The Death of the Hipster Subculture..

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The Hipsters came and went in the space of about 10 years... but did they truly disappear? today we explore the hipster
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[@saxonschreiber6818]

Jimmy you should do a video on the rise of scuba diving

[@nottellingyou7520]

Dude I think I love you for including that clip from Nathan Barley!!!

[@curtquill8413]

Oooo

[@curtquill8413]

I have an idea how about you go back to park our videos

[@curtquill8413]

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[@SEB1991SEB]

What about a video on the acceptance and rise of nerd culture? It used to be something people were ashamed about and bullied for, but now it's like in vogue.

[@georgegividen]

Absolutely

[@slywata7780]

Nah fuck nerds

[@dimaua1830]

Yes please!

[@harveyrouen]

Still a nerd

[@zanefreeman954]

Yes

[@alandemarest9952]

"I don't consider myself a hipster", He says as his bow tie lightly ruffles in the wind

[@tritiumeye]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ohcharlie428]

Read this with zach galifinakis voice and body on a distant appalacian mountain...what comedy!

[@danshakuimo]

That was the highlight of this vid lolol

[@user-dw1ls3rp1l]

The counter-culture snobbery gets re-branded every generation.

[@EstradaDuran-sg6co]

nonce

[@LowenKM]

Dunno, but hipsters seem more like a low-rent version of 'Yuppies', always 'virtue signaling' by whatever they _consume..._ aka, gourmet coffee, craft beer, artisanal cheese, whatever, and of course the inevitable music/movies/art... _"That you've probably never heard of before"._ ;-p

[@EstradaDuran-sg6co]

@@LowenKM touch grass

[@user-dw1ls3rp1l]

@@LowenKM At least yuppies had made peace with loving consumerism, and didn't pretend to hate the very thing they were.

[@xs10tl1]

Nailed it.

[@grandwazoo870]

"Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform. Don't kid yourself". Frank Zappa

[@joshblacker3512]

yeah but noone has any discipline.

[@vishnudas3328]

amen

[@noticiasinmundicias]

Sure but at least it's a uniform where you can explore a bit, instead of a mandated one. Freedom of choice, that's the difference.

[@jbtechcon7434]

My hipster friend burned his tongue very badly once. He drank his coffee before it was cool.

[@pokermitten9795]

What a modern dad joke

[@neanda]

🤣

[@brianmurphy250]

👌☕️ well played

[@breasonable4343]

i see what you did there

[@jacksonstockdale-wilson541]

Hilarious

[@damepolk5214]

My biggest gripe with the Hipster subculture is that it takes something that is normally free or inexpensive and makes it really expensive and damn near unaffordable.😆

[@TheConcertmaster]

OML, spot on! For starters, they made a standard men's haircut cost an arm and a leg.

[@danorris5235]

It was always the rich pretending to be poor to distance themselves from the rich while simultaneously treating the poor like shit in every way.

[@TheConcertmaster]

@finnessco Fair enough. But in the case of men’s haircuts, haircuts was a standard thing the vast majority of men were getting in pre-hipster times. The prices for a haircut in barbershops in the pre-hipster times were reasonable. Then enter the hipsters and they started making barbershops into something exclusive/vintage…and pricey $$$. And btw, I believe they really exaggerated with the “vintage” because it’s not as if barbershops existed only in the 20s/30s. They have always been around, together with that red white and blue moving cylinder on the outside of the barbershop.

[@loganstroganoff1284]

​​@@TheConcertmasteryup they'd charge like 40 bucks for a very basic men's haircut that takes around 10-15 minutes and was no better than what you'd get at supercuts for like 15 bucks, and if you went to a place like supercuts theyd think it was lame or whatever. Kindve like drinking regular old coffee was lame.

[@frozenleaf01]

Just find other cheap things, that's the whole point. Reject fads and find your own shit. Dirt is currently very cheap these days.

[@verdigrau]

I'm grateful to hipsters for bringing about the rebirth of vinyl records and Polaroid/Fujifilm cameras. In an age where everything is turning into a digital subscription, it's nice to have your music and memories in physical form.

[@scatered1]

This is pretty dang true. I hate the hipster mother ship that is Apple but you make a good point.

[@AtZero138]

From the rise of modern Hardcore scene, post Hardcore music, into actual emo, not poser scene screamO kids,, Records returned at shows.. then Cassette etc.. now I even own rare CDs haha it's about music.. find it..

[@Magnus_Loov]

but on the music making side, vintage analog Synths(like the Mini Moog) also became very trendy for the hipster types who really weren't musicians and pushed prices up for the vintage market which made things very expensive for the rest of us.

[@JF-lt5zc]

Lol. Or you could have just continued to buy your medial like a large portion of the population and not even noticed...

[@jeffwinkowski5393]

They didnt bring vinyl back. They made it more expensive.

[@nathanpayne5009]

What really happened with hipsters is that it went mainstream and fell out of fashion and the OG hipsters are still quietly going about being hipsters utterly thrilled to be forgotten again.

[@IceGangsta]

Good observation

[@jevinday]

Yep. Now they all have their hair dyed and wear chain necklaces and dangly cross earrings 😂

[@michaelarrowood4315]

Looking for the next nonconformist fad to come along, so they can hop on, make it mainstream, then despise it. Whatever floats your boat!

[@_yadokari]

Same happened with Geek Chic. Everyone will have a spotlight on them at some point just so someone can market it as cool fashion. It used to be a 20 years cycle but I believe it has accelerated recently.

[@aes0p895]

yep. i live in what can be described as a hipster city, and...yeah, they're still hipsters.

[@anonimonn9775]

I remember an animated short where a guy said he used to invent band names when talking to hipsters, because they seemed to compete on who listened the most obscure groups, and when they couldn't find the band he just made up he would just say: "of course you can't find them, they are totally under the radar", therefore "wining" the conpetition

[@julianbatcheler9970]

Do you know Roadblock by Pete Waterman as in Stock Aitken and Waterman… they produced super mainstream pop. In 1987 they released an original track they wrote called: ‘Road Block’ anonymously… and started a rumor it was a cover or reissue (can’t remember which) of a ‘rare groove’ old track. More than one DJ said they had the original… many said they remembered the original. Once it was massive in the UK underground party scene they said they made it.

[@nathanielreichert4638]

How about that one band that doesn’t have a name? So underground they are practically in Hell

[@anemicsilence]

@@nathanielreichert4638 😂💀😂

[@reiniergamboa]

I see what you did there... the CON petition

[@Woodsaras]

Yall dont know wtf hipster is. Has nothing to do with music.

[@jerrysstories711]

In my mid 20's, I went to a job interview in Tucson. Afterwards, still in my suit, I went to a street fair, where I met a very cute Goth girl, who took me to a Goth club. So there I was, dancing in a business suit in a club full of non-conformists who were all dressed alike, and really standing out, getting all the attention. It was all very meta. I had a very similar experience fifteen years later in a Portland cafe.

[@calebfuller4713]

But were you dressed as a goth in the Portland cafe? Because that would be too perfect...

[@arisaka233]

fuck, i wish that had been me

[@christopherallen9580]

All non-conformists who were dressed alike

[@gibbsm]

I went to my first foam party in Tucson, I was a soldier at the time, and so were everyone I went with, lol. total oddballs.

[@patrickdeel4283]

I had a similar experience about a decade ago. I let my beard grow because it kept my face warm at the type of job I worked. But I am also lazy and just let it grow without keeping it neatly trimmed. So one night I wake up to a party being thrown by my roommates at the time. I walked into the kitchen and immediately some guy, a hipster ironically, was like "who is the guy with the hipster beard?" One of my roommates just laughed and informed the guy that I was about as far from hipster that one could be. I jokingly said "those are fighting words", but I never really had a problem with hipsters.

