And the difference between a snob and a hipster: A snob will hate a lot of things and love few things as well, but contrary to the hipster they don't actually care whether or not something they like is sufficiently unpopular or not. ... Yes, I may be a shitty little snob. No worries, I don't care or judge what others like or dislike though. xD
hipsters are simply liabilities that spout nonsense seen through their hallucinogenic bs. However, nerds can also be irritable as they prefer more complex means of communication, which then makes the other human lose interest quicker than Usain Bolt on crack. Both demographics are also passive, meaning they have no drive to complete. No conviction in their choices [except for the choice to conform to such stereotypes].
My father was a lumberjack, or a woodcutter, as they tend to call them here in Scotland. Don't remember him looking like a hipster right enough. I remember wandering into a hipster bar in Glasgow recently. Ironically my 2 friends and I were the ones who looked different and stood out in the sea of skinny jeans wearing sheep in there. I suppose they need their own bar right enough. There are bars only 5 minutes walk away from there that I doubt many of them would dare enter!
You know you're a hipster when... You bring your typewriter to a crowded park to "get away from it all." Your bike is older than you are. You wear a lumberjack shirt but the closet thing you have to an axe was your body spray. You spend more on mustache wax than you do on soap. If you complain about capitalism to your cashier at Whole Foods.
harleybynature when you want to shoot film to take a photo cos the cameras look cool. Mind you, I’ve been shooting film for 38 years, ever since I was 15.
You’re Also a hipster if you complain about fascism while supporting Antifa a group of the lefts violent militia that dresses in all black and masks on not unlike Mussolini’s brown shirts and the Gestapo. Both were fascist
@@nathanaelgraham1029 I'm not a fan of antifa but you just used a bad argument. You're describing facism very very wrong. The alt right (and a lot on the right in general) are more what early (and not full in) facism looks like. Fascism is nationalism. It's about closing your borders to outsiders, recognizing your race and country are the true race and country, telling your people that the outsiders are the villains and Should be feared. Its all about what's good for the star is good for the people. Which means if more money is needed to build tanks than to feed people then so be it because it's good for the country. Non of that is antifa. At worst they're violent and want to stop hate speech from nazi and white supremists. That's it. The white supremacists are The fascists.
This joke is old. Very old. It's describing hipster stereotypes from 10 years ago. Like, I don't know any "hipster" (which is basically what an older person would just call a millenialsl now) that really shops at whole foods because they're expensive.
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Julio Lopez Not really. Individual expression is not hipster. Hipster is just a term coined at people who are creative and champion the ‘individual’. And true indie people aren’t doing anything in this video - it’s a giant ass strawman directed at people who copy indie people.
Julian Saccullo: Not to mention- the people described in this vid are not hipsters, they are hippie wannabe's?? Real hipsters (from the 1950's) wore 3 piece suits.
As someone with digestive issues involving gluten, I'm real glad hipsters got into gluten free. Gluten free was dry awful garbage before them, but increased consumer demand forced the market to improve it in a way that only celiacs never could.
Now that’s it has been years since this also happened, I can safely say that their influence seemed to be far more positive than negative, and that many hipsters values got absorbed into the mainstream. They created our new normal
And let's not forget their propensity to "gentrify" rough neighborhoods making them trendy beyond affordability for the average person; all the while they are NOT working and sipping sustainably sourced fair-trade organic coffee in an open WiFi cafe while living on a trust fund budget...courtesy of Mommy and Daddy.
So you have a problem with people moving in rough neighborhoods, building and renovating also making the neighborhood safer for the people who lived there bevause they don't have a no snitch policy
Edward Mayer The problem lies with the fact that they build up these rough neighborhood to the point where the residents, who lived there before hand, can no longer afford to.
Add in the elitist snobby attitude towards others.They look down upon others and show contempt and disdain. They are super judgemental.. Treat others poorly.
It's not the lumberjack shirts or the beards or the microbrew that makes a hipster a hipster, it's their attitude in doing so because they claim it's non-conformist. That, and their unholy trinity of arrogance, pretentiousness and unwarranted smugness, while claiming to like the likes of Coldplay, or claim to dislike Coldplay, while still listening to it and claiming to like them ironically. I don't like Coldplay because they're mainstream or whatever, I don't like them cause I personally find their music shit.
I would add: my biggest beef with hipsters is that they are like vampires, but instead of blood, what they seek is "authenticity". They see genuinely-authentic things around them: like blue-collar workers (whose fashion they pilfer), ethnic and folk-music (whose music they parrot), crafts-people of yesteryear (whose techniques of farming, food-processing, wood-working, distillation-processes etc. they appropriate) and genuine-free-thinkers, and they amalgamize superficial elements from all of "authentic" things into a totally contrived Frankenstein of inauthenticity. They take things that truly define people and turn them into costumes and personas. Yech.
Yeah, I run into that a lot and they come to me at my job thinking they've found another hipster. They usually find out that I'm quite fond of long hikes, carpentry, history, and cooking old dense recipes. Hipsters aren't much into effort, really just the short term is their game.
This comment somewhat clarifies things for me. I genuinely like to do all those things you mentioned, and it confused me as to why people seemed to deride those with such interests as being too “hipster”. But I guess a hipster would be more concerned with the optics of it all, performative authenticity instead of being genuinely involved and appreciating the craftsmanship.
@@freerhymin4life I had a friend who started the habit of reading thanks to the hipster culture and then when you said something stupid she told you "you should read", implying that it makes you smarter when she used to read only shitty teen novels HAHAHAH THAT'S THE DEFINITION OF HIPSTER
This reminds me of the scene in The Life Of Brian: "Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, You don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for your selves! You're ALL individuals! The Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals! Brian: You're all different! The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different! Man in crowd: I'm not. The Crowd: Shh!" Brian: You've all got to work it out for yourselves. The Crowd: Yes! We've got to work it out for ourselves! Brian: Exactly! The Crowd: Tell us more!"
This happened to my best friend from high school. Senior year I started lifting weights and he said that was for douchebags. Now 8 years later he lives in Seattle, looks homeless and works passionately as a barista for a mom and pop coffee shop. Also he's vegan. Poor guy. Never thought something like that would happen to him. RIP dude.
Exactly!! They will act smug, try and convince you that their way is the ONLY way. If you drive a car, you're contributing to pollution, if you eat meat, you're contributing to climate change getting worse, etc., etc. Some may be well meaning, but they act so righteous and pretentious that many don't take them seriously. Then, they act as if they "discovered" something that has been around for decades probably before they were born.
yeah I hear ya. They are supposed to be about acceptance and independence and being non main stream but they are the worst off all. With them it's a no judgement zone only for they get to judge
The lumberjack costume is "signalling". In the 80's we called this "posing". In this case they are signalling masculinity, because they dont have the stereotypical masculine traits that would otherwise identify them as such.
Chad Allen Sorry, I thought all 80's kids said that. Maybe it was a regional thing where I lived. "Posers" were those putting up a front or a pretense for their ego or whatever. In this instance I was referring to the whole package. In the images shown here they are wearing flannel, work pants, heavy work boots, and sport thick beards. Its designed to portray a man who works with his back and his hands. But many ( most?) of these people couldn't drive a nail straight, or fix a car, and think Ohm's law is found in a legal manual. They swipe at phones and hang around metro areas. "Oh I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok..... I sleep all night and I work all day!"
Bunberrier, that was a very astute comment. I was around in the 80s too, and I agree that posing=signalling. One quick counterargument to your point, though, is this: male hipsters have beards. That's a pretty incontrovertible masculine signal. So one would think the lumberjack shirt is not necessary. It could be that the lumberjack look is just a style that spread through the hipster community. I would argue that those shirts are common in the Pacific Northwest, which is also a strong hipster hub (maybe the epicenter?)
SpizawkDaKizowz True about the beard, but as you also said, a signal. ( For most, anyway, taken in context with the rest of it. ) Also beards can make you look bigger.... and sort of hide a thin chest or neck. Actually loose flannel can hide lack of muscles too, particularly with a couple extra shirts under it. I tried many different types of facial hair before I understood the best use of it is to even up or hide undesirable features of the face, and I didn't need to do that. It was just extra work. But I did try a beard at one point, and gawd what an itchy mess that was. Not knocking beards at all, evidently some people are quite fond of them.
It bothers the shit out of me that Hipsters seem to have appropriated every damn thing I've been interested in for 20 years. Homebrewing, antiques, wet shaving, pre 1950s fashion, local food production. When I do it I'm a weird beer-drinking survivalist, but when they do it with skinny Jeans on somehow it's cool. Luckily they haven't appropriated guns and handloading... Wait! Small Batch Organic Ammunition! I may have something here...
I feel your pain. I've been into gardening, raising chickens, and butchering my own meat for as long as I can remember. I like building and making things with my hands, taking things apart, and looking for deals at yard sales. I grew up thinking it was the just the thing that all the men around me do. The hipsters are making a mockery of masculine culture, which I think has been their plan all along.
Ben Sigl “somehow it’s cool”. Hint: it’s your personality. The difference is you are a resentful insecure dude. Not cool or attractive. Don’t worry about what other guy’s game is. Dial your own Steeze and live life.
Ben Sigl like what you like and let others like what they like. Why are you so hung up on what other people think is cool? Know who does that? Hipsters.
Why would you clown biodegradeability & humane farming practices? Those are actually *sane & moral* things. If a hipster was desperate to practice these 2 things for the sake of belonging to the hipster school, then Id champion them for it, not make a comment like this. As if advocating animal cruelty/torture & refuse-riddled bodies of water are *good*. Just stop.
@@Truth_Hurts_Bad of course, ethical, green industry practices are very important. But this was a joke. You know jokes don't have to be serious, right? but of course if you enjoy getting triggered by the most inconsequential things you can find, please continue. im sure ill enjoy it too.
You know, in the back of my mind, I knew this was petty; I just had to call it out. Of all the jokes you could've made, you just had to take healthy practices & associate them with pretentious morons. It bothered me. Good day.
They say sheep are the dumbest animals of farming livestock. But I can't help but wonder when the last time was that a hipster took a look in the mirror at themselves without it being top groom their stupid looking beards.
I remember when plaid lumberjack shirts (flannels) were worn as overshirts for our Led Zeppelin t-shirts. Now they've become the lesbian movement uniform, or hipster trend.
kewrock Fuck off with that bullshit. Yeah, the wjole lesbein mvement is doing that now, but real hipsters died out around 2012. Their style has become so saturated that it became mainstream. Also, people dont really know what a hipter is. Their are so many gringos and retards calling people they dont like or understand as hipsters.
I've offended a hipster...or lesbian. Maybe it was a twofer, a hipster-lesbian. And lesbians didn't just start wearing them. They've been wearing then 20 years. You furry little hipsters were just hairless newborn pups. My comment was of the 1970s and 80s. The stoner uniform was an open flannel, rock concert-T shirt , and a black leather jacket(with or without the furry collar). The early grunge scene picked up on the flannel shirt in the 90's. That's also when the lesbians started wearing them. I think Malissa Ethridge started it for them.
kewrock - I remember when flannels where the official dress shirt of East LA and were worn by grunge folks in the 90s. I wore my favorite fedora because I loved Indiana Jones and having a full brim hat was the way to go and no big deal when living out in the desert of the Southwest for a few years. Now I always get crap for wearing one. I don't know how the hipsters think they brought back the dress hat fedora when it was trendy during the swing Revival days of the 90s.
I hate the hipsters that believe that there better than everybody else just because they believe that driving a Toyota Prius means that there saving the world or they think that shopping at Banana Republic or Whole Foods makes them feel that there "organic".
Nothing new here. All the "rebel" movements of the last century ended up creating cookie cutter clichés. But those movements has a sense of being "outside", whereas hipsters are "above".
