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NS, define hipster please

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Dan.
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I see you guys toss around the term for absolutely everything. I want to hear what you define 'hipster' as.

From what I gather, the NS definition of 'hipster' would be "anybody who doesn't wear tall tees and doesn't listen to hip-hop or dubstep".

discuss.
Nov 3 2011 1:59PM
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[evan]
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You can't define "hipster," thats the definition in itself.

Here's some examples though:

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/members/profile/hide_header/1/member_id/113143

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/members/profile/hide_header/1/member_id/144315
Nov 3 2011 2:00PM
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Milksteak
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I would also like to hear the definitions of terms such as:

Gypsy
Thug
Gangster
Gay
Nov 3 2011 2:01PM
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SeanTom
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^lolololol, fuck you evan
Nov 3 2011 2:01PM
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Ski_the_east01
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I use this as a basic template:

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or basically 95% of the people I bump into in cambridge
Nov 3 2011 2:04PM
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SeanTom
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Gypsy-same as hipster but with more feathers/dirt in hair

Thug-White people -____-

Gangster- "packing heat"

G*y-you
Nov 3 2011 2:05PM
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neutralzombie
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let me use my brother, his gf, and friends as a perfect example

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hispters are not to be confused with scenesters, and indie kids. hipsters shop at thrift stores, wear vintage, generally wear mod haircuts, and look filthy.
Nov 3 2011 2:18PM
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neutralzombie
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or just urban outfitters.
Nov 3 2011 2:19PM
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shibby
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Hipsters are people who spend a lot of money to look like they don't have a lot of money.

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Nov 3 2011 2:21PM
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infuser
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hipsters dont exist because existing is too mainstream.
Nov 3 2011 2:27PM
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Poon_Handler
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No job.
Art School.
No future.
Nov 3 2011 2:28PM
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jibjunkie
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hipsters take many forms but in general they enjoy:
obscure foreign cigarettes
local coffee places
beards
sweaters
glasses
up and coming and or shitty music
anything pre 1990
bad haircuts
REAL indie movies(not juno little miss sunshine etc.)

they can look like this:

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Nov 3 2011 2:28PM
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CAPSLOCK*
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tell your brother to buy his gf a bra please
Nov 3 2011 2:59PM
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neutralzombie
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you tell hipsters to wear a bra.
Nov 3 2011 3:05PM
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Wesley.P
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And if you run into a hipster, use this guide to translate

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Nov 3 2011 4:58PM
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PopsicleStand
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You for asking, and half this site for caring, and me just because.
Nov 3 2011 5:10PM
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Raz.
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I'm sorry .Dan, but your pretty hipster, not gonna lie....
Nov 3 2011 5:29PM
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DOSE.
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It annoys me how often knowledge of streetwear is referred to as "hipster". I mean, just cause someone dresses in five panels and skinny jeans, doesn't mean they're a hipster, despite what I've seen people think on NS.
Nov 3 2011 5:34PM
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neutralzombie
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this is the convo i had with my bf yesterday. he said only hipsters wear vans, and i said so i'm a hipster? and he's like no you're a girl. everyone wears vans, including people who don't wear tight pants.
Nov 3 2011 5:47PM
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.AR6rider.
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What does it make them then, other than someone with poor taste in fashion?
Nov 3 2011 5:51PM
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Funkadelic
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It makes them someone who wears that type of clothing. A hipster is an attitude in addition to how someone dresses. When I go home my friends there all refer to me as a hipster just because I like to wear skinnier jeans/cords, flannels, and vans all the time. But while the way I dress may be somewhat hipsterish, my personality is not like a hipster whatsoever. I'm also not obsessed with drinking PBR, and smoking American Spirits. There's a lot more that goes into making someone a hipster other than how they dress.
Nov 3 2011 6:00PM
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DOSE.
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i have no idea what label to give people like that. but is it really necessary for it to "make" them anything? does everyone need to be put in a fucking group/labeling?
Nov 3 2011 6:06PM
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NataliePortman
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chad bro, i live in cambridge. there are chads in cambridge, well yes hipsters too but not that many. and a lot of asians. i believe they are exempt from the term.
Nov 3 2011 6:09PM
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Lord.Quasimoto
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people who are doing things just to be unique and different with no other goal in mind.
Nov 3 2011 6:17PM
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Logey.
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/thread
Nov 3 2011 6:20PM
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tspanagel
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i go to art school and i will have a better job than u will ever have mother fucker
Nov 3 2011 6:28PM
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.AR6rider.
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Doubtful.
Nov 3 2011 6:30PM
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84891jnf92048
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The problem with the term hipster is that is all relative.

