are you a hipster?

are all cretans liars?

― max, Monday, September 5, 2011 7:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

http://jobs.usehipster.com/

Probably. I've been called as such.

effing hipsters

I didn't used to think so but then I realized that hipsters aren't even the dominant life form in the early-20s children of the upper-middle-class demographic, and I'm a lot closer to a hipster than whatever the kind of person who has muscles and wears athletic shorts and plays volleyball is.

Do hipsters love to dance? If so I am so a hipster (yellow shirt).

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/926/me3kl.jpg

tryin too hard

my bike has colored tires, so probably

but then I get excited about recordings of mozart performed on fortepiano, so probably not

in the top ten

I ticked "yes", but I'm 31 next month, live in a UK commuter suburb and ride a mountain bike. I work in media advertising, but it's telesales more or less. I have a "vintage" TV (well, it's one of those ancient widescreens) but I use it to watch TV and not as a coffeetable. My clothes are mainly from Uniqlo and H&M. Basically I'm the worst hipster ever.

no, i am too old.

I'm pretty sure I'm not.

damn straight daddio

Voted no, but I'm hipper than most people I interact with on a regular basis. I figure that shopping at Kmart probably cancels out my chillwave playlist though.

Every time I see this word, I think "pants". So, no.

Shopping at K-Mart is extremely cool.

It is not.

No

Ridiculously easy for me to answer no.

people who begrudgingly self-identify as hipster >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> people who make a big stink about not being a hipster

http://www.granitegrok.com/pix/Nixon.jpg

"I am not a hipster!"

yeah probably. i'm currently wearing slim jeans with the cuff rolled up, that's probably enough in itself before everything else has its say.

5 years ago, maybe

harsh :'(

Yeah, I'd consider myself to have been a hipster in like 2003 or 2004, but I had nowhere near the depth of hip cultural knowledge. I feel comfortable saying that I became "no longer a hipster" when I got fat after quitting smoking.

http://jobs.usehipster.com/

― buzza, Tuesday, September 6, 2011 3:01 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark

i do sincerely love that this is a thing

u need minature (vintage) ankle braces and an mc hammer flare around the thigh imo

xpost

I have a record collection so yes

i play hipster-y music for hipsters, so probably. i know it's going to be a good show if there's a high hipster concentration.

the word "hipster" is starting to look really weird right now.

90% eurotrance

xpost

{eurotrash hipster)

jordan don't you play in a brass band?!

yeah that totally not hipster-y. i also do a solo thing with samplers and synths and drums, so.

altho i've been to two hip events this year that inc brass bands and of course there's williams fairey brass band, hypnotic brass ensemble, hot8 brass band etc that's all p hipster

I'd like to be a hipster, but know deep down I'm just not cool enough.

I'm such a fucking hipster

if you had told me in '03 that hot 8 and hipsters would ever have anything to do with each other...

blame the beards

I hope you answered YES Tom

people who begrudgingly self-identify as hipster >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> people who make a big stink about not being a hipster

lol you basically just said "me >>>>> other people" here

officially acknowledged by flopson as one of ilx's top 10 hipsters

;-)

tbf "me >>>>>>>> other people" is basically my credo

ppl who argue abt whether or not someone qualifies as a hipster as though its something to prize are history's most disgusting savages btw

Wait hold the phone chillwave is real?

I tried to redefine "hipster" within my circle of friends to be "people with abnormally large hips"; it didn't take off ;_;

true story: the word "hipster" means "panties" in Sweden and when you go there if you see a lingerie ad it has the word "hipster" right underneath the panties there

so if your favorite past-time on this earth is thinking about the word hipster may i recommend the country of Sweden to some of y'all, you will go completely apeshit

I do not believe that to be a true story

voted no

Is it hipster to be really unnaturally clean right now? wtf

http://www.austinkleon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hipsters.jpg

my old roomate is working with youtube on a channel thats probably the polar opposite of this one - a dance/choreography centric channel

Those guys are just nerds.

think I recall someone saying Pomplamoose reminded them more of grown-up ska kids... kind of the sense I get from these guys. two of them are even making ska poses

http://www.relix.com/images/2010/07/08/22878/bsi_relix61-300x.gif

“techno pink,” “lemonade” and “denim,” aimed at “a 23-year-old who shops at H&M and Target and listens to Wale with Beats headphones,”
“techno pink,” “lemonade” and “denim,” aimed at “a 23-year-old who shops at H&M and Target and listens to Wale with Beats headphones,”
“techno pink,” “lemonade” and “denim,” aimed at “a 23-year-old who shops at H&M and Target and listens to Wale with Beats headphones,”
“techno pink,” “lemonade” and “denim,” aimed at “a 23-year-old who shops at H&M and Target and listens to Wale with Beats headphones,”
“techno pink,” “lemonade” and “denim,” aimed at “a 23-year-old who shops at H&M and Target and listens to Wale with Beats headphones,”
“techno pink,” “lemonade” and “denim,” aimed at “a 23-year-old who shops at H&M and Target and listens to Wale with Beats headphones,”

