What is a hipster

[Wongoof]

What is a hipster, I could never figure out what that means, and you know google is no help.

[koopahermit]

The people on Tumblr that constantly tell you to check your privilege.

[Avery]

Bruce Jenner.

[Bmwd]

Hipsters are talentless hacks who think that they are cool but they are not.

Hope that helps

[Wongoof]

At 8/5/14 12:35 PM, zmosh wrote: Hipsters are talentless hacks who think that they are cool but they are not.

That sounds more like a poser than a hipster.

Think you have the two confused.

[Bmwd]

At 8/5/14 12:38 PM, Wongoof wrote:

At 8/5/14 12:35 PM, zmosh wrote: Hipsters are talentless hacks who think that they are cool but they are not.

That sounds more like a poser than a hipster.

Think you have the two confused.

It's the truth, it doesn't hurt.

[Magical-Zorse]

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[FlakJaketPro]

At 8/5/14 12:27 PM, Wongoof wrote: What is a hipster, I could never figure out what that means, and you know google is no help.

Those who do things because they percieve those actions to not be "Mainstream"

Things like drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon, listening to terrible vinyl, and watching/liking shows meant for little girls are among a few things.

[Wongoof]

At 8/5/14 02:21 PM, FlakJaketPro wrote:

At 8/5/14 12:27 PM, Wongoof wrote: What is a hipster, I could never figure out what that means, and you know google is no help.

Those who do things because they percieve those actions to not be "Mainstream"

Things like drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon, listening to terrible vinyl, and watching/liking shows meant for little girls are among a few things.

So, you're saying it means someone who is trying to be different, by doing things no one else does?

[FlakJaketPro]

At 8/5/14 12:27 PM, Wongoof wrote:

:: So, you're saying it means someone who is trying to be different, by doing things no one else does?

Sort of.

They're like the special snowflake people who want people to notice them, but are less apparent about it.

[Lagerkapo]

At 8/5/14 12:27 PM, Wongoof wrote: What is a hipster, I could never figure out what that means, and you know google is no help.

People who were cool before it was cool to be cool.

[Wongoof]

At 8/5/14 02:31 PM, FlakJaketPro wrote:

At 8/5/14 12:27 PM, Wongoof wrote:

So, you're saying it means someone who is trying to be different, by doing things no one else does?

Sort of.

They're like the special snowflake people who want people to notice them, but are less apparent about it.

But why would they want people to notice them if they are outside the mainstream, seems like a paradox.

[Painbringer]

People who live and dress like college students from the '60s.

Often times collecting old junk and wearing those big glasses.

[FlakJaketPro]

At 8/5/14 02:34 PM, Wongoof wrote: But why would they want people to notice them if they are outside the mainstream, seems like a paradox.

Your an adult man, but you like a show for little girls. That's a paradox too.

[Wongoof]

At 8/5/14 02:36 PM, FlakJaketPro wrote:

At 8/5/14 02:34 PM, Wongoof wrote: But why would they want people to notice them if they are outside the mainstream, seems like a paradox.

Your an adult man, but you like a show for little girls. That's a paradox too.

Everything is a paradox really though.

[JaY11]

a meaningless term used by those who are offended by people who's opinion may differ slightly from the norm. For example, I have been called a hipster for disliking the avengers movie amongst other strange reasons, and have witnessed many others being called hipster for a myriad of things.

it may have meant something less nonsensical/more specific when it was originally coined, but now it's an insult that could mean literally anything

[Lagerkapo]

At 8/5/14 02:40 PM, Wongoof wrote: Everything is a paradox really though.

I forget who, but a quantum physicist in the 50's-70's said "there is no such thing as a paradox, only a conflict between reality and your belief of what reality should be."

Which is to say a paradox is a concept, a nonentity, a confusion held by one who doesn't understand something.

[FlakJaketPro]

At 8/5/14 02:40 PM, Wongoof wrote: Everything is a paradox really though.

No.
Everything isn't really a paradox.

An apple isn't a paradox. It's a fruit.

Humans aren't paradoxes. Sure we do some things that may seem paradoxical, but those can be attributed to other factors.

[Wongoof]

At 8/5/14 03:01 PM, FlakJaketPro wrote:

At 8/5/14 02:40 PM, Wongoof wrote: Everything is a paradox really though.

No.
Everything isn't really a paradox.

An apple isn't a paradox. It's a fruit.

It's a sweet nice looking fruit, but on the other hand when you eat it , it turns into shit, literally.

Humans aren't paradoxes. Sure we do some things that may seem paradoxical, but those can be attributed to other factors.

A human is a living organism. It lives, but it's also dying since the first day it started living, and it's cells began to deteriorate.

[FlakJaketPro]

At 8/5/14 03:23 PM, Wongoof wrote:

An apple isn't a paradox. It's a fruit.

