Evolution Of The 2010s Hipster
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Even the ad is hipster ❤🙌🏻
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dude you’re straight up the david attenborough of tumblr users at this point lmao
Oh my god
the way you're actually so real for this
“ah… the majestic 2010s hipster… truly a creature to behold”
Damn, that’s a very accurate observation. Wild.
Shit she is!
i had a teacher on the younger side when in like 2015 that literally rode his baby blue vintage bike to school. this would be fine but we lived in a desert and there was almost nowhere you could go around my school that wasn't on essentially a highway. he committed to the aesthetic and i suppose i can respect that
I had an English teacher that straight up sold his car and rode a vintage racer bike in to school. It was also a rural school in an area not biker friendly. Absolute Madlad.
Hipsters with their fixed gear bikes that lived in suburban areas truly suffered for their mission.
"Who walks in the classroom cool and slow, who calls the English teacher Daddy-O?"
I though the answer was Charley Brown, but from this comment and its replies, I guess it was the English teacher themselves...
Vintage bikes look so fucking cute, when I get a bike I really want to get a vintage one.
He probably got his license suspended from DUIs and couldn’t drive
suspenders with the tights and jean shorts? incredible
This needs to come back 😫
I did this in 7th grade and got so many compliments, it has to come back
Be the change you want to see in the world ❤
I feel called out cause I still dress like that (minus suspenders) 😅 mostly because it's really comfortable to me and works in any season/variations
Jesus Christ I literally looked exactly like this in 2010-2012 😩
Coffeehouses have been associated with counterculture/the literary class (which I argue the literary class is what hipsters were descended from) since they were invented! They were always more associated with discussions rather than being a place to drink coffee.
I wonder if the hipster/coffee shop relationship goes back to the traditions of the Enlightenment, where members would debate in cafes (particularly in France)
I think that's basically going back to merchantilism and, as you say, the invention of coffee shops
Reminds me of reading about Victorian England in "the five" (about the 5 known victims of Jack the Ripper) and... Yeah, coffee houses were considered a bit bawdy and liberal even then
hipsters descend from counterculture counterculture critics lol
@@bluefire9147 I think that’s literally exactly what the original commenter was talking about
The 2010s trend I rarely see mentioned even though it had us all in a chokehold: owl jewelry. Every store had an owl necklace or earrings, sometimes you got owl prints or home decor, specifically a very cartoony owl. This comment brought to you by the yard sale I went to this morning and saw so many owls at
The owl walked so the ananas and cactus could run.
YES! I totally forgot this was a thing even though I owned an owl bag! They were everywhere! Hipster or not though, I still loves owls
you just unlocked a long forgotten memory of a brass segmented owl necklace i bought from claire's in 2010-ish that i was obsessed with. i forgot about that for years wow
I had some many friends that got owl tattoos between like 2009-2014. It was a crazy time...
Funny enough, the owl trend goes back even further. My grandma had a good sized collection of owl figurines and decorations from the sixties and seventies.
I'm a 35mm film photographer and I honestly give the hipsters of the 2010s credit for sparking new interest in film in younger people, even if it is centered around Polaroids
As long as it's shooting film, it contributes positively.
I have so many friends that shoot film.
I think records are another example of the “hipster trend” leading to a lot of real fans. Like yeah people are annoying about it and they are getting more and more expensive (like everything) but also if music nerds didn’t attach themselves to them, would they be pressing so many today?
I got into film photography because I loved the idea of Polaroids and limited shots at parties when i was in my late teens but couldn’t justify spending 80€ on an instax and 11€ for 10 photos. Well, joke’s on me because now I’m hooked but with development each photo of portra or ektar is nearly 1€ as well and i just bought a medium format camera for 300€.
35mm? Dude you're tiny. How do you photograph film?
