be cool. (“How to bake a hipster in 30 minutes!”) After a while, their version of “cool” just becomes homogenized.
I would enjoy math if my math teacher was an old hipster. I would look forward to coming to class.
…Weed paraphrenaila. LOL, you just made my day.</p>
<p>This is going to sound like such a hipster thing to say, but…</p>
<p>I hate that term.</p>
<p>It’s basically a catch-all term for college kids who have good taste in music and dress nice. There’s nothing wrong with buying vinyl, blogging at a coffee shop, using a mac, etc. I would argue that those who call people hipsters are more shallow than the “hipsters” themselves.</p>
<p>Another thing I dislike about the term/its usage is it marginalizes those who try to stick out, and ridicules those who “march to the beat of their own drummer” (“You like that? It’s just random noise. You’re trying too hard to be cool”). Sure, there are those who chase trends, but I would argue that they are no different from so-called “normal people”; they just chase different trends.</p>
<p>tl;dr: Hipster is an overused, unfairly marginalizing term.</p>
<p>Hipsters are so very fun to make fun of. In journalism, we have a handful of hipsters and enjoy saying things like “Oh hipster Luke probably beats off to pitchfork every night.” That being said, I find nothing wrong if a persons interests lead them to being a hipster, to each his own. I am sometimes teasingly referred to as being a hipster, although I hardly think my fashion and music tastes are underground enough to be a hipster. Te only thing that can be a bit annoying about a hipster is if it is one who looks down on other people based on their interests. That’s the worst!</p>
<p>@turntabler
I’m not encompassing everybody who’s interesting into the word “hipster.” Not all interesting people are hipsters, and not all hipsters are interesting. I’m talking about a very specific type of person (you know, the type who would call themselves “hipsters” and try to fit the stereotype). And hipster (omg I hate using that word) qualities in a person does not necessarily qualify that person as a…the dreaded “h” word. </p>
<p>You do sound kind of bitter. Cheer up </p>
<p>@imacheetahgrr
I know, it’s annoying when they have “general disdain” towards mainstream (another word I hate) society. They’d be a lot more likeable if they didn’t turn up their noses at whatever the majority of people like, but I guess they want to stay in character.</p>
<p>I’m not actually bitter (it’s impossible to be when you just were watching Community :)), it’s just a pet peeve. I’ve also never met anyone who would label themselves as a hipster (maybe they would grudgingly admit they happen to have some hipster characteristics.</p>
<p>@turntabler
I love Community.
Oh, you’ve never met people who call themselves hipsters? The only thing going through my mind right now is an anorexic British guy (who gets high on the weekends, dates a photographer, and plays in a band) saying to me, “Yeah, I’m a hipster, and I’m all right with that.”
Oh yeah, and a theater junkie who said something vaguely along the lines of, “I’m a bit of a hipster myself.” She really wasn’t, but she tried to be. </p>
<p>@Harryjones
I see you’re a PC. Hello friend.</p>
<p>I feel like there are the people who are called hipsters who don’t identify as hipsters, and the people who are called hipsters which do identify as hipsters. How should we distinguish these two fascinating populations from each other?</p>
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