"All the "rebel" movements of the last century ended up creating cookie cutter clichés." Including The Beatles? To quote Dylan: "I don´t believe you. You are a liar"
@Mister Guy Also, the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany is very misunderstood. They likely would have favored forgiving all college debt for any degree that has the word "studies' in it. :)
@@daeph123 It was a point about people who went to college to obtain worthless "studies" degrees who now whine about how they can't get a job and that their school debt should be wiped out. They are also the ones who seem to LOVE what they hear about socialism. I'm only figuring out now why we, as a group, never move forward much. Every generation learns the same truths about certain things. Yet each generation - rather than just taking what has been learned and moving forward - spins its wheels learning the same lesson for itself.
"congratulations hipsters, you've somehow turned non conforming into the biggest conformist culture out there." Sorry man but its already been done, look at the punk movement.
When he said "the biggest conformist culture out there" I think he may have meant the culture that had the broadest lifestyle reach. Punks may have conformed in terms of music and fashion but they weren't sticklers for where to grocery shop, how to make a living, etc the way that hipsters are. The Punk movement didn't dictate to every facet of ppl's lives the way that the hipster movement seems to.
Blerk Snarfgut Right. You can’t even compare Hipsters to punk. Punk was and still is a mindset. I’ve long abandoned wearing Mohawks abs shit... but I’ll always be punk at heart.
You forgot the bit about how obnoxious it is to do things "ironically." You get someone who's a real nerd about something, doesn't matter what, maybe they LOVE shoe laces. They're just into shoe laces. There's no irony, they just get a real kick out of them. Hipsters come along and get "into" shoe laces too. But they're too cool for it. So it's ironic... or something. And then the folks who're really super nerds about shoe laces are suddenly lumped in with the stupid hipsters. And if they deny being hipsters it's just proof that they're really hipsters. After all, what's more hipster than to say "I was into shoe laces before being into shoe laces was a thing"? ARGH! Leave my cool obscure hobby that no one else likes, appreciates, or understands alone!!!! It's cool because I think it's cool... not because other people don't or because it's ironic. ::sigh:: Hipsters are evil.
shoelace lovers are geeks. if u r into learning the history of shoelaces and how to construct them better u r a shoelace nerd. if u constantly trip over yur shoelaces u r a spaz. of course most of us have various combos of nerd/geek/spaz in different ratios on different subjects/activities. geek=emotion, nerd=mental, spaz=physical.
I know the struggle. I used to actually collect vinyl records back in the day, not because it was "cool" or "better than digital" or "obscure" or anything, just because I always liked old things. And here, collecting vinyl records is listed in this very video as being one of the most hipster/detestable things you can do. And like you said, I can't even argue that "I was doing it before it was cool," because... yeah.
Leave my hobby alone ? Really your hobby? That is not what the fuck a hipster portrays himself as a hobbyist. They pretend they are real men. By dressing/acting collecting. Drinking hand brewed beers. When I. Reality a real man builds his own shit has talent in a craft Growing vegetables making old stuff new again. Just being a jack of all trades. Hipsters don’t know how to do shit but pretend they do
Lolol I do like wearing plaid shirts (Don't hate me ;) ) but I drink affordable coffee and don't smoke. I am not a lumberjack but I have chopped wood with an ax
Glad to say I’ve never had a Corona w lime, paid $6 for a cuppa Joe at Starbucks, or grown a beard for any reason other than I didn’t feel like shaving several days in a row. Hipsters think I’m not hip, and if hip means being a douchebag like they generally are, I’ll never be hip. Nothing is better than eating beef and getting the lecture about how cruel the meat industry is. My response is “I like my steak rare with extra blood and my garlic bread with extra gluten.”
I don’t know any hipsters but I am a victim of the hipsters. They ransacked the goodwill by my house. They gentrified my friends neighborhood and imposed the gluten free vibe at my local Mexican bakery. Now the bread tastes whack. I have never seen a hipster or met one, yet I can’t help but feel imposed by them.
I used to live in an area that became a hipster magnet. One of the reasons I hate hipsters so much is they commandeered the ‘pay it forward’ restaurant in the area because they decided eating a 3 course meal and paying a handful of change for it was trendy. Their thievery put the restaurant out of business. Which was a real blow to some of the unemployed people in the area. Hipsters are oxygen thieves who take up space required for other purposes!
I like obscure shit and love to seek out shit no one really cares about. Its like exploring for treasure. Being difrent isn't bad, its just pretending to be difrent is stupid.
Wow, I totally agree I look out for the weird and the fascinating I love music and movies that are stimulating and challenging Not necessarily comfortable But I look normal.
Thank you for this. I'm from Seattle and they're everywhere. I've moved out (I live in Kenya now) and thanks for mentioning that these people are the reason we have such high rent.
Wow man, from Seattle to Kenya? Lol, that is seriously getting away from it all. I've never been to the US, but I have been to Kenya and worked there for 5 months. I have no desire to return. Overpopulated, I had to go to the bush for 2 days to get away from people. I live in South Africa and we have great open spaces, something I will seek out after seeing Kenya and the UK.
I once heard a hipster complaining about how much he hates it when customers try to hand him money in the coffee shop he worked in. Apparently he was a barista and therefore saw himself as an artist not to be disturbed by the common herd who were there to buy coffee. I tried to explain the logic behind this, but he could not grasp that if you are working behind the counter in a shop; people may actually try to pay you for the goods you sell. That was the moment I became hipster aware.
What's wrong with man buns? I have man bun not because I have anything to do with hipster but because I'm scandinavian and it's my viking heritage. That hairstyle is very old and we are not guilty is some subculture addopted it and do not deserve to be mocked because of it!
I once went to a concert where the majority of the audience were alternative looking people, you know lots of piercings, tattoos, multi coloured hair etc. And i rock up in a shirt and jeans with my regular joe look. So because i was ‘normal looking’ i was alternative because I wasn’t alternative 🤔
Hi colin, i know you comment is 4 years old but have to say i can relate. A little while back i was in a trendy London street market (i live in London) and there was the usual load of hipsters. Got chatting to a fashion student who had a stall and she made her own clothes. She complemented me on my 'outfit' and my 'look' which really made me laugh. I'm a digger driver and i just finished work and was literally in my worn out work clothes! Had a week old bit of stubble, unkempt hair under a woolly hat because it was cold and she though i was the trendiest looking person in the market. Bloody hilarious!
I have a beard. Like my $0.05 home brew coffee out of my $20 coffee pot. I wear flannel shirts sometimes. I like my red wing iron rangers. I have a 2006 mp3 player I have my music on. I don't have mumford and sons(?) on it. It's not so much about being a hipster, it's about them being nothing else. Lot's of people lead pretty normal lives, and aren't anything special, which is alright. Being a good person is better than being a unique person.
at least now thanks to this strange obsession with gluten free food, it's much easier to find even here in a third world country, makes life easier for some folks who are actually allergic
Look at the motto they parade around Portland: "Keep Portland weird." Think about that. That's their priority. Keep Portland weird. Not Keep Portland nice, or clean, or safe. No. Keep it "weird". What matters above all else is that it be perceived as "weird" by normal people. That is of the utmost importance. The most devastating thing you can say to a hipster who shows you their Darth Vader on a unicycle that their city has isn't "you people are fucking weird". That's what they want to hear. It validates their empty existence. Tell them "eh, that isn't too weird. My city has something similar to that, maybe even a little weirder. I think most towns do." That'll fuck them up because their whole identity is based around getting you to call them weird. Think of how vacuous that is. There is nothing to them but their "image" that they carefully cultivate to be exactly the same as their fellow hipsters. They have no personality or actual interests, just claiming to like whatever is "hipster cool" at the moment even if they don't honestly like it. They're empty, human-shaped shells with no substance to them. That's obnoxious enough, especially since they're invariably in their 20's-30's, and not immature teenagers from whom you'd expect this kind of shallow obsession with conformity and being "different". But what really puts the cherry on top of the rage sundae is that they take all of this hollow bullshit and wrap it up in an unearned air of smug superiority. They're better than you because their toast cost them $14 and yours was made from a slice of the loaf of bread you got for $2.50. They're better than you because their music is by someone you've never heard of. They're better than you because their glasses are gigantic and yours fit you properly. No. Fuck you, hipsters. Get out of my city. Stop moving in and shitting everything up. You're like a fucking infestation. "Oh look, the natives have a shoprite here with an empty building next to it! We want a Whole Foods! Should we buy the empty lot and make one? Nah! Get the Shoprite shut down and replace it with a Whole Foods! It's not enough to force this neighborhood to have things we like in addition to things the people who are actually from here like; we have to actively purge the things the natives like so that they'll move out and hasten the collapse of this town into another Portland, before we immediately lose interest and move on to another host town like the hoard of unthinking, endlessly consuming cultural locusts we are!" Fuck hipsters.
Jay Bee Nah, it's a free country. You can wear hospital scrubs and a lab jacket all day, and never have worked in a medical profession your entire life. Hell, you can wear SCUBA gear and be afraid of the water. People might think it's a bit strange however.
Douglas Williams ha! I was a choker setter and a knot bumper for 5 years. My whole family are fallers. I’m a hipster doofus and I could out work you all day long. Construction, open pit BBQ chef who splits his own oak. And la de dah pinko skinny jeans mincer who fucks square’s ladies.
Jay Bee I worked in landings for years and nobody says “lumberjack”. You pick up “widow maker” from tv? Ever been hit between the shoulder blades by one? I chase landing In my skinny jeans and wear a dog turd strap for a belt. It matches my white leather corks. I’m only half joking. You have no idea what some of us do for a living my friend. No idea.
0:19 Every subculture thinks of itself in this matter. What seperates hipsters from emos, goths, metalheads, punks, grungers, hippies, or whoever, is the lack of sincerity.
I love it when hipsters take something that has been around for years, put their own spin on it (often times charging an arm and legs as well), and pat themselves on the back for inventing it.
That’s just proof of how stupid hipsters are. If a pub changes the menu to say their chips are hand cut and seasoned, hipsters will trip over their stupid beards to order them… It’s not hard to fleece hipsters out of a lot of money, all you need to do is use fancy words on your menu…
Yeah i dont like Hipsters, but i have a beard, and i mosty shop at farmers market for fresh organic produce lol, i dont like flannels thoor avoiding something just because it's mainstream
For the exception of maybe 3 years of my adult life (because of jobs that required shaving) I've had a beard or a goatee. When it became kind of a trendy thing with all the beard oils and combs and shit, I actually considered just shaving because I didn't want to be looked at as (one of those guys). But I thought to myself no fuck that I had my beard way before all these shenanigans it's staying.
The Main problem I have with hipsters is there lack of interactions with each other and social skills. Hipsters act like they are a community but reality most of them barely know each other nor talk to each other. I visited a hipster bar just to see what's the haps, and saw that everyone is in their own bubble, theyre very very cliquesh, and males and females are totally segregated thanks to feminism. Hipsters are the most superficial people on earth and the sad thing is that I was a hipster 20 yrs before it was cool. More info - facebook.com/303452403113081/videos/934531943338454/
help8help Or he is just pre-hip. Whenever my style or behavior goes mainstream, I change it. Cut my pony tail off after 25 years because I was tired of people thinking I was a liberal LOL
You mean to say that nerds and goths are a better clique than hipsters?(they are and they get to have more fun things to do such as anime/comic/video game conventions and goth-rave competition)
If you can't reclaim the holy land, you don't deserve a beard. If you can't fight with a longsword, you don't deserve a beard. If you can't shoot a target with a longbow, you don't deserve a beard. If you can't siege a castle, you don't deserve a beard.
Cars are for fucking pussies, have you ever changed the oil in a t-34? Of course you haven't you fucking wimp. Cars don't even have guns on them, or even armor! Stop thinking you're a man, you're a boy.