[@samuelmarion2371]

Got it all wrong - former hipster speaking First, to equate the hipsters of the 2010's as descendants of the 1950's hipsters is a mixup. The fact that they shared a name is a coincidence -, what would have been better here would be to trace the history of *counterculture* - which is what the hipsters of the 2010's thought they were, which, they probably weren't. What would have been more interesting here is to look at the 2010's financial crash - where hundreds of thousands of young graduates were coming into a world where few job opportunities were available, and even fewer for those who studied the humanities. So what did they do? They got barista jobs, bartending jobs. Started working at a record store. A bike shop. But they still had those expensive degrees, right? And those expensive degrees yielded that extensive, yet completely worthless knowledge of literature, film, music, and counterculture. Badaboom, - that's the foundation of the hipster - the barista who's trying to explain the first three books of Proust to you. e Anyways, then there's the style. Okay, so most countercultures generate their "look" via a shared material condition - like a specific place, occupation, or band; then that look spreads, mutates, etc. Think of the Greasers of the 50's: working-class American kids, Elvis. Mods and Skinheads of the 60's would be another good example here. Hipsters didn't have this. What they had was an upbringing cushy enough to send them to college in the west, a vague knowledge of the countercultures that came before them, and a distrust of capitalism-because they're broke. So what did they do? They started picking and choosing from every countercultural era they could get their hands on, and created this postmodern Frankenstein: fedora hat from the 40's (yes before it was an incel thing it was a hipster thing), a 60's style bandana around your head to look like Edward Sharpe, a 70's leather jacket, a tape player from the 80's, an oversized sweater a la the 90's Kurt Kobain. They picked and chose decades at will. A hipster didn't have many definable visual qualities, but like porn, you "know it when you see it". Anyways it's so late and i don't know what I'm doing writing this, but: the hipster hung onto their ability to "know things first" as their chief characteristic, because ultimately, this ability to know things was really the only thing of value that they could really offer. You couldn't get a job in 2008 as an English major to save your life, but you could get a job as a barista and impress people with your knowledge on Roland Barthes. Their countercultural garb became a talisman against the pressures of capitalism, because it allowed you to say "I chose this life" instead of "I'm here because I can't get a decent job a publishing house" tl;dr: hipsters were an overeducated, downwardly mobile class of twentysomethings who used counterculture to hide their inability to advance under capitalism.

[@Shankar.Raja.MCR.108]

This is a way more intelligent take on it - and puts this video to shame !!!

[@camoflagueobituaryhat]

whoa well said

[@lrowlands53]

Quite the thesis, but it is so deadly negative it’s impossible to swallow such a bitter pill. Admittedly your experience drives your perspective though it is but one. I take objection to your characterisation of the arts as useless. Maybe in a purely mercenary realm it’s hard to make a profit from them, but they exist for other reasons that are crucial to humanity. In more sane times it was more valued to peer into and to try to understand the human condition. We haven’t gotten - or we have forgotten - very far down that path, but it is the cherishing of humanity that distinguishes us from a reptilian existence. You also reference capitalism as if it were something to aspire to. More fool you that you don’t realise you are just a puppet; only the wealthy benefit in $ terms from such a psychotic ideology and it’s the poor and middle class who are exploited and manipulated by them. End stage capitalism is what the US is experiencing. Just look at how insane your health, insurance, big oil, big pharma and education systems are, for example. Where did it all go wrong? When profit became nothing but greed and was deemed more important than humanity that’s when the fate of modern civilisation crystallised. Don’t hate those who read Proust, etc. Celebrate them at least because they have a chance of making this f-ed up world a better place.

[@bencampbell104]

Former hipster chiming in to your comment--you're absolutely right about how much this video misses the mark. I think you have a large piece of the puzzle in that the hipsters of the 2010's were largely comprised of out-of-work English and Philosophy majors working in bars and restaurants, but the movement really began in the early 2000s as young people started moving to crappy parts of major cities to make art, start bands, and hold warehouse shows. Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, The National, MGMT, all started in Brooklyn in the early 2000's. Rent was cheap, music was more accessible than ever, and all these young creatives with tons of free time created a Renaissance of art that no one in the mainstream knew or cared about, that most don't even know existed, and that this video didn't even touch on. Hipsterdom wasn't waxed mustaches, soy lattes, and man-buns. It was thrift store t-shirts, cut-off shorts, and dumpster diving. Why was PBR the hipster drink-of-choice? Because it was cheap as hell. We were poor kids who, raised on the mass consumption of the 90's, honed it into love for independent films and experimental music. That was *the* hipster insult: *scoff* "You've probably never heard of them..." This is because the normies were alienated by our taste in weird shit. But the fact is, it was true, we DID like things you'd never heard of. The obscure, the avant garde, some old records you found in your grandpa's attic. We grew up being told to follow our dreams, were told to major in whatever we felt most passionate about, that the opportunities would follow. We were earnest, whimsical, and romantic. It was a beautiful time, and even the KZbin "historians" don't know the first thing about it, which in some ways makes it even more precious. TL;DR Hipsters were bohemians and artists making the best of a shitty economic situation, hosting shows in the basements of dilapidated houses, living shoulder-to-shoulder with other young artists and paying $300 a month in rent. We were broke without smartphones, so we started bands, made arthouse films, climbed trees, and clawed as much fun out of the world as we could.

[@user-vp3no5pf4y]

@@bencampbell104 I think your comment is apt. I am writing about that time, 98 to 2006 and there was a core of meaning to it, walking among the trees, listening to obscure by Western standards music, wearing watch caps, being almost broke.... it was not just reactive. There was no "business" to it until maybe 2007?? :P

[@ZeranZeran]

I will always be a music snob, but not out loud. I just silently judge people way too hard about their music tastes and I know it lmao

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

Why do I see you everywhere, Q?

[@ZeranZeran]

@@user-vi4xy1jw7e We must have very similar taste, which I must say yours is great. Also I'm just on the internet too much, lol.

[@tarajones9675]

You forgot that the Beatniks of the 50's and 60's ideas and culture are definitely part of what evolved into the modern Hipster culture as well. That stuff started gaining traction in the 90's when the first coffee stores started opening a long side book stores like Boarders and people were using manic panic to dye their hair blue.

[@JustAdude291]

Exactly, I was expecting to see that mentioned too.

[@olafurhold-gus7125]

The video literally started with that

[@thorr18BEM]

@@olafurhold-gus7125 it started with the 40s and jazz, not mentioning the beatniks which came next.

[@MrDirtydaves]

The beatniks became the hippies. Allen Ginsberg and hung out with the Merry Pranksters and Neal Cassady drove the bus. But yeah a little odd to skip over that movement.

[@wallywallywally6702]

@@olafurhold-gus7125 it literally started with 1940’s and then skipped over the 50’s and 60’s era beatniks which is an important historical aspect of the hipster.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

The most funny ironic moment was when a hipster tried to sue a magazine for using his photo in an article about how all these 'individualists' looked exactly alike. Only for the photo to turn out to be of someone else.

[@tula1433]

😂

[@scipioafricanus5871]

LMFAO!

[@bencampbell104]

That hipster's name? Albert Einstein.

[@svenson.boulevard5066]

what a massive and nicely done footage sourcing and editing. thanks for this video. this was really really fun to watch.

[@jettlethedragonpeeltheoran8915]

The best commentary on the origins of the modern hipster is undoubtedly Nathan Barley. Essential watching.

[@56postoffice]

I never understood the whole hipster thing at the time, maybe it's because they were still contained in Hoxton!

[@chriswakefieldmusic]

Don’t forget that between Harry the Hipster and the Hippies, there were the Beatniks. They’re huge in the hipster history.

