I remember being called hipster once, what they didn’t know was that I was just lower class and couldn’t afford ‘clean aesthetic’ looking stuff. It didn’t help that my family never threw anything out so I ended up with my dad’s Polaroid 600, comic books from his childhood and my mother’s glass teacup set. I hate indie movies and records (and yes my father’s records are still here😭). I am a coffee snob but I think that’s because I’m Australian.
There are still hipsters out there. I recently came across the YT channel Spencer's Adventures and that guy is pretty much everything you described, he even has a video called "Why I only own VHS tapes in 2024". Says it all!
I'm a hipster :D Didn't know. Sorry to say that my main outfits since late 60s has involved checkered flannel shirts, skinny jeans and braces. Paper boy caps and so on. Yes, art historian, archaeologist, art school (I like school :P ). I'm 66, to late to change now. Thanks for a really fun video. Keep them coming :D
I remember being hipster adjacent, I have glasses and a beard 🧔🏻(no man bun), arrogance and aimless irony were maybe the most annoying traits of some of them, in a way they may have been a modern callback to urban tribes, but without strong core elements to keep them going, they seemed to be everywhere for a while and then they were gone suddenly. A lovely video Teresa, thank you!
There's still hipsters out there, but they're more underground now. I think the reason why you don't see them as much nowadays is because the subculture became mainstream and a good number of people in the hipster subculture either became parents or had an ephanie that they're being a poser I thought I wasn't a hipster for years, but I'm kinda a hipster. I still go to cafés that are independent, I support small independent businesses, I go to my local library and dress like I came from the 90s/mid-late 2000s or look like I'm going to a comic con.
The same thing happened to the hipsters as what happened to the hippies and garage rock bands of the 1960s: They got older, had families and their priorities shifted. The connection between the Boomer generation of the 60s and their taste for what we now call Classic Rock of the 70s is fairly obvious even though they aren’t the exact same styles of music. Many 60s hippies ditched the Bohemian aspects of their living but returned to “normal” life with a more carefree, not-stuck-on-rules approach. The hipsters of the late 2000s and 2010s are now Millennial moms and dads, and as a result, the resemble their parents values to a degree infused with their own hipster values. They established successful business as have become so pervasive we hardly think many things as hipster now. Sort of like how jeans became so mainstream you’re not seen as a greaser for wearing them
I have a theory about the Pabst Blue Ribbon thing: The heiress to the PBR fortune was (still is?) a huge supporter of downtown artsy theatre in NYC. So, she would frequently donate to these small theatre companies and gift a bunch of PBR for opening night parties (which you were obligated to drink because she was usually there for opening). Hipsters were often drawn to those sort of off off off Broadway experimental/new works scenes. So maybe that's why it became so popular? Also, it was cheap back then.
You had me at hipster Emma! I never really dressed Twee, but I SO wanted to and I'm actually really happy that some of those elements seem to be making a comeback :)
I’m not hipster then or now but lived through that era, here in San Francisco many hipsters I think became reg middle aged parents OR techy disrupters or corporate drones, oddly enough I think here there still exists a hold out few og hipsters that are forever clueless that their hipster ship sailed about 10 yrs ago …
🧔♀️ I’m too old to be a true hipster, but I’ve been doing “hipster” stuff before the hipsters did it: I’m 65 now, and I’ve been roasting coffee beans myself at home to brew my coffee from for more than 10 years. It’s just the best coffee! I was amused by the beards and mustaches on young men, but never liked the “man buns.” I live near a hip, recently gentrified part of town that was crawling with hipsters 10+ years ago.
My younger brother was a hipster. Hed wear glasses with plain lenses because he didn't actually need glasses. As a person who actually needs glasses, it got under my skin.
I love the hipster/twee aesthetic but it was popular in my middle/high school years when "trying" was looked down upon... But it isn't too late, maybe I'll give it a go 🤔
Honestly, I still love both hipster and twee. The critics think this aesthetic reeks of posing, but I think hipsters are just super into their hobbies & their fondness for the past. Go for it! ❤️
There is always a movement toward the fringes of society laced with the hope of the untrammeled new. it collapses when either the culture decays or the movement gets too large to support it. Then, it comes back because the "mainstream" wants a safer version of what is popular which leaves a growing number of people interested in the twang which is both too vulnerable to be commercialized and too sensual to ignore. It comes from both the simplistic and the complex: in the realm of dance, music, and sexuality.
I was about 11 when the hipster trend became popular, moreover, I didn't really have much of an internet access til I was about 14, but at the very tail end of it- thanks to Pinterest- I discovered the style. And I have to say, it really speaks to my vintage fashion loving heart. Even though it does have its cliches and faults, I think the core ideas of it- the vintage inspo, going against the mainstream, a focus on individuality, and overall indie sensibilities, I can definitely see it working for modern day (albeit with very modern twists). Aside from the hipster ~aesthetic~, I've been seeing the renaissance of the twee substyle (mostly on Pinterest, TikTok, and Tumblr) which truly goes hand in hand with the hipster movement- especially delightful since Tumblr was really the platform where both styles emerged and blossomed. Although I can already foresee the reemergence of both styles being brief as with the current hyperspeed of today's trend cycles, I truly hope it sticks around for much longer, and I do hope we don't trip into the pitfalls of fast fashion considering the early 2010s was when it really took off, and subsequently, a lot of the key items that undoubtedly defined the style was from despite their notion of individuality and uniqueness. Overall I can't wait to finally partake in the style that really shaped my formative years!