I thrifted a 600 Polaroid for $5 and I absolutely love it. Once I get more skilled with it, I’m thinking of moving on to a film camera
the gentrification of hipster culture is unfortunately really rising in a similar way within punk culture, i feel a large part in thanks to tiktok. i've seen comments posted by teens recently lamenting about how a battle vest is too expensive and i'm like NO!!!!! ONLY IF YOU BUY IT PREMADE BY SOMEONE TRYING TO SELL YOU CONSUMABLE PUNK FASHION!!!! i have TWO battle vests and have maybe spent a total of $30 on BOTH COMBINED. thrift store denim jackets with the sleeves chopped off with kitchen scissors and patches i made myself with chopped up old clothes and acrylic paint, sewn on also by myself. then some cheap as fuck metal studs you can get in bulk and Put Them On Yourself if you wanna be extra cool. DIY is punk rock and nothing else will ever be true
so true, just like how i've seen a post on tumblr sort of recently that brings up how people try and define "grunge" (bc 2013 "pastel grunge" on tumblr was a thing i presume) and it talks about how "grunge" was "whatever is cheap at the thrift store" and showcased photos of nirvana wearing colorful silly outfits that made no sense but bc people associate boots and flannel with grunge they were surprised to see that. haha. thrift and DIY is the ultimate punk of any kind and everyone should remember that
@@petrichorbones YEAH EXACTLY THAT. like the REASON grunge folks would wear a lot of flannels and ripped jeans and combat boots was because... flannels and combat boots are durable as fuck by design so getting those (AT THE THRIFT STORE AND MILITARY OVERSTOCK) means you have clothes that will last much much longer (because, yknow, they broke asf) and their jeans were ripped because uh. they were actually going outside and shit and when their jeans ripped on accident those were their only jeans so they just kept wearing them. then fast fashion stores see this fashion and start to sell "flannels" that are too thin to block a light breeze and fall apart within a year and pre-ripped jeans. kms
@@animorbid it's kinda hilarious to me, ngl.
Let's not forget that these subcultures got their name from the press, giving the name to then market it and profit from it.
The press didn't name vaporwave or neoclassical black metal, because there's not profit there, it's not popping.
Although it should be noted that punk was f'd since the beginning, because of ppl like McLaren, a manager who was all about image and, coincidentally or not, dictated every move the Sex Pistols of all fckn punk bands were doing and what they wore too (he had a clothing brand).
@@animorbid I would add that specifically with Nirvana, Kurt and Krist were both from Aberdeen, WA. My dad is also from Aberdeen and around the same age and was acquainted with Krist (never ran into Kurt, but his best friend lived down the street from Kurt and was acquainted). Aberdeen was a logging town but by the 70s the logging industry had slowed down as available forests had all been clear cut, and by the 90s between regulation and resource depletion it was *severely* economically depressed (not that regulating was bad! it was good and necessary! but there are a narrow set of people who lose short term when regulation happens).
There was basically nothing for an 18 year old Aberdonian to look forward to in the late 80s, as you didn't get the computer education necessary to break into the growing Seattle tech industry, and all the manufacturing/resource extraction industry had been crushed by a combination of depleted resources, offshoring, and unionbusting. So, a lot of them made sad music that became grunge, and a lot of them did a lot of drugs.
@@browncoat697 yes exactly!!!!! the flannels and work boots and ripped jeans and beanies were grunge fashion because THERE WERE SCORES OF THEM IN THE THRIFT STORES from the logging industry no longer needing them!!!! cheap and durable -- perfect for a broke punk!
I had a flashback of walking into a Claire’s in 2010 and seeing a display case entirely composed of handlebar mustache-themed accessories
the ptsd of it all 😫😫
@@pri2x0x I mean, it’s bad, but it certainly never tied into my diagnosis of C-PTSD. Just general cringe.
@Ł oh honey i know, it was hyperbole🤭 And it couldnt tie in even if it wasn't because you cant be diagnosed with cptsd🤣
@@pri2x0xStop contributing to the stigma surrounding mental illness
@Jay E. girl, im a mental health professional. You really want to talk to me about mental health stigma? 🤣
I used to dislike hipster culture so much as a teenager that I deliberately went directly against it. My personal antithesis, therefore, was directly influenced by popular culture. This, in its own special, made me the ultimate poser.
thats rough buddy
@@42ndadventurer41zuko?
You played yourself
I have a beautifully illustrated book from 1959 called Life is a Lousy Drag where the author participates in and explains jazz and beat culture in granular detail and hates every second of it, it's amazing because he inadvertently documented what the counterculture in the Bay Area was like before the 60's happened by going out every night and being extremely jaded and bitter.
That’s so cool!
I love the mental image of that guy just like sitting in the corner of a jazz club, mumbling grumpily about how stupid all this is while he carefully takes notes on every part of the environment he's willingly entered
At the risk of missing the joke: doesn't that make him the platonic ideal of a hipster? While he may hate the counterculture movement, he immerses himself in it and makes it a big part of his life.
@@unknown_limes , also a form of david attenborough. cunty david attenborough.
@@zanite8650 oh i love and hate this.
in hs i hated this subculture even tho i was also kind of a part of it. i definitely said “i liked this band before it was cool,” or “the book was better than the movie,” a couple of times.
the thing where being earnest and caring about things is frowned upon and everything has to be buried under like 10 layers of irony withered my soul though
i think the problem was the two interpretations of the term, i would 100% have identified as an "original hipster", whereas i took offence at being associated with the moustache fedora people. i did own suspenders However
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When I was in 9th grade, my classmates used to say, "If someone asks if you're a hipster and you say yes, you're not a hipster." One time, someone asked my very clueless friend if she was a hipster, and she asked what that was, and the person who asked her was like, "Dang, I think you might be a hipster."
