I'm a hipster-wanna-be, but that's because I never bought the thing about them being jerks who make you feel bad about not being cool. I like this explanation though. Agreed with those who commented that there were no lady-hipsters represented!
For sure there is a lot of silly use of hipster as a derogative term going around. I have experienced people being called hipster for the weirdest of reasons. I have also seen it sometimes conflated with cis-sexist and straight up homofobic slurs.
But I do think it's possible to talk about the hipsters, as a social phenomenon, or maybe reference point. The more substantial critisism I have experienced, has been of the hipster as a person who is very keen on gaining cultural capital, but often does so through appropiating the norms or values of other, often more marginalized, groups. I have experienced counter-cultural and political projects being overrun by people, who do not participate in the mobilization, organizing or build-up of the community.
People I would describe as hipsters, based on their use of cultural codes of 'being hip'. As an example, last year I lived in a major city where critical mass - a form of bike demonstration to promote sustainable public transportation in the cities, typically held once a month - had become more of a fixed gearbike rally for white guys in their 20's.
The community spirit and the political content suffered for it, and it had actually also become quite dangerous to participate in because of the 'alley cat' mentality. The original organizers withdrew from the project because of it.
I have seen the same thing with soup kitchens, old pubs who are suddenly trendy because they are working class, counter-cultural street parties which get their cultural signals appropiated by commercialized parties with entrance fees, gallery 'street artists' and the like. I mostly agree with this, but then how does one explain the strange hipster stomp "dancing? What strikes me as humorously ironic about this article is that it reads like it was written by a hipster, with its condescending "you like to use this popular thing, but you shouldn't, because it's not very good.
And besides, I was into not using the term hipster way before it was cool to call people out on the meaninglessness of the term Also, I'm far from convinced that 'hipster' is "one of the worst insults you can bestow upon somebody. There is an actual definition of a hipster that has been around for decades. It's been diluted, sure, but a lot of the basics are the same. It came about to refer to young, relatively wealthy white people who were "into" black culture during the Harlem Rennaisance era, and often that let to things such as "black artists performing for all white audiences in racially segregated clubs, and not even being allowed to use the main entrances themselves.
Back then, it was "oooohh black culture is so deep and soulful, but hell if I'm ever going to do anything about the injustice. Appropriation of Native American cultural icons, and white working class icons. Hipster as one of the worst insults there is? This guest blogger needs to get out more, or possibly graduate college. This is exactly how I've always thought of the word slut, and why I don't use it.
It's one of the most common insults for women, but what does it mean? Everyone seems to point at someone having that bit more sex than they are, or with that couple more casual partners, or some other criteria, just like in the strip. As a university students, I have many friends that have had casual sex and likely will again in the future, yet there are women that they call sluts.
Definitely a comparative term, and definitely because of the users own insecurities. It just asserts that its target adopts them with the wrong motives. He does not earn them. The increased use of hipster as a pejorative led to our present situation, in which a whole vaguely defined population is being maligned and dismissed. But in his fascinating book, Sincerity , R. Jay Magill Jr. It was that hipsters found themselves forced into a fundamentally ironic position.
They had the same abiding desire for real things as hipsters in the past did, but they also had a strong sense of futility in ever possessing them. So basically they got stuck. If they really went for sincerity, they fail. If they were seen as insufficiently sincere, they fail.
This is a common critique. But what it misses is the entire point of everything. Not as a group. They never tried to be. And before we set some kind of purity standard, let's pause to recall that Lou Reed used to shill for Honda scooters.
They see the futility of chasing authenticity, and yet they still chase authenticity. How many people rise and say My brain's so awfully glad to be here for yet another mindless day Now I've got all morning to obsessively accrue A small nation of meaningful objects that've gotta represent me too By this afternoon I'll live in debt And by tomorrow be replaced by children It's not revolution, it's incrementalism.
We were expecting Joe Strummer, and instead we wound up with Ron Swanson -- in different and slightly more tailored clothes. Laugh all you want about the hipster barista, but coffee has never been better. Or smirk at that asshole with the mustache and suspenders at the cocktail bar with the ampersand name, but cocktails have never been so reliably good in so many places around the country. Liquor is better and more interesting. Food is better and more interesting.
Restaurants are more creative, and more likely to support local farmers even if the chefs do have stupid bacon tattoos. There are more indie designers making clothes in the US. Jeans fit better. Beards are socially acceptable.
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And as we know, minimalism defines the modern logo design trends. At the same time, a hipster-like graphic design is characterized by unique attributes and decorative elements, including x logos as one of the freshest design solutions. A better alternative will be spending 5 minutes crafting a logo from a pre-made template. I was not joking when I said you only need 5 minutes to create your own logo. Use it everywhere you can: business cards, brochures, websites, a personal blog, etc.