A lot of us have gone on to teach in private and public schools, it feels like I’m lowkey influencing a new generation of creative and intellectual fashion minded folks to express themselves the same way we were called to do in grade school.
Girl NO hahaha I think many people who genuinely wanted a hipster type of life are actually buying land and building their own home and starting a homestead and stuff like that. Whoever truly wanted out of the system ......is probably really, really still running from the system. I never had the money to do what other hipsters do, but what appealed to me about the culture was the desire to not rely on a system that isn't very healthy or helpful in general. Hence, our saving up for our land and currently looking for our land.
The Asheville area is still like 50% hipsters 😂Oh the beards, the IPAs, the cameras, the guys asking if we have books on metal working...the exhaustingly cool restaurants. All I want in restaurant is an old immigrant Grandma who could be anywhere from sweet to vaguely hostile, sun damaged posters of the home country, and totally beat up laminated menus. I do love a Peter Pan collar and cardigan though.
I went to Asheville during the pre-hipster era. Like the IPAs and flannel were only starting to roll in. I'm glad you have a hipster enclave there! 🤣 I would also like to visit the retro restaurant you speak of!
@@teresachaotic.corner I grew up in Orlando & every restaurant was like that! Vietnamese, Cuban, Greek, Polish, Thai...we had it all, none of them with good decor at all, and our favorite Italian restaurant ended up on one of those Gordon Ramsey type shows where it was deemed completely disgusting. I'm not gonna think about it because it was the best Italian ever. It's probably not like that anymore, I think Orlando has gotten more of a "scene". Though probably still not like Asheville. I definitely enjoy hipster fashion though. And the records. I was the kid buying the cheap vintage Technics turntable in 2001. Still works great!
The lumberjack look probably traces to the Pacific Northwest, where flannel plaids and wool watchcaps have always been a mainstay. I wore flannel shirts, flannel-lined jeans, "braces" (suspenders), logger boots, and Pendleton wool shirts and jackets as far back as the 1970s. Loggers (as we call them, not lumberjacks) are sorta like the cowboys of the West...they have an impact on the PacNW look. Just my ¢2, and worth every penny.
I was a hipster who decided to become a university librarian. Funnily enough I’ve evolved. I still wear skinny jeans, beanies and mustard yellow. However I’m more into technology now and have moved onto other interests. I actually think there is another counter culture movement that has an element of hipster anti consumer ideals emerging. It’s still different and not as gendered, but has quite an unusual aesthetic.
I didnt like hipsters bc they seemed narrow-minded. I didnt like how they assumed a person was a slave to trends just bc they had some mainstream tastes. Everyone is an individual whether they are "trendy" or not. Hipsters tried to hard to be unique, they literally contradicted themselves
15:55 I moved from San Diego to Dayton in 2021. I've noticed that the "industrial" look is still pretty popular out here, because it's an inexpensive way to remodel a place, just don't bother putting in a ceiling or flooring. Also, a lot of building are repurposed instead of rebuilt here, so it's considered kind of cool when a restaurant or cafe still has the bank vault, fireman's pole, or vestibule that came with the building.
i used to hate the hipster trend with a passion, but the i realised i like everything they like, but which time it was too late. i kinda wish id have partaken in it now
I appreciate any counter culture group or trend. It can be a fantastic creative outlet that can counter the unquestioned, homogenized, profit driven mainstream of that given moment. The danger to it is always its own popularity. Mainstream always eventually sniffs it out and starts to monetize it and sells it back to that population, and "worse", the trend followers who just want what's popular and have no inherent interest. The hate of hipsters is just the next wave of what's "hip", countering what's become the norm or too common now. It's yes, ironic. Too bad sneering or hating on it is an inevitable thing. As an old person who had been New Wave, it's funny to watch from afar and uninvolved. It's like counter culture as a concept has it's own eco system snd life cycle. It happens over and over in a different form. There's obviously a need to create your own distinct tribe as you come of age. I don't begrudge anyone their tribe.
LOL I love this! I kind of miss hipsters. They’re still around in concentrated areas or hiding in the suburbs with families now. The only hipsters I don’t miss are the elitist bike snob hipsters with those short billed biker caps. The sight of most all hipsters brings a nostalgic smile to my face.
