Hello all you awesome people who read my blog! This week's blog post is about an American subculture, specifically...... *drum roll*........ HIPSTERS.
Now I'm sure we've alllllllllllllllll seen, talked about, or heard of them at least once in our lives. There are 2 types of hipsters. One are the hipsters from the 1940s (which we're not gonna get into) and the other group are the urban hipsters. This subculture first appeared in the 1990s and were mostly teenagers and middle-class adults.
Some basic facts about the Hipsters are that they rebel against social norms. The thing you have to understand about this specific subculture is that they hate hate HATE anything mainstream, or in other words, popular. This means that once they start listening to a certain band, they would switch bands if that band is viewed popular by society. In my opinion, this is just very silly. I believe hipsters are just trying very hard to seem interesting to others and be envied by those who aren't hipsters. I'm just talking about those teenage hipsters who think that they are the original hipsters. (Not you, Ms.Basi! YOU'RE AWESOME!)
Hipsters tend to shop at thrift stores and goodwill. They either decide to buy something really cheap under $5 to show that they are fashionable but completely effortless, or they would go and buy vintage clothes. Simple as that.
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See, the Hipster way of doing things is by always striving at all times to stay a step ahead of everyone else. Basically, they would like to show that their subculture is better than any other. They do this by taking out-dated fashions and bringing them back. They are easily spotted with big black framed glasses, effortlessly dressed like a homeless person but still appear fashionable, have a couple of witty tattoos, and drawing mustaches on their face. Yes, hipsters are obsessed with mustaches. But fake mustaches are kind of mainstream, so look out, the hipsters might stop doing it. It wouldn't no longer be unique to them.
One last thing about them is that they are mostly a subculture in New York (Brooklyn).
Well, time to wrap it up. Thanks for reading this week's blog about hipsters and my opinion on them! Sorry if you're offended; I didn't mean to make them sound like 'self-centered freaks'. They're not; I'm sure they're very nice people. They just like their things to be original. Where's the harm in that? :)
Please leave your opinions on hipsters in the comment section below, and have an AWESOME day guys! :D
I went through a hipster-ish phase in like middle school. I was soooo against mainstream music. XD
ReplyDeleteI now realize how silly that all was.
*GASP* :O you stole MY drumroll line from my first blog. How dare you!! I guess I will forgive you. I just won't say it anymore, 'cause you know now it's popular. HAHA
ReplyDeleteGood job! original hipsters from the 1940's seem like cool people. Hipsters these days appear to be wannabe Hipsters.
ReplyDeleteI like the whole hipster ideology. I also find it pointless for them to find something else because it's "popular" but very intriguing blog, I learned something new
ReplyDeletelol I love the picture of the Hipster over there. He kind of looks like you. lol jk. I love how you sucked up to Ms. Basi though XD
ReplyDeleteLol because otherwise, she might get offended since she said she was a hipster.
ReplyDeleteYou called me awesome :') Lol love the picture... it's so cute.
ReplyDeleteA lot of those hipster do live in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY). The ones with real artistic talent are pretty awesome to hang out with - very friendly, interesting, talented people. Many of them dont just stop listening to their favorite band just because it became famous. But now there are these NEW hipsters that Deni is talking about, which are just annoying. They are stuck up rich kids that are trying to rebel. Trashing the good (old) hipster name. haha That's just what I noticed from the couple of months I lived there.
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