Also, I would like to point to the characters of Indie in MyMusicShow and William Darcy and Caroline Bingley in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries for a few tastes of hipster fashion and attitude. If you can find screenshots of Caroline's old tweets, she used to complain when the only coffee around was non-organic.
when I was .... in ninth grade .... my classmates .... took me into the city .... to see the m-
This video made me realize that I probably would genuinely be considered a classical hipster and I'm just over here tryna survive with my sanity intact
Holy shit you've just taken me back to a decade ago with MyMusic!
Was Lizzie Bennet Diaries a Nerdfighter thing?
@@jamesn3122 Hank Green was one of the creators of the project so yep
As someone who was 13-14 at the peak of 2010 hipster era I'm not gonna lie and say I'm not still a little bit attracted to the style. Might be nostalgia at this point.
me too and in my case im fairly certain its mostly nostalgia. but i cant help it bc it was also a time where even though in many ways i was really sad, i was also happy in other ways. i think for me its that at the time, as sad as i was, i had access to creative outlets. chronic illness has kind of robbed me of that right now. i can barely hold a pencil and i used to spend hours in my bedroom listening to music and drawing or writing. or i'd wake up early (or not sleep) and listen to music outside at the neighborhood duck pond and take photos. i miss that kind of stuff. i can't do it all as much now bc i moved and it all causes pain. so all of those art projects i did and the photo albums i uploaded to fb are attached to this fashion style and my music taste at the time. :/ making me emo rn
🚬👴🏻🥃 AW-SHUT UP!
@@petrichorbones🚬👴🏻🥃AW- SHUT UP! U JUST WANT ATTENTION DUH
I remember having a galaxy print backpack in middle school and feeling like the baddest bitch in town
I also wanted those hipster glasses SO BAD when I was little that I faked having bad eyesight and when I went to the eye doctor the doctor knew I was full of shit that when I did the eye test he lied and said there was a lens in there so I did it fr and exposed me as a trend following liar to my mom and that’s probably in my top 10 most embarrassing moments
i still sleep with a galaxy print comforter!
You were!
@@Zyxie_Zyxie_Zyxie The kids in my school just wore the glasses without the lenses. Some even painted them in fun colours, which thinking back, was actually quite cute.
omg I forgot about the galaxy print... I'm pretty sure my diy galaxy sneakers are still around somewhere....
As someone from Portland, I’m a little sad you didn’t mention us because I believe we have been dubbed the “Hipster Capital of the World” by most people. No one I know has ever tried to be “hipster”, it’s just a lot of the things that are ingrained in our culture were also adopted by the hipster movement.
And they went and made a whole show about it.
which portland tho
Yeah but do you have a music player with a Neutral Milk Hotel and Joy Division CD in them?
i’m in portland too and had the same thought 😤
@@DoomCabbit the hipster one
It's so fascinating for me, as someone from russia, where "hipster" has only ever referred to as a short-lived lumbrejack hipster subculture which only included men. (With beards, flannel shirts, the hipster glasses and tunnels)
On the historic day of today I have had the privilege of learning that Neutral Milk Hotel is in fact a real band in this universe and I feel like my eyes have been opened
I had to scroll past two or three comments acknowledging it as a real band before I fully believed it. It's just so perfect a specimen of the MadLibs band name I thought it had to be a joke.
It’s a little upsetting realizing my family in the late 90s early 2000s could’ve been categorized as hipsters. Like everything you described for early hipsters. My deep seeded distain for hipsters is in shambles. I unfortunately have to realize we were hipsters “before it was cool”…
I went to a tiny liberal arts college in the woods, in Portland Oregon, became a Librarian, and have a Neutral Milk Hotel vinyl - which I listen to often.
LOVE me some experimental goat ASMR ❤❤❤
ALSO - from one old hipster who used to work for Starbucks, their coffee is BURNT. Buy local, always
And pigeons are 100% the original hipster vibe.
was it Reed or Lewis and Clark lol
@@alicegoldstein4957 reed, LOL :P
Mate, I went head over heels into the hipster subculture. I was so obsessed with dubstep, buying vintage ugly blazers, the infamous moustache everything, the glasses, pretending I listened to old music when I’m reality I did listen and I didn’t like most of it. I was so obsessed with liking things that weren’t “basic” that to this day people still make fun of me when I do genuinely like something a little unusual because they think I am just saying I like it to be cool. In reality back in the day I was just big fuckin’ superwholock trash ahaha
On the topic of the mustache craze - I used to be like really into the random mustache stuff. I had a handmade duct tape wallet that was mustache patterned. I had clothes with random mustache stuff on it. I definitely did participate in the mustache aesthetic(?) partially because it was popular, but also because I thought it would be really cool to just like, have a mustache like that. Anyways so I grew up and bit and found out I was trans and saw why I wanted a mustache.