Can I just be an Emo hipster? Cuz the beanie covers my bald spot, the beard replaced what I lost, and the faux-hock is still pretty full (from the front)
sometime in high school my friend and i were on this trip and while we were out exploring we saw a man who was the embodiment of a hipster like everything about this man screamed hipster. he was sitting on a bench smoking a cigarette with his lil legs crossed. we ran up to him and asked for a picture and he said yes, he was so nice! i think his name was stacey, he didn't even question us why we were asking for a picture but it was just because it was the first time we'd seen like a hipster out in the wild like that, like someone who wasn't a teenager so it felt more real
I was deep into this subculture, it really started rising around 2007 and peaked in 2012. By the mid-2010s it was in sharp decline and after the Trump Election, it pretty much died off. What happened was that most of them grew up and got married and have families now. They're usually pretty easy to identify by vestigial elements. A lot of post-hipsters seem to still wear skinny jeans but mostly dress in black, a somewhat more understated look. You'll see them driving their Subaru Crosstreks to Whole Foods and occasionally talk about their favorite specialty coffee but the elitism, especially in terms of entertainment preferences, has dramatically chilled out and they usually don't take themselves so seriously. The other contingent radicalized. Many became Social Justice Warriors during or in the aftermath of the 2016 election; Antifa people, for example, are disproportionately post-hipsters. Others - myself probably included - went in a different direction, but which could still be argued to be a logical extrapolation of some of the "values" driving the hipster ethos. As a convert to Orthodox Christianity, I walk around the wasteland of the modern world mumbling "The industrial revolution and its consequences..." under my breath, wondering if I'll ever figure out how to go full Wendell Berry, or at least throw my smartphone into the trash. But it all started in a shared sense of discontent with the status quo. Hipsters are easy to make fun of, but much of the subculture was a reaction to the consumeristic shallowness of late-stage Western culture and an attempt - however silly and awkward in retrospect - to craft an alternative to it.
This made me laugh because I can completely resonate. I’m all this…will be going through chrismation weekend before Pascha. Also, the desire to throw my smartphone away is real.
4:18 Lumberjack Hipster Alternative and Indie culture was introduced to the mainstream via Nirvana and a huge part of the Grunge look was the flannel and generally Pacific Northwest look. Really shows the Indie roots of all of this.
*looks at video* *sees old type-writer, box-camera, mustard-yellow things, and the glasses* - I see... you seem to know an awful lot ABOUT this whole Hipster-thing...? ;) EDIT: Ah shit, she actually explains it later in the video. Joke fail.
I mean it's okay, but a beanie is not something hipster per se. By these assumptions everything is hipster. Beanies, fedoras, prescription glasses, Records and Compact Discs, RayBan, Boots, shirts, Film Cameras, Poetry and Photography, Cinema, and so on so forth.
My brother is such a hipster, he suffers from a type of repetitive strain injury unique to baristas, so he had to retire from that and now owns a coffee roasting firm. He looks like a vegan biker, and his missus looks and dresses like she just came in from the dust bowl. Their son eats raw broccoli as a _treat,_ and while the kid isn't Trans, he has often been mistaken for a girl. He doesn't have to worry about being bullied though, because hipsters still constitute the largest demographic in his town. In fact they _live_ in a country that seems to have a disproportionate number of hipsters! And I _so_ hope none of them read this.
Writing poetry, listening to Beach House, shopping at thrift stores, record collecting, going to the county movie theater which only previewed indie films or classics, art was life.
I also may have a helpful view. Mac Demarco steered the indie scene changing the polished hipsters to messy and sleazy. Just a thought I’ve pondered coming from the alternative scene.
I'm still a hipster. Still listen to non mainstream music still search for that "one movie", still try to find inspiration from odd books and still hating on everything mainstream. I don't wanna fit in because I don't is not about style, also I don't wanna stand out. I wanna be left alone and if I hate something I will not engage with it. There's not a cohesive ideology behind that. Is just things suck and you wanna be yourself and express yourself freely. That's why not all hipster go away. Maybe is the tism but quirkiness can be "mainstreamed" so it goes away. But real odd people will remain. Is not really a "trend" if you are a real hipster. Those doushy hipster trying to be ironic, were just regular folks taking hipsterdom for it's fifteen minutes of fame and that was that.
I'm with you, chum--I never lost my hipster self completely and still live the lifestyle to this day. My wardrobe still consists of many fairly vintage styles and I prefer to read old books, watch old movies, listen to old or lesser known music. I'm glad there are at least a few other authentic ones of us still out there!
But on a serious note: the reason I disliked Hipsters was because of their fake-ness - the insincerity, that comes from this whole "ironic" thing they do - where half of the things they wear/promote are things which they don't actually like. And of course... the whole thing with trying to say that no-one should ever like these things except ironically.
It's funny because they never QUITE infiltrated Canada to the same extent, though the "exposed pipe/cement floor/Edison lights" thing is DEFINITELY true. The skinny jeans and beards were DEFINITELY huge but the ironic mustaches did not really show up, nor did the twee girls. Gauge earrings were probably the big effect. I think Edmonton in particular had too much of a metal subculture, lol. All our tattooed people came from that.