[@Ikaros23]

The beatniks and the Mods are basically the first hipsters. It’s about enjoying culture that`s « hand made». Mass production and the perfectionism and lack of « analog feeling», creates a identity anxiety. It’s also a form of fetisjism of urban middle class mixed with bohemian taste. It’s also a « escapeism» from once own class, rase, gender, nationality. Obsession with Jazz ( the beatniks), and italian design ( the mods), is still a vital part of hipster culture

[@whatsupbudbud]

@@Ikaros23 there are/were so many subcultures. I used to be goth, then industrial, my friends were metalists (not sure if this is the correct term in English), there were also emo's, cyber goths, skinheads, punks and everything in between. We were growing up with a distaste of the current world, all of the expressions were an example how much we don't give a fuck. Then we grew up, earned some money and became jaded and sometimes even cynical. Considering the background feeling of despair and possible worldwide war, I think we are in turn for turbulent times ahead. Good times, weak men do that. But hey, it will make us better in the long term. At least that's what I believe. You have a good day now.

[@lordeverybody872]

You're right. There were beatniks which led to nogoodniks, in turn came badenoff and fatale.

[@kathleenking47]

I think it came from 1920s europe

[@jerrymichaelgreen2675]

In my art school days, preppy was still cool, not being part of the drug. Drop out culture the media scandilizied the subculture effectively. Thereby destroying it. Preppy meant academia which meant being able too read things like consumer reports magazine. sorry I studied industrial design as a drop in. Corporate is nothing too be proud of.

[@clemdane]

Believe me, we had hipsters in the 80s and 90s. The girls all with the same Bette Paige hairdo, boys wearing Buddy Holly glasses, everyone in vintage clothing sitting around in cafes talking about their Deep Philosophy about life

[@redfullmoon]

You seem to be describing rockabilly/beatnik, which hipsters are not. Hipsters have a more teddy roosevelt meets lumberjack/butcher meets obscure niche arthouse film fan meets organic farmer's market stall owner vibe to them.

[@llw1066]

Guilty as charged! I was a girl with Buddy Holly glasses. It all seems so silly in hindsight.

[@medusatorrez8068]

Lol rockabilly

[@troycassidy6177]

@@redfullmoon or Ska

[@sciencelabvideosl7558]

Yes! I experienced the obnoxious hipster in 1996-2000 in Austin TX. I think this trend started in the universities. Austin had a lot of obscure bands.It was the “[Crappy] music capital of the world.” All conversations were political that swayed heavily toward the left and and they stank like hell and all of them looked and thought the same. I was so glad to leave there.

[@bacarandii]

Hipsterism never dies, it just submits to new trends. Cab Calloway's hepsters become beats and mods and hippies and punk rockers and skinny pants/ties and emo/goths and grunge mosh-pitters in tattered leggings and flannel shirts... The only constant is the thrift store shopping. Even the word "hipster" seems like it is always accompanied by quotation marks...

[@joshuafult84]

Exactly there's plenty of hipsters still they just evolved into that mac demarco period of hipsterism lmao

[@DEadSpaCE211]

​@@joshuafult84 I'd say there is an underlying theme of the hipster being snobby and obtuse in whatever subculture there're in. For instance the woke crowd is snobby on knowing more about morals than everyone else when clearly they have no idea lol.

[@circleinforthecube5170]

@@DEadSpaCE211 bro couldn't make a two sentence comment without shoehorning in some conservative viewpoint

[@an4189]

I would say a good analysis now would be “how everyone became a hipster” as there doesn’t seem to be a word for hipster for this young generation but when I go past a college all the hipster trends seem in the mainstream. I think it is because of the internet. You no longer have to search record shops for old music or go to gigs to find the new band, you can just go online, you don’t need to search thrift shops for cool clothes, you can just click online and next day it arrives, similar with movies, books, finding the best club nights etc

[@an4189]

@@johneeeemarry34 many of those cultures were described as smug, it’s a folly of youth and will never go away.

[@solaris100]

Great video man. Spot on!!!

[@travismiles5885]

There was a dude who lived in my old apartment complex who look like he walked out of 1940s Ireland or something. Bushy red beard Newsboy cap suspenders, dungarees pants, wool button up shirt, work boots and the horn-rimmed glasses. Cat was insufferable. I nicknamed him Craft Brew.

[@Snappypantsdance]

😂

[@platboy1789]

Thats so cool man. Awesome you analyzed him to a T, and judged him for his clothes. YOU CORNY DOUCHE . LMAO

[@Naltddesha]

Lol

[@austintrousdale2397]

Plot twist: He only drank spirits from craft distilleries. That, and PBR 🍺

[@Gallasl666]

I liked craft beer before the hipsters ruined it

[@christopherfarrell9227]

The glasses thing really irritated me because those of us who actually need them found the prices skyrocketed, and it was already expensive at that point.

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

Annoying, totally agree

[@reginaldsimms199]

It annoys me because growing up you got bullied for big glasses and called urkel now big glasses are trendy and in stlye

[@s_u_l_f_u_r]

The worst part was being automatically labeled a hipster lmaooo

[@cvb4117]

@@s_u_l_f_u_r right I’m jus blind

[@teresamansbach1419]

Naw. That was Luxottica. Glasses have always been trendy, only styles change. Remember cat eye glasses from the 50’s-60’s. Tiny glasses from the 90’s, ect. I buy mine from zenni and other non luxottica brands. Much more affordable.

[@ThatsClassiccars]

Great Video.. Absolutely spot on..

[@jnort95]

Great Video!!

[@jamesordwayultralightpilot]

When the girl in the elevator said she loves the Smiths. The look he had when she left was not lovestruck, it was him realizing he needs to find another band to listen to.

[@luisfernandes2522]

Great movie

[@jamesordwayultralightpilot]

@@luisfernandes2522 I haven't seen it. I'm just guessing that is how it works when two hipsters wind up liking the same band.

[@TanukiDigital]

I couldn't listen to The Smiths after about 2005 or so... sad.

[@austintrousdale2397]

Left him with a thorn in his side

[@map3384]

@@TanukiDigital Same here and I remember all their record releases back in the day. The hipsters ruined it.

[@WillStreets]

It is problematic when your personality is formed around your dislikes instead of your likes. The real hipsters are those who’s identity is formed around their likes, regardless of how niche or mainstream those likes are, to the point that they uniquely stand out because of it. And that just might be the most basic hipster thing I’ve ever said. 😂 This one’s a banger Jimmy. Keep it up! 💥

[@fredred5037]

Your comment is actually very insightful because it isn't

[@Sarara14]

Well that just sounds like someone who's emotionally mature and secure in who they are as a person

[@ianybanez6884]

Your definition of a real hipster sounds like my definition of a teenager

[@dat_boii]

@@ianybanez6884 What part of having an identity strikes you as being only for teenagers?

[@ianybanez6884]

@@dat_boii The simple idea of focusing on your identity seems trivial when it comes to survival on earth. I assume if you're privileged enough you have time to worry about such things.

[@believingregardlessforever]

1) it was always very consumerist, unlike most previous subcultures (and very into its design aesthetics) 2) vinyl vinyl vinyl 3) beards - finally died - and tattoos - now even your gran has them. You can't be identified by your piercings, bad tattoos and beards if everyone has them. But at one point, 99.9% of men under about 55 had a beard, so the hipster deserves full marks for taking over the world, briefly I loved this video, i watched it out of nostalgia for the pre-pandemic world and it fully delivered. I think your point about 'retro' is the core of it. I think it grew out of the 30s 40s 50s etc "scenes" meeting the internet, growing, and merging into this huge popularity. Or thrift shops took off once the internet made it possible for the obscure to meet the one person who would want to buy it and it became financially viable to sell it

[@srgovinda]

Guilty as charged 35 year old “hipster” here. Really into jazz music and defunct psychadelic rock and world music bands from the 90s, own an 80s Mercedes, enjoy woodworking, have a bitchin beard, and work at a tech startup. Politically relatively moderate left though, because being super left is mainstream. Watching this video (with a baby sleeping on my lap) makes me happy because it’s not a “scene”, it’s more of my vibe, and at my age it’s never gonna change.

