Anyone Else Can't Stand Hipsters?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What prompted this post, OP?

DH and I were at dinner earlier and there was a couple at the table next to us that were clearly hipster parents who are still trying to be cool. I honestly hadn't thought about hipsters for some time but overhearing these two talk about some upcoming shows they were attending, the husband talking about how he wants to have their son not play sports because they're too mainstream and the fact that he had a bizarre looking mustache reminded me how much they've annoyed me over the years.

It seems you and DH need to attend a few shows or something, to keep you engaged in each other.

Yeah, what’s wrong with going to shows? Is liking music not allowed?

DP. Probably fine with OP if you’re talking about going to a Taylor Swift show or something.

Lol yep

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find the whole hipster trend insufferable? I don't know if it's still trendy to be a hipster, but for years now, everything about the subculture has annoyed me. The horrible mustaches, pretentious foods, music, and books and the feelings of superiority for liking everything that is non-mainstream. Most of all, trying so hard to be unique, but by doing so they end up conforming to the sub-culture which itself has become a whole genre and not just a unique niche.

It seems that the trend is not as prominent as it was maybe 5-7 years ago, but I still can't wait until it's no longer cool to be a hipster.

There has always been an artsy fartsy pretentious crowd that behaves like this. This described plenty of kids in my HS in the 80’s, although the term hipster wasn’t in use yet.


As an aside, have you ever heard the song “Sensitive Artist” by King Missile? You would get a kick out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't see any such people in my neighborhood, OP. There are none in my family. Where on earth do you live?

Where do you live? I want to move there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find the whole hipster trend insufferable? I don't know if it's still trendy to be a hipster, but for years now, everything about the subculture has annoyed me. The horrible mustaches, pretentious foods, music, and books and the feelings of superiority for liking everything that is non-mainstream. Most of all, trying so hard to be unique, but by doing so they end up conforming to the sub-culture which itself has become a whole genre and not just a unique niche.

It seems that the trend is not as prominent as it was maybe 5-7 years ago, but I still can't wait until it's no longer cool to be a hipster.

There has always been an artsy fartsy pretentious crowd that behaves like this. This described plenty of kids in my HS in the 80’s, although the term hipster wasn’t in use yet.


As an aside, have you ever heard the song “Sensitive Artist” by King Missile? You would get a kick out of it.

King Missile is too far outside the mainstream for OP’s comfort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I prefer hipsters over the current crop of youths sporting blue hair, baggy jeans, and made up ailments and performative victimhood.

I’m a teacher, and blue hair hasn’t really been a thing for a while. They heyday for unnatural hair and facial piercings was the late 90’s- 2000’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Literally all of ballston is hipsters its rediculous and dated.

what? no it’s not. !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this a joke? Trolling? There haven’t been any “hipsters” for a decade.

Hipsters have been around for at least 100 years in some iteration or other. They just go by different names depending on the decade, bohemians, beatniks, hippies, etc. it seemed like in the 70’s-90’s they didn’t really have a name, but they were definitely around. In the 2000’s the term hipster emerged.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find the whole hipster trend insufferable? I don't know if it's still trendy to be a hipster, but for years now, everything about the subculture has annoyed me. The horrible mustaches, pretentious foods, music, and books and the feelings of superiority for liking everything that is non-mainstream. Most of all, trying so hard to be unique, but by doing so they end up conforming to the sub-culture which itself has become a whole genre and not just a unique niche.

It seems that the trend is not as prominent as it was maybe 5-7 years ago, but I still can't wait until it's no longer cool to be a hipster.

There has always been an artsy fartsy pretentious crowd that behaves like this. This described plenty of kids in my HS in the 80’s, although the term hipster wasn’t in use yet.


As an aside, have you ever heard the song “Sensitive Artist” by King Missile? You would get a kick out of it.

King Missile is too far outside the mainstream for OP’s comfort.

I’m annoyed as heck by hipsters but I actually do (did) like non-mainstream music.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I prefer hipsters over the current crop of youths sporting blue hair, baggy jeans, and made up ailments and performative victimhood.

I’m a teacher, and blue hair hasn’t really been a thing for a while. They heyday for unnatural hair and facial piercings was the late 90’s- 2000’s.

DP. I lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the early-2000s—the literal subject of 2003’s Hipster Handbook—and no one had brightly colored hair or facial piercings.

I currently have teenager in a fine arts magnet program—breeding ground for a new generation of hipsters—and there is tons and tons green, blue, purple, etc. hair.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I prefer hipsters over the current crop of youths sporting blue hair, baggy jeans, and made up ailments and performative victimhood.

I’m a teacher, and blue hair hasn’t really been a thing for a while. They heyday for unnatural hair and facial piercings was the late 90’s- 2000’s.

DP. I lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the early-2000s—the literal subject of 2003’s Hipster Handbook—and no one had brightly colored hair or facial piercings.

I currently have teenager in a fine arts magnet program—breeding ground for a new generation of hipsters—and there is tons and tons green, blue, purple, etc. hair.

Maybe it was more of a southern thing cause I saw plenty of it.

[Anonymous]

Dont worry...every generation has a version of hipsters. They will get theirs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see any such people in my neighborhood, OP. There are none in my family. Where on earth do you live?

Where do you live? I want to move there.

Bethesda, near the downtown.

[Anonymous]

This is weird, Barb.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I prefer hipsters over the current crop of youths sporting blue hair, baggy jeans, and made up ailments and performative victimhood.

I’m a teacher, and blue hair hasn’t really been a thing for a while. They heyday for unnatural hair and facial piercings was the late 90’s- 2000’s.

It is still a thing. I am a teacher. Also the poster above is correct. The are constantly engaged in performative outrage and victimhood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else find the whole hipster trend insufferable? I don't know if it's still trendy to be a hipster, but for years now, everything about the subculture has annoyed me. The horrible mustaches, pretentious foods, music, and books and the feelings of superiority for liking everything that is non-mainstream. Most of all, trying so hard to be unique, but by doing so they end up conforming to the sub-culture which itself has become a whole genre and not just a unique niche.

It seems that the trend is not as prominent as it was maybe 5-7 years ago, but I still can't wait until it's no longer cool to be a hipster.

There has always been an artsy fartsy pretentious crowd that behaves like this. This described plenty of kids in my HS in the 80’s, although the term hipster wasn’t in use yet.


As an aside, have you ever heard the song “Sensitive Artist” by King Missile? You would get a kick out of it.

Not in the DC area. There's a distinct lack of creatives and "hipsters" for a city of its size.