Are you kidding? I’m Australian, and when I think of my awareness of the early stirrings of what I would later identify as “hipster culture”, it was leafing through issues of (Montreal-born) Vice Magazine in some impossibly cool record shop in Melbourne. Vice was the ultimate hipster publication. Co-founder Gavin McInnes STILL looks like the quintessential ageing hipster.
🧔🏻 I was clean cut, capitalist, and leaving religion at the beginning 2017. Things in my life changed, drastically. I didn’t try to assemble my aspect, but I became this hipster you describe with a mix of emo, personas I’d missed as an Xer who got married too young. Now I’m wearing half what you said, unironically, but with a lot more black and more punk Vinyl. I love coffee, I give people pointers on unusual Mezcales, I restore old bikes, I canyoneer and rock climb, and I do chop wood to heat my house (propane is $$$). It’s hard to be authentic, but maybe in my hodgepodge of adopted textures and colors …maybe I graduated High School when Pearl Jam was on MTV that still played music, so suddenly there was a grungy man-bun-adorned, flannel-wearing culture that sorta jived with my criogened past in my head. Is it sad? Probably 🤷🏻. I’m an adult diagnosed on the spectrum, so I found out I’ve been observing and copying my whole life, just another persona that I emulated naturally. I like this lifestyle. I get my firewood from a local native who gets it from tribal land that runs their forest in a way the USFS should emulate, I grow my paleo diet at home, and I took up old guy smoking, but cigars, cuz I can’t get Nicaraguan Tobacco for a pipe. It feels real. Where is the wrong?
There's been a recent revival in what might look like hipster fashion with the big beards, but I think this is inspired by the Canadian trucker protest of 2022.
I was in high school as the hipster movement pewtered off. I always thoughts going back to vinyls was cringe and even more so when everyone and their mom started collecting them. Annoying as some aspects were, their aesthetic is engraved in a ton of great movies and im all here for it.
whenever i see any kind of retrospect on hipster, nobody ever mentions " How to Make It in America" . That show is like the perfect time capsule for that New York City Hipster aesthetic but I have yet to meet anyone else who's ever watched it.
Receiding hairline is a genetic thing. End of story. If a guy doesn't have that genetic mark, if he stop using thing that damage hair growth, it will grow back. If you don't, you could hve the most free hair life style and it still will fall off your head. If you wanna preserve your hair just go find a truly good dermatologist, run the blood tests and take the medications they prescribe
I defiantly liked some of the hipster stuff and I am a 90s kid. I think you missed the alt vibe that was always a part of hipster culture, the grunge and hippie bohemian hipster.
Hipsters are gone now, the new hipsters are now eboys and egirls. I didn't like hipsters when I was a kid. Now that my genration is filled with eboys and egirls, I miss hipsters. 😂
Curious what cities/neighborhoods people think 1 were hipster meccas in their heyday and have since changed vs 2 still are hipster enclaves that haven't moved on
I remember being called hipster once, what they didn’t know was that I was just lower class and couldn’t afford ‘clean aesthetic’ looking stuff. It didn’t help that my family never threw anything out so I ended up with my dad’s Polaroid 600, comic books from his childhood and my mother’s glass teacup set. I hate indie movies and records (and yes my father’s records are still here😭). I am a coffee snob but I think that’s because I’m Australian.
Lmao 😮😂😂😂
You should just embrace your criminal upbringing
There are still hipsters out there. I recently came across the YT channel Spencer's Adventures and that guy is pretty much everything you described, he even has a video called "Why I only own VHS tapes in 2024". Says it all!
Johnny Harris is a geopolitical analysis youtube channel and he is also the quintessential hipster. No joke.
I'm a hipster :D Didn't know. Sorry to say that my main outfits since late 60s has involved checkered flannel shirts, skinny jeans and braces. Paper boy caps and so on. Yes, art historian, archaeologist, art school (I like school :P ). I'm 66, to late to change now. Thanks for a really fun video. Keep them coming :D
you were the original hipster! thank you so much for watching🥰
yeah, you are excluded by your age though, as your fashion is relevent and I would say normal for your age.
Taking apprentices?
I remember being hipster adjacent, I have glasses and a beard 🧔🏻(no man bun), arrogance and aimless irony were maybe the most annoying traits of some of them, in a way they may have been a modern callback to urban tribes, but without strong core elements to keep them going, they seemed to be everywhere for a while and then they were gone suddenly. A lovely video Teresa, thank you!
Ngl, I miss the hipsters. They had weird hobbies and were interesting to look at. It was a fun time
lol
There's still hipsters out there, but they're more underground now. I think the reason why you don't see them as much nowadays is because the subculture became mainstream and a good number of people in the hipster subculture either became parents or had an ephanie that they're being a poser
I thought I wasn't a hipster for years, but I'm kinda a hipster. I still go to cafés that are independent, I support small independent businesses, I go to my local library and dress like I came from the 90s/mid-late 2000s or look like I'm going to a comic con.