[@MsGenesisgamer]

how is being super left is mainstream? like people that think that not wanting to slaughter trans people is being super left and woke, my guy the left is communism, how is super communism mainstream are you nuts?

[@bhuuthesecond]

Bruno Sacco had such an amazing time at Mercedes! And the cars were built so stout and strong! What a marvelous decade from such an amazing institution!!

[@kennethg9277]

You guys were always a bunch of flat pack, tedious, overprivileged closet centrists. You just found your natural gravitational position.

[@pedrob3953]

A "hipster" is any kind of "bourgeois bohemian" across the ages, and take many forms. Usually middle-class or well-off urbanites who fetishize culture from the working class, rural people, ethnic minorities, past eras, or far-away countries they consider "exotic".

[@evocati6523]

Nailed it

[@flower5185]

Yeah it's weird how this video proclaims we didn't hear from hipsters after the 40s until the 00s.

[@pedrob3953]

@@flower5185 I thought the 1950s "beatnicks" were the first modern hipsters but no doubt there was much earlier examples, as they're typical of urban life.

[@Bapuji42]

@@flower5185 Do you remember a whole lot of them in, say, the 1980's?

[@BillAnt]

They love "Communism and yoga classes with... (yup) Goats!" ha-ha-ha got me rolling. :D :D Ya, communism, yet they love their iPhone. bahaha

[@monoXcide01]

How do I know I'm not a hipster? Because I actually like liking the things I like.

[@EzeICE]

And actually not disliking things because everyone else seems to like it. 🙃

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

I dress normal and dont try to push my favorite stuff on other people

[@Suesco]

@@EzeICE No, we dislike things because everyone else seems to like them falsley, or be pretending to like something for the image. then suddenly that thing becomes hard to like because so many phony people pretend to like it. I cant enjoy wearing a black and red flannel alone at my cabin in the woods because i feel like i match a phony hipster.

[@user-tp8ut7cs6j]

@@worsethanhitlerpt.2539 You called the way you dress "Normal" and then in the same sentence you said that you don't push the things you like (The way you dress for instance) on to other people. I'd say lumping the way you dress into the "Normal" category (As opposed to people who dress "Abnormally"?) is kind of a way of pushing what you like onto other people.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

@@user-tp8ut7cs6j Dress normal and listen only to BAUHAUS !!!!!!!

[@andrewpatton6194]

I once got asked if I was a hipster, I said no. Then I was told that was the most hipster response I could have given to that question. Couldn't argue with that I guess.

[@edvonblue]

“… a man named Norman Mailer…” lol

[@clownworldcitizen3505]

In Montreal, I first spotted the hipster in the Mile End area. It started with people showing up at bars to read books. Then I noticed a lot of people dressing weird but similar. I even thought to myself, "Is looking homeless trendy?"

[@Clamclam3400]

Where else would they be spotted but the mile end… soon the boutique thrift shops started popping up, and everyone got more expensive at renaissance

[@clownworldcitizen3505]

@@Clamclam3400 The Plateau also had a ton of hipsters but Mile End was definitely ground zero. The hipster sub culture is still going strong there

[@Nawlzilla]

Hipster or homeless? Is one of my favorite games to play.

[@kawaiilotus]

Look up the song hipster or homeless, it talks about such things, I think it's by the rubber bandits.

[@jdraven0890]

The grunge movement suffered from the same issue 🤣

[@punkinmyvitamins1]

There’s a lot you’re missing that is really important. You’re not mentioning the 80s and 90s independent college rock music culture. There was so much going on in the 90s that was purely artists/djs that continued that mentality of appreciating other than pop music quality. Let’s not forget art culture from that time as well. The hipster from the 2000s was also influenced by skateboarding culture and “emo” fashion. All that 2000s stuff was pure keeping up with trends and an amalgamation of everything before that time, but very much focused on 80s subculture.

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

Beck was the first person that came to mind for the 90s

[@cooltrades7469]

Actually the 90 's where the start of the downsloape . If you look carefully you will see that rock & co culture where establshed in the 70--s and have had a culminating point in the 90 -s with all the huge icons of that time ( Depeche Mode, David Bowie , Prince , Queen , soooooo ...much ..Chicago , AC/DC ...the list is huge ) . No equivalent of those came in the 90 s . Less in 2000 or now . Fact .

[@guydreamr]

@@cooltrades7469 Omg, you sound like a fudd. "Back in my day, when the music was good.." Good and bad music has always been with us, in every decade. And always will be.

[@xs10tl1]

Well, the foundation for GenX was Punk and New Wave, so the variants tended to go back to a demand for authenticity and rebellion.

[@Magnus_Loov]

Yeah the underground counter culture, yet somewhat commercial artists/bands like Beck, Björk, Aphex Twin, Moby, Boards of Canada were all starting in the 90:s.

[@aroccoification]

Hilarious that that people get excited about communism yet have obviously never spoken to someone from a communist country otherwise they would have told them how awful it was

[@bigpapi6688]

Dude the most economically conservative people I’ve ever met are Cuban immigrants and Chinese immigrants. They’ll backhand you for even mentioning communism as a legitimate option😂

[@aroccoification]

@@bigpapi6688 exactly yet ignorant people who have never experienced it keep asking for it

[@bigpapi6688]

@@aroccoification well that’s the self hating westerners for ya. It’s always the upper middle class college kids too. They were raised with a silver spoon and as soon as they have to move out and get a real job they feel like they’re still entitled to their parents hand outs. Like no dude, that’s just how all of us live. If they realized how insanely privileged they are to live in the US they would never mention communism again. But that would require them to have self awareness, and that’ll never happen😂

[@chocotastic1]

The hipsters had kids and became Yupsters. Still around in glass condos right next to the projects paying home mortgage rates for apt. rentals.

[@murrayisarobot]

You're so right about Hipster becoming mainstream culture. Using Instagram was considered hipster and now it's the biggest social app. I also remember being called hipster by some friends for wearing loud print shirts, vintage sportswear, going to festivals and raving and stuff but that quite soon became what literally every young person did. Shoreditch is now a night out for office workers and street food markets are run by multi-million pound firms.

[@Suesco]

yes because everyone is a follower and became a hipster. its pretty simple. as i said earlier, if you have more then one social media app on your phone, youre probably a hipster. the irony of the situation is the hipsters outnumber the non hipsters. so all the hipsters are going to agree and upvote you while downvoting me for accusing them precisely of what they are, followers.

[@leftseat30]

I remember a hipster acquaintance saying how much hipsters annoyed him. I burst out laughing at the lack of self awareness.

[@chuckschillingvideos]

It is stunning, isn't it?

[@NathanHoff96]

Goths and punks were invented by God to beat up the emos, but punks and goths slowly died out and the emos become attention starved so they evolved into hipsters (elder emos) like pokemon. This only made things worse for them in the end since being whiney, privileged and desperate to fit in makes you hated no matter what little niche subculture you try to skitter into... also, being married with kids is not a subculture, its called selling out and we hate them more for it.

[@eddgar-ce3md]

All hipsters dress the same, have the same haircut, the same type of ugly tattoos, use the same phones, etc. yet they all think they are original.

[@canyouwhenyourdrunk]

I remember demos doing the same back in 2008

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Hipsters make me want to wear a plain white T shirt and bland dark pants and a baseball cap until I die

[@aes0p895]

hipsterism will never die; it just changes.

[@profquad]

yeah. I assume the title is just click-bait.

[@redwarf8118]

The titles is totally sufficient - makes me happy ;)

[@johnsshed995]

Hipsters were about the only youth craze that older people don't cross the road to avoid and younger people were not intimidated by .

[@gibbsm]

strange considering their penchant for straight razors and axes, LOL>

[@TanukiDigital]

We cross the road not out of intimidation, but out of disgust.

