Current Events > Do you ever use "hipster" as an insult?

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Hipster is a term co-opted for use as a meaningless pejorative in order to vaguely call someone elses authenticity into question and, by extension, claim authenticity for yourself.

It serves no conversational function and imparts no information, save for indicating the opinions and preferences of the speaker.

Meanwhile, a market myth has sprung up around the term, as well as a cultural bogeyman consisting of elusive white 20-somethings who wear certain clothes (but no one will agree on what), listen to certain music (no one can agree on this either), and act a certain way (youve probably sensed the pattern on your own).

You cant define what that kind of behavior or fashion or lifestyle actually is, nor will you ever be able to. Thats because you dont use hipster to describe an actual group of people, but to describe a fictional stereotype that is an outlet for literally anything that annoys you.

The twist, of course, is that if it werent for your own insecurities, nothing that a hipster could do or wear would ever affect you emotionally. But you are insecure about your own authenticity - Do I wear what I wear because I want to? Do I listen to my music because I truly like it? Im certainly not like those filthy hipsters! - so you project those feelings.

Suffice it to say, no one self-identifies as a hipster; the term is always applied to an Other, to separate the authentic Us from the inauthentic, ironic Them.
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No.
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tl;dr
hipster is such a 2012 insult. it's probably a complement to most these days lul.
so no.
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I don't consider it a pejorative, but there are definitely people who fit the extreme stereotypes with laughably ridiculous characteristics.
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I always thought it had strictly negative connotations. My assumption for the definition was always something akin to "people who are needlessly obsessed with fashion and following the latest trends". Nowadays it seems like the new term for hipster is 'normie', whatever that one means.
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yeah all the time. i p much use hipster as an insult now. its because my work is filled with then
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