The same thing happened to the hipsters as what happened to the hippies and garage rock bands of the 1960s: They got older, had families and their priorities shifted. The connection between the Boomer generation of the 60s and their taste for what we now call Classic Rock of the 70s is fairly obvious even though they aren’t the exact same styles of music. Many 60s hippies ditched the Bohemian aspects of their living but returned to “normal” life with a more carefree, not-stuck-on-rules approach.
The hipsters of the late 2000s and 2010s are now Millennial moms and dads, and as a result, the resemble their parents values to a degree infused with their own hipster values. They established successful business as have become so pervasive we hardly think many things as hipster now. Sort of like how jeans became so mainstream you’re not seen as a greaser for wearing them
they are running craft breweries
It goes back to David Lynch “Blue Velvet”. There’s a scene where the character says “Pabst Blue Ribbon”
I have a theory about the Pabst Blue Ribbon thing: The heiress to the PBR fortune was (still is?) a huge supporter of downtown artsy theatre in NYC. So, she would frequently donate to these small theatre companies and gift a bunch of PBR for opening night parties (which you were obligated to drink because she was usually there for opening). Hipsters were often drawn to those sort of off off off Broadway experimental/new works scenes. So maybe that's why it became so popular? Also, it was cheap back then.
You had me at hipster Emma! I never really dressed Twee, but I SO wanted to and I'm actually really happy that some of those elements seem to be making a comeback :)
I just can't imagine having so little identity of my own that I'd base my lifestyle, my hobbies, and my attire on copying trends set by other people.
I’m not hipster then or now but lived through that era, here in San Francisco many hipsters I think became reg middle aged parents OR techy disrupters or corporate drones, oddly enough I think here there still exists a hold out few og hipsters that are forever clueless that their hipster ship sailed about 10 yrs ago …
🧔♀️ I’m too old to be a true hipster, but I’ve been doing “hipster” stuff before the hipsters did it: I’m 65 now, and I’ve been roasting coffee beans myself at home to brew my coffee from for more than 10 years. It’s just the best coffee! I was amused by the beards and mustaches on young men, but never liked the “man buns.” I live near a hip, recently gentrified part of town that was crawling with hipsters 10+ years ago.
My younger brother was a hipster. Hed wear glasses with plain lenses because he didn't actually need glasses. As a person who actually needs glasses, it got under my skin.
😂 rest assured, I definitely need my glasses. I wouldn't wear them, actually, if I didn't have to.
I love the hipster/twee aesthetic but it was popular in my middle/high school years when "trying" was looked down upon... But it isn't too late, maybe I'll give it a go 🤔
Honestly, I still love both hipster and twee. The critics think this aesthetic reeks of posing, but I think hipsters are just super into their hobbies & their fondness for the past. Go for it! ❤️
There is always a movement toward the fringes of society laced with the hope of the untrammeled new. it collapses when either the culture decays or the movement gets too large to support it. Then, it comes back because the "mainstream" wants a safer version of what is popular which leaves a growing number of people interested in the twang which is both too vulnerable to be commercialized and too sensual to ignore. It comes from both the simplistic and the complex: in the realm of dance, music, and sexuality.
I was about 11 when the hipster trend became popular, moreover, I didn't really have much of an internet access til I was about 14, but at the very tail end of it- thanks to Pinterest- I discovered the style. And I have to say, it really speaks to my vintage fashion loving heart. Even though it does have its cliches and faults, I think the core ideas of it- the vintage inspo, going against the mainstream, a focus on individuality, and overall indie sensibilities, I can definitely see it working for modern day (albeit with very modern twists). Aside from the hipster ~aesthetic~, I've been seeing the renaissance of the twee substyle (mostly on Pinterest, TikTok, and Tumblr) which truly goes hand in hand with the hipster movement- especially delightful since Tumblr was really the platform where both styles emerged and blossomed. Although I can already foresee the reemergence of both styles being brief as with the current hyperspeed of today's trend cycles, I truly hope it sticks around for much longer, and I do hope we don't trip into the pitfalls of fast fashion considering the early 2010s was when it really took off, and subsequently, a lot of the key items that undoubtedly defined the style was from despite their notion of individuality and uniqueness. Overall I can't wait to finally partake in the style that really shaped my formative years!
I'm still twee
And nerd/geek
A lot of us have gone on to teach in private and public schools, it feels like I’m lowkey influencing a new generation of creative and intellectual fashion minded folks to express themselves the same way we were called to do in grade school.
*cant tell if pranav is being ironic or not -- which is totally inline with the hipster life-style*
Girl NO hahaha I think many people who genuinely wanted a hipster type of life are actually buying land and building their own home and starting a homestead and stuff like that. Whoever truly wanted out of the system
......is probably really, really still running from the system.
I never had the money to do what other hipsters do, but what appealed to me about the culture was the desire to not rely on a system that isn't very healthy or helpful in general. Hence, our saving up for our land and currently looking for our land.
The Asheville area is still like 50% hipsters 😂Oh the beards, the IPAs, the cameras, the guys asking if we have books on metal working...the exhaustingly cool restaurants. All I want in restaurant is an old immigrant Grandma who could be anywhere from sweet to vaguely hostile, sun damaged posters of the home country, and totally beat up laminated menus.