[@willofdodge1]

Nothing wrong with that

[@leechamlee1347]

They are equally made fun of by everyone!

[@erockstoenescu6171]

That’s a good thing

[@medic2807]

As a late stage gen Xer, my bitch about the hipster was their adoption of stuff some people have always liked (the Smiths, Steely Dan, flannel, beer, coffee) and thinking they discovered something, even though you've been enjoying it since childhood. That know-it-all attitude and makes them so annoying.

[@roccoz2231]

Exactly. I was watching French New Wave films *long* before any of those emo lumberjacks first showed up in Bushwick.

[@PheOfTheFae]

What annoyed me was "I like this thing *ironically*." WTH does that even mean? Like darlin' I grew up listening to Journey because they were my parents' favorite band, and so I like them too, but suddenly someone 10 years younger than me discovers them but can't admit they like them for real so they claim it's "ironic"? Are you Alanis Morisette? Do you know what that word means?

[@LeoMidori]

@@PheOfTheFae Yeah the word irony effectively lost all its meaning like it did with the mid 90's youth culture. It's hard to be ironic on purpose, and you can't just completely exist in it. Eventually you will like things that you enjoy "ironically".

[@cattysplat]

Retro video games, as if it's some kind of identity. Just enjoy what you enjoy.

[@Art2.mp4]

sounds a lot like you guys are hipsters who "liked it before it was cool"

[@starkille10r72]

Still remember having a t shirt from Lucky Brand with 'Don't Feed The Hipsters' written on it, with an actual diagram on the shirts inside describing and pointing out the hipster appearance. Somebody over there knew exactly what they were doing.

[@user-tp8ut7cs6j]

Isn't Lucky Brand kinda Hipster?

[@duncanbick6732]

Good to see Beat Girl clips being used!

[@KMFDM781]

Hipsters will always have a soft spot in my heart. It represents a specific time before things got definitively mean spirited and angry. I think the pandemic was the final nail for that time. As cringe as the 2010's hipster culture was with the jangly twee music and fun ironic vibe, it feels like a lighter time. Times I spent in dimly lit bars with Edison lights and rough hewn wood with people who weren't interested in being aggressive or proving their insecurity. I look back on it positively.

[@kilgoretrout413]

👍🏾❤

[@richardspillers6282]

They were actually some the most ignorant and cruel people I've ever met.

[@mippim8765]

​@@richardspillers6282........I agree, ....they were totally elitist in attitude. ......an the conformity is the other thing.

[@Jay-sg2ko]

@@richardspillers6282 Definitely what led to the woke cancel culture we are in today

[@drewlittell]

I feel the same because I lived through it. Although I was in a different counter culture niche, there were a lot of overlaps w hipster-dome. The problem is the hipsters all graduated college and became the corporate boardroom culture and turned the culture into the very mean spirited, spiteful, woke cancel culture. Basically Trump made everyone go insane.

[@sodiumcyanidee]

I'll never forget calling my very hipster brother a hipster to which he rebutted "I'm not a hipster, I'm post modern". 😂

[@bestdisco1979]

🙄😂😂😂

[@deadNightwatchman]

🤦‍♂️😂

[@tijldeclerck7772]

Hahaha

[@intermission1864]

😂

[@sararichardson737]

Divine!

[@eaorr]

There were so many movies you showed clips of and I wish I knew what they all were. The ones I recognized were some of my favorites and I might love the others. Any chance you might add a list of references to the description?

[@lorishu48103]

Great History lesson !!!

[@Violetcas97]

I was definitely a hipster as a teenager but i grew out of the pretentiousness and kept the love of underground music. It went from “oh you wouldn’t know them” to “oh dude lemme show you these guys!”, it felt much better to share bands not many people have heard of and even better to see those bands succeed

[@neanda]

👍

[@Suesco]

if you have 2 or more social media apps on your phone, you are a hipster.

[@Suesco]

@@Tiredgeek precisely my point

[@scipioafricanus5871]

@@Suesco So everyone and no-one by admission is a hipster.

[@grimreaper9350]

are you a guy? you look like one in your profile picture

[@jerkytoo8184]

I had my first encounter with hipsters in 2002 when I was working in a small office in San Francisco, but I didn't know they were hipsters at the time. I felt like I'd been dropped into a parallel universe.

[@anderivative]

Around 2010, the hipsters who priced out the local San Franciscans were themselves getting priced out by the new tech ppl. It was really funny to watch

[@flower5185]

@@anderivative And now SF is rich but culturally impoverished. Bit sad, really

[@motherfudger6664]

As a fellow San Franciscan of the time, we were at ground zero of their detonation. Then I traveled to NYC and accidentally found myself at their other explosion point (Williamsburg).

[@joshuafult84]

Hipsters have been around since the early 90s.

[@jerkytoo8184]

@@joshuafult84 Good to know.

[@wallytangofoxtrot4721]

The broken hipster has fallen and can’t get up.

[@cheayunju]

I really felt like hipsterish culture really started in the mid late 90s. As Gen X, I was in Hyde Park, Austin, 95-99 TX and it was basically this. Whole Foods in 95 was very crunchy. A lot of punk + hippy mix and saying, "right on...right on." We wore our parents' old clothes from the 70s and went to small town thrift shops to find pearl-button cowboy shirts, steel frame glasses, and 8-tracks for our 70s 8-track / turn table stereos we got from our folks. Also, girls with Betty Page punk bangs, skateboards, monster sideburns.

[@Rye_Toast]

But... but... the world didn't begin until Millennials came along! /s

[@Magnus_Loov]

And for the music bands/Artists like Beck, Björk (extremely important marker for being into weird counterculture music made in a weird way by an icelandic musician), Aphex Twin, Moby (who was a vegetarian 90:s hipster embracing everything what became hipsterish) etc...

[@RoryLynott]

Love it! You nailed it!

[@bhuuthesecond]

Very interesting journey you just took me along back with you. I liked reading that. Thanks.

[@MikePulcinellaVideo]

This video is incredibly on point but, as I've seen throughout my life, (born 1961) the phenomenon of a subset of young people rejecting that which is mainstream simply because it is popular and then losing the fight as they age and their counterculture is absorbed by the mainstream is a constant in every generation. Very well described by your analysis of hipster culture!

[@augustcanyon3438]

Ah the joys of getting older and watching the clockwork ebb and flow of trends.

[@MikePulcinellaVideo]

@@augustcanyon3438 everything old becomes new again as each generation discovers how humans work.

[@dandrechesterfield5411]

Exactly. It's every generation.

[@JamanWerSonst]

Capitalism is really good at monetizing anti-capitalism and thereby pulling its teeth.

[@MikePulcinellaVideo]

@@JamanWerSonst Brilliant! Well said!

[@thecheesefilledllama]

My excitement when I heard "Got on a train from Cambridgeshire" was through the roof

[@SymbioteMullet]

That song will always be an absolute banger. I play synth...

[@petereames3041]

We all play synth

[@CroatInAKilt]

Don't be jealous just cause Mr. Richard Head had his name on the guestlist.

[@tendingourgarden]

Loving the movie references! I Heart Huckabees, High Fidelity... excellent.

[@shamone10]

I'm in the UK, and being a teenager around the time I remember all of these looks and attitudes and it was referred to as indie at the time, never hipster - anyone else? probably from 2005-2010

[@m-tetsuo]

You're right, but it was probably to underground for people to realize where it comes from

[@user-tp8ut7cs6j]

True, the term "Hipster" really came about as a pejorative term by the media to describe things that had been previously deemed "Indie." That term mainly became commonly used because all things considered "Indie" lost it's edge after gaining mainstream acceptance, the term "Indie" became irrelevant as it became the new status quo. You can't possibly call something Independent anymore when it begins making billions of dollars. Terms like Beatnik, Hippie, Punk and Yuppie all have a similar history.