Could a definition be...someone 25 or older who dresses like a cool 16 year old but has the knowledge and experience of someone their actual age

That's missing something

It's got at least one superfluous 'cool'

superfluous cool is a pretty good definition

Cool doesn't exist anymore

vat ist kool

baby don't hurt me

people are too demoralized to be hipsters now. to be cool you need style, verve, ironic detachment, and there is no one like that now. everyone just argues.

a hipster is someone with the coolest car in town. they snap their fingers and point all the time, and keep a pack of cigs rolled up in their sleeve. they enlist in the military on the first day of new wars because they're natural leaders, and they're great at dancing.

knock on their bedroom door and they'll be in there smoking while fixing a motorcycle

I enlisted in 1999 - just like I was making my own EDM when they still called it Techno

a hipster is like the first guy on your block to know when the cows are ovulating and he's always got the lowdown on the hot new grain siloes

Not even the Fonz kept his motorcycle in his bedroom.

Once this middle-aged narrator was flying around the estate on a kick scooter like some unstoppable hipster panther, from a passing taxi a young lady shouted "Gangster!" at me with an outreached fist, with no trace at all of ironic ridicule.

But nothing is sweeter than to occupy a lofty sanctuary of the mind,
Well fortified with the teachings of the wise,
Where we may look down on others as they stumble along,
Vainly searching for the true path of life

Lucretius, foremost Roman Latin hipster

all those classical philosopher guys were hipsters

Ehipster

sure you're not thinking of Enchiridion Over the Sea

ha that Lucretius quote is dope

Are you an ex-hipster?

I was the first

I drafted in your wake

This is a tough one for me, I'm honestly not sure if i am or (more likely) was a hipster.
In the narrower sense of skinny jeans + ukuleles + ironic facial hair + sufjan stevens or w/e, then no.

I don't think i ever had the right kind of mojo or something.

whiney said i was never a hipster.

that Lamp line about coke use if you're over 30 and wanna play the hipster game has haunted me for almost a decade now.

Ppl say others have ironic facial hair but it's more accurately labeled coincidental facial hair

I was probably too old/steadily-employed/suburban to be a hipster but I was definitely hipster-curious.

Hip injury pic.twitter.com/hZMBvRHc3I

— Olaf Falafel (@OFalafel) December 30, 2020

Ok, definitely not a hipster, lol.

people are too demoralized to be hipsters now. to be cool you need style, verve, ironic detachment, and there is no one like that now. everyone just argues.

― Treeship, Monday, 10 April 2017 02:18 (three years ago) link

Still true. The current cultural conditions don’t leave space for anyone to be cool.

This reminds me of a book I received as a gift last year called Twee, by Mark Spitz, published in 2014. He takes a very loose definition of twee as an umbrella term covering hipsters, organic farmer's markets, indie music, etc. Reading it just five years after it was published, the complacency was astounding: "with Obama as president, we've solved all those social problems of the last millennium. Now, we can focus on curating our K Records and Postcard discographies, collecting Wes Anderson DVDs, etc".

It's a decent overview of the products of "twee culture", but trying to sell this culture as "the new revolution" looks spectacularly non-prophetic.

https://static.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2012/07/spitz_a.jpg

multiple twee-style champion

I truly don't even remember when hipsters were

They were a category of "brooklyn" preset skins you could choose if you didn't want to customize your character

Sorry, Twee by Marc Spitz, with a C.

Like if you went duck hunting in the Gowanus canal you could wear one as camouflage and be completely invisible.

xp

Sorry, Twee by Marc Spitz, with a C.

― Halfway there but for you,

Local bookstore had a ton of these remaindered, couldn't give them away

In the sense of "extra on Portlandia", no.

In the sense of "Too cool to live, let alone, like, shop at The Gap."
"Was into things before they caught on" - probably as a teenager.

Gonna say I'm an ex-teenager.

Hipsters are low cut trousers amirite.
That or 40s opportunists hanging around the jazz scene.

Not eejits with wacky moustaches and truck driver hats.
Does the current crop update it's trends with as great frequency. Did it ever become hip to be a recluse. Or would that just be opportunistic this year.

I was Hipster #1 in Park Slope, so I've been told

“Actually, I consider myself hipster-adjacent”

Lol, Josefa.