Comments on: Hipsters

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:14:23 +0000

The thing that really got me, is how surprised I was when I realized the people who dressed similar to me didn’t have the same ideals, thoughts, political stances, etc.

What I also got really confused about, is how none of my friends self-labeled themselves as hipsters, yet, all my OTHER friends, would label other groups of my friends as hipsters, and vice versa!

My point here is this: hipsters seldom self-identify. To that end, if you ever identify someone as a “hipster,” they might not (actually, probably dont) believe whatever it is you think they believe! Its a fashion, a fad, a blase spew of bullshit and confusion. Fashion, and assumptions based on others fashion, is never a concrete way to form an understanding of someone.

Lastly! I would identify myself as a hipster for the sheer sake of being honest and not trying to fall into the idiotic spiral of irony that Chris describes above. I don’t think many other people do this. Maybe I’m wrong?

By: Brynn

Brynn — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:01:45 +0000

Alas, I can attest. Chris, you are no music ri-tard.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:13:15 +0000

Ya know, there were like 12 hipsters at every show that I used to go to back in Indiana. And you’d rarely ever see them anytime else.

But, man, ever since I moved to Portland, I cannot get away from them. There’s always at least 24 of them in front of Stumptown Coffee whenever I’ve gone to Voodoo Doughnuts. Which, ya know, is right next to the Paris theatre.

Which makes me wonder if the hipsters are really in it for the coffee. :P

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:45:28 +0000

Ah I see, you are using typekit. I’ve used sIFR and cufon before and it looked fine on Windows. But your site does look much nicer on my Mac.

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:00:14 +0000

@smallwevs – very poignant. History will definitely associate the hipster style with these years.

@Jonathan – That’s because Windows sucks balls at rendering nice fonts.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:31:39 +0000

Hey, sorry to hijack this comment thread, but I just thought you might want to know that your site is really hard to read. I am on Firefox 3.5.3 on Windows XP and the font is all jacked up somehow. Just thought you might want to know.

By: smallwevs

smallwevs — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:24:35 +0000

atleast in being uniquely dressed theyre progenitors of some future baudrillardian historicization: theyre the closest weve got to “period” clothes.

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:34:03 +0000

Some very good points there Darek. Putting on those stupid shorts means a lot better chance at getting the chick with the glasses to touch your weiner.

But at the same time, all those scoffs and snickers, those add up to an ethos.

By: Darek

Darek — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:34:22 +0000

No one actually enters into these ‘styles’ for a cause or what it stands for. It’s just a style of being that involved lots of dancing and mostly hot girls.

Its not like theres a real instructional guide on what it takes to be a hipster. How does everyone know it’s supposed to be anything other than what it obviously is: making light of the random things in life, and perhaps seeing some unexpected beauty in it.

I remember 15 years ago, people were either ‘alternative’ or ‘rap’…and it was all decided by what shoes you wore.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:53:21 +0000

Did you know hipsters have been around since the 40s?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281940s_subculture%29

Crazy.