Exo

If I wore a Big Bird costume for most of my adult life and then all of a sudden Big Bird costumes became ironically cool, would that mean that I'm the same as the new people who are wearing Big Bird costumes?

Your psychology is fine dude. Your logic is f*cked.

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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.

Exo

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.

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Wait...the word actually has meaning?

John Wilkes Booth

nah but you're forgetting the counter cultural part

hipsters are people who derive influence from prominent counter cultures and stay on the cutting edge within said cultures

shopping at hollister isn't hipster

listening to death grips is

Exo

That would mean Chula is a hipster. THIS WHOLE F*CKING DISCUSSION IS STUPID.

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I could've told you that.

John Wilkes Booth

i could've told you that