The minimal edition logo template also includes the desirable X logo design among the other 29 minimalistic logo designs, and I am in love with each one! The template was developed by the same vendor, as the previous one, so count on the same features. In particular:. Plenty of businesses use black-and-white logo solutions with minimalistic icons and text - we kind of ensured that when looking through the examples of websites.
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Just like minimalistic designs, geometric logos will be a good representation of almost all niches. The icon looks aesthetic and sort of meaningful. All the logo designs are fully layered, and editable in all senses. How about an alternative hipster logo design for alternative ways of traveling? Businesses, blogs, and brands related to hiking, camping and other kinds of outdoor activities can get a recognizable modern logo in a matter of minutes.
Two of the offered designs are X logos, and they look truly stunning. Or perhaps it was their being good-looking, their never being true weirdoes, that made the normal processes of subcultural snobbery so unforgivable in their case.
Secretly—or maybe not so secretly—no critic of the hipster mystique remained entirely unbeguiled by it. Embarrassment dictated the scathing appraisal of the hipster. This was, in one sense, the embarrassment all principled people feel before their own unsupportable aesthetic judgments. As superficial as fashion trends may be, when it comes to trying to look good and judging others accordingly , not even critics can resist their sovereignty.
The subsequent handwringing over what implicated the community of handwringers mirrored the anguish over gentrification expressed by a community of gentrifiers. Gentrification proceeded by disowning the principle while continuing the practice. So hipsters endured by denigrating the attitude while cultivating the fashion. When with hipster or gentrifier does the pejorative first make sense?
A gentrifier does not become a gentrifier until migration to a neighborhood reaches a critical mass. Since it is the latecomers who effectively turn the early migrants into gentrifiers, one can understand why the first wave resents subsequent arrivals, no matter what they mean for property values.
Priority becomes the basis of a new pecking order. Those who had felt the sting of being uninitiated now turned the tables in college, where—fashion apostles—they brought the good stylistic news.
Waves of subsequent adoption continued in this manner for several years, with ever finer distinctions, an increasing narcissism of petty differences, and more anxious and uncertain airs of superiority, until at last everyone was partly hipster and everyone partly hated hipsters now seen as the earlier adopters who looked down their noses at you. By the time any respectable hipster felt obliged to decry hipsterism just as any respectable gentrifier felt obliged to decry gentrification , taking stylistic steps away from hipster fashion made as strong a stylistic statement as taking steps toward it had made a decade before.
Thus, by the mid-aughties, the core hipster conundrum was in place. Not only could we never say precisely what a hipster was; more confusing still, everyone involved in the discussion possessed some percentage of hipster DNA, and everyone, according to his purity or impurity, felt entitled to judge everyone else as either overly or insufficiently hipster. In this way hipster started to look like a metadiscourse on the very etiquette of hip: How much was too much? When were distinctions valid and when vulgar?
Like any fashion, hipster operated on a subconscious level too, and—when it came to dating, say—even those who had no problem excoriating the hipster as superficially judgmental could hardly help evaluating the coolness or attractiveness of potential partners through a lens fashioned in the hipster imagination.
Of course, to be fair, the scope and meaning of a cultural moment are impossible to see in the midst of it, and even the sense of retrospective clarity may be nothing more than conversancy with retrospective myths.
But was this the renaissance or the death of hipster? If the term indicates a spontaneous style or subculture, exclusive and not yet wholly commodified, then the crucial window of —04 marks less a pivot than a dissipation—the moment when urban migrants to a neighborhood reach a critical mass, the inexorable forces of gentrification set in, and craft-beer bars and farm-to-table restaurants suddenly litter the main drag.
Hipster went mainstream in , just as the radical shift in style took place. Two data points help fix the moment precisely. The clothing company Urban Outfitters, founded under the name Free People in Philadelphia in and incorporated in , went public in None of this tracks with broader trends in the market or major indexes.
They wanted the ready-made version, and it was hard to blame them. Being a protohipster snob in , before the advent of any support industry, seemed like a full-time job.
On the other hand, the emergence of this industry marked the end of hipster as a subculture. It shed the baggage of any ethos and proceeded to become a fashion, pure and simple. The fashion now evolved too. A lacing of queer and Eurotrash fashion appeared. Occupy Wall Street was another face of this development. Such resurgences of natural and communitarian values have recurred periodically since at least the Romantic era, as one response to industrial and urban alienation.
But this idea—that capitalistic self-seeking despoils the ecological foundations of life, social and organic—flourished in the late aughties alongside, not as a result of, hipsterism.
The original hipster had been apolitical. After , with mounting concern about Bush administration overreach, political indifference fell out of fashion. Where early hipsters had made virtues of taciturnity and unpleasantness, the new hipsters were almost painfully nice. We live in the aftermath of this swerve.
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