Typewriter-wielding, Jack Kerouac reading, short shorts wearing, owl glasses sporting individual who is quick to tell you how much they know about Foucault, but in reality knows nothing (Jon Snow), because they've lived their entire white life in unbelievable privilege. To spot one: look for beards and bird tattoos.
"I'm not a hipster."
"My brother is such a hipster. He doesn't even have a Roth IRA and still thinks bicycles are the only means of transportation that matters."
"My brother is such a hipster. He doesn't even have a Roth IRA and still thinks bicycles are the only means of transportation that matters."
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People usually in their late teens or younger stages of adulthood who base their social identity around counter-culture, alternative music, the arts and social justice.
Hipsters are often seen as pretentious due to carrying with them an air of superiority while having achieved little of note personally. They like the idea of academia but contribute nothing much of value in the academic world and they like the idea of a social revolution but are generally unwilling to risk their usually comfortable lifestyles to achieve this.
Hipster identity is usually based around rejection of the mainstream and ironic use of mainstream fashions that have fallen out of style. Certain types of clothing and fashion accessories have actually come back into style as a result of popularisation by hipsters - they fail to see the irony in this.
Hipsters are often seen as pretentious due to carrying with them an air of superiority while having achieved little of note personally. They like the idea of academia but contribute nothing much of value in the academic world and they like the idea of a social revolution but are generally unwilling to risk their usually comfortable lifestyles to achieve this.
Hipster identity is usually based around rejection of the mainstream and ironic use of mainstream fashions that have fallen out of style. Certain types of clothing and fashion accessories have actually come back into style as a result of popularisation by hipsters - they fail to see the irony in this.
Look at the top definition for hipsters on Urban Dictionary. How much of a pretentious ass does someone have to be to write paragraph after paragraph of such self-aggrandising nonsense?
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by Josh513 November 25, 2016
Get the Hipster mug.The attitude given by hipsters towards others due to their not being as hip as them. Most often associated with hipster bartenders.
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Get the Hipster-tude mug.An asian guy that wears 600 dollar Jesus sandals, claims he is a hype beast but he likes PBR, beanies, not washing his skinny jeans, Coachella, music that "is too cool for the radio, " and thinks he can beat everyone in the world at Smash Bros. He usually gets nicknamed Dirty. When you tell these people they are hipsters they try to deny it because to admit one is a hipster is anti hipster.
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Get the hipster mug.A bunch of scrawny, little fellers, that have found the best way to feel good about their loser selves is to congregate with other little scrawny fellers and poke fun at everything and everyone else not in their clique. Most of them had their lunch money taken from them at school every day as youths.
When called upon to defend his girlfriends honor, the hipster was so afraid of a real man he peed his skin tight pants.
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