To a suit-wearing businessman, just about any young person can be called a hipster.

To my dad, anybody wearing larger-framed glasses is a hipster

I have been called a hipster by some, but I refuse the fact that I am.

Nobody ever sees themselves as a hipster (unless they are a wannabe). Everybody sees people "weirder" or more whatever than them.
Nov 3 2011 6:35PM
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Troy.
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One who frequents a jazz club.

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Nov 3 2011 6:36PM
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84891jnf92048
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old people are hipsters?
Nov 3 2011 6:37PM
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darsh.
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Basically anyone who enjoys terrible tasting coffee, cigarettes, is trapped in facial hair purgatory with 5 o'clock shadow, wears Ray-Ban Clubmasters everywhere, enjoys wearing tacky sweaters and 5 panel hats. Also rolls up jeans and shops at Urban Outfitters.
Nov 3 2011 6:40PM
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Trojan~Man
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the scarves!!!! its the fucking scarves!!!!!
Nov 3 2011 6:42PM
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geteducated
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not one mention of casual crack cocaine use. seriously disappointed in y'all.
Nov 3 2011 6:57PM
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nkmo.
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All depends on your defintion of "better."

I also go to art school, getting my BFA in Graphic Design, then getting my Masters. I know for a fact I will have a "better" job than most.

Better paying? Maybe, maybe not. But I will be working in an industry that I truly love. I will have the option of self employment if ever I get tired of my work environment. A suit and tie will never be my work attire... the list goes on.

With just an AAS out of Comm. College, I have already landed jobs for a Championship Winning MLS team, and the most influential Alt News Mag in Utah. "Better" jobs than any of my other friends who have graduated and are currently working as drones in some life-sucking office environment.
Nov 3 2011 6:59PM
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Dan.
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I think this is the first post that makes sense.

except I don't think 'weirder' is the right term, as I view a lot of people as weirder than I, but would never call them hipsters.
Nov 3 2011 7:09PM
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infuser
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wanna be hipsters may just be the worst thing in the world
Nov 3 2011 7:10PM
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Seth.S
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Threads .. 2 colleges in my town.. SO. MANY. HIPSTERS.
Nov 3 2011 7:34PM
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-JME-
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come on dan it's really not that complicated.

if you like or dislike certain clothes, if you like or dislike certain books, if you like or dislike certain bikes, if you like or dislike certain types of music, if you like or dislike a particular lifestyle...  then you are undoubtedly a hipster.

and if you are into something that goes against a perceived norm but has a certain marketable appeal..

then by god you are a hipster and you are an awful person


Nov 3 2011 7:47PM
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.squirrely.
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i lost it on nearly every one
Nov 3 2011 7:50PM
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Dan.
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everybody is a hipster to somebody else, is what you're saying?
Nov 3 2011 7:55PM
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84891jnf92048
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I think he was being sarcastic, but I think you are right. also, you're right, weird is the wrong word, but I don't know the right word....
Nov 3 2011 7:58PM
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Dan.
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I sensed the sarcasm.

I think its actually a completely unidentifiable term.
Nov 3 2011 8:01PM
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rach
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thomas o'connell.
Nov 3 2011 8:02PM
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84891jnf92048
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not undefineable, but completely relative.
Nov 3 2011 8:03PM
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Raz.
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Nov 3 2011 8:08PM
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dubtwo
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being a hipster is becoming to mainstream
Nov 3 2011 8:45PM
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.R-Lohin
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Hipster = Chad's gap.
Nov 3 2011 8:51PM
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Deezy
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everybody who posted above me
Nov 3 2011 8:52PM
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*rkp*
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I don't understand this obsession with "hipster"..


this thread is fucking garbage. GARRBAGEEE
Nov 3 2011 8:55PM
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bo0b
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ever notice hipsters either drink and smoke a lot or are completely straightedge?
Nov 3 2011 8:55PM
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soulskier
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one who annoys me. i cannot tell you what one is but as. soon as i hear the word, i dont like it.
Nov 3 2011 9:18PM
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