I do love a Peter Pan collar and cardigan though.
I went to Asheville during the pre-hipster era. Like the IPAs and flannel were only starting to roll in. I'm glad you have a hipster enclave there! 🤣 I would also like to visit the retro restaurant you speak of!
@@teresachaotic.corner I grew up in Orlando & every restaurant was like that! Vietnamese, Cuban, Greek, Polish, Thai...we had it all, none of them with good decor at all, and our favorite Italian restaurant ended up on one of those Gordon Ramsey type shows where it was deemed completely disgusting. I'm not gonna think about it because it was the best Italian ever.
It's probably not like that anymore, I think Orlando has gotten more of a "scene". Though probably still not like Asheville.
I definitely enjoy hipster fashion though. And the records. I was the kid buying the cheap vintage Technics turntable in 2001. Still works great!
I definitely just realised I was a hipster back in the day. Thanks for that. 🤣
The lumberjack look probably traces to the Pacific Northwest, where flannel plaids and wool watchcaps have always been a mainstay. I wore flannel shirts, flannel-lined jeans, "braces" (suspenders), logger boots, and Pendleton wool shirts and jackets as far back as the 1970s. Loggers (as we call them, not lumberjacks) are sorta like the cowboys of the West...they have an impact on the PacNW look. Just my ¢2, and worth every penny.
The oldest Millennials are 43.
Hepster …. And I know you that … it was white kids who hangs around black jazz artist and the magazine got the name wrong in a typo into Hipster ..
I was a hipster who decided to become a university librarian. Funnily enough I’ve evolved. I still wear skinny jeans, beanies and mustard yellow. However I’m more into technology now and have moved onto other interests.
I actually think there is another counter culture movement that has an element of hipster anti consumer ideals emerging. It’s still different and not as gendered, but has quite an unusual aesthetic.
I didnt like hipsters bc they seemed narrow-minded. I didnt like how they assumed a person was a slave to trends just bc they had some mainstream tastes. Everyone is an individual whether they are "trendy" or not. Hipsters tried to hard to be unique, they literally contradicted themselves
15:55 I moved from San Diego to Dayton in 2021. I've noticed that the "industrial" look is still pretty popular out here, because it's an inexpensive way to remodel a place, just don't bother putting in a ceiling or flooring. Also, a lot of building are repurposed instead of rebuilt here, so it's considered kind of cool when a restaurant or cafe still has the bank vault, fireman's pole, or vestibule that came with the building.
I still love the industrial look!
i used to hate the hipster trend with a passion, but the i realised i like everything they like, but which time it was too late. i kinda wish id have partaken in it now
Ur so gay by Katy Perry is my favorite hipster-slander-attack song 🎧
They are 40 year old dads living in artsy gentrified big city neighbourhoods
this is it lol go to any major city and theyre just older now
I appreciate any counter culture group or trend. It can be a fantastic creative outlet that can counter the unquestioned, homogenized, profit driven mainstream of that given moment. The danger to it is always its own popularity. Mainstream always eventually sniffs it out and starts to monetize it and sells it back to that population, and "worse", the trend followers who just want what's popular and have no inherent interest.
The hate of hipsters is just the next wave of what's "hip", countering what's become the norm or too common now. It's yes, ironic. Too bad sneering or hating on it is an inevitable thing.
As an old person who had been New Wave, it's funny to watch from afar and uninvolved. It's like counter culture as a concept has it's own eco system snd life cycle. It happens over and over in a different form. There's obviously a need to create your own distinct tribe as you come of age. I don't begrudge anyone their tribe.
LOL I love this! I kind of miss hipsters. They’re still around in concentrated areas or hiding in the suburbs with families now. The only hipsters I don’t miss are the elitist bike snob hipsters with those short billed biker caps. The sight of most all hipsters brings a nostalgic smile to my face.
Definitely brings back 2010s nostalgia! Thank you for watching!
Can I just be an Emo hipster? Cuz the beanie covers my bald spot, the beard replaced what I lost, and the faux-hock is still pretty full (from the front)
I read and write romcom novels, and I love hipsters. 💙 No book is for everyone!
You can be the juiciest peach in the orchard, but some people don't like peaches 🤣
twee girl is basically ANNI POTTS (ghostbusters, pritty in pink)
5:10 "Not a crackpipe" 😂
We need more shutting the hell up in mainstream culture
They either got their trust funds and left or they just sit in coffee shops now with their computers.
sometime in high school my friend and i were on this trip and while we were out exploring we saw a man who was the embodiment of a hipster like everything about this man screamed hipster. he was sitting on a bench smoking a cigarette with his lil legs crossed. we ran up to him and asked for a picture and he said yes, he was so nice! i think his name was stacey, he didn't even question us why we were asking for a picture but it was just because it was the first time we'd seen like a hipster out in the wild like that, like someone who wasn't a teenager so it felt more real
I was deep into this subculture, it really started rising around 2007 and peaked in 2012. By the mid-2010s it was in sharp decline and after the Trump Election, it pretty much died off.
