<p>Yes, I have encountered the wannabe hipsters! The ones I know are semi preppy girls who think being hipster is a “trend” and say things like “I’m so hipster today”. But I’ve also come across people with hipster qualities and those people I know vary extremely in personality. One of my friends is really into the indie music scene and unlike me it reflects in her style. She is part of a visual arts magnet and hangs out at coffee shops a lot, and is also super outgoing and bubbly. Another girl I know is such a talented artist and she puts together these super awesome ensembles from cool thrift stores. She is also very shy and one of the quietest people I have ever met. I’m not sure about her music taste though.
So, well the point I’m trying to make is that there isn’t just that certain stereotypical “hipster”. People can have hipster qualities, but they don’t fit into a certain personality or style.</p>
<p>Since I’m a hipster commenting on this post, or even calling myself a hipster is to mainstream, but What can I say I’m a walking hipster paradox ;)</p>
<p>A hipster calling herself/himself of hipster. Haha.</p>
<p>Oh and I forgot to mention how naive some people are when trying to point out hipsters. I got called hipster because of my taste in music and because I had on some vintage shoes or something, and that was when I was preppy as hell! Haha it’s just really funny, I would wear an oxford and some plain skirt and get called hipster.</p>
<p>They call themselves hipsters and original when it’s really not original to be a “hipster”. There are probably hundreds, if not thousands of so-called “hipsters”. That certainly is not original.</p>
<p>I agree to helloel, I wore a pair of oxfords and people gave me comments like “OHH EMM GEEEEE U R SUCH A HIPST3RRR11!111”. That was a little exaggerated haha but you get my point.</p>
<p>A hipster who admits to being a hipster is not a hipster.</p>
<p>lolol, well said michael, well said.</p>
<p>jesskidding: Haha exactly and if I was copying a trend I got out of a mainstream magazine, that is really not hipster haha which I don’t think people get.</p>
<p>You guys have happened upon a new phenomenon. Maybe it’s just because there are quite a bit of people in my school who lean towards hipster, but anyone accused of being one will vigorously deny it. </p>
<p>I guess if people are just calling themselves hipster the way some people call themselves goth, punk, etc., I don’t care; it’s just when people call someone a hipster as a euphemism for “different from me” that I start to get annoyed.</p>
<p>Yes I hate when people judge that way. And sadly it is that way at my school.</p>
<p>@catchtwentythree Berkeley is like…hipster haven. I can’t even describe it. There are weed paraphanelia shops all over, everyone shops at thrift stores, and everyone’s obsessed with saving the environment. Weed is actually practically legal, given the amount of people with medical marijuana cards. All you have to do is be 18 and tell the doctor you get headaches or something hahah. Ohh california.</p>
<p>@turntabler
You must be a college kid; you sound so out of touch with the younger generation. Well, good sir, times have changed. Fads come and go, we pick them up like silly bands, and then we leave them for the next generation to use, abuse, or redefine. Us high school young 'uns are currently redefining the world, starting with the concept of a “hipster.”
Many people nowadays are happy to call themselves hipsters. Where I’m from, anyway.</p>
<p>@alwaysleah
Wow. Your description of Berkley just made my life sound boring. It must be nice being surrounded by a thick cloud of marajuana smoke at all times; I can’t imagine being stressed about anything in that state. And the world must seem like such a profound and giddy place.
(Typical conversation: “Let’s go shop for vintage deals, save the Earth, then go out for tofu salads!” “Whoooaaa, maaaan. That is a grreaaat idea. I’m in!”)</p>
<p>What’s it like being so surrounded by hipsters that hipsterdom becomes normal?</p>
<p>That’s just generally a characteristic of being a hipster, denying it. And I think that is one thing that won’t change.</p>
<p>@catchtwentythree
Nope, in high school, and I think you’re wrong for the majority of the population (though it would be nice if hipster was redefined as a non-pejorative as it was in the '50s).</p>
<p>What’s wrong with using a mac? :eek:</p>
<p>In fact, I only use a PC because my school hands out tablets preloaded with windows and not a mac :p</p>
<p>Tizil7: There’s nothing wrong with using a Mac, haha, typing on one write now. That’s cool your school hands out tablets though.</p>
<p>Who knows? I could be wrong about hipsters. </p>
<p>And it’s true, real hipsters would deny being hipsters (I think I read that somewhere on urban dictionary once).</p>
<p>Hey, let’s start a game. Name something you’d find in a hipster’s room.</p>
<p>I’ll go first… Bubble gum machine. (The catch is, the gum would have to be gluten-free. And naturally flavored.)</p>
<p>A hipster would have a record player that is modified to be a speakers for a Zune.</p>
<p>I made fun of hipsters before it was cool.</p>
<p>That reminds me of something I saw earlier today…</p>
<p>[Hipster</a> Lincoln.](<a href=“On life and time.”>On life and time.)</p>