Hipsters reminds me of that low C, high D average student in school that argues with the teacher's knowledge on the subject. Or that one kid in art class that has mediocre work but claims it is their expression
Nothing wrong with vinyl and coffee that's actually roasted correctly. Thing is, hipsters just like the aesthetic of all that shit. I'm convinced. Everything they do is just for the surface level appearance because they think their looks represent the idea of "non conformity". But that's just it, it's just the idea. They can't put their money where their mouth is because they are the definition of conformist.
david davidson You hit it right on the head. They're concerned with the APPEARANCE of being 'different' - JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. They do it because it's trendy to be anti-trendy, not realizing that anti-trendy is itself trendy, and the whole convoluted thing is just a rationalization to be a world-class, self-involved douche bag.
Well, I'm 60 and I prefer coffee that is roasted correctly, lol!!!! I've been drinking it since before most of these hipsters were born, and Starbucks doesn't count, their coffee sucks balls. Thing is, they act like they "discovered" good coffee and vinyl. That is what annoys people of my age group, who grew up with vinyl 45's, albums, etc. because that is ALL we had until 8 track tapes came out!!
they cant defend it cos its just a trend, not some solid social structure its pretty loose. they saw other guys dressing like that and imitated that, tomorrow no beards might come back and they'll just switch to that
HipSTERS are doing now exactly what HipPIES did back in the 60's - acting and dressing like each other. Eventually those of us who were on the front edge of the "noncomformist" wave got tired of the inevitable commercialization (of clothing, paraphernalia and lifestyle) we went somewhere else.
But aren't we post-hipster yet? They have been around for as long as I was out of high school- and that was 20 years ago. A book was written in 2003 called "The Hipster Handbook". Once someone writes a book about it, the movement is dead. The hippies died out eventually in the mid 1970s. Hipsters reached the mainstream back in the early 2000's, and they still haven't gone away.
So according to that, they have never BEEN away. Apparently, this is an ancient cult - imagine what they must have looked like a 100 or 1000 years ago =D
I like this guy's take on it. And coming across this video had to do with my search due to being dumbfounded as to what exactly a hipster is, and why people hate them. Basically, they are just another fad that acts like they aren't.
Hipsters seem kind of like old movies I have seen with the very early 1960's beatnicks . Those guys were pre hippy generation, hanging out in coffee shops , sporting gotee beards and reading poetry . Lol ...so funny .
it started with beatniks.... the children of the beats were the original hippies. The beatniks to me just seemed to be themselves to a certain degree. They seemed to be what the new age hipsters try to pretend to be but they will never be.
I didn't even realize that there were people like this. What a cryin' shame. I'm a US Marine and have spent most of the last two decades deployed to combat or stationed overseas.
That's the problem, the REAL Americans are overseas or simply not returning from the war at all, Meanwhile we're being invaded by illegal immigrants, people who have no love for this country and being replaced by generation who don't identify with the values of what this nation is supposed to stand for. It's beyond sad when a soldier returns home and doesn't even recognize his country or the people in it. Thank you for your service, I hope you are home for good.
How does it make me a hippy hating the modern US regime? “Soldiers” (more like terrorists in uniform) have deluded themselves into thinking they’re fighting for “freedom” but in actuality they are just fighting for some rich guys oil and sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong.
99percent true. However vinyl isnt really that hipster. People of all ages/races/demographics in general buy and listen to records. It does sound different than digital (better or not is up to the individual). Ive always found the vinyl/hipster thing a bit silly. A lot of us were raised on vinyl by our parents and its just a part of everyday life.
I don't see how this is any different than any other social cliques. Bros, hip hop culture, bass/edm heads, metal heads, punk rockers, hippies, cougars, surfers, etc etc. They all follow the fashion trends within their social group, they all tend to have the same political views, act the same, talk the same, and within all of these groups there are people I would consider hipsters because they consider themselves an elite within their social group and think they are more knowledgeable and experienced in their social culture than other people within it. The stereotyoes of elitism and non conformism do not apply to everyone with a beard and plad shirt, they apply to individuals in nearly every social clique around. Because American society is so external and only focuses on the physical, nobody actually knows who they are so they desperately cling to social cliques for a sense of identity.
Well us old school metalheads did what we did to offend as many people as possible. We didn't give two shits about what anyone thought. Hipsters are offended by everything these days. I'm still as much a full on metalhead at 45 as I was at 14. Didn't do it cause it was trendy. We did it for the love of the music.
@@thorthunderlungs5171 So did you do things to offend people, or did you do things because of the love of the music? Did you not care what anyone thought, or did you all mysteriously adhere to the basic metalhead dress code?
@@AJHart-eg1ys I didn't give a shit what anyone thought. I wore band shirts and torn up jeans (the metalhead uniform) but i also wore my Steelers jerseys. I did what I wanted and if anyone, including my friends, didn't like it that was tough shit. The 80s were such a different time than now.
@@thorthunderlungs5171 A uniform is a uniform is a uniform. But I agree that the passion behind the uniform of the 80s metalhead (I graduated from high school in '88) was present in much higher levels than the hipsters whose passion IS the optics. Even the burnouts were more passionate about smoking and drinking backwash pitchers the morning after the party than hipsters are about IPAs and beard oil.
Always made me laugh at how the 99 percenters who occupied things and protested large corporations all carried iphones around in order to organize their protests.
@G Kaiser using products you're protesting is a sign of weak character at best. Demanding change, but insisting it be done by others, is the same as doing nothing, because bitching doesn't motivate others.
@@sebastianplaum4667 yes, the amish do it all the time. You won't die if you decide to cut out things like your cell phone, tv, or fast food. Difficulty and feasibility aren't the same.
@@sebastianplaum4667 whether or not the amish can impact anything beyond their own communities is besides the point. You asked a question, I provided an answer, and an example as well. Yes, I would say something like that. It's simple supply and demand. Corporations create a supply, for the demand generated by average consumers like yourself. Low demand decreases profits, which lessens the power held by "big business". The only problem with it is the lack of interest most people have. Public libraries tend to have computers with internet access, so no need to be left in the dark about current events.
The only thing worse is the ones with the man buns, it takes all my strength to keep from murdering any man I see with a man bun and I don't know how much longer I can hold out.
Most kids discover irony in middle school and then get over the novelty of it. When an adult makes a lifestyle out of it, it is indicative of some form of arrested development.
We have them in norway as well. Honestly they are just tryhard. Wearing oversized vintage brands with «unique» colors. Going to thriftshops and digging in their parents old clothes. And im pretty sure they dont even like their clothes. They just think "oh no one would ever wear this. So i should start wearing them" They think they are original but they are just wearing old fashion
I´m starting to believe I helped this trend when I always had to wear ugly clothes but acted like it´s cool. But seriously, it´s always been the same - rich people copying poor people´s fashion music culture etc.!
We have them here in St. Ives in Cornwall. If you walk down the main street, every other shop is now an 'Artisans' bakery. The bread on sale looks like it's been dragged behind a donkey around the Chernobyl power station for a solid fortnight. Then it's displayed in 'distressed' whicker baskets in direct sunlight in the window. There's only about six loaves in the whole shop. But the shop doesn't need to make any money because it's a pet project of a rich man's son (Cloud Crispin Asbestos III) who dropped out of university because "the tutors don't know what they're talking about, and anyway, I'm an individual entrepreneur so I'll have hundreds of these shops within five years anyway". His father lent (gave) him two hundred thousand pounds to set up the business three years ago. However, he soon ran out of that money and has (without his dad knowing) borrowed another three hundred and seventy thousand pounds from his really great mates (Benjy, Rory, Vax and Gloog) from school who have massive trust funds. He works in the shop, well, when I say work, he saunters in at 11am with a coffee that he got from an 'Another artisan coffee shop' run by his great mate from school Sibelius Igloo-Lindab. For work he wears a big long Victorian apron the ones that start 3 inches below the chin and finish a half inch above his purple DM's. He stays for two and a half hours then goes home early because he says he's depressed. Later he can be found curled-up in a fetal position in his sisters bedroom of his family's holiday home (just in front of the Tate Gallery). He has a crumpled-up photograph of Jonathan Meads shoved down the back of his long johns. He has decided to kill himself (that's the sixtieth time he's decided that this month). But not to worry, his paternal grandmother has just died and she will leave him ten million quid that her family made by supplying Zyclon-B to the Nazis in World War 2. So, a happy ending for him.
ah yes, hipsters. My friend used to be one, and he claimed everything "normies" didn't do. So he ended up abandoning things he loved because they were for normies and normies judge, in his opinion. This was so ironic to me that he wanted to be himself so in order to be himself he could no longer be himself if that himself was what everybody else was doing so he was now no longer himself to seem like he was himself and rebellious against everyone else. Did you keep up? I didn't. I stopped keeping up after the first month of beard talk. Long story short, I generally dislike folks who do things for other people. Now if this is doing what everyone else does for that reason or NOT doing it because everyone else does it, don't matter. If being "basic" is who you are, im fine with it. If you're genuially into beards, go ahead. And if you're an overlap and just do a little of both because heck who cares, big thumbs up. But dont use "ew nobody does that" or "ew everybody does that" in order to lift yourself above others because you are one insecure little twat that pretends to be overly confident. and just ADMIT that you analize some parts of your life to compare them with others, which is fine. Also, we all look down on other groups, because we are confident within our own groups. Being pretentious and saying you dont is stupid and makes you. once again, lift yourself above others in a stupid manner. Fuck i think I lost the point I was trying to make.
I’m a 44 year old man who accidentally discovered how easy hipster girls are to pick up. I drive an older Volvo, not because hipsters like them but because they are tough reliable and easy to work on. Anyway one day I’m out running errands and a hipster girl struck up a conversation about my car. She was around 25 and pretty cute but definitely not like any girl I’m used to. I offered to buy a drink at a bar that was across the street. We hung had a couple drinks and she enjoyed it enough that she asked for my number. I really didn’t think I’d here from her since she was like 15 years younger. She called the next day and wanted to hang again. It was Friday so I said why not. I picked her up, in the Volvo, and went to a few places I’m used to. We had a great time. She asked if she could stay the night so of course I was happy to let her. After fooling around for lil bit we got naked and almost immediately I could tell she wasn’t used to a man doing things the way I was. I asked her if she wanted to stop and she looked at me and said “I hope you don’t”!!! I gave it to her and didn’t hold back. She had more orgasms than I could count. We stayed up almost the entire night having sex. After we were done she started telling me that no man had ever gave it to her like that. The guys she was used to were always gentle and acted like they were doing something wrong by having sex in the first place. We stayed in touch and hooked up a number of times until she moved back home with her parents out of state. Since then I’ve had a few more younger hipster girls and they all pretty much say the same things about hipster guys. I think hipster guys might want to learn how to fuck their girls or they will find themselves all alone listening to vinyl in their skinny jeans.
that is true. Hippies are a sub-culture, much like any other sub-culture. I was always more interested in minimalism in consuming, rather than consuming in a "hippie" way. For example I drive an old car, and live in a far smaller house than I could afford, not because it's "hip" to do it among some people, but because I do not wish to have to make money for costly things that don't really bring me any extra enjoyment. I don't go out of my way to "look" a certain way, but tend to go for comfortable, practical and inexpensive clothing, that doesn't stand out in any special way. Keeping my expenses relatively low enables me to have a job on my terms, that leaves me plenty of spare time and energy to pursue sports, hobbies, and develop my inventions (which may end up earning me money someday, but that's not why I work on them).
This is exactly how my wife and I are. Minimal not because it's trendy (btw, I don't think there's anything wrong with following a trend. Wear/do what you like so long as it doesn't hurt anything else), but because it frees up our ability to pursue things that are valuable to us. Like quality time outdoors, reading, pursuing hobbies, etc. It will also afford us the opportunity to retire at a young age.