A human is a living organism. It lives, but it's also dying since the first day it started living, and it's cells began to deteriorate.

A Paradox is something that Contradicts itself.

An apple tasting sweet upon entering the body, and what cannot being absorbed into your body coming out along with other stuff as excrement isn't a self contradiction. It's a natural process.

Cells do deteriorate as we are born, but once again that's not a contradiction. That's the natural cycle of life and death.

[NuScarab]

I think I'm a hipster going by some definitions!

I can't really help you either though.

[SubparTony]

A man who doesn't follow the mainstream culture.
However, it has taken a negative meaning and now it is more likely to a person who forces himself into going against the trend just to show off, receive praise for his uniqueness. It's a real oxymoron that more and more people follow this idea.

[Manly-Chicken]

At 8/5/14 12:32 PM, koopahermit wrote: The people on Tumblr that constantly tell you to check your privilege.

Nah, those are called losers.
Hipsters are people who wear thick rimed glasses, flannel shirts, feel superior, and don't like things that are overly popular.

[Conal]

A person who has unusual preferences that are retro, unclean; mixed with modern and neat for irony. They do this on purpose, that's what makes them hipster. Someone who is like this just because they're comfortable with it are not hipsters, they're what hipsters try to be.

[SubparTony]

At 8/5/14 04:13 PM, Manly-Chicken wrote:

Hipsters are people who wear thick rimed glasses, flannel shirts, feel superior, and don't like things that are overly popular.
Nah, those are called losers.

Fixed

[NeonSpider]

At 8/5/14 02:55 PM, JaY11 wrote: a meaningless term used by those who are offended by people who's opinion may differ slightly from the norm. For example, I have been called a hipster for disliking the avengers movie amongst other strange reasons, and have witnessed many others being called hipster for a myriad of things.

it may have meant something less nonsensical/more specific when it was originally coined, but now it's an insult that could mean literally anything

Pretty much this. It's a BS term people use for anyone that doesn't blindly follow the mainstream and/or who likes older things. i.e. people who actually have brains, think for themselves, and don't just buy into whatever garbage is being shoved down everyone's throats these days.

I mean sure there are people who actually are hipsters but majority of people labeled by others as "hipsters" are just simply non-conformists who actually think for themselves. They're the few intelligent people in a sea of idiots.

Simply hating something only because it's mainstream? Yeah that's stupid. Hating something because it sucks or is otherwise devoid of merit or just isn't for you and that thing just happens to be currently popular or mainstream? That'll get you labeled a hipster by idiots. Liking something that's older? That'll get you labeled a hipster by idiots.

Lots of idiots out there though and just about every single one thinks him/herself intelligent and those who disagree with them stupid, which is very ironic.

[Manly-Chicken]

At 8/5/14 04:15 PM, SubparTony wrote:

At 8/5/14 04:13 PM, Manly-Chicken wrote:

Hipsters are people who wear thick rimed glasses, flannel shirts, feel superior, and don't like things that are overly popular.
Nah, those are called losers.

Fixed

Not all hipsters are losers.
All people who tell people on Tumblr to check their privilege are losers.

[Wongoof]

At 8/5/14 04:14 PM, Conal wrote: A person who has unusual preferences that are retro, unclean; mixed with modern and neat for irony. They do this on purpose, that's what makes them hipster. Someone who is like this just because they're comfortable with it are not hipsters, they're what hipsters try to be.

It's really hard to try imitate someone else's persona without making a fool of yourself.

[Lagerkapo]

At 8/5/14 03:23 PM, Wongoof wrote:

At 8/5/14 03:01 PM, FlakJaketPro wrote:

At 8/5/14 02:40 PM, Wongoof wrote: Everything is a paradox really though.

No.
Everything isn't really a paradox.

An apple isn't a paradox. It's a fruit.

It's a sweet nice looking fruit, but on the other hand when you eat it , it turns into shit, literally.

Humans aren't paradoxes. Sure we do some things that may seem paradoxical, but those can be attributed to other factors.

A human is a living organism. It lives, but it's also dying since the first day it started living, and it's cells began to deteriorate.

You're just going into semantics here, really.

Addressing the duality of a reality which is singular and simultaneously infinite may appear as a conceptual loop of paradoxicality at every step. Because it is.

Now, instead of compartmentalizing things conceptually and assuming that the compartmentalization makes them separate, envision the compartmentalization as a function of the whole, the self awareness part, the trinity maker.

Then it's not just simple, it's who and what we are; reality.

[Wongoof]

At 8/5/14 04:39 PM, Lagerkapo wrote:

You're just going into semantics here, really.

And who gets do decide semantics? Are we dealing with a semantic dictatorship? Who gets to decide what a virus is? Scientists who say it's a microscopic infection? Couldn't humans be a virus, they do feed off all other life and destroy it.