What happened was that most of them grew up and got married and have families now. They're usually pretty easy to identify by vestigial elements. A lot of post-hipsters seem to still wear skinny jeans but mostly dress in black, a somewhat more understated look. You'll see them driving their Subaru Crosstreks to Whole Foods and occasionally talk about their favorite specialty coffee but the elitism, especially in terms of entertainment preferences, has dramatically chilled out and they usually don't take themselves so seriously.
The other contingent radicalized. Many became Social Justice Warriors during or in the aftermath of the 2016 election; Antifa people, for example, are disproportionately post-hipsters. Others - myself probably included - went in a different direction, but which could still be argued to be a logical extrapolation of some of the "values" driving the hipster ethos. As a convert to Orthodox Christianity, I walk around the wasteland of the modern world mumbling "The industrial revolution and its consequences..." under my breath, wondering if I'll ever figure out how to go full Wendell Berry, or at least throw my smartphone into the trash. But it all started in a shared sense of discontent with the status quo.
Hipsters are easy to make fun of, but much of the subculture was a reaction to the consumeristic shallowness of late-stage Western culture and an attempt - however silly and awkward in retrospect - to craft an alternative to it.
This made me laugh because I can completely resonate. I’m all this…will be going through chrismation weekend before Pascha. Also, the desire to throw my smartphone away is real.
lol, tell me your not still a hipster, I’m an orthodox Christian, the most hipster!
This was really funny - thanks for posting!
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vintage became normal, now we all are
just discovered your channel but im obsessed!! you are also so beautiful by the way ❤❤
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Do I see a Polaroid camera and a manual typewriter on your shelf?
I was a hipster after it was cool...
@@ttllymxico you were never cool.
I'm not hipster, but like my avatar suggests I would be someone you see in the audience of a Megadeth concert.
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4:18 Lumberjack Hipster
Alternative and Indie culture was introduced to the mainstream via Nirvana and a huge part of the Grunge look was the flannel and generally Pacific Northwest look. Really shows the Indie roots of all of this.
I am an old- school hippie but I have a strange obsession with all things hipster. Is that good, bad,or simply odd? I'd really like to know!
definitely good!
Huh? Maybe I am a hipster. Love having a big Victorian moustache.
*looks at video* *sees old type-writer, box-camera, mustard-yellow things, and the glasses* - I see... you seem to know an awful lot ABOUT this whole Hipster-thing...? ;)
EDIT: Ah shit, she actually explains it later in the video. Joke fail.
I mean it's okay, but a beanie is not something hipster per se.
By these assumptions everything is hipster. Beanies, fedoras, prescription glasses, Records and Compact Discs, RayBan, Boots, shirts, Film Cameras, Poetry and Photography, Cinema, and so on so forth.
My brother is such a hipster, he suffers from a type of repetitive strain injury unique to baristas, so he had to retire from that and now owns a coffee roasting firm. He looks like a vegan biker, and his missus looks and dresses like she just came in from the dust bowl. Their son eats raw broccoli as a _treat,_ and while the kid isn't Trans, he has often been mistaken for a girl. He doesn't have to worry about being bullied though, because hipsters still constitute the largest demographic in his town. In fact they _live_ in a country that seems to have a disproportionate number of hipsters!
And I _so_ hope none of them read this.
Writing poetry, listening to Beach House, shopping at thrift stores, record collecting, going to the county movie theater which only previewed indie films or classics, art was life.
I also may have a helpful view. Mac Demarco steered the indie scene changing the polished hipsters to messy and sleazy. Just a thought I’ve pondered coming from the alternative scene.
I'm still a hipster. Still listen to non mainstream music still search for that "one movie", still try to find inspiration from odd books and still hating on everything mainstream. I don't wanna fit in because I don't is not about style, also I don't wanna stand out. I wanna be left alone and if I hate something I will not engage with it. There's not a cohesive ideology behind that. Is just things suck and you wanna be yourself and express yourself freely. That's why not all hipster go away. Maybe is the tism but quirkiness can be "mainstreamed" so it goes away. But real odd people will remain. Is not really a "trend" if you are a real hipster. Those doushy hipster trying to be ironic, were just regular folks taking hipsterdom for it's fifteen minutes of fame and that was that.
I'm with you, chum--I never lost my hipster self completely and still live the lifestyle to this day. My wardrobe still consists of many fairly vintage styles and I prefer to read old books, watch old movies, listen to old or lesser known music. I'm glad there are at least a few other authentic ones of us still out there!
But on a serious note: the reason I disliked Hipsters was because of their fake-ness - the insincerity, that comes from this whole "ironic" thing they do - where half of the things they wear/promote are things which they don't actually like. And of course... the whole thing with trying to say that no-one should ever like these things except ironically.
Drinking PBR's in irony, or not. Unsure. IPA's were and are for folk who eshew light beers.
They started going bald. Nothing hip about being bald. Aaaaaand they became a meme, a stereotype, the ultimate irony.
