that's because we live in a society that promotes individualism. so being part of any trend is seen as being weak minded

if only we lived in a collectivist society, such as russia, china, or an ant colony, being a hipster would be considered a good thing

Nah, I meant the ones with perfectly circular glasses.

Are those hipster? Interesting...
Those damn kids nowadays and their weird ideas.

Nah, man.
Lots of people label themselves as punks, metalheads and tons of other subcultures.
The thing about hipsters is, that they are considered inherently inauthentic.

i guess... if it just so happens that you, exo, are acutally the original hipster, then i understand your plight

just seems statistically unlikely is all

and since anytime you ask anybody (but especially hipsters) whether they follow the crowd or just try to be themselves.... without fail, each and every one of them will claim to be original. i guess at this point the real 'original' thing to do would be to claim that you are deriving your behavior, dress, musical taste, etc from everyone else

so in pronouncing that humans are social animals, and that all of us, including myself, take and borrow traits from those we admire, i JWB do dub myself king hipster and better than frownland + exo combined

and since i have no respect for democracy (an idea which i've borrowed, and goes all the way back to ancient greek philosophers, who also ruled that democracy is gay), i also declare the poll results of this thread irrelevant.

true... but punks and metalheads are just ****ing retarded

I think the part that you weren't getting with my argument was that you kept stating that everybody follows and takes influence from other people and adjust it into their lifestyle if they find it cool.

I agree with that. That's good psychology.

My point, which you finally came to in your last post, was that if everybody does that, then everybody is a hipster, but that isn't the case. This person is a hipster and that person over there is not. Why? Because people say so. Even if everybody WAS a hipster, the term would lose all meaning.

This is why it just doesn't make sense to me.

Doesn't asking the question in the first place make Vanilla the most hipster by default?

Dude, haven't you heard? Sea Horses are ironically cool now. Guess you're a hipster.

To add,

WHO CARES?

Are you guys really so self conscious that being mistook for a hipster is a valid concern in your life? If so, y'all ain't very hip.

Wait...the word actually has meaning?