describing someone who is as self-important as the emo, but with self-declared superior taste in fashion,
music, and art. Where the emo's primary identifying feature was self-deprecation, emotional instability and general public hatred, the Hipster identifies with being so far head the rest of general society in terms of "
indie-ness" and aesthetic that they take being misunderstood and overlooked as a compliment - because the masses of
pop-culture whores don'
t get it anyway.