You’re being a hipster while talking about hipsters, at least I’m legitimately poor
This was fun. Urban lumberjacks
They still completely dominate Chattanooga, Tennessee in the 2020s!
I collected vinyl and had a commodore c64 before modern hipsters where even a thought
they're still here in brooklyn, they just all have kids now.
lol I’ve been calling them “gold rush hipsters” for years
I said it before, I am too weird to be a hipster..
Although I’ve never been a hipster, being a millennial, I found this video quite enjoyable and gave me a few laughs which is always a plus. 😊
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It's funny because they never QUITE infiltrated Canada to the same extent, though the "exposed pipe/cement floor/Edison lights" thing is DEFINITELY true. The skinny jeans and beards were DEFINITELY huge but the ironic mustaches did not really show up, nor did the twee girls. Gauge earrings were probably the big effect. I think Edmonton in particular had too much of a metal subculture, lol. All our tattooed people came from that.
Are you kidding? I’m Australian, and when I think of my awareness of the early stirrings of what I would later identify as “hipster culture”, it was leafing through issues of (Montreal-born) Vice Magazine in some impossibly cool record shop in Melbourne. Vice was the ultimate hipster publication. Co-founder Gavin McInnes STILL looks like the quintessential ageing hipster.
Sure some of it springs from there (and yeah, McInnes fits that to a T), but for the most part it was a smaller subculture here compared to the US.
Hipsters now have UA-cam channels and make videos about hipsters pretending not to be one exactly like this one.
we moved to the country and adopted a farmer lifestyle
They got old , got beards and beer bellies.
Getting phds they are all getting phds now
Very Cute ! My son is still a Hipster ! 🧔
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I was clean cut, capitalist, and leaving religion at the beginning 2017. Things in my life changed, drastically. I didn’t try to assemble my aspect, but I became this hipster you describe with a mix of emo, personas I’d missed as an Xer who got married too young. Now I’m wearing half what you said, unironically, but with a lot more black and more punk Vinyl. I love coffee, I give people pointers on unusual Mezcales, I restore old bikes, I canyoneer and rock climb, and I do chop wood to heat my house (propane is $$$). It’s hard to be authentic, but maybe in my hodgepodge of adopted textures and colors …maybe
I graduated High School when Pearl Jam was on MTV that still played music, so suddenly there was a grungy man-bun-adorned, flannel-wearing culture that sorta jived with my criogened past in my head. Is it sad? Probably 🤷🏻. I’m an adult diagnosed on the spectrum, so I found out I’ve been observing and copying my whole life, just another persona that I emulated naturally. I like this lifestyle. I get my firewood from a local native who gets it from tribal land that runs their forest in a way the USFS should emulate, I grow my paleo diet at home, and I took up old guy smoking, but cigars, cuz I can’t get Nicaraguan Tobacco for a pipe. It feels real. Where is the wrong?
There's been a recent revival in what might look like hipster fashion with the big beards, but I think this is inspired by the Canadian trucker protest of 2022.
I was in high school as the hipster movement pewtered off. I always thoughts going back to vinyls was cringe and even more so when everyone and their mom started collecting them.
Annoying as some aspects were, their aesthetic is engraved in a ton of great movies and im all here for it.
I just bought the same Poloroid you have on your shelf!
a pretty hipster thing to do.
I find your channel quite fascinating 🎉
Your hair style looks nice too
whenever i see any kind of retrospect on hipster, nobody ever mentions " How to Make It in America" . That show is like the perfect time capsule for that New York City Hipster aesthetic but I have yet to meet anyone else who's ever watched it.
You’re the new twee girl
Receiding hairline is a genetic thing. End of story. If a guy doesn't have that genetic mark, if he stop using thing that damage hair growth, it will grow back. If you don't, you could hve the most free hair life style and it still will fall off your head. If you wanna preserve your hair just go find a truly good dermatologist, run the blood tests and take the medications they prescribe
I defiantly liked some of the hipster stuff and I am a 90s kid. I think you missed the alt vibe that was always a part of hipster culture, the grunge and hippie bohemian hipster.
Hipsters are gone now, the new hipsters are now eboys and egirls. I didn't like hipsters when I was a kid. Now that my genration is filled with eboys and egirls, I miss hipsters. 😂
Coachella happened?!
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Hipster 4 LIFE
Curious what cities/neighborhoods people think 1 were hipster meccas in their heyday and have since changed vs 2 still are hipster enclaves that haven't moved on
Well, apparently, we'll always have Vaush.
Never was a hipster more fond of stroking his beard on camera.
Fuck I've got a hipster mindset
own it 🤣
Can someone tell me is the singer Lights considered “hipster” during that era she was popular?!!
1:24 I still see some IPA drinking, but I don't think it's done ironically 😂
You don’t see them bc they live in Nashville and austin. Same shit nothing changed lol
I have a pair of Rayban glasses that were way fairers i found at the bar, but i had prescription lenses put in.
Hipster are chameleons. Changes with the trends.
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