Love it. The photographing of food is SO funny. Everyone is instagramming their meals today...instead of 2 mins of prayer before eating it's now 2 mins of snapping photos of your food and posting it online.
I agree. The thing about hipsters that bugs me is the core of ridicule (which they call "irony") that lies at the heart of much of what they do. The styles and motifs they adopt from disparate eras and social strata are not things they actually want to "own" or particular enjoy. They just swipe them to make fun of stuff other people genuinely like, or give no thought to at all. They also do it to bug the squares. It's a 21st century, first world, affluent version of the hippie freak scene, except the hippies genuinely meant it. As Frank Zappa observed, Hipsters, on the other hand, do it simply to amuse one another and burn excess cash (ever see a poor hipster?) Hipsters have no substantial social "statement" to make - nor to my knowledge do they claim to. It's just something to help relatively well-off bored kidults pass the time. This places hipsters on a level beneath mere posers: though often sad and pathetic misfits, posers (for right or wrong) usually try to own and thereby belong to whatever it is they ape. That is not the raison d'etre of the hipster. Hipsters will NEVER admit it but they view themselves as an enlightened elite using "irony" to be deliberately insult things that, truth be told, they consider beneath them, or belonging to lower persons. It's pretentious affectation done merely for effect. It's a strange form of performance art. It's hypocritical clowning. Bottom line: it's transparently false yet insufferably smug, and that what makes it's annoying. That's the vibe I get, anyway.
Plus they have polluted the venerable fedora. The porkpie and short brim I have no problem with...but anything over a 2" brim, leave it alone. You're not old enough to wear it, hipsters. Live a few more decades and earn it.
@gorgo2 you must know a lot of people who are hipsters. Are you telling us that they look down upon you and demean the things you like? I don't know that many, and I don't spend that much time and energy thinking about how hipsters live their lives. I have enough issues of my own that demand my attention. I don't seem to have the time to invest in resolving theirs too.
Hipsters, who they are, what they are, and what they represent, has changed greatly from those in the late 1940s through very early 1960s. The people who were called Hipsters in that time (think of Jack Kerouac) were the ones who coined the word Hipster. The term Beatnik was also associated with this group. Both terms came from American Jazz and Folk Music Cultures. This was before the Hippie movement of the mid to late 1960s took over. Hipsters of the 1940s through very early 1960s definitely did not have a lot of money. They really came out of the social consciousness and social stratus of the union movements of the 1930s - 1940s. Today's Hipsters come straight out of a marketeers catalog. They are prepackaged, product, and mass media driven. The appearance, style and mannerisms are a clear but diluted rip off of the original Hipsters.
I think the new hipster thing to do is call what others do hipsterish lol. I don't really care what other people do or their motives behind it, they aren't affecting my life.
My point was that these people must be very important to you because not only do you pay attention to your own issues, but theirs as well. I think it's fascinating that in critiquing how hipsters act, dress, socialize, and mock or demean others you are engaging in the same behaviors you intended to critique. Maybe it's just the therapist in me. I'm intrigued by how much attention you've given to people you claim do not interest you. Another concern that I have is in regard to people who identify as those you describe. How must they feel seeing that video and reading what has been written here? If our goal is to be welcoming and inclusive, I think we may want to think about what's been said here.
