Hipsters

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That picture is hilarious. Take it from me though jumping in skinnies always runs to risk of tearing them in a very embarrassing and noticeable area.

Once I was at a pedestrian crossing waiting for the light to go green and there was a guy that looked like a jock dressed up as some homeless indie bum. Hipster?

I suppose what I wear is who I am. I take great care to look good everyday. Almost everyday. I range from sci-fi geek to time traveler from the 1960s. So, people who dress a way to be ironic and take the name of people who I never thought were that bad before, is kind of a waste. It's like they have no identity.

I'm glad that my scene is more about scuffed boots and flannies and it's not even that popular so it's ok by me. I think I'll wait for it to be less in fashion before I move to Melbourne though. It's interesting how people can dress like that all their lives and then suddenly it's in fashion.

That is just really confusing. I think I might just go back to ignoring they exist at all.

I once had this obsession with buying teefury t-shirts, which is just a mash-up of one geek culture thing with another. I have like 20 Doctor Who t-shirts, some Firefly, Nintendo related shirts, a couple of Stargate and many others I've lost.

Then I have 'breathable' pants and my skinny jeans, about five flannies (checked shirts), a couple of old worn hoodies, a few khaki jackets from my airforce phase, and some nicer shirts to wear when I go out. Getting into blazers too.

I have one pair of shorts for those really hot days.

I need to got through them all and give away what I don't wear often because I have no more room for clothes.

Q. How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. A really obscure number, you've probably never heard of it

As I often say, I was a hipster BEFORE it was cool.

Seriously though, a big part of the hipster stereotype is rejecting popular things just because they are popular, and well, I've been doing that fore as long as I can remember. In a way, that kind of makes me like a hipster. I don't try to be one though, as I'm a firm believer in individualism and doing my own thing, and if that involves doing some hipster-ish or non-hipster-ish things, then so be it.

I did become an artist and it has worked out well. I am now in the top 20% of wage earners in my province. I also listen to BB King as well as Buddy Guy and ZZ Top, U2, Metallica, Neil Young, Beethoven ... ok, that went off the rails there.

I wear loose jeans from Walmart, heavy steel toe black engineering boots, Denver Hays t-shirts (they have no labels) and a leather jacket that I have had for twenty years (my sister-in-law bought me a new one for Christmas close to the same style since mine is falling apart, I am not sure how I feel about this). I wear sunglasses almost all the time and haven't had my hair cut since 1998 (someone touching me and that crunching sound, ewwww). Can I be a hipster? Can hipsters be 50 years old?

My niece just calls me her old uncle that never became an adult.

This absolutely bodied me hahahahahahaha

It's hard to believe that I used to care about this sort of thing. Wait a few years and you'll no longer care about being hip or accused of being a poser, etc.

I'm completely confused as to the definition. I tried reading the Wikipedia article (I know, I know, Wikipedia is not a reliable source...), but it only served to confuse me further.

My impression used to be that 'hipsters' were people who DO things that are en vogue, i.e. things that are 'hip'. Like wear barets on a plaid shirt and listen to Arctic Monkeys' new album. Maybe it's a U.S. thing, but here in the Netherlands, anyone who seems to conform to the definitions of hipster I've seen, is not derided or ridiculed so much... In fact, the majority of Dutch 'middle class' city youth embraces 'hipster' aesthetics in the way they dress and carry themselves.

I'm told by girls that I am both Emo and hipster and or "boho" which i think they said stands for bohemian/hobo lol
I have naturally black straight hair and i am pale and skinny so that's where the emo part comes in I guess.
For the rest, I just pull stuff out of the closet and throw it on and somehow that makes a fashion statement.
NT's... you gotta love em

No, hipsters are into things that used to be hip, and it's mainly fashion, music, art...they aren't really about doing much of anything. And they aren't actually into half of it; they just buy/wear stuff to be ironic.

I don't think I am going to try and be anything. I am just going to stay as i am travel around the country whilst I am on disability. I wanted to work but society disabled me with its constant abuse because I am different.

Not my fault exactly. Society creates its own problems, I have no sympathy for it. In fact i had many skills that could have benefited it but is has decided I am mentally ill and useless so so be it.

i get to travel, I don't care. I'm doing fun things all day. There is that bonus and after the abuse I have suffered I deserve it (as do many people here).

why oh why do you let them convince you you are wrong for being an individual
Society brings its own s**t on itself with its own ignorance.

I think this is not a coincidence. The U.S. youth who get mocked the most as "hipsters" are the ones who are adopting a European middle class youth aesthetic.(Since this look is not unique to Dutch youth.) The U.S. has a very uneasy cultural relationship with Europe. European aesthetics are both revered and reviled. I think this anti-Hipster thing is just the latest spin. Nobody ever says that it has anything to do with Europe. They say it's inauthenticity and smugness and "too cool"-ness. But those are variations on the old anti-Europe cultural insults such as "effete".

I think adopting the codes of any subculture may help you pass as NT, because the subculture becomes more salient and more identifiable than your aspieness. Also subcultures often have elaborate and often slightly rigid social codes and behaviours that may be easier to emulate than "natural" interaction. I don't know how it applies to hipsters specifically (I have trouble understanding what is a hipster exactly too, nobody seems to agree on that).

But of course, subcultures are mostly for people that want (need ?) to identify themselves primarily as members of a group. I couldn't and wouldn't do that.

I never understood what a hipster is. I have been accused of it once and because it has a negative meaning to it, it's considered an insult IMO but I would say it depends on how it's used and if the person meant it as a bad thing or not. I think my best response would be "I don't know what a hipster is, sorry" and then they would know it's not my intent to even be one. I don't even understand what is so bad about them either.

I studied hipsters for a while in my meme research. Basically, you're not supposed to really know what a hipster is. If you can define it, it no longer adheres to the definition. It usually consists of people who do things differently because they revile the way everyone else does things, and often that is because people instinctively seem to know what makes a hipster without really knowing, and they may get teased or ridiculed a lot.
Maybe it's a 3rd group. They tend to focus on how they act,speak, or look, but I think hipsters just do things and wear stuff without really understanding what they're doing until someone criticizes them.
I could be a hipster in a way, since whenever someone tries to imitate me, I often do something else from then on. I used to get really annoyed when someone would greet me the way I had greeted them last, or when they commented that our shirts were the same color, or if they decided to eat the same food I decided to eat, or if they started trying to act like me.

That is definitely false. One thing for sure about hipsters is that they like to be ironic. You have to know what you are doing to make irony work.

They target specific cultural components to imitate; if they didn't, they wouldn't be recognizable.

Pabst blue ribbon beer
handlebar mustaches
1980s American fashion and pop music music
ski caps
dressing like loggers (blue jeans and flannel)
fixie bicycles
huge eyeglasses
"working class" habits such as eating lots of macaroni and cheese (junk food) or prefering to shop at thrift stores even if they can afford new clothes

and the reason they are reviled and called hipsters (they don't call themselves hipsters except to be ironic) is because they are totally faking their interests and (often being middle-class or higher) appropriating elements of working class lifestyle for amusement