I saw a hipster hanging at a coffee shop who unplugged a christmas lamp at his table window so he could charge his iphone instead. Then he sat there drinking coffee and read a very thin book which he held up in front of himself at eye height instead of putting it on the table. He took an avocado out of his bag and placed it on the table far away from himself. He never ate it. When he was done he put the book and avocado back in his bag, took his charger out of the wall and left, without plugging the lamp back in.
Anything harder than using a microwave is too hard for some folks. I'm surprised some people even take the time to cook an egg, let alone raise some chickens. Plus if none of their friends are out buying chicken feed how will they impress their peers what kind of free-trade-organic chicken feed they buy? It's all a bit ridiculous. Raise chickens, or don't. Either way, it's not a big deal and most people aren't impressed by it.
You learn a lot when someone takes the time to tell you why they love something. But, hate is a waste of time. Shirts, beards, and vinyl records are not fundamental to whether one of these individuals will become a doctor, professor, or bum.
There are so many kinds of counterculture-- punks, hippies, skaters, bluegrass musicians, niche artists, religious minorities... We all shop according to our beliefs... for example, vegans. However, we all live in the same system; Wall street and animal farms arent going away...
I wear flannels, have a beard, listen to indie or non-mainstream music, and drink TONS of coffee... Does that mean I’m a hipster??? Oh God I’m a HIPSTER!!!!
@dilfo the TV show Hannibal made me change my ways. After I was exposed to its sartorial excellence I could no longer lie to myself. I knew that I had to dress appropriately for my age so I exchanged my plaid shirt for a plaid three-piece suit. Well, and after a while I also changed all the other "annoying" pet peeves that I've developed over the years. To conclude: I first changed my attire and then adjusted my music taste (more mainstream music because not all pop songs are bad). I still listen to some of the bands like "Fleet Foxes" but that's only because they're actually good. As for listening to pop music: it was a great change because I started writing fingerstyle arrangements for most of the pop songs that I do like. And the best part about it is that the ladies seem to like it whenever I play songs that can recognize (like e.g. Ed Sheeran songs, they really seem to like those for some weird reason).
Thank you. I was confused for years at why people would sometimes refer to hipsters as opposition to mainstream, while looking at the TV where the actual mainstream is hipster.
Miami has a feral chicken problem. If an animal can thrive in an urban environment it cant be that hard to raise. Dinga ling farm wives have been doing it for a millenia.
I have all three. Dogs are the hardest. Chickens and cats are about tied. One shits inside and the other you could find dead on your porch just an hour after letting it out. I’ll let you decide which is which.
And that's why you can now find vinyl at Walmart next to the Nintendo Switch. Good job, hipster. You created a real life anachronism so ludicrous it's surreal just looking at it
i hate being called a hipster because i style my hair and mustache like a gentlemen from the 1700s, its just a style i like, im just a huge Doc Holiday tombstone fan
Proud Titanic Denier Oh please. The way those idiots act, especially the ones who took over Brooklyn!! They need a good old school Brooklyn beat down to bring them back down off their high horse!!
Why did the hipster burn his mouth with his coffee? He drank it before it was cool
Haha 😄
Ha!!!
@Pierre Chanceuse thats kinda gay
Oooooooh..........That was deep!
He didn’t burn his mouth, he singed his beard.
The difference between a nerd and a hipster: nerds' interests are internally stimulating, hipster's interests are performance props.
he difference between a nerd and a hipster: is How hard you have to HI# them before they start cr#####!
Ah, Big Bang Theory! So internally stimulating.
And the difference between a snob and a hipster: A snob will hate a lot of things and love few things as well, but contrary to the hipster they don't actually care whether or not something they like is sufficiently unpopular or not. ... Yes, I may be a shitty little snob. No worries, I don't care or judge what others like or dislike though. xD
@@AniGaAG At least your being more honest and more respectful than they'll ever be. 🤷😂
hipsters are simply liabilities that spout nonsense seen through their hallucinogenic bs. However, nerds can also be irritable as they prefer more complex means of communication, which then makes the other human lose interest quicker than Usain Bolt on crack. Both demographics are also passive, meaning they have no drive to complete. No conviction in their choices [except for the choice to conform to such stereotypes].
They are pretentious, that's why I can't stand them
pesiuber good, you should dislike pretentious pompous assholes.
Pretentious twatwattles.
Also narcissistic, arrogant, and obnoxiously progressive. All while being as fun to be around as getting romanced by a saguaro.
Perfect word, I just looked it up. thanks
lol, I guess you must hang around a lot of hipsters then?
I grew up on a lumber mill in Vermont, and believe me, when I see these fake lumberjack flannel wearing "hipsters" I want to puke.
You grew near a lumber mill so you can wear plaid? Dude your a hipster
Yes, let's hear it for us REAL men.
My father was a lumberjack, or a woodcutter, as they tend to call them here in Scotland. Don't remember him looking like a hipster right enough. I remember wandering into a hipster bar in Glasgow recently. Ironically my 2 friends and I were the ones who looked different and stood out in the sea of skinny jeans wearing sheep in there. I suppose they need their own bar right enough. There are bars only 5 minutes walk away from there that I doubt many of them would dare enter!
I think wearing flannel is common in places like that because of the warmth. I love flannel and I'm not a lumberjack or a hipster.
@Zak Jansen and if he makes a quip......
You know you're a hipster when...
You bring your typewriter to a crowded park to "get away from it all."
Your bike is older than you are.
You wear a lumberjack shirt but the closet thing you have to an axe was your body spray.
You spend more on mustache wax than you do on soap.
If you complain about capitalism to your cashier at Whole Foods.
harleybynature axe body spray lol
harleybynature when you want to shoot film to take a photo cos the cameras look cool. Mind you, I’ve been shooting film for 38 years, ever since I was 15.
You’re Also a hipster if you complain about fascism while supporting Antifa a group of the lefts violent militia that dresses in all black and masks on not unlike Mussolini’s brown shirts and the Gestapo. Both were fascist
@@nathanaelgraham1029 I'm not a fan of antifa but you just used a bad argument. You're describing facism very very wrong. The alt right (and a lot on the right in general) are more what early (and not full in) facism looks like. Fascism is nationalism. It's about closing your borders to outsiders, recognizing your race and country are the true race and country, telling your people that the outsiders are the villains and Should be feared. Its all about what's good for the star is good for the people. Which means if more money is needed to build tanks than to feed people then so be it because it's good for the country. Non of that is antifa. At worst they're violent and want to stop hate speech from nazi and white supremists. That's it. The white supremacists are The fascists.
This joke is old. Very old. It's describing hipster stereotypes from 10 years ago. Like, I don't know any "hipster" (which is basically what an older person would just call a millenialsl now) that really shops at whole foods because they're expensive.
"Don't fool yourself, everyone is wearing a uniform." - Frank Zappa
how true. leave it up to Zappa!
What if I go naked, no uniform there buddy
Kferler Nah, everyone has a birthday suit. It is a uniform.
Frank Zappa was a fuckin' genius
john madory Praise the almighty Zappa, the holy one born from the sacred virgin Venus. Never feel fear nor the sting of death for Zappa died for your sins that you may be one with the almighty again. I was once lost, left with no purpose no care, no reason to live. But in my darkest hour I listened to the sacred words of my beloved father as well as the chimes of his six golden strings. I was filled with the Zappa spirit being cleansed of my transgressions. I bear my testimony that Frank Zappa loves all of us and wants the best for us. All we need to do is accept him as our supreme creator and have faith in him, for all of us can be saved by his love. He has saved my life and he can save yours, Zappa be with you, Zappa Forever...Amen!
Brutal truth bombs being dropped here.
Julio Lopez
Not really. Individual expression is not hipster. Hipster is just a term coined at people who are creative and champion the ‘individual’. And true indie people aren’t doing anything in this video - it’s a giant ass strawman directed at people who copy indie people.
Brutal stereotyping, and generalizing...
Julian Saccullo: Not to mention- the people described in this vid are not hipsters, they are hippie wannabe's?? Real hipsters (from the 1950's) wore 3 piece suits.
I'm surprised it took until 2017 to post it. The pretentious hipster thing was self-evident pretty much from the get-go.
you bought that?
As someone with digestive issues involving gluten, I'm real glad hipsters got into gluten free. Gluten free was dry awful garbage before them, but increased consumer demand forced the market to improve it in a way that only celiacs never could.
Now that’s it has been years since this also happened, I can safely say that their influence seemed to be far more positive than negative, and that many hipsters values got absorbed into the mainstream. They created our new normal
And let's not forget their propensity to "gentrify" rough neighborhoods making them trendy beyond affordability for the average person; all the while they are NOT working and sipping sustainably sourced fair-trade organic coffee in an open WiFi cafe while living on a trust fund budget...courtesy of Mommy and Daddy.
So you have a problem with people moving in rough neighborhoods, building and renovating also making the neighborhood safer for the people who lived there bevause they don't have a no snitch policy
*cough* detroit *cough*
Stefan Marchione While simultaneously pretending to feel guilty about "white privilege".
Edward Mayer The problem lies with the fact that they build up these rough neighborhood to the point where the residents, who lived there before hand, can no longer afford to.
Brian Boulter It sounds as though you misunderstood the the point i was making.
Add in the elitist snobby attitude towards others.They look down upon others and show contempt and disdain. They are super judgemental.. Treat others poorly.
It's not the lumberjack shirts or the beards or the microbrew that makes a hipster a hipster, it's their attitude in doing so because they claim it's non-conformist. That, and their unholy trinity of arrogance, pretentiousness and unwarranted smugness, while claiming to like the likes of Coldplay, or claim to dislike Coldplay, while still listening to it and claiming to like them ironically. I don't like Coldplay because they're mainstream or whatever, I don't like them cause I personally find their music shit.
Imagine being a non-conformist so much to the point where other people start conforming to be a non-conformist. They're still conformists.
I would add: my biggest beef with hipsters is that they are like vampires, but instead of blood, what they seek is "authenticity". They see genuinely-authentic things around them: like blue-collar workers (whose fashion they pilfer), ethnic and folk-music (whose music they parrot), crafts-people of yesteryear (whose techniques of farming, food-processing, wood-working, distillation-processes etc. they appropriate) and genuine-free-thinkers, and they amalgamize superficial elements from all of "authentic" things into a totally contrived Frankenstein of inauthenticity. They take things that truly define people and turn them into costumes and personas. Yech.
Yeah, I run into that a lot and they come to me at my job thinking they've found another hipster. They usually find out that I'm quite fond of long hikes, carpentry, history, and cooking old dense recipes. Hipsters aren't much into effort, really just the short term is their game.
When I see little pop queens wearing Motorhead and Slayer shirts I want to go on a homicidal rampage.
This comment somewhat clarifies things for me. I genuinely like to do all those things you mentioned, and it confused me as to why people seemed to deride those with such interests as being too “hipster”. But I guess a hipster would be more concerned with the optics of it all, performative authenticity instead of being genuinely involved and appreciating the craftsmanship.
Nah. Not like vampires. /
@@freerhymin4life I had a friend who started the habit of reading thanks to the hipster culture and then when you said something stupid she told you "you should read", implying that it makes you smarter when she used to read only shitty teen novels HAHAHAH THAT'S THE DEFINITION OF HIPSTER
who branded them hipsters, anyway? as far back as i can remember, we always called these people posers.
dab
We called them douche-bags.
They sound like modern day hippies to me.
Hipsters themselves are simply conforming to another trend of clothes, appearance, etc. and at the same time saying they don’t conform. Such dorks .
I see no difference between wearing hipster clothes and a clown suit except the clown suit is more respectable
This reminds me of the scene in The Life Of Brian:
"Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, You don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for your selves! You're ALL individuals!
The Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals!
Brian: You're all different!
The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different!
Man in crowd: I'm not.
The Crowd: Shh!"
Brian: You've all got to work it out for yourselves.
The Crowd: Yes! We've got to work it out for ourselves!
Brian: Exactly!
The Crowd: Tell us more!"
Lol 😁!!!!!
Are you referring to Family Guy Brian ?
TheSlimmshadyy Monty pythons “life of Brian”. Very funny, it’s free on TH-cam!
@@baldwinslab oh ok thanks !
This happened to my best friend from high school. Senior year I started lifting weights and he said that was for douchebags. Now 8 years later he lives in Seattle, looks homeless and works passionately as a barista for a mom and pop coffee shop. Also he's vegan.
Poor guy. Never thought something like that would happen to him. RIP dude.
Caleb Ballard 🤣🤣
He was your best friend, you should've talk some sense into him.
@Chris Haunton Indeed, Seattle..
Chris Haunton hey are socialists bad? genuinely asking
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
A friend moved back from Oregon and said that hipsters are real jerks, don't ever disagree with one over an issue.
They really are. Especially consignment shop clerks in Chicago... Those stuck up nerds made me hate hipsters more than ever.
Not unless you want to get hit in the head with a bike lock
@None
Calm down tough guy. You sound like one of them. Here in South Texas we call it, "All hat and no cattle." You're not doing anything on here.
Exactly!! They will act smug, try and convince you that their way is the ONLY way. If you drive a car, you're contributing to pollution, if you eat meat, you're contributing to climate change getting worse, etc., etc. Some may be well meaning, but they act so righteous and pretentious that many don't take them seriously. Then, they act as if they "discovered" something that has been around for decades probably before they were born.
yeah I hear ya. They are supposed to be about acceptance and independence and being non main stream but they are the worst off all. With them it's a no judgement zone only for they get to judge
The lumberjack costume is "signalling". In the 80's we called this "posing". In this case they are signalling masculinity, because they dont have the stereotypical masculine traits that would otherwise identify them as such.
bunberrier Im one of the “we” from the 80’s and I have never heard that. “Signaling” you mean by wearing flannel?
Chad Allen Sorry, I thought all 80's kids said that. Maybe it was a regional thing where I lived. "Posers" were those putting up a front or a pretense for their ego or whatever. In this instance I was referring to the whole package. In the images shown here they are wearing flannel, work pants, heavy work boots, and sport thick beards. Its designed to portray a man who works with his back and his hands. But many ( most?) of these people couldn't drive a nail straight, or fix a car, and think Ohm's law is found in a legal manual. They swipe at phones and hang around metro areas. "Oh I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok..... I sleep all night and I work all day!"
Bunberrier, that was a very astute comment. I was around in the 80s too, and I agree that posing=signalling. One quick counterargument to your point, though, is this: male hipsters have beards. That's a pretty incontrovertible masculine signal. So one would think the lumberjack shirt is not necessary. It could be that the lumberjack look is just a style that spread through the hipster community. I would argue that those shirts are common in the Pacific Northwest, which is also a strong hipster hub (maybe the epicenter?)
SpizawkDaKizowz True about the beard, but as you also said, a signal. ( For most, anyway, taken in context with the rest of it. ) Also beards can make you look bigger.... and sort of hide a thin chest or neck. Actually loose flannel can hide lack of muscles too, particularly with a couple extra shirts under it. I tried many different types of facial hair before I understood the best use of it is to even up or hide undesirable features of the face, and I didn't need to do that. It was just extra work. But I did try a beard at one point, and gawd what an itchy mess that was. Not knocking beards at all, evidently some people are quite fond of them.
It's the soy.
It bothers the shit out of me that Hipsters seem to have appropriated every damn thing I've been interested in for 20 years. Homebrewing, antiques, wet shaving, pre 1950s fashion, local food production. When I do it I'm a weird beer-drinking survivalist, but when they do it with skinny Jeans on somehow it's cool. Luckily they haven't appropriated guns and handloading...
Wait! Small Batch Organic Ammunition! I may have something here...
I feel your pain. I've been into gardening, raising chickens, and butchering my own meat for as long as I can remember. I like building and making things with my hands, taking things apart, and looking for deals at yard sales. I grew up thinking it was the just the thing that all the men around me do. The hipsters are making a mockery of masculine culture, which I think has been their plan all along.
Dethlord lol
Ben Sigl “somehow it’s cool”. Hint: it’s your personality. The difference is you are a resentful insecure dude. Not cool or attractive. Don’t worry about what other guy’s game is. Dial your own Steeze and live life.
Ben Sigl like what you like and let others like what they like. Why are you so hung up on what other people think is cool?
Know who does that? Hipsters.
I feel you man, I was raised this way minus the skinny jeans lol.
I know one hypster , he's always diggin thru my trashbags near my house
Huh they usually digging for organic material
Taliesin Halliday Its called recycling duuude!
Richard Bright Its callled recycling duuuude!
thats a racoon
Lookin for that retro bro!
At least they make their idiocy apparent from a distance.
ttmike42 idiocy cannot be seen from a distance, yours can though
Trump is your president, crybaby.
That's useful.
Turns out you actually can judge a book by its cover :D
You should all be watching this using a biodegradeable internet provider with free-range data like me.
Hahaha that's pretty funny
Very hip. Lol.
Why would you clown biodegradeability & humane farming practices? Those are actually *sane & moral* things. If a hipster was desperate to practice these 2 things for the sake of belonging to the hipster school, then Id champion them for it, not make a comment like this. As if advocating animal cruelty/torture & refuse-riddled bodies of water are *good*. Just stop.
@@Truth_Hurts_Bad of course, ethical, green industry practices are very important. But this was a joke. You know jokes don't have to be serious, right? but of course if you enjoy getting triggered by the most inconsequential things you can find, please continue. im sure ill enjoy it too.
You know, in the back of my mind, I knew this was petty; I just had to call it out. Of all the jokes you could've made, you just had to take healthy practices & associate them with pretentious morons. It bothered me. Good day.
Funny how rebels against the establishment all look the same and act like their so different, hahaha 😂
Trying to be authentic trough clothing doesn't work, it's got to do with character.
The true alternative thinkers dont even give a shit about the public.
Edward Gross Your So Right!
truth will free you, and speaking it will sort your life out
Man it is great to hear this point of view from someone else.
"I'm not a sheep, you're the sheep." - Sheep to another sheep.
They say sheep are the dumbest animals of farming livestock. But I can't help but wonder when the last time was that a hipster took a look in the mirror at themselves without it being top groom their stupid looking beards.
I remember when plaid lumberjack shirts (flannels) were worn as overshirts for our Led Zeppelin t-shirts. Now they've become the lesbian movement uniform, or hipster trend.
kewrock Fuck off with that bullshit. Yeah, the wjole lesbein mvement is doing that now, but real hipsters died out around 2012. Their style has become so saturated that it became mainstream. Also, people dont really know what a hipter is. Their are so many gringos and retards calling people they dont like or understand as hipsters.
I've offended a hipster...or lesbian. Maybe it was a twofer, a hipster-lesbian.
And lesbians didn't just start wearing them. They've been wearing then 20 years. You furry little hipsters were just hairless newborn pups. My comment was of the 1970s and 80s. The stoner uniform was an open flannel, rock concert-T shirt , and a black leather jacket(with or without the furry collar). The early grunge scene picked up on the flannel shirt in the 90's. That's also when the lesbians started wearing them. I think Malissa Ethridge started it for them.
kewrock My main point was that hipsters are dead and that people who dont understand another person as a hipster.
kewrock - I remember when flannels where the official dress shirt of East LA and were worn by grunge folks in the 90s.
I wore my favorite fedora because I loved Indiana Jones and having a full brim hat was the way to go and no big deal when living out in the desert of the Southwest for a few years. Now I always get crap for wearing one. I don't know how the hipsters think they brought back the dress hat fedora when it was trendy during the swing Revival days of the 90s.
I hate the hipsters that believe that there better than everybody else just because they believe that driving a Toyota Prius means that there saving the world or they think that shopping at Banana Republic or Whole Foods makes them feel that there "organic".
A bit like bikies, emos, rappers, grunge rockers, ravers etc - 'mass individualism'.
But you're super individual by not being into it, and/or criticising them. Right?
It happens. Humans are tribal and will likely always be. However, it's nice that when you finally find who you are, there are others there for you
Ravers were dressing all the same?
@@B1SCOOP very similar in the 90's, phat pants, Adidas jerseys, shoes, girls with pig tails or princess Leia buns, candy braclets etc
They don't like actual individuals. I'll fuckin walk around with a stain on my shirt sniffin poo from my bum when I please
Nothing new here. All the "rebel" movements of the last century ended up creating cookie cutter clichés. But those movements has a sense of being "outside", whereas hipsters are "above".
Its only a matter of time before the next "type" comes along.
That's an astute observation, and true.
Much better said than the video! Still, people rarely classify themselves, but are classified by others in order to reduce their autonomy.
"All the "rebel" movements of the last century ended up creating cookie cutter clichés."
Including The Beatles?
To quote Dylan: "I don´t believe you. You are a liar"
@@Welther47 they're already here in the form of mumble rappers and their fans
The word "hippie" came from the word hipster and when it comes to hippies former Beatle George Harrison said it best: "Hippies are so phony and fake!"
"Hippie" comes from "hip" or "hep."
@Mister Guy Also, the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany is very misunderstood. They likely would have favored forgiving all college debt for any degree that has the word "studies' in it. :)
Sounds interesting, but which German degrees have ´studies´ in the title? Or is that the joke?
@@daeph123 It was a point about people who went to college to obtain worthless "studies" degrees who now whine about how they can't get a job and that their school debt should be wiped out. They are also the ones who seem to LOVE what they hear about socialism.
I'm only figuring out now why we, as a group, never move forward much. Every generation learns the same truths about certain things. Yet each generation - rather than just taking what has been learned and moving forward - spins its wheels learning the same lesson for itself.
George was right
So true - scratch below the surface and they are the biggest sheep going. 😀
"congratulations hipsters, you've somehow turned non conforming into the biggest conformist culture out there." Sorry man but its already been done, look at the punk movement.
Or look at the hipsters great grandaddy the hippy. They conformed.
summer20105707
You’re right about that. Most hipsters are just neo hippies. I work with so many.
he didnt say they did it first. hipsters can be in the same shitty group as those guys too lol
When he said "the biggest conformist culture out there" I think he may have meant the culture that had the broadest lifestyle reach. Punks may have conformed in terms of music and fashion but they weren't sticklers for where to grocery shop, how to make a living, etc the way that hipsters are. The Punk movement didn't dictate to every facet of ppl's lives the way that the hipster movement seems to.
Blerk Snarfgut
Right. You can’t even compare Hipsters to punk. Punk was and still is a mindset. I’ve long abandoned wearing Mohawks abs shit... but I’ll always be punk at heart.
You forgot the bit about how obnoxious it is to do things "ironically." You get someone who's a real nerd about something, doesn't matter what, maybe they LOVE shoe laces. They're just into shoe laces. There's no irony, they just get a real kick out of them. Hipsters come along and get "into" shoe laces too. But they're too cool for it. So it's ironic... or something. And then the folks who're really super nerds about shoe laces are suddenly lumped in with the stupid hipsters. And if they deny being hipsters it's just proof that they're really hipsters. After all, what's more hipster than to say "I was into shoe laces before being into shoe laces was a thing"?
ARGH!
Leave my cool obscure hobby that no one else likes, appreciates, or understands alone!!!! It's cool because I think it's cool... not because other people don't or because it's ironic.
::sigh::
Hipsters are evil.
