Hipster Counterculture
Comments debate the nature