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Are hipsters still relevant?
I heard they are dying out. If so, what are they turning into?
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i had one in 2005. ditched it in 2007.
i don't think people know how to differentiate themselves anymore. since, thanks internet, anyone can be cool, dress cool, dudes opted to adopt styles that take a year or two to grow: man buns or beards. kept out the poseurs. kept you relatively unique. except, or course, people followed anyway. so now what do you do. well, yeah, normcore is one way out. everyones heading back to minimalism. some will zag back into maximalism. bellbottoms had a shitty revival in like 92. and since everything early 90s has already come back, wouldn't be surprised to see them again. overalls have been seeping back in over the last year or two. mac demarco's wearing them. because he's a goofball? or because he's authentic. no one knows. no one cares. why does anyone bother thinking about this shit? man, i don't know. maybe preppy will make a big comeback. clean shaven, tight haircut, polos tucked into well tailored pants. of course there's going to be the sportswear crowd doing their own thing, half kanye, half japanese futurist. lots of attention paid to material and texture. subtlety. everyone wants to belong to a group, and yet differentiate themselves from their group as well. even the normcore donkeys. always adding a twist. i haven't paid attention: are big giant logos all over your clothes back yet? if not, they'll be soon. the reaction against tasteful, non-identifiable clothes the masses have preferred for the last few years. haha i'm high as fuck right now peace.
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“Hipster” is a term co-opted for use as a meaningless pejorative in order to vaguely call someone else’s authenticity into question and, by extension, claim authenticity for yourself.
It serves no conversational function and imparts no information, save for indicating the opinions and preferences of the speaker.
Meanwhile, a market myth has sprung up around the term, as well as a cultural bogeyman consisting of elusive white 20-somethings who wear certain clothes (but no one will agree on what), listen to certain music (no one can agree on this either), and act a certain way (you’ve probably sensed the pattern on your own).
You can’t define what “that kind of behavior or fashion or lifestyle” actually is, nor will you ever be able to. That’s because you don’t use “hipster” to describe an actual group of people, but to describe a fictional stereotype that is an outlet for literally anything that annoys you.
The twist, of course, is that if it weren’t for your own insecurities, nothing that a “hipster” could do or wear would ever affect you emotionally. But you are insecure about your own authenticity - “Do I wear what I wear because I want to? Do I listen to my music because I truly like it? I’m certainly not like those filthy hipsters!” - so you project those feelings.
Suffice it to say, no one self-identifies as a hipster; the term is always applied to an Other, to separate the authentic Us from the inauthentic, “ironic” Them.
tl;dr: if you believe hipsters exist, you are a plebeian.
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It's because people aren't aware of how the term doesn't mean shit.
It's like a stairwell in the middle of a large ghetto city.
People have only taken a few steps, the first steps, the steps that have been weathered, dampened, covered in dirt, slime, mold, and urine.
The first steps of just plain wrong, overly-misused terms, definitions, and information.
They tend not to go deeper, where fewer have ventured, and dirtied with their footsteps and what not (misinterpretations, delusions, and spread of the delusions).
The deeper steps which are cleaner, more clear, and closer to what each step looked like after construction, before it was used so many times, tainted so many steps.
The definition means nothing because of how people have failed to know it's definition.
The original meaning (whatever it may have had potential to be) is lost forever.
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