I love a full circle moment
oh word me too. I had a pair of those nerd glasses with the mustache hanging off of them and one time I wore them in front of my friend and they said it made me "actually look like a guy" and I didn't realize it at the time but that definitely gave me gender euphoria (I'm genderfluid)
The strangest thing (to me) about the mainstream quirky hipster was the hypocrisy of what we consumed. Pop music was cringe, mainstream fashion was cringe, and mainstream media was cringe, but Starbucks, Disney Princesses, PlayStation games, and comic books were soooo cool. All of it was mass-produced, but we ate it up like we were the first people to hear about it
those things are mass produced, but the gaming world was relatively niche around that time. so maybe at least that wasn't "mainstream enough"
Yeah none of that fandom stuff would I call a hipster lifestyle. The nostalgia of youth was picked up by indie rock in the 90s. But arguing over it seems pointless.
the hipster aesthetic looks so… natural on Mr. Strange. like it belongs there
Wild how this phenomenon was not just responsible for early 2010s fashion, but it was so influential that it’s basically behind nearly every architectural and interior design style of the 2010s, the growth of instagram, the vinyl music renaissance, the rise of the microbrewery, granola moms, why more and more cities have started to feel like Portland… “anyone anywhere could be a hipster” is so true. In a lot of ways these trends transcended age groups, political beliefs, etc. Everyone just wanted to seem cool and like they were trying something innovative and creative
T. And I will say it has it good sides. If you cant defeat capitalism at least make it look nice and whimsy...not just McDonalds and Banking buildings.
"Goat ASMR set to Ambient Radio Static" has got to be one of the funniest improvised lines I've ever heard
so as someone who considers themself a punk, and tries to get a better understanding of my own subculture, it's astounding how similar the histories and controversies of punk and hipster. they had such different origins and intentions in style, but they way they've developed and the obsession/elitism that's arisen from the subculture is so similar.
it would be interesting to explore the intersections of punk/skinhead/hipster/beatnik/etc. in a video really @strange
I think you're going to single-handedly bring back Neutral Milk Hotel into the public consciousness, I am here for it.
I am so here for it theyve never left my playlists
@@averynerdybookworm972 same, my oldest sister was completely obsessed with them and passed it on to me
Hipsters already did that. I literally only know about it from hipster subculture infecting everything
@@DeathnoteBB bring *BACK*
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I remember being a teen in the 2010s asking my more "in-the-know" friend* what was so bad about hipsters and why everyone hated them, and watching her struggle to come up with an answer better than "because they're annoying." She could not.
Which isn't to say there aren't valid criticisms... You nailed a few of them in this video. But definitely none that came to her at the time... She hated them because that was just the thing to do.
* Note: we were both suburban white girls
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I live near the dutch border. Coffee shop has a very different meaning here and I instantly thought of a good reason Hipsters would like "Coffee Shops"
I'm surprised to see no one mention (or maybe remember) that early/mid-2000s Pitchfork was _the_ Hipster music tastemaker.
And also the locus of hipster ire for precisely that reason.
And early Vice, which is also responsible for Gavin McInnes 🤮
I love all your historian videos. I'm an internet old-man, but as someone who graduated High School in 2005 from upper-middle class small-town Ohio., I feel like I have an in-the-sauce perspective on the Hipster trend. You nailed a lot of the details and aesthetics. But what you missed (and kind of the sad through line) was that it stemmed from a persuit of authenticity.
In my era, it was a lot of people leaving wanting to leave the stereotypical conspicuous consumption of living up to their supposedly anti-consumerist trends (emo, shoegaze, indie, punk, etc). That's how you ended up with the focus on things that were "artisanal", "small batch", "handmade", "simple", etc. That you weren't buying from brands but from individual producers. Which fed into the thought that these things will be more expensive, because they were created with effort and obsession by dedicated people, as opposed to generalized mass-production. It also bought into the misguided notion that things in the past were more genuine and less commodified - vinyl records, vintage styles, etc. And supposedly a rejection of current main trends for more personal "genuine" ones, which of course were just the trends of their eras (or just became the new trends).
There is much more I could say about it, but I won't ramble on in this comment that no one will see.