[@aotctd]

Indie was just an Appropriated Word too

[@IronCascade]

As a hipster, nothing gave me more pleasure than explaining to my hipster friends that the fact that they denied being hipsters was the ultimate litmus test for recognizing a hipster.

[@mikitz]

My idiot-proof hipster test was to call someone out as a hipster. If he had a hissy fit, he was definetely a hipster.

[@Soldano999]

We've all been there. I told my friend i wasn't a hipster she told me you're litterally patient zero of hipsteria. In dictionnaries the word hipster will probably have your picture next to it.

[@robertacevedo5601]

Exactly. The was the biggest irony

[@nathanwright5543]

Litmus?

[@joshishere96]

Hipsters are losers that dress up like telly tubbies. No one respects them on purpose. Grunge, punk and emo on the other hand. 💯💯🤘🎸😎 Just be a slipknot maggot.

[@coastcity7029]

Beatniks were the pre-hipsters. They founded the counter-culture lifestyle that began in the 50's. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey. Beatniks like these artists popularized their lifestyle and ideals through art like On the Road, Howl, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, respectively.

[@user-sb6uf1pk9t]

Thank you! Beatniks = 1950's thru the mid 1960's Hippies = 1965 - 1976 Punk rockers = 1974 -1982? New Wave = 1979 -1984 Alternative = 1985-1992 Hair Band = 1986-1991 Grungers =1991-1995 Goth = 1996- 2008 Emo = Unknown tbh Skinny Jean Bearded Hipsters - 2012?

[@goyim6866]

yup. subversive alcohol and drug addled queer atheists.

[@ColoradoStreaming]

The term "Hippie" is actually a shortened version of "Hipster"

[@fia9845]

as a DJ, 6:21 had me giggling 😂 if somebody asked me to play that, I would certainly look it up the next day and maybe add it to my library.

[@larrycold]

As a guy who lived through the '60s once said to me, "The revolutions over, we lost"

[@user-tp8ut7cs6j]

He might be right. The rise and fall of rebellious subcultures is a cycle but it feels like every new iteration of rebellious subculture becomes a little less rebellious each time.

[@kris1103]

Hipsters never die. Being a hipster is an attitude, not a specific look and it's been around as long as I remember. It's the snobbery of being too cool for mainstream and striving to be cooler than thou. Accompanied by sneering at anything they deem uncool, like owning a TV, or being employed by anything other than a Start Up.

[@behindyou666]

I hate when disliking the mainstream is seen as a specific subculture rather than something thats always been there.

[@gxlorp]

I disagree entirely. All it is, is dressing snazzy. Any negative attitudes solely rest on the individual themselves. I've met plenty of people who dress hipster who are fine. Most are. The idea of trying to be elitist exists in certain strongholds like certain neighborhoods of major cities

[@marinablack181]

I hate how anyone with particular tastes is a "hipster snob". The reality is people just like what they like. Labeling someone as pretentious for having taste outside the mainstream is disingenuous. This whole video is a joke because the creator fundamentally doesn't understand "hipster culture" at all

[@snufflesdarkness]

I agree, this mindset is always around. In the 90s remember this was artsy crowd that wore black round sunglasses and french hats? I think they were protrayed perfectly in movie Uncle Buck.

[@tylersmith9868]

@@marinablack181 that is so not true. There's many many people who like things they don't actually like but do so because they believe it makes them cool

[@mrkenny6817]

Just one little thing - Polaroid wasn't really revived because of hipster demand, but because there was still demand from fans that used it all along. So few of these fans basically revinvented the whole Polaroid as there were no assets left from the old company. Then thanks to the popularity wave, they were able to buy the brand rights and expand the whole company. Pretty cool story, if you ask me

[@ratzabur]

Fans that used it all along? Sounds like hipsters to me! =)

[@mrkenny6817]

@@ratzabur they used it even before it was cool! haha

[@gxlorp]

There are a lot of little things. That's why videos like this suck. Whether the authors know it or not, their intention is just go generate money and service basic psychological function. This video was not unique or insightful. And grossly inadequate as an informational. And it's now factual, it's opinion based

[@TiberianFiend]

And because of hipsters.

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

Most of the digital optical sensor military contracts went to companies that make the best camera sensors. Japan.

[@nylcajeikcaj3089]

Ok, you got me, I subscribed

[@jonedog2567]

very good video

[@twenty3electronics]

We used the word Hipster in the 90s. The word Hipster is kind of like Emo, where it started out meaning one thing, then got co-opted and turned into pejorative term. In the 90s, we used “hipster” to identify someone who had basic knowledge of the counter culture, underground music, and independent film. It had nothing to do with any specific clothing uniform. People from outside the culture invented the reductive stereotype “Hipster,” so naturally the word was abandon by all but those who sought to disparage bohemian culture.

[@austintrousdale2397]

👏 That this narrative yada-d the 90s was pretty surprising.

[@Thrivinginthespotlight]

This comment deserves the top spot. This is the truth of it all wrapped up.

[@pumpkinheadghoul]

Every generation reinvents the English language to feel special. This generation is just like every other generation of Americans since WWII. They all think they're the most enlightened to ever exist, and everyone who came before them is somehow lame and ignorant. Again, like like every generation since WWII.

[@mopes2713]

Yes! “Someone who had basic knowledge of the counter culture, underground music, and independent film” that’s the the perfect definition! I never considered it a particular style or uniform look.

[@olympian3]

The problem is, to me, that being what you described became a market in itself. It’s cool to forge your own path and find stuff you like, with websites like letterboxd. But to just be some guy who listens to public radio and watches movies from very popular “hipster” studios religiously (and only that) and fits into this little tiny mold in itself of what a “hipster” is, with thick frame glasses etc? It was revolutionary in the 90s, but it’s overdone nowadays.

[@DerStreifenralf]

"Disliking things doesn't make you an interesting person" is a very good way to put it. Aside from that this is just a comment for the youtube algorithm. Keep up the good work.

[@CapnCavMan]

I never met a hipster who would admit they were a hipster.

[@Narabruz1]

Very interesting video, thank you! I read a few comments and they seem to converge towards a notion I happen to share myself: in every society, at anytime, there is a vanguard, socially forward group of people (generally young) that don't feel happy with the mainstream ideas, tastes and way of life, and rebel against it (it has a lot to do with generation gap, but not only), but it's not only about rejection: at the same time they create and event new things, they come up with innovative ideas, new life styles, new forms of art, etc. And eventually these ideas SPREAD through the rest of society and become the new mainstream. This phenomenon, of course, has happened much more frequently since the end of the 19th century, as society started changing much faster than anytime before in history. So, it's not really about the DEATH of the hipsters, it's the exact opposite: the acceptance and expansion of hipster concepts that reached such a scope as to become mainstream, and no longer a niche culture. To buy clothes in thrift shops, eat organic and/or locally grown and vegetarian / vegan food, favor small independent businesses, smaller houses, self-made / refurbished furniture, prefer public transportation and bicycles, reject money-driven pop culture and trends that big corporations try to impose on society, all these traits are inherently good and have made their way to mainstream culture, which is the ultimate recognition of this set of values once labeled "hipster culture". One could say the same about the feminization of society, traits of gay culture becoming mainstream, traits of black culture becoming mainstream, traits of nerd culture becoming mainstream, and overall the rejection of one unique social model going hand in hand with the promotion of diversity.

[@aotctd]

Nothing about them was forward

[@elizabethwillis885]

I was a hipster in the late 90s. Long before people like me were called hipsters. Back then I was probably just considered an art kid. But I purposely hated everything main stream. As I grew up, I realized I actually liked some mainstream stuff like pop music. And by the time I was in my mid to late 20s, I liked whatever and I didn’t give a shit about liking mainstream stuff. I was a teen with a chip on my shoulder and my hipster hate for most things was a defense mechanism. I was a trip.

