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When did coffee shops become so hipster?

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HypeBeast
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Am I missing something? Has it always been this way but rather in various forms other than Apple loving hipsters?

When did coffee shops change from somewhere you go to read the paper, get coffee and breakfast, and have a fucking conversation? Now they're literally places where 90% of people are slouched over their illumated MacBook for hours on end working on various projects, browsing Facebook, or taking selfies for the gram.

I went into a coffee shop today and this was picture perfect hipster vibe. Literally every single fucking person was sitting by themselves, effectively taking up two seats at a table, pouring over their MacBooks. It felt like I stumbled into an artists' lair. I shoulda taken a photo because it was priceless yet astounding. Maybe I've never noticed it this bad, but fuck man wtf has happened?
Sep 16 2019 12:12PM
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PeppermillReno
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When hasn't it been this way?
Sep 16 2019 12:36PM
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CalumSKI
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coffee doesnt taste good
Sep 16 2019 12:36PM
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SuspiciousFish
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Well coffee shops are a way for people to pretend like they are around other people while hidden away in their own tech gadgets. Its kinda like the people who only smoke when they drink. Your still sucking down cigs 3 nights a week but you can have the denial you dont have a problem because you only do it at the bar.
Sep 16 2019 1:12PM
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OregonDead
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Looked into it a bit and it seems like the original purpose of the coffee shop is in fact to be hipster. Seems they originated in the Middle East around 1511 as a place to drink the exotic beverage. People had already been drinking coffee for a bit but the coffee shop was invented more as a place to be seen and socialize like some sort of hipster.
Sep 16 2019 4:34PM
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CLQ
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It sounds like you have never been in a coffee shop before and your whole idea of it was based off "Friends".
Sep 16 2019 5:30PM
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HypeBeast
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CLQIt sounds like you have never been in a coffee shop before and your whole idea of it was based off "Friends".

1) never watched friends
2) been to plenty of coffee shops but I guess they were more the old people types not in a big city so who knows. It's just fucking weird as shit.
Sep 16 2019 5:53PM
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Youngm_IPCME
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Hey, wait a second. Aren’t you that guy who made flavored coffee gatekeeping posts after writing several paragraphs about how users of starbucks are pretentious?
Sep 16 2019 6:19PM
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Youngm_IPCME
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Oh, even better. Op’s post is basically saying that coffee shops are now too mainstream.
Sep 16 2019 6:58PM
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TRVP_ANGEL
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Imagine thinking using a macbook is hipster.



**This post was edited on Sep 16th 2019 at 7:07:33pm
Sep 16 2019 7:05PM
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Bdoobz
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CalumSKIcoffee doesnt taste good


Blasphemy
Sep 16 2019 8:40PM
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CalumSKI
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BdoobzBlasphemy

Naw b
People dont like hearing the truth
Sep 16 2019 8:46PM
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tsingtaofanatic
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Most hipsters don't have friends, thats why.
Sep 16 2019 9:05PM
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iFlip
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satanworshipperMost hipsters don't have friends, thats why.


I didn't know you were a hipster.
Sep 17 2019 2:29AM
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tsingtaofanatic
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iFlipI didn't know you were a hipster.


yeah? well i am



so shut up
Sep 17 2019 2:33AM
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creaturelo
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You’re judging people for such a benign thing omfg. I hate the implication that doing things alone is bad. There is literally nothing more liberating than finding comfort in your own company. It’s like going to restaurants or the movies alone. It’s just nice, and it’s especially nice to go and work in an environment that is aesthetically pleasing to you.
Sep 18 2019 4:51AM
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Segsxi
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Op inspired me to open up a ghetto coffee shop. Destroy and tarnish the reputation coffee shops have of being hipster. This will be the “Popeyes of Coffee shops”
Sep 18 2019 6:30AM
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TOAST.
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Fogdart1) never watched friends
2) been to plenty of coffee shops but I guess they were more the old people types not in a big city so who knows. It's just fucking weird as shit.


Diners, you are thinking of diners.
Sep 18 2019 7:15AM
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Casey
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What are all these fucking people doing drinking coffee and on their computers in the middle of the day?

Working?!
Sep 18 2019 10:30AM
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HaydenB
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When they got WiFi
Sep 18 2019 10:42AM
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CLQ
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lauraobermeyerYou’re judging people for such a benign thing omfg. I hate the implication that doing things alone is bad. There is literally nothing more liberating than finding comfort in your own company. It’s like going to restaurants or the movies alone. It’s just nice, and it’s especially nice to go and work in an environment that is aesthetically pleasing to you.


i don't understand why people feel forced to go to the movies with others, its not like you are talking during the movie anyway. I'm probably going to go see the "The Lighthouse" by myself because none of my friends would be interested in that movie but who cares? What pisses me off is one of my friends refuses to hang out 1 on 1 because "thats gay." Anyway i'm ranting, here is a neat little video about how its ok to be alone. https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/939519/How-To-Be-Alone
Sep 19 2019 3:02AM
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theabortionator
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SegsxiOp inspired me to open up a ghetto coffee shop. Destroy and tarnish the reputation coffee shops have of being hipster. This will be the “Popeyes of Coffee shops”


Hopefully it's impossible to get a coffee without liquor in it. Fuck all those sober people and their coffee shop havens. Give us some atmosphere. I'll gladly trade charge ports and antisocial work stations for the scent of stale beer, and a shitty juke box.

Better yet don't even serve coffee, but keep the name "The coffee shop".

If you've got your electronics in your bag heading in for an evening of work, you've come to the wrong place. If you want your feet to stick to the squeaky floorboards as people dance and throw darts to classic rock with the neighborhoods degenerates, this is the spot. Some of the more nefarious characters holding down the pool table. A far better chance of buying a line than a latte.

Idk, coffee shop vibes are weird imo though.
Sep 19 2019 4:59AM
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iH8pow
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CalumSKIcoffee doesnt taste good


I’m gonna open up a Monster bar.

Coffee shops have always been the “hip” place. The irony is these hip things like coffee shops, craft breweries and trendy brunch stops are very often clashing with the other “hip” thing: diversity. The amount of gentrification going on forcing lower income minorities out of their homes so young liberal hipsters can discuss their trendy liberal progressive ideas is just so ironic. Not trying to get political but—call me wrong.
Sep 19 2019 6:30AM
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AlmostCooler
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CalumSKIcoffee doesnt taste good


They hated jesus because he told them the truth
Sep 19 2019 6:06PM
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CalumSKI
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AlmostCoolerThey hated jesus because he told them the truth

Frfr
Sep 19 2019 8:08PM
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tsingtaofanatic
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AlmostCoolerThey hated jesus because he told them the truth


facts coffee is poopy drinky
Sep 20 2019 2:47AM
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xxACIDTRIPxx
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Try wellington nz I swear that's where the movement started srs
Sep 20 2019 3:45AM
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ASSholebomber22
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SegsxiOp inspired me to open up a ghetto coffee shop. Destroy and tarnish the reputation coffee shops have of being hipster. This will be the “Popeyes of Coffee shops”


It's called daylight donuts
Sep 23 2019 2:51PM
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OregonDead
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BiffbarfIt's called daylight donuts


around here it is called Daynight donuts and it looks suspiciously similar to the Duncan donuts chain that it replaced
Sep 23 2019 3:01PM
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Bushdid9_11
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Free wifi + abundant coffee + quiet atmosphere = good place to sit and be productive on a laptop. OP is just old and jaded.
Sep 25 2019 2:40PM
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