The real sad part was that what started as a desire for more authenticity and "real"-ness was just commidifed. Turned into its own packaged product and sold back as a marketed good to the people who thought they were escaping the same.
gives me the best "cryptid caught on video" vibes
I can't believe Neutral Milk Hotel would sell their CD in an Evanescence case, that is SOOO meta like you don't get it. It's satiric commentary on the music industry and the history of genres on the margin of mainstream and obscure, you wouldn't get it. They are my FAAAAVORITE band I loved them before I saw their name edited over an Evanescence CD today.
thanks to this video i ralized how much of a hipster i am, which i think is pretty cool. I'm still on tumblr, which means i'm queer and very liberal, i dress exclusively in my grandma's clothes, and like the original hepsters, i listen to jazz. i also love kitch and weird stuff. living like this has made me so happy, so i think my "hipsterness" made my life a lot better.
Kill the cringe, have fun
Starbucks was seen by hipsters as corporate and mainstream, so the preference was always for local coffee shops. There was actually a lot of hate for Starbucks because they were popping up everywhere, sometimes literally across the street from each other. The Platonic ideal of the hipster coffee shop is hyper-local with exotic fair-trade beans with either indie or 80s music playing, and baristas who treat you with eye-rolling disdain no matter what you order or how pleasant you are.
i'm watching this on my day off (i'm a barista) and the cut to you wearing a starbucks apron was like being flashbanged
this video gave me flashbacks to when I was 12 and I wore suspenders, a fedora, and fingerless gloves to school every day
honestly thank u for ur videos. growing up i only ever saw tumblr internet culture from an outside perspective of mockery and seeing it talked about with an unironic sense of appreciation makes me feel like im better able to understand stuff i mightve otherwise enjoyed at the time and kinda missed out looking back on it
I just learned about the term bohemian and boho and their ties to Romani culture and stereotypes. Also a fascinating topic!
As a bisexual man the hipster phenomenon was the bane of my middle school existence and almost made me swear off dating entirely
Why specifically relevant that you’re bi?
@@maddieb.4282 lol I guess not specifically relevant but during middle school having both boys and girls I was into acting like anything mainstream or anything remotely popular was disgusting was very offputting. Seeing both sexes acting in that way was concerning as a 11-13 year old since I was just baffled and thought this was how everyone queer or queer adjacent acted and my prospects (women who were cool with a bi guy and men who were cool with it) mostly consisted of counter cultural hipsters. Made me think that I could never relate to people that would be interested in dating me. Obviously middle school hyper dramatics looking back but that was my sentient back then :)
my theory for how hip became interchangeable for both hep and hip (3:58) is just because how they sound so similar and (at least personally) how saying hip feels compared to hep, cause hip feels more smooth to say where as saying hep feels weird, like you have to force it, so they just slowly melded into just both being hip as the words spread after the terms were coined
Especially in America, the pin/pen merger probably played a part. Certain accents say those sounds the same way already anyway
it's also giving hepatitis
Do we feel Hipster is a sorta “full cycle” “30 year cycle” of the The Bohemian?
Or modern beatnicks, but totally
I was in high school during that pivotal time.
Looking back, the reason I was sooo into that particular trend was 1000% because I was a super repressed, closeted trans boy 🥲 So many pictures of me in youth group making beards and mustaches out of any item I could get my hands on. Paper plates, pencils, even a tortilla. Makes almost too much sense in retrospect 😆
Oh and the layering! My adolescent trans ass LIVED for the layering lol
Hipster is not true style genetic Eve though. We can always go back further. Hippie, flapper, Gibson Girl, Edwardian, animal pelts, leaves on our bits
as someone who had a two year phase of edwardian/camille clifford inspired fashion i appreciate the representation
I turned up in NYC at age 18 for college in 2007 not realizing that "taste" was supposed to mean "specific aesthetic" too. It was a weird time.
I've been labeled as kitsch or camp ever since. Still not exactly sure why.
The cat shirt is all you need
I will defend the lumberjack lesbian look to my death, it's still a great butch look.
I love these "walk around" videos you've started doing (the other one being the mall goth video) they're really fun!
21:04 I was like … does she have her mic planted IN the cup ??? (But no) I was genuinely impressed ! What a flex ! Such power !
You outdid yourself on this one. The outfit, the running gags, the perfectly hipster surroundings. Flawless execution.
This was suchhh a time capsule for me, I went to high school in the 2010s and was really into art and film photography. Being a hipster influenced sooo many parts of my personality and interests. I ended up loving photography and graphic design as a result so much so that I got my degree in it and have a job doing that now. And I still collect records and want to dress quirky to this day, and occasionally use my tumblr.
You’re out her doing the Lord’s work Strange and documenting the beautiful weird world of most of my childhood.
I was, as much as I denied it, absolutely a hipster. Had the whole peter pan collar, vintage dress, saddle shoe, pacific nw dream, indie music, record collecting, film photography (and tintypes because they were even less known) phase throughout most of high school. It is definitely cringy to look back on but I actually am really glad for the cool things I discovered through this attempt to find unknown things. Some of my favorite bands, art practices and current clothing aesthetics come from this period. I also can point a lot of my influence to Life is Strange. That game did something to my brain I will never recover from 😂.
me, having been a hipster from 2012-2017 watching this like, yeah I was never a hipster, I just had Neutral Milk Hotel on Vinyl.