It becomes frustrating if you wished it was more popular genuinely so that you can connect with others on it.
shoelace lovers are geeks. if u r into learning the history of shoelaces and how to construct them better u r a shoelace nerd. if u constantly trip over yur shoelaces u r a spaz. of course most of us have various combos of nerd/geek/spaz in different ratios on different subjects/activities. geek=emotion, nerd=mental, spaz=physical.
I know the struggle. I used to actually collect vinyl records back in the day, not because it was "cool" or "better than digital" or "obscure" or anything, just because I always liked old things. And here, collecting vinyl records is listed in this very video as being one of the most hipster/detestable things you can do. And like you said, I can't even argue that "I was doing it before it was cool," because... yeah.
Leave my hobby alone ? Really your hobby?
That is not what the fuck a hipster portrays himself as a hobbyist. They pretend they are real men. By dressing/acting collecting. Drinking hand brewed beers. When I. Reality a real man builds his own shit has talent in a craft
Growing vegetables making old stuff new again.
Just being a jack of all trades. Hipsters don’t know how to do shit but pretend they do
@Genna Tuelz Dude you just found THE solution to put an end to the eternal hipster misery. Congrats! 👍😎
LOL My mom calls them FAKE LUMBERJACKS #fakelumberjacks
Falujas?
Lolol I do like wearing plaid shirts (Don't hate me ;) ) but I drink affordable coffee and don't smoke. I am not a lumberjack but I have chopped wood with an ax
Most hipsters are 2 Corona with Limes away from their first gay experience.
Glad to say I’ve never had a Corona w lime, paid $6 for a cuppa Joe at Starbucks, or grown a beard for any reason other than I didn’t feel like shaving several days in a row. Hipsters think I’m not hip, and if hip means being a douchebag like they generally are, I’ll never be hip. Nothing is better than eating beef and getting the lecture about how cruel the meat industry is. My response is “I like my steak rare with extra blood and my garlic bread with extra gluten.”
@@brinsonharris9816 Spoken like a man
Wise Guy : I'll fuck them without a Corona and lime. The first one is free.
Steve Cox, were you a Zima and Jolly Rancher kind of guy?
I don’t know any hipsters but I am a victim of the hipsters. They ransacked the goodwill by my house. They gentrified my friends neighborhood and imposed the gluten free vibe at my local Mexican bakery. Now the bread tastes whack. I have never seen a hipster or met one, yet I can’t help but feel imposed by them.
Funny as fuck
I used to live in an area that became a hipster magnet. One of the reasons I hate hipsters so much is they commandeered the ‘pay it forward’ restaurant in the area because they decided eating a 3 course meal and paying a handful of change for it was trendy. Their thievery put the restaurant out of business. Which was a real blow to some of the unemployed people in the area. Hipsters are oxygen thieves who take up space required for other purposes!
Nah. Not whack. Not never seen a hipster. /
Take their vape away, and watch them cry
Like candy from a baby.
I heard someone call them (the vapes) a "douche flute" the other day. I haven't laughed so hard in a while.
I like obscure shit and love to seek out shit no one really cares about. Its like exploring for treasure. Being difrent isn't bad, its just pretending to be difrent is stupid.
Wow, I totally agree
I look out for the weird and the fascinating
I love music and movies that are stimulating and challenging
Not necessarily comfortable
But I look normal.
Nah. Not no one really cares about. /
It's like what Zappa said about the Hippies in the '60s.
What'd he say?
what'd he say?!
i like what military " conservative " chemical experiments did to zappa or unexpecting bystanders caught up in the trend
vaso opel sflit-s15-trey.blogspot.com/2015/06/frank-zappas-critique-of-hippies.html
a song? ok then :-)
Thank you for this. I'm from Seattle and they're everywhere. I've moved out (I live in Kenya now) and thanks for mentioning that these people are the reason we have such high rent.
Wow man, from Seattle to Kenya? Lol, that is seriously getting away from it all. I've never been to the US, but I have been to Kenya and worked there for 5 months. I have no desire to return. Overpopulated, I had to go to the bush for 2 days to get away from people. I live in South Africa and we have great open spaces, something I will seek out after seeing Kenya and the UK.
Hated them so much he moved continents
I've wanted to move to Seattle for years. Not for the whole hipster shit, but for the amount of jobs they have I'm looking to get into.
I once heard a hipster complaining about how much he hates it when customers try to hand him money in the coffee shop he worked in. Apparently he was a barista and therefore saw himself as an artist not to be disturbed by the common herd who were there to buy coffee. I tried to explain the logic behind this, but he could not grasp that if you are working behind the counter in a shop; people may actually try to pay you for the goods you sell. That was the moment I became hipster aware.
Sounds like a real douchebag.
Oh yeah, he argued a lot about how I was wrong.
You forgot man buns! Lord have mercy.
That's actually not just hipsters.... That shit was everywhere
What's wrong with man buns? I have man bun not because I have anything to do with hipster but because I'm scandinavian and it's my viking heritage. That hairstyle is very old and we are not guilty is some subculture addopted it and do not deserve to be mocked because of it!
mudza92; Sorry didn’t mean any disrespect. Your right it is cultural theft by the hipsters. They don’t even know their doing it. Ware it with pride.
@@danterry6328 Thanks man I apreciate it
What's so bad
I once went to a concert where the majority of the audience were alternative looking people, you know lots of piercings, tattoos, multi coloured hair etc. And i rock up in a shirt and jeans with my regular joe look. So because i was ‘normal looking’ i was alternative because I wasn’t alternative 🤔
Hi colin, i know you comment is 4 years old but have to say i can relate. A little while back i was in a trendy London street market (i live in London) and there was the usual load of hipsters. Got chatting to a fashion student who had a stall and she made her own clothes. She complemented me on my 'outfit' and my 'look' which really made me laugh. I'm a digger driver and i just finished work and was literally in my worn out work clothes! Had a week old bit of stubble, unkempt hair under a woolly hat because it was cold and she though i was the trendiest looking person in the market. Bloody hilarious!
@@tilerman you should of been like yeah it's called the working man's look you can get it at idk when you work hard.
I have a beard. Like my $0.05 home brew coffee out of my $20 coffee pot. I wear flannel shirts sometimes. I like my red wing iron rangers. I have a 2006 mp3 player I have my music on. I don't have mumford and sons(?) on it. It's not so much about being a hipster, it's about them being nothing else. Lot's of people lead pretty normal lives, and aren't anything special, which is alright. Being a good person is better than being a unique person.
Problem is society is labeling everything as a thing, when being unique shouldnt, cos then it becomes an uniform, like hipsters
You're a hipster in denial.
at least now thanks to this strange obsession with gluten free food, it's much easier to find even here in a third world country, makes life easier for some folks who are actually allergic
huahuahuahua huehuehuehue true.
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I'm thankful there's more options. I have celiac disease. Its not fun paying 4 times more for a loaf of bread or pizza.
jmek08 supply and demand. If more people demand it, it will become cheaper. As not a crazy amount of people demand it, price is hiked up.
Look at the motto they parade around Portland: "Keep Portland weird." Think about that. That's their priority. Keep Portland weird. Not Keep Portland nice, or clean, or safe. No. Keep it "weird". What matters above all else is that it be perceived as "weird" by normal people. That is of the utmost importance. The most devastating thing you can say to a hipster who shows you their Darth Vader on a unicycle that their city has isn't "you people are fucking weird". That's what they want to hear. It validates their empty existence. Tell them "eh, that isn't too weird. My city has something similar to that, maybe even a little weirder. I think most towns do." That'll fuck them up because their whole identity is based around getting you to call them weird. Think of how vacuous that is. There is nothing to them but their "image" that they carefully cultivate to be exactly the same as their fellow hipsters. They have no personality or actual interests, just claiming to like whatever is "hipster cool" at the moment even if they don't honestly like it. They're empty, human-shaped shells with no substance to them. That's obnoxious enough, especially since they're invariably in their 20's-30's, and not immature teenagers from whom you'd expect this kind of shallow obsession with conformity and being "different".
But what really puts the cherry on top of the rage sundae is that they take all of this hollow bullshit and wrap it up in an unearned air of smug superiority. They're better than you because their toast cost them $14 and yours was made from a slice of the loaf of bread you got for $2.50. They're better than you because their music is by someone you've never heard of. They're better than you because their glasses are gigantic and yours fit you properly. No. Fuck you, hipsters. Get out of my city. Stop moving in and shitting everything up. You're like a fucking infestation. "Oh look, the natives have a shoprite here with an empty building next to it! We want a Whole Foods! Should we buy the empty lot and make one? Nah! Get the Shoprite shut down and replace it with a Whole Foods! It's not enough to force this neighborhood to have things we like in addition to things the people who are actually from here like; we have to actively purge the things the natives like so that they'll move out and hasten the collapse of this town into another Portland, before we immediately lose interest and move on to another host town like the hoard of unthinking, endlessly consuming cultural locusts we are!" Fuck hipsters.
buch phoneys all they do is bring high rents
They dress like lumberjacks, yet they have never used a chainsaw, or even done any actual manual labor, in their life.
Jay Bee Nah, it's a free country. You can wear hospital scrubs and a lab jacket all day, and never have worked in a medical profession your entire life. Hell, you can wear SCUBA gear and be afraid of the water. People might think it's a bit strange however.
so what? it's just a fashion trend.. as if chopping down trees was the pinnacle of human achievement..
kyjo72682 Straw man. Did you even watch the OP's video?
Douglas Williams ha! I was a choker setter and a knot bumper for 5 years. My whole family are fallers. I’m a hipster doofus and I could out work you all day long. Construction, open pit BBQ chef who splits his own oak.
And la de dah pinko skinny jeans mincer who fucks square’s ladies.
Jay Bee I worked in landings for years and nobody says “lumberjack”. You pick up “widow maker” from tv? Ever been hit between the shoulder blades by one? I chase landing In my skinny jeans and wear a dog turd strap for a belt. It matches my white leather corks.
I’m only half joking. You have no idea what some of us do for a living my friend. No idea.
Predictably, comments from hipsters asserting that they aren't hipsters.
"Like, dude, I was hip before hipsterism was hip."
Spot on, sniper like accuracy.
0:19 Every subculture thinks of itself in this matter. What seperates hipsters from emos, goths, metalheads, punks, grungers, hippies, or whoever, is the lack of sincerity.
I love it when hipsters take something that has been around for years, put their own spin on it (often times charging an arm and legs as well), and pat themselves on the back for inventing it.
That’s just proof of how stupid hipsters are. If a pub changes the menu to say their chips are hand cut and seasoned, hipsters will trip over their stupid beards to order them… It’s not hard to fleece hipsters out of a lot of money, all you need to do is use fancy words on your menu…
Too bad beards and eating organic is so commonly associated with hipsters.
Yeah i dont like Hipsters, but i have a beard, and i mosty shop at farmers market for fresh organic produce lol, i dont like flannels thoor avoiding something just because it's mainstream
That's right! Beards should just be associated with douchey jackasses!
mnb323 Rappers also have breads. Trae Tha Truth, Big K.R.I.T., Action Bronson etc. So its not all bad lol
For the exception of maybe 3 years of my adult life (because of jobs that required shaving) I've had a beard or a goatee. When it became kind of a trendy thing with all the beard oils and combs and shit, I actually considered just shaving because I didn't want to be looked at as (one of those guys). But I thought to myself no fuck that I had my beard way before all these shenanigans it's staying.
Add to that soy diet,,effeminate behavior,and general assholery that completes the picture.
The Main problem I have with hipsters is there lack of interactions with each other and social skills. Hipsters act like they are a community but reality most of them barely know each other nor talk to each other. I visited a hipster bar just to see what's the haps, and saw that everyone is in their own bubble, theyre very very cliquesh, and males and females are totally segregated thanks to feminism. Hipsters are the most superficial people on earth and the sad thing is that I was a hipster 20 yrs before it was cool.
