What is hipster?

[firecat]

There is a company that sells printed magnetic sheets the size of your whole refrigerator*. This one depicts 35mm cameras, Converse basketball shoes, round glasses, something that looks like a cassette tape, and something else I can't parse. This particular magnet is called "hipsters set."

http://www.kudumagnets.com/hipsters-set

I thought I had an idea of what hipster is. But this makes me think that hipster is nostalgia for the 70s, and that's not what I thought it was.

*If you ask me, that takes all the fun out of refrigerator magnets.

Comments

[firecat]

I'll believe they're serious about being unfashionable when they start wearing mullets.

[staranise]

I have seen this.

[firecat]

That makes me happy for some reason.

[bibliofile]

OMG, that's just nuts.* [pounds cane on floor and goes on about kids!thesedays]

*and I say that as a (technically) crazy person

[firecat]

Actually I guess it's quite a thing. Although some of those look more like a wide mohawk. (Which is what I have. If they want to look like a 50 year old woman, I find that amusing.)

https://encrypted.google.com/search?&q=hipster%20mullet

[cleverthylacine]

...I've always kind of liked those. Sorry.

[firecat]

Actually, I like them too. It seems to me they never got a name until they were long out of fashion, and then a lot of people were screaming about how dorky they were.