As a 37 y/o working class person whose social group in many ways fit "hipster" aesthetics in a medium sized midwest down, IMO the way the phrase came to be used in my neck of the woods in the 90s and 00s was a way to attack the culture of working class "intellectuals" (just poorer people who were politically left wing, liked art, learning, were willing to eat foreign food etc). . Its worth noting that IMO until the 2010s cultural trends tended to come to the midwest in a staggered and delayed way. Speaking of grungy, look at grunge, a music and aesthetic rooted in the often subversive/radical elements of slightly less urban working class (like the background of Nirvana) that was also coopted first by trendy urban elites and then became a mass trend (and is certainly super overlapping with the "hipster").
However, as always happens, the aesthetics of the working class adopted through taste filtered by necessity became just another trend for the more well off to imitate, crystalize, and commodify. Then those people who brought a sense of snobbery and elitism etc to these vague aesthetics got grouped in with the very people they adopted them from and suddenly by shopping at a thrift store or thinking PBR was the least shitty cheap beer my dollar above minimum wage no hot water this month ass is being a snob according to people living much better than me. Then it's minastream, then passe, and now the working class people who this came from are viewed as pathetic imitations of the privileged people who adopted their aesthetics in the first place. A frustrating tale as old as time and expressed across many eras and cultures. Its annoying but not even a fraction as frustrating as how this same operation is done to the culture of working class people from oppressed groups. Working class black americans have basically been living the most extreme and insulting version of this cycle for the entire existence of the US.
This is great! I'm 54, and I'd been wondering lately why I hadn't heard the word hipster in a while. I guess a lot of it has to do with older Millennials starting to hit 40, with many more in their mid-30s. I lived in Brooklyn from 1998-2017 and was in a relationship with a Bard professor from 2011-2014, so I had a front-row seat to the full evolution of the hipster, from the vogue for taxidermy to the Victorian facial hair to the artisanal this and curated that... I never really felt the animosity towards the whole thing that some people did. They were always nice enough to me, and a lot of them opened legit good restaurants, bakeries, coffee shops, etc.
I like to imagine that these videos with you walking around out in public are part of some obscure TV show called Strange On The Street.
that outfit reminds me of something the weed smoking girlfriends would’ve worn
all you needed was the tights to have marijuana leaf print on them and you would’ve fit the bill
Saw the thumbnail and audibly said "oh noooo." This was the era I grew up in. I remember trying so, so hard to have those "refined alternative" tastes (which were, of course, paradoxically mainstream), I remember hating on anything that seemed too popular.. bad times. Trying to learn to be myself and be more respectful of others now, the hipster phase left an icky streak.
It's so interesting how Hipster was the last major counter culture that in name has existed for serval decades before hand. Now I think of most subcultures have better SEO. Sometimes coming up with a new name before the style is even it's solidified.
William Gibson's 1997 novel All Tomorrow's Parties has a line about "strip mining our Bohemias" in a monologue somewhere about the monoculture of the near future and how subcultures were doomed, and as hard as that line hit when I read it in 2014 oh BOY does it hit like a Mack truck in the era of TikTok subculture
Hipster fashion is ableist to people with heat intolerance /s. But really, I do love layered looks and leg warmers over long socks, but my body can’t regulate it’s temperature to save it’s life
I wore shorts, knee socks, and ankle converse every day in 8th grade. I know set a trend in my grade. I am proud.
As a hipster girl from the suburban factory town in Eastern Europe I am grateful to this trend for introducing me to coffeeshops, sitting on grass in the park (yes it’s was not allowed before), new films and music, film cameras, and most importantly the English language! All the people I met because of these interests ❤️
There’s no way I’d end on this channel otherwise, really
damn, screenshots of posts from the hipster side of tumblr (not even on tumblr itself lmao) were The Thing when I was in middle school, and our little friend group was OBSESSED with the fashion and aesthetics. and of course, the instagram filters. oh god the filters. one of those friends still has all those photos up on her insta 😭
the brain rot I have to where I see this outfit IN THE YEAR 2023 and still think "wow she's really cool" ☠
the names of your patreon subscribers at the end always bring me joy. MJ is gay for spider-gwen, whoever you are, you have excellent taste
the lack of 'wide-brimmed hat balanced on the back of head' in the opening outfit feels like a crime on the hipster image. appreciate the bracelets though
As much as I used to deny it, commodified hipster culture left an indelible mark on my soul.