[@robertacevedo5601]

I remember the art kid or being artsy. That’s was all my brother’s side friends. Apart from our skater friends.

[@thetruth9783]

Did you listen to Morrisey?

[@thecanadakid7622]

the late 90's hipters were cool and were there before it was a super trend. Also keep in mind in the late 90's early 2000's everything mainstream was cringy and awfull for the most part including the music.

[@llw1066]

We were doing all this stuff in the 80s and 90s. Skinny jeans, retro 50s thrift shop clothes, obscure bands, obsessed with vinyl, the coffee, home brew, organic food etc. I even had a boyfriend with a fixed gear bicycle lol. But that was before the internet, so not many people could catch on. You had to be physically located someplace where there was a scene happening.

[@maypenja2819]

You are right about the internet. Now it is everywhere, all at once.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

Very good point. A lot of regional trends that were popular in the ‘80s & early ‘90s in various parts of the country didn’t really take off until the Internet got ahold of ‘em. The Seattle music scene, instance.

[@Jerrycourtney]

This is something definitely worth mentioning, and I’m glad you said it.

[@KarlSnarks]

The 90's were more loose-fitting jeans and 60's/70's nostalgia.

[@user-sb6uf1pk9t]

i think the authentic soul of true hipsterism is disavowing bourgeoise concerns, and going beyond everyday mundane materialism. Having more of an interest in simple pleasures and intellectual pursuits such as jazz, poetry, the arts, etc. Having an interest in spiritual pursuits such as yoga, philosophy and vegetarianism, growing your own food,

[@Goblin_deez.]

I don’t know of you were high, hungover or had a big pollen count for this vid but get well soon 😂 otherwise great content buddy, I’m loving your channel

[@patrickracer43]

It's kinda ironic that the hipsters refused to call themselves hipsters when the punks, emos, nerds and gym bros all embraced their terms, this also goes for the reason why everyone hates the hipsters, because the hipsters refused to embrace their stuff

[@ShawnGBR]

I just asked my wife, "when did we last see a hipster?" and then she said, "when did we last go into a coffee shop? Before COVID, right?" And that was it. That was the last time we saw any other people. Are there any more survivors?

[@tula1433]

😂

[@sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046]

*loads pistol* Yes, is there anymore survivors?

[@quietstorm483]

I always thought it was weird how they shamed traditional things and consumerism, but wore clothing inspired by decades past and bought a lot of fifties and sixties kitsch and drank overpriced beer.

[@Soldano999]

Well you're missing an important part though: many of the businesses they supported they created themselves. So instead of buying from multinational coorporations they actually did put they money where their mouth was and created businesses doing fixed gear bikes, cofee, craft beer (which has become a huge business) and mens shaving products. The same can't be said about all subcultures.

[@quietstorm483]

@@Soldano999 Good for them. And here I was thinking the majority of you (them) were annoying posers. I’m glad I was wrong.

[@thisgame2]

Its called "good beer" and I don't even drink

[@coyotepeyote]

Hey if there's one good thing the hipsters did it was foster an environment where craft beer exploded, I don't care so much for IPAs but I'll take that over bud light any day.

[@quietstorm483]

@@coyotepeyote Fair point. I prefer wine and don’t drink beer. But I’m glad so many others have the options and privileges to purchases them.

[@datboi7116]

Take me back lol, the pictures are very nostalgic

[@gorgo4910]

I remember going to to hear a bluegrass band and seeing all these guys in beards and perfectly clean Carharts. It was so bizarre. I didn’t know anyone who had an entire wardrobe of clean Carharts. They were all in various stages of wear. My friend explained that these are a breed called “hipster”.

[@001variation]

oh NO someone wearing clean clothes? I'm going to have a mental break down, that's not right, they should be dirty, holy crap I'm literally shaking

[@seththomas9105]

@@001variation You know what he was talking about, hipster. Come to the rural Midwest and see how many perfectly clean work clothes are worn uptown on Saturday night.

[@patriciaellinghausen4365]

North Idahoan, and member of a bluegrass band- 🎵Cosmic Wagon- our banjo player has “town pants” he wears for gigs. He’s a 🌲lumberjack, and mills lumber

[@jn1mrgn]

@@001variationCarhartts are work clothes, made for hard work, and aren't particularly cheap, because they are very durable.

[@ProjectEnglishII]

I was a suburban punk in the early 80s. Now I can admit that I like disco.

[@jakobthelibrarycard6261]

I grew up in the 80s and detested music from that decade. Fortunately I'm rediscovering it lately. Guess you just gotta wait until you're ready to accept something.

[@larsedik]

I still love 80s music, especially Neue Deutsche Welle, which had a big influence on British New Wave.

[@julianrolheiser6061]

I remember thinking how immature disco music was. Been obsessed with Italo-Disco recently.

[@guydreamr]

This video is a perfect illustration of the idea that anything - including being cool - can become a straitjacket when taken to extremes.

[@mikecoffee100]

still around in Vancouver and look forward to more content so susbcribed

[@eastcoasttone3952]

I definitely used to be the type of person that hated on shit just because it was popular when I was younger but now that I've gotten older I look back on it and realize how childish/silly it is to have that type of mentality. Unfortunately though some people never seem to grow out of this mindset no matter how older they get.

[@Hyperiss]

I'll embarrasingly admit I fell into this in my young adult days. But then one day I realized how pointless it was and I had gotten tired of being a phony jackass and being around other phony people. I dont care how cool you think you are, one day everyone will stop giving a shit about that and just be themselves. The older you get, the easier it is to shamelessly be a dork 😂

[@relaxingnature6766]

the "phony jackass" and "phony people" sums the hipster movement to a tee. I had a similar experience as yours, I just....felt so fake. I thought some of their clothes were kinda cool, and heck, they loved good coffee! But the more I listened to some of these people, the more I thought "They are so fake, and I am fake for trying to be like them" For the short time I "tried" (if I can even say that) being a hipster, it was exhausting, trying to be "cool" with all the fads that were always changing. The biggest thing was the smugness...They all thought they were better, smarter, and cooler than you, because they were listening, drinking, or doing the thing nobody else knew about

[@eetuhiltunen9911]

Yeah let's be dorksters

[@thechrisricci]

Not gonna lie, Halloween sound effects records from the 1950's are pretty cool.

[@minxella12]

I knew someone who lived in the Portland area and found the hipsters a bit snobbish and Lord help you if you ever disagreed with them!

[@ThomasPowellNZ]

When I heard actual lumberjacks (not guys that dress like they're going to a fancy dress party as lumberjacks, but guys who cut down trees for a job) discussing the merits of various craft beers I was genuinely happy.

[@KarlSnarks]

I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day.

[@truthseeker3967]

@@KarlSnarks The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep. (Ecclesiastes 5:12)

[@circleinforthecube5170]

its irritating people call it the lumberjack look, flannel and jeans is the main outfit of the northern midwest

[@Thor-Orion]

@@circleinforthecube5170why would you be irritated to be compared to a lumberjack? Oh, because you don’t have the muscles for manual labor? I understand, I’m sorry.

[@benjaminwilkin2638]

I was called a hipster once in 2015, i automatically said I’m definitely not a hipster, then got back to building a cafe racer Honda cb400T… I still buy clothes from second hand shops though cause recycling clothes that have lasted long enough to make it to the second hand shop just makes sense😂

[@danielebowman]

I couldn't ever be a hipster. Having thick Jamaican sprinter legs, so I could never wear skinny jeans. Also I hate IPAs and most craft beers. Never understood the attraction of them.

[@Egoblivion]

@@danielebowman I can enthusiastically say that i am a fan of IPA’s. I prefer them over wheat, ale, pilsner, etc. Imperial Stouts are another that have become more popular and associated with this period. It’s actually my favorite beer.

