What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

This guy has solved it: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

"An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents... a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal."

"The hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to anything new."

This guy has solved it: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

"An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents... a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal."

"The hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to anything new."

The Gavin Mcinnes quote in there rings truer than the rest of it.

yawn. what, a whole generation that seems a bit vacant and lost and style-obsessed? young people wanting to dress differently than their parents but the same as each other? with a bit of distain for the society that they live in? that's never happened before. gosh, the world is coming to an end!

Indeed, a massive lack of perspective and self obsession in the McGinnes quote.

Haha, what a load of crap, that could be one of the worst articles ive ever read.

I had a night out in Old st this weekend, dressed from a jumble sale with nothing to really uprise against. a very comfortable generation dressing up as lower/working classes.

Bless

Needing to create categories (hipster) so you can quantify is a sign of age

This guy has solved it: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

"An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents... a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal."

"The hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to anything new."

Adbusters is worse then the london paper, the lite, the sun, and the mail combined. true story

whoa, that is bad...

the only thing more retarded than hipsterism is the intellectualisation of it. giving it cultural weight only deepens the mystique/horseshit. FFS.

not to mention the word itself... 'Hipster'... cringe. It's like 'stylemeister' or something. fuckin hell. yet another import.

cool! i'm slipping on my vans now and running out the door to get a t-shirt that says "hoxton stylemeister"

a Hipster is someone who has latched onto a fad/style etc just as it has left the underground and entered the mainstream, thus giving the impressions to the wider world (and strongly believing that hey themselves are) that he/she is at the cutting edge, whilst in reality those pushing the envelope have moved on to pastures new

There are tons of new looks emerging. People don't sit down at the beginning of rocking a look & thrash out a defining name for it, so it's very easy & lazy to bundle them all into the 'h' catagory.

I liked the comment earlier about stylemeister... there is truth in that.

Also, hipster reminds me of 'youngster' which is what my Gran used to say

thats some american turn of the millenia shit, it has nothing to do with our hipsters of today.
Vice magazine always helps me get across my point.

Casual Hipster:

Hipster on Bike:

Advanced level fashion Hipster:

There are tons of new looks emerging. People don't sit down at the beginning of rocking a look & thrash out a defining name for it, so it's very easy & lazy to bundle them all into the 'h' catagory.

I liked the comment earlier about stylemeister... there is truth in that.

Also, hipster reminds me of 'youngster' which is what my Gran used to say

Only Hipsters say "rocking a look".

I have seen the future.. it's all soft R&B

Advanced level fashion Hipster:

Ha! Brilliant! :D

teddy and teenslain are hipsters. can we burn them and steal their bikes?!

No self respecting Hipster would be seen anywhere near a fucking bike. The term comes from the bebop era in jazz and mostly involved listening to the latest sounds and being cool with a little H thrown in for good measure. Can you imagine Charles 'Yardbird' Parker on a Pista with deep V's? Miles Davis on a Langster? I think not.
These people are Wankers not Hipsters.

Can you imagine Charles 'Yardbird' Parker on a Pista with deep V's? I think not.

Skinny jeans would fit his skeletal legs nicely. ;-)

teddy and teenslain are hipsters. can we burn them and steal their bikes?!

I'm a stylemeister actually... ;p

Ha Ha! Charles took taxis. Miles prefered Lamborghinis,

teddy and teenslain are hipsters. can we burn them and steal their bikes?!

i prefer early adopter. it's more marketing-friendly.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

If we're doing lyrics then look no further than Billy Talent

"Urban Hipster, the new gangster… frontin’ by the club
New wave mannequins packin’ haircuts, instead of packin’ guns
Magazines form overseas, won’t teach you how to feel
They trade in their hearts for indie rock charts to tell them what is real

When did they assume… putting on a costume?
Gave them a right to… ostracize
Out of the woodwork… art aficionados
Answer one question…

Where is the line? Where is the line?
Between your fashion and your mind

She sells street cred with no smile, at the local record store
She’s acting the role and dressing the part, pretending to be bored
The truth about conformity, is it bites without a sting
Trends come and go, but when your alone it doesn’t mean a thing"

Or maybe Sloppy Seconds' classic

"You've seen them in the malls
A bunch of kewpie dolls
You've seen them in the halls at school
They just wanna dig the rave
I just wanna dig their grave
And plant 'em somewhere near the pool

C'mon, it's time
To the kill the trendy
Everybody knows they deserve it
It's not a crime to kill the trendy
Everybody knows they're full of . . ."