UO's free music mondays is literally what created most of my original "hipster" iTunes playlist. I was extremely proud of having music 'before everyone else' and I still am, unfortunately. When I watched the premiere of Portlandia with my mom, she couldn't understand my dual excitement/nihilism when the song for the intro was the one that sat at the top of my playlist. Every time we made a trip into NYC, without fail I would be listening to that playlist thee whole time.
Became a camera and photography nerd, and came to possess several vintage film cameras that I would put in every artsy photo I took. Though I did take and develop some over/underexposed B&W pics with the film cameras. I would then photoshop those photos with the heaviest filter actions deviantart could offer and post them, embarrassingly enough, on facebook so all my friends could see it. I've had to go back and hide several FB albums. I refused to be like other girls and buy an instax camera, so I bided my time and shelled out when polaroid returned from the dead to make a new instant print camera. Which I bought at Urban Outfitters.
edit: I've been reconstructing my lost playlist on spotify, and named it Mixpod in honor of the website I used to inflict my music on other people in the form of embedded widgets shaped like ipods
I still use the mint green polaroid camera when I go places. Everyone looks at me funny until I give them a polaroid of themselves and their friends. Still such a nice little gift
maaan it feels so weird to see trends that i have witnessed and sometimes partially participated in be talked about in a history/documentary type way cuz it feels like it was only just yesterday that these things were mainstream but in reality it has been a good few years... it's just woah :"")
Oh boy. Ok, so I'm an old pre-2010s Hipster. Like, 2000-2005, I hung out in an indie coffee shop/bookstore with my crustpunk friends. We would hang out at their apartments (often the one located over the bar we always went to) listening to vinyl and talking about weird movies while drinking PBR. It was a good time.
Sounds a lot like what I was doing in the Naughties. We drank even cheaper beer though.
I went through the mortifying ordeal of knowing about mid-late '00s hipsterdom while it was still fresh but being too young to really catch the wave, by the time I went to college in 2013 and could really be Myself the whole hipster thing had already become profoundly uncool
I transcended the barista step. I upgraded from “I like Starbucks” (it’s really sour coffee in my taste) to “I work at a company where we roast our own beans in this beast of a industrial roaster”. No joke that thing was massive I was so intimidated first operating it, but then with time, as with all thing, you grow accustomed to it. The smells of the different beans, the almost oldschool craftsmen vibe from chugging in the beans and depositing the freshly roasted steaming beans onto the cooling tray, picking out the unpopped pale white ones and scooping it all into bags, it was a vibe. I also learned a lot about coffee there, about all the different flavor profiles and how to prepare it. And since then I’ve become a coffee snob. I’d rather have tea or plain tap water, than a bad Senseo pad coffee. Do not come near me with those cups they taste vile (and I yes I know half of it comes down to how clean your machine is but I’ll take my French press over a Nespresso cup, ANYDAY)
You're so valid
Oh no. I've just realised I accidentally grew into a hipster without realising. I'm wearing half horn rimmed glasses right now, growing out my mustache craving a frappe
"I'm not a hipster, I'm a cofee snob" I scream while horrified by the coffees in this video, slightly fainting in front of the ultimate offense: the americano
what is your opinion on iced americanos
this is exactly the kind of video topic i wanna see
the neutral milk hotel bit got me oh god she knows
This video brought me back to middle school and high school, but you missed an entire subsection - the TEA hipsters. My family still thinks I love tea because of my tea hipster phase. I don't even like tea that much.😂
My brother was a tea hipster. Found some great stuff for gifts. Had no clue it was it's own subgroup
i love stragne aoens
this video has just revealed to me that my dad is a 2010s hipster. he is a camera nerd (notably film cameras) he is a bike nerd (he customizes bikes) he is a nerd in general, he has glasses and a hat, he owned a coffee shop with my mom until 2019 and he’s currently reorganizing his record collection while listening to neutral milk hotel
I was so surprised when I googled Neutral Milk Hotel and saw they were an actual band
Well after channling her inner 90s Mall Goth, might as well for Strange to channel her inner 2010s hipster style.
....why do i have to find out im a hipster from a strangeaeons video
Haha, loved this video! The nostalgia thing is definitely real, I live in a pretty hipster city if there is such a thing lol (Melbourne) and it's still so depressing seeing how many people just walk around glued to their phones 24/7. Even in restaurants rather than talking to the person opposite them. It really is so nice to enjoy galleries and books and things without a screen in front of you all the time. The hipsters are definitely on to something in that respect!