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Saying that you did something before it was cool makes you sound like a superficial douche.
help8help - the way they approach fashion is lame. Alan Watts once said that high fashion is just the game of I can conform faster then you can.
help8help Or he is just pre-hip. Whenever my style or behavior goes mainstream, I change it. Cut my pony tail off after 25 years because I was tired of people thinking I was a liberal LOL
You mean to say that nerds and goths are a better clique than hipsters?(they are and they get to have more fun things to do such as anime/comic/video game conventions and goth-rave competition)
SKYRULE-49
Quote 'I visited a hipster bar just to see what's the haps', Seriously who talks like that? Hipsters, that's who!
If you can't change a tire without calling AAA on your new iPhone or even change your own engine oil, shave the beard. You haven't earned it hippie.
Amen!
If you can't reclaim the holy land, you don't deserve a beard. If you can't fight with a longsword, you don't deserve a beard. If you can't shoot a target with a longbow, you don't deserve a beard. If you can't siege a castle, you don't deserve a beard.
Cars are for fucking pussies, have you ever changed the oil in a t-34? Of course you haven't you fucking wimp. Cars don't even have guns on them, or even armor! Stop thinking you're a man, you're a boy.
Rollo Lawson Bet you haven't even forged a nail in your life... Child.
Jeff Van Tassel forgot its expensive to look.poor...wtf
Hipsters reminds me of that low C, high D average student in school that argues with the teacher's knowledge on the subject. Or that one kid in art class that has mediocre work but claims it is their expression
Nothing wrong with vinyl and coffee that's actually roasted correctly. Thing is, hipsters just like the aesthetic of all that shit. I'm convinced. Everything they do is just for the surface level appearance because they think their looks represent the idea of "non conformity". But that's just it, it's just the idea. They can't put their money where their mouth is because they are the definition of conformist.
Undercover hipster u have a beard xDD JK man dont hate me lulz
david davidson You hit it right on the head. They're concerned with the APPEARANCE of being 'different' - JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. They do it because it's trendy to be anti-trendy, not realizing that anti-trendy is itself trendy, and the whole convoluted thing is just a rationalization to be a world-class, self-involved douche bag.
Well, I'm 60 and I prefer coffee that is roasted correctly, lol!!!! I've been drinking it since before most of these hipsters were born, and Starbucks doesn't count, their coffee sucks balls. Thing is, they act like they "discovered" good coffee and vinyl. That is what annoys people of my age group, who grew up with vinyl 45's, albums, etc. because that is ALL we had until 8 track tapes came out!!
@Jay Bee maybe you should because a nice light roast has more caffeine than the asphalt scrapings you normally brew.
I was on-board with the hipster thing up until like five years ago when I realised they're the utopian types who have no spine.
Mary, they have no balls either
What does utopian types mean?
I just came down here to the comments to see if any hipsters were defending their culture. Don’t see any and am somehow disappointed.
The wi-fi at Starbucks is out. They'll show up eventually.
they cant defend it cos its just a trend, not some solid social structure its pretty loose. they saw other guys dressing like that and imitated that, tomorrow no beards might come back and they'll just switch to that
Thank you!
the lumbersexual and peruvian hat thing is going out of style
Meh personally i just like how they dress, couldn't give more of a shit about their culture
HipSTERS are doing now exactly what HipPIES did back in the 60's - acting and dressing like each other. Eventually those of us who were on the front edge of the "noncomformist" wave got tired of the inevitable commercialization (of clothing, paraphernalia and lifestyle) we went somewhere else.
The vast majorities of the 1960's hippies ended up being exactly what they stood against.
But aren't we post-hipster yet? They have been around for as long as I was out of high school- and that was 20 years ago. A book was written in 2003 called "The Hipster Handbook". Once someone writes a book about it, the movement is dead. The hippies died out eventually in the mid 1970s. Hipsters reached the mainstream back in the early 2000's, and they still haven't gone away.
Yeeah. It was fun while it lasted though lol
It happens in every generation.
So according to that, they have never BEEN away. Apparently, this is an ancient cult - imagine what they must have looked like a 100 or 1000 years ago =D
I like this guy's take on it. And coming across this video had to do with my search due to being dumbfounded as to what exactly a hipster is, and why people hate them. Basically, they are just another fad that acts like they aren't.
“I want to be different, like all the other different people.”
-King Missile.
It's a shame I can't like this video twice!
That's why I'm giving a like to this comment it counts a a 2nd like!💪
I liked the video before "liking" was even invented
This is why bullying DOES have its place in a civilized society
Hipsters seem kind of like old movies I have seen with the very early 1960's beatnicks . Those guys were pre hippy generation, hanging out in coffee shops , sporting gotee beards and reading poetry . Lol ...so funny .
Maybe Maynard G Krebs is their patron saint.
doug perry after they found out he blew Dobbie
it started with beatniks.... the children of the beats were the original hippies. The beatniks to me just seemed to be themselves to a certain degree. They seemed to be what the new age hipsters try to pretend to be but they will never be.
I didn't even realize that there were people like this. What a cryin' shame. I'm a US Marine and have spent most of the last two decades deployed to combat or stationed overseas.
Aaron Coulter you my friend are awsome
That's the problem, the REAL Americans are overseas or simply not returning from the war at all, Meanwhile we're being invaded by illegal immigrants, people who have no love for this country and being replaced by generation who don't identify with the values of what this nation is supposed to stand for. It's beyond sad when a soldier returns home and doesn't even recognize his country or the people in it. Thank you for your service, I hope you are home for good.
@geezusispan get out of here, you damn hippy
How does it make me a hippy hating the modern US regime? “Soldiers” (more like terrorists in uniform) have deluded themselves into thinking they’re fighting for “freedom” but in actuality they are just fighting for some rich guys oil and sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong.
@@finismalorum9746 wouldn't get it because you are a hippy, lol
99percent true.
However vinyl isnt really that hipster. People of all ages/races/demographics in general buy and listen to records. It does sound different than digital (better or not is up to the individual). Ive always found the vinyl/hipster thing a bit silly. A lot of us were raised on vinyl by our parents and its just a part of everyday life.
Yeah, but who hangs out at the store and tries to get you to buy the latest (insert guy with awful voice playing guitar) record?
A sales clerk
Yea. I have a vinyl but I don't see myself as a hipster. I just like antiques. Especially lamps and candles for some weird ass reason.
I don't see how this is any different than any other social cliques. Bros, hip hop culture, bass/edm heads, metal heads, punk rockers, hippies, cougars, surfers, etc etc. They all follow the fashion trends within their social group, they all tend to have the same political views, act the same, talk the same, and within all of these groups there are people I would consider hipsters because they consider themselves an elite within their social group and think they are more knowledgeable and experienced in their social culture than other people within it. The stereotyoes of elitism and non conformism do not apply to everyone with a beard and plad shirt, they apply to individuals in nearly every social clique around. Because American society is so external and only focuses on the physical, nobody actually knows who they are so they desperately cling to social cliques for a sense of identity.
Well us old school metalheads did what we did to offend as many people as possible. We didn't give two shits about what anyone thought. Hipsters are offended by everything these days. I'm still as much a full on metalhead at 45 as I was at 14. Didn't do it cause it was trendy. We did it for the love of the music.
Very well said !.
@@thorthunderlungs5171 So did you do things to offend people, or did you do things because of the love of the music? Did you not care what anyone thought, or did you all mysteriously adhere to the basic metalhead dress code?
@@AJHart-eg1ys
I didn't give a shit what anyone thought. I wore band shirts and torn up jeans (the metalhead uniform) but i also wore my Steelers jerseys. I did what I wanted and if anyone, including my friends, didn't like it that was tough shit. The 80s were such a different time than now.
@@thorthunderlungs5171 A uniform is a uniform is a uniform. But I agree that the passion behind the uniform of the 80s metalhead (I graduated from high school in '88) was present in much higher levels than the hipsters whose passion IS the optics. Even the burnouts were more passionate about smoking and drinking backwash pitchers the morning after the party than hipsters are about IPAs and beard oil.
Always made me laugh at how the 99 percenters who occupied things and protested large corporations all carried iphones around in order to organize their protests.
@Martin September well at that time it was their farm not one they were given and slaved to for the most part. Until the middle of the dark ages.
phwarg The word in not ironic, it is hypocrisy.
@G Kaiser using products you're protesting is a sign of weak character at best. Demanding change, but insisting it be done by others, is the same as doing nothing, because bitching doesn't motivate others.
@@sebastianplaum4667 yes, the amish do it all the time. You won't die if you decide to cut out things like your cell phone, tv, or fast food. Difficulty and feasibility aren't the same.
@@sebastianplaum4667 whether or not the amish can impact anything beyond their own communities is besides the point. You asked a question, I provided an answer, and an example as well.
Yes, I would say something like that. It's simple supply and demand. Corporations create a supply, for the demand generated by average consumers like yourself. Low demand decreases profits, which lessens the power held by "big business". The only problem with it is the lack of interest most people have.
Public libraries tend to have computers with internet access, so no need to be left in the dark about current events.
And THEN their world view is updated weekly by SNL
The only thing worse is the ones with the man buns, it takes all my strength to keep from murdering any man I see with a man bun and I don't know how much longer I can hold out.
You and me both, brother. Fuck those little bitches.
Man bun???
What's wrong with man buns? They're convenient.
Agreed and you know the worst part is when we have kids, they will probably think we all dressed up like that
It's a boy bun, no man would ever wear his hair like that!
Hipsters don't own it most hipsters say "I don't even know what a hipster is!" Even goth, Emo and Juggalos don't deny what they are.
Damn.....that was an exceptional video, just a vicious takedown of these haughty self righteous people
Lol hipsters are ironic that's why no one gets them.
I only respect those who don't claim to be one because at a certain point of irony you probably just end up as a trump supporter lol.
Or like them.
Mickey Martin Hipsters that deny that they're hipsters are the worst... Also, MAGA.
Ten Dollar Extreme I seems they don't know the difference between ironic and idiotic.
Irony is a concept that is obviously way over their heads.
Most kids discover irony in middle school and then get over the novelty of it. When an adult makes a lifestyle out of it, it is indicative of some form of arrested development.
We have them in norway as well. Honestly they are just tryhard. Wearing oversized vintage brands with «unique» colors. Going to thriftshops and digging in their parents old clothes.
And im pretty sure they dont even like their clothes. They just think "oh no one would ever wear this. So i should start wearing them"
They think they are original but they are just wearing old fashion
I´m starting to believe I helped this trend when I always had to wear ugly clothes but acted like it´s cool. But seriously, it´s always been the same - rich people copying poor people´s fashion music culture etc.!
Funny, Norway was all about corpse paint and burning churches. When the fuck did this plague happen?
Oh what the fuck? I thought Norway had no social problem besides Barnevernet
We have them here in St. Ives in Cornwall. If you walk down the main street, every other shop is now an 'Artisans' bakery. The bread on sale looks like it's been dragged behind a donkey around the Chernobyl power station for a solid fortnight. Then it's displayed in 'distressed' whicker baskets in direct sunlight in the window. There's only about six loaves in the whole shop. But the shop doesn't need to make any money because it's a pet project of a rich man's son (Cloud Crispin Asbestos III) who dropped out of university because "the tutors don't know what they're talking about, and anyway, I'm an individual entrepreneur so I'll have hundreds of these shops within five years anyway". His father lent (gave) him two hundred thousand pounds to set up the business three years ago. However, he soon ran out of that money and has (without his dad knowing) borrowed another three hundred and seventy thousand pounds from his really great mates (Benjy, Rory, Vax and Gloog) from school who have massive trust funds. He works in the shop, well, when I say work, he saunters in at 11am with a coffee that he got from an 'Another artisan coffee shop' run by his great mate from school Sibelius Igloo-Lindab. For work he wears a big long Victorian apron the ones that start 3 inches below the chin and finish a half inch above his purple DM's. He stays for two and a half hours then goes home early because he says he's depressed. Later he can be found curled-up in a fetal position in his sisters bedroom of his family's holiday home (just in front of the Tate Gallery). He has a crumpled-up photograph of Jonathan Meads shoved down the back of his long johns. He has decided to kill himself (that's the sixtieth time he's decided that this month). But not to worry, his paternal grandmother has just died and she will leave him ten million quid that her family made by supplying Zyclon-B to the Nazis in World War 2. So, a happy ending for him.