[@invade81]

Nothing wrong with either. I like a lot that would be considered hipster in its day, though do feel obliged to defend myself against the term. Gatekeeping anti-hipsters are/were as bad as hipsters, really.

[@mottopanukeiku7406]

I had a Honda CB400-4 cafe in San Francisco in the early 2000’s. I was about as far away from being a hipster as humanly possible then, but got “honorary hipster membership” at certain bars for riding it. Damn, I miss that screamer of a bike. Good luck on the T.

[@Egoblivion]

@@invade81 To me no video has really touched on the strangeness of the “hipster movement” because it’s more like an accidental combination of things compared to actual counterculture movements like punk. Even stranger and more interesting is the anti-hipster cultural phenomenon. I came back to the states from Germany in ‘11 and by ~’12 it was just this huge outrage. I myself was pegged on many of the points and didn’t even realize that these people who I thought had generally interesting/cool thrifty style, resourcefulness in general, were into jazz (aka arguably the greatest American art form), grassroots stuff like organic food and craft beer, environmental interests…etc…a bunch of actually positive and practical stuff(?!) was supposed to be so contestable. The most immediate reason for this that comes to mind is the air of self-righteousness becoming associated with it…and to call it that would lend merit to associated points so to dismiss all of it in a sweeping fashion they treat it like a goofy fast fashion, exploiting all the superficial aspects. It’s crazy!!!

[@planetofthegapes]

The market commodifies most fashion subcultures. What you end up with is Mainstream Goth, or Mainstream Hipster, or Mainstream Hippie, etc. Then the young people think it's boring AF and they create something else. Rinse, wash, repeat repeat repeat. When you can figure out what 16-21 year old middle-class people will be wearing into their mid-twenties, then you've cracked fashion.

[@user-tp8ut7cs6j]

Yup, then after a certain period of time (usually about 20 years), after the mainstream trend had fallen out of favor, it goes from being dated, to being retro. The old trend then reemerges in a new form, all to again become a cliche that the following generation mocks and despises.

[@aotctd]

@@user-tp8ut7cs6j Nothing new form

[@sunflowerbadger]

I'm so glad hipster beards are fading out. I can go back to having a beard in peace.

[@aotctd]

Oh gawd Can't you just ALL drop the beards ?

[@map3384]

Being a GenXer I was fortunate to be part of a generation which was forgotten and alienated in our youth. Back then it was come as you are.

[@lordoptimus1979]

Gen X were labelless. Hipsters and current Gex Z want all the labels

[@madamebkrt]

@@lordoptimus1979 Not really. Gen X were also referred to as the "MTV Generation" and "Slacker Generation", naturally not by themselves (because let's face it, no generation chooses how older people perceive them and it's always unflattering). The existence of the "Brat Pack" and what that entailed speaks for itself, too.

[@mbrady2329]

@@madamebkrt, the 'Brat Pack' was a US phenomenon, during a decade when the UK led the way culturally.

[@acme_tnt8741]

Im 38, definitely not a hipster. I know tattoos were around long before me but in my life I watched tattoos become mainstream and popular. I never understood all al my class mates that got tattoos because they thought that it made them different or stand out. Lol. Folks always jump on the anti-trend trend. Its a microcosm of the idiocy of the collective. Culture trends that is.

[@lisadolan689]

By time I’d given enough thought to what type of tattoo I wanted, I got over it. So glad I did 🙌😂😂😂

[@guysmiley4830]

I'm old enough to remember when neck and face tatoo's were only for death row inmates and real life pirates. Now your average wallmart greeter has a 40 percent chance of neck and finger tatoos.

[@DEadSpaCE211]

​@@lisadolan689 The non conformists have coalesced into a bloc of conformists. Being conservative is now the rebel. I'm the only one in my friend group that doesn't have tattoos or some other piercing and so on.

[@jeanjacqueslundi3502]

Don't get my started on tattoos. I'm 37 myself and the last 10 years seeing all these plebs getting tattoos as if it's normal and beautiful has cemented my hate of group-think.

[@EstradaDuran-sg6co]

@@jeanjacqueslundi3502 what an ironically hipster thing to say

[@Thor-Orion]

1:20 I use to tell a funny joke; “what’s a hipster’s favorite numeral? It’s a really obscure number, you’ve probably never heard of it.”

[@snickel2584]

My wife's cousin lives in downtown Toronto, He lives in Hipsters central, I don't consider him a Hipster. He told me that it considered that it is "edgey" NOT HAVE ANY Tattoos on body now.

[@user-tp8ut7cs6j]

I never got tatted for that very reason. My mom is in her 60's and she has tattoos. It's not really an act of rebellion anymore, it's just fashion.

[@onewhitepony]

I think the love of things vintage plays in part with the feeling of nostalgia. As much as modern technology and conveniences are nice but the idea of enjoying something vintage or hand made is enjoyable in itself. I remember when modern hipster started to show up late 90s early 2000s it was Starbucks and then to smaller local coffee shops as an example. Same with music. Digital downloads and streaming was convenient but the vinyl record sales had a large boom and actually surpassed CDs somewhere post 2010. I wouldn't be surprised CD sales boom when Gen Z kids are bring back 90s and early 2000s style. Nostalgia is a drug.

[@I_like_turtles_67]

I am rollerblading with my little daughter. I skated when I was a teen. Not looking for vintage skates though so I guess I'm not a hipster.

[@onewhitepony]

@@I_like_turtles_67 yeah nothing wrong with that either! I actually see more roller blading coming along again. I say if you like something you just like something regardless if hipsters hijack it or not haha

[@es68951]

Vaporwave has basically ridden the nostalgia that people have for a time that many of them weren't even alive to remember 😄

[@onewhitepony]

@@es68951 oh yeah I love that style of music but you know as someone said.. what's weird about style.... It's modern but futuristic but also reminds people of the 1980s (but it doesn't really sound like from the 80s) Good point it hits this weird nostalgic nerve when you hear it!

[@khairulhelmihashim2510]

in 1980s there was a resurgence of preppy look and 1950's Americana nostalgia. So, each era will have something appropriated from the past, and repackaged into a new lifestyle. Maybe in next generation, snail mails and telegram message will become popular again with youngsters tired of instant communications.

[@Soldano999]

One day one of my friends told me: dude you never stopped being a hipster. You've just reached the final form: you're normcore now

[@MotormikeyD]

Normcore 😂😂

[@Losfhc]

“I really only listen too German death reggae and Halloween sound effects from the 1950’s” 😂 Aubrey Plaza 💛

[@thenewnordics]

Very interesting! We filmed a short searching for hipsters in our neck of the woods here in Sweden. What a curious subculture!

[@forcastfascistfuture]

As a former hipster, I have gotten quite into mainstream music lately because this is now the "weird different music" to me. Hipsters naturally cultivate a circle of people who gravitate to underground music, so I don't have many friends who listen to mainstream music. So in this context, normal becomes weird. I guess in this sense I am still a hipster, but just in a less- recognisable way.

[@leigh7507]

I dont know - I think something accessible like Eminem will always be more listened to than Death Grips.

[@benisboop]

I too am a hipster almost against my will. It is just a facet of my personality. I am so deeply immersed in layer upon layer of irony that I can't even tell where my ironic love of something begins and where authentic love ends. But maybe my irony is my authenticity. I guess it doesn't matter much anyway.

[@Santor-]

The new underground music that more and more hipsters appreciate is ABBA.

[@richardspillers6282]

Being independent doesn't mean you have to sound like shit. I never could make people in those circles understand this.

[@xshadowscreamx]

The top 10 billboard chart of last year was the blandest ever.

[@Girrrrrrrr]

I love this channel so much. Thanks for being so widespread in your topics, Jimmy!!

[@John-nb6ep]

Individualism isn't for everyone. The failure of the subculture is a perfect example of it.

[@megadavemedina]

great video! but one honorable mention, music?