(Screaming and crying) “no don’t take me back PLEASE DONT TAKE ME BACK”
This one is very interesting to me, because so many of these elements are pretty much exactly who I am, yet I never considered that it was a specifically hipster thing. I op shop, I listen to indie music, I have progressive political views, and it feels very much like this video is about people like me, yet I only really started giving myself an identity around 2018 (late high school). That is to say, before then I did not listen to music at all really, I didn't think about the clothes I wore, I didn't hold any beliefs, I arguably didn't even have hobbies. At risk of this being the most hipster thing to say in this situation, but it really felt like I was not influenced by the main wave of the hipster movement per se, but more so by the things that I happened to find appealing about the things my parents or friends were doing. And importantly, I think the pretentiousness is the key part of what makes people dislike the hipster trope, and I earnestly do not feel like I fit that description. I like the things I like just for myself, and it feels like a coincidence that it lines up with what hipsters like. Maybe it's just the fact that hipsters were already such an established movement and mass marketed that it felt natural to find and be interested in these things by association with friends and adults who had been influenced by the trend. I don't know. This is definitely the most hipster defence to being called a hipster ever recorded. "I was into it long after it was cool" Interesting to reflect on myself in this way though.
haha "i was into it long AFTER it was cool" i actually find this happening to myself sometimes and i dont do it on purpose 😂 but also its the opposite of the hipster really, since thats "before it was cool" so hey, valid defense 😂 im also just going to ignore the fact i cannot currently remember an example of this being the case for me but i specifically remember times where i start liking something long after its no longer trendy haha
It's such a weird feeling reading this comment because I went thru literally the same exact experience (no fashion sense til 2018, few hobbies, first got into music thru indie rock my first year of college). and i agree, i think its fine to like these things as long as you arent a snob and look down on other ppl for it. I go to a lot of underground rock shows and when ppl ask what music i like and i name a bunch of 2000s-2010s indie bands theyre like "omg me too!!"
it's kinda interesting how much hipster culture has been embedded into gen Z now (indie music, alt rock, secondhand clothing, moustaches, antiques/vintage stuff), I feel like hipsters would have been "cooler" and more accepted by other alt communities if they weren't such assholes to anyone who wasn't one of them lol
the style criticised for gentrifying the working class getting gentrified by the mainstream is both very funny and my biggest gripe with a lot of mainstream trends.
What a throwback! Hipster style definitely introduced me into several worlds and fashion and hobbies that I’m grateful for and it’s funny how people hated hipsters and called anyone hipster as an insult for not fitting in. I definitely got called hipster a fair bit once I got into fashion, despite never conforming to the mustachioed suspender wearing coffee drinking vinyl listening bike rider hipster archetype. Actually now that I think about it, I’m not sure why I was called hipster…
Capitalism subsumes counterculture and resells it to us and I didn’t realize this is exactly what happened to hipsters as well. But the time I was introduced to it, hipster style was borderline mainstream and was stripped of all the nuance of going against the grain and was boiled down to quality stuff, being quirky, and liking things before they were cool.
At the start of the video I got a sense of deja vu as felt like where you were walking looked familiar, then 'ah shit alright yeah that's Kenzington Market.' Did not know you were Canadian. Another fascinating video from the opposite side of the internet I grew up on!
I was an edgy anti-hipster 4channer back in the early 10s and now that I turned into a post-cringe trans girl I've been trying to reclaim it and you know what I may come off as an out of touch dork but I'm having fun
I went to a small liberal arts college at the height of hipster culture. The fact that I made it out without a mustache tattoo is honestly shocking.
Help, I'm having flashbacks. Damn, but I had so many funky patterned tights to wear with my shorts :')
Man I've been missing your videos!! You're one of the coolest people on here, keep bein real
AHHH I feel so called out, this was so me and also still me :D I learned being a hipster, living in a small town where everyone was so similar, and now I'm still super alt, living in a big city, buying only second hand, having a super individualistic room, with quirky and artsy stuff. I also became a coffee snop but kinda ironical :DDD
I swear I laughing so hard about me right now!!!!
good god this is taking me back to my high school days. I went to prep school and a good half the population was like the slightly watered down hipster. I was too into country music to be classed as one but my fashion was more or less parallel to the popular 2010’s hipster of the time and very far from the modern one.
omg i saw you wearing this the other day by queen and spadina 😭
Brava! Well done video! I enjoyed this trip down memory lane and I'm pushing 60. I got to experience hipsterdom through watching my kids, who were hipster-ish but very disdainful of hipsters. I relate through my 80's punk counterculture youth. It's a shock how much socially rebellious youth movements resemble eachother, and also, how quickly time passes and they become nostalgia.
Really appreciate you getting into the Jazz culture that is at the heart of the Hipsterism. Also, chef kiss move going vintage shopping in Kensington for the video. As a 90s hipster this brought back lots of memories.
getting war flashbacks of 2010 tumblr as soon as I opened the video
The energy of your live videos is effervescent!