This is a well-written comment, sir, and very illuminating!
Very punchable crowd,those hipsters😂
ah yes, hipsters. My friend used to be one, and he claimed everything "normies" didn't do. So he ended up abandoning things he loved because they were for normies and normies judge, in his opinion. This was so ironic to me that he wanted to be himself so in order to be himself he could no longer be himself if that himself was what everybody else was doing so he was now no longer himself to seem like he was himself and rebellious against everyone else. Did you keep up? I didn't. I stopped keeping up after the first month of beard talk.
Long story short, I generally dislike folks who do things for other people. Now if this is doing what everyone else does for that reason or NOT doing it because everyone else does it, don't matter. If being "basic" is who you are, im fine with it. If you're genuially into beards, go ahead. And if you're an overlap and just do a little of both because heck who cares, big thumbs up. But dont use "ew nobody does that" or "ew everybody does that" in order to lift yourself above others because you are one insecure little twat that pretends to be overly confident. and just ADMIT that you analize some parts of your life to compare them with others, which is fine.
Also, we all look down on other groups, because we are confident within our own groups. Being pretentious and saying you dont is stupid and makes you. once again, lift yourself above others in a stupid manner. Fuck i think I lost the point I was trying to make.
Normies are a type of person, not an adjective, it's not even hard to figure out.
@Rollo Lawson I thought "normies" was a term used by the kink community?
I agree, except I feel you look down on other groups if you are not confident within your group.
@@AR-zq9hq the kink community use another term. 'Vanilla' would be it.
your friend did it on purpose to be ironic.
You forgot to mention how they ruined Pabst for the rest of us.
That's your problem right, there. I'll drink horse piss before touching that trash.
Nope, just forget about the hipster connection, get your Pabst really cold and enjoy. No worries. :)
Fuck Pabst, grab some High Life.
Beer in general
Hazy ipa's, fuckin kooks
Those guys ruin beards for me
I always ask for extra gluten. Oh and the more genetically modified my food is, the better.
My beard! My beard!! Look at my BIG beard!!!!
KjempeIde
Beards are too much work. (But I’m the guy who’s had the same haircut since he was four because it’s one of the cheapest)
Matthew sweet!!!
How many infidels did you and the hipster state behead?
Beatniks, hippies, punk, preppies, grunge, slackers, etc... Individually conformist.
I guess hipsters are more common in cities. I live in ruralle country town so I never see people like that.
I’m a 44 year old man who accidentally discovered how easy hipster girls are to pick up. I drive an older Volvo, not because hipsters like them but because they are tough reliable and easy to work on. Anyway one day I’m out running errands and a hipster girl struck up a conversation about my car. She was around 25 and pretty cute but definitely not like any girl I’m used to. I offered to buy a drink at a bar that was across the street. We hung had a couple drinks and she enjoyed it enough that she asked for my number. I really didn’t think I’d here from her since she was like 15 years younger. She called the next day and wanted to hang again. It was Friday so I said why not. I picked her up, in the Volvo, and went to a few places I’m used to. We had a great time. She asked if she could stay the night so of course I was happy to let her. After fooling around for lil bit we got naked and almost immediately I could tell she wasn’t used to a man doing things the way I was. I asked her if she wanted to stop and she looked at me and said “I hope you don’t”!!! I gave it to her and didn’t hold back. She had more orgasms than I could count. We stayed up almost the entire night having sex. After we were done she started telling me that no man had ever gave it to her like that. The guys she was used to were always gentle and acted like they were doing something wrong by having sex in the first place. We stayed in touch and hooked up a number of times until she moved back home with her parents out of state. Since then I’ve had a few more younger hipster girls and they all pretty much say the same things about hipster guys. I think hipster guys might want to learn how to fuck their girls or they will find themselves all alone listening to vinyl in their skinny jeans.
Do hipster girls swallow? Just asking for a friend 😛
nick ladeeda
Some will but most prefer it inside them.
@@chrisj197438 it's good to give it to them rough n hard.
Thanks for the tip. Just the tip. lol.
@@johncasey1020 i got nice tips 😛
that is true. Hippies are a sub-culture, much like any other sub-culture.
I was always more interested in minimalism in consuming, rather than consuming in a "hippie" way. For example I drive an old car, and live in a far smaller house than I could afford, not because it's "hip" to do it among some people, but because I do not wish to have to make money for costly things that don't really bring me any extra enjoyment. I don't go out of my way to "look" a certain way, but tend to go for comfortable, practical and inexpensive clothing, that doesn't stand out in any special way. Keeping my expenses relatively low enables me to have a job on my terms, that leaves me plenty of spare time and energy to pursue sports, hobbies, and develop my inventions (which may end up earning me money someday, but that's not why I work on them).
It sounds like you're doing it right. No fanfare, no pretentiousness, just living life the way it seems right.
This is exactly how my wife and I are. Minimal not because it's trendy (btw, I don't think there's anything wrong with following a trend. Wear/do what you like so long as it doesn't hurt anything else), but because it frees up our ability to pursue things that are valuable to us. Like quality time outdoors, reading, pursuing hobbies, etc. It will also afford us the opportunity to retire at a young age.
@@wl4131 good job on saving for early retirement!! In my case that's not likely unless i work more now, but really don't feel like doing that.. :)
I agree, that's the way to do it.
Please do one like this for people who glorify van life.
Brett Vogel fuck burger planet
You mean living in a van?
Chris Farley is rolling over in his grave right now
I saw a hipster hanging at a coffee shop who unplugged a christmas lamp at his table window so he could charge his iphone instead. Then he sat there drinking coffee and read a very thin book which he held up in front of himself at eye height instead of putting it on the table. He took an avocado out of his bag and placed it on the table far away from himself. He never ate it. When he was done he put the book and avocado back in his bag, took his charger out of the wall and left, without plugging the lamp back in.
Keeping chickens is hard ? What??
It is hard for them. They would have to get off their phones and actually take care of something.
Anything harder than using a microwave is too hard for some folks. I'm surprised some people even take the time to cook an egg, let alone raise some chickens. Plus if none of their friends are out buying chicken feed how will they impress their peers what kind of free-trade-organic chicken feed they buy? It's all a bit ridiculous. Raise chickens, or don't. Either way, it's not a big deal and most people aren't impressed by it.
@regalblue41 They'd be more likely to stand at the egg section and tell people they have their own chicken.
Chickens are so easy 😂
I was able to raise chickens in 6TH GRADE
I'm a hipster. People say I'm not. But I keep reminding them i am.
Hipster. Avocado toast. Tea. Apple Salad.
You learn a lot when someone takes the time to tell you why they love something. But, hate is a waste of time. Shirts, beards, and vinyl records are not fundamental to whether one of these individuals will become a doctor, professor, or bum.
There are so many kinds of counterculture-- punks, hippies, skaters, bluegrass musicians, niche artists, religious minorities... We all shop according to our beliefs... for example, vegans. However, we all live in the same system; Wall street and animal farms arent going away...
since when was it ever cool to look homeless?
asta hesta looking like anything makes you 0% of that thing. Obviously, you uncultured swine
Ever since social media apps could broadcast their failed acting careers from Hollywood.
asta hesta Ever since the Beat Generation of the 50's.
Or the Romantic Movement of the 19th century.
Nothing new under the sun!
tsopmocful ... I reach into my pocket and hand my ones to the bums 🎶
Since the late 90s when grunge music was the thing.
I wear flannels, have a beard, listen to indie or non-mainstream music, and drink TONS of coffee... Does that mean I’m a hipster??? Oh God I’m a HIPSTER!!!!
MAGA TIME Youre a mainstream liberal who should be castrated to be kept from contaminating this planet.
yes. to gulag
The first step is recognizing that you ARE a hipster.
MAGA TIME Bigly isn't a word
I'm a recovering hipster. LOL
Don't judge.
+Womb Raider Get a load of this edgelord!
Jesus man at least you got out of the trap. How did you come back over to the light side?
@dilfo the TV show Hannibal made me change my ways.
After I was exposed to its sartorial excellence I could no longer lie to myself.
I knew that I had to dress appropriately for my age so I exchanged my plaid shirt for a plaid three-piece suit.
Well, and after a while I also changed all the other "annoying" pet peeves that I've developed over the years.
To conclude: I first changed my attire and then adjusted my music taste (more mainstream music because not all pop songs are bad).
I still listen to some of the bands like "Fleet Foxes" but that's only because they're actually good.
As for listening to pop music: it was a great change because I started writing fingerstyle arrangements for most of the pop songs that I do like. And the best part about it is that the ladies seem to like it whenever I play songs that can recognize (like e.g. Ed Sheeran songs, they really seem to like those for some weird reason).
Thank you. I was confused for years at why people would sometimes refer to hipsters as opposition to mainstream, while looking at the TV where the actual mainstream is hipster.
@Lanparty9 whats wrong with vaping though? It's fairly practical to make you clothes not smell like shit and kills you less.
Every comment is from the past week. I'm guessing TH-cam randomly recommended this video to everyone
Bingo.
Big Daddy Toyota Corola I actually searched out funny videos trashing hipsters. I’m just that bored.
Before it was cool
@@matthewdubois6792 .......thaatttssss pretty lame
Chickens are literally the easiest animal to take care of, well besides cats or dogs
Miami has a feral chicken problem. If an animal can thrive in an urban environment it cant be that hard to raise. Dinga ling farm wives have been doing it for a millenia.
I know my mum has 7 of them!
I have all three. Dogs are the hardest. Chickens and cats are about tied. One shits inside and the other you could find dead on your porch just an hour after letting it out. I’ll let you decide which is which.
I like keeping plenty of chickens on the grill, haha.
People don't like hipsters because they are self righteous.
I like vinyls!! I like having a physical representation of a good song/ album I love :)
Thats fine, just don't be snobbish about it
And that's why you can now find vinyl at Walmart next to the Nintendo Switch. Good job, hipster. You created a real life anachronism so ludicrous it's surreal just looking at it
i hate being called a hipster because i style my hair and mustache like a gentlemen from the 1700s, its just a style i like, im just a huge Doc Holiday tombstone fan
The trend of facial hairs came in the second half of 19th century (1850s-1900s). 1700s is counted as 18th century, where most men were CLEAN-SHAVED
1700s? And you claim to be a doc holiday fan (1800s)?
Typical yuppie hipster defensive move
So much hate in the comments...these people need to do something productive with their time instead of being salty in the comments...
Mef262728
Your productiveness is going around TH-cam, getting hurt by someone's comments to another person, then hating on their hate?
Sure you like the style but you would of never of done it if being a hipster wasn't a thing.
So many punchable faces
You need to go to a psychiatrist
Proud Titanic Denier Oh please. The way those idiots act, especially the ones who took over Brooklyn!! They need a good old school Brooklyn beat down to bring them back down off their high horse!!
you DO know this is humor, right?
it's the new economy: faces you'd pay to punch!
I want to punch every one of those idiots in Baltimore 😑
The best argumented video about hipocricy of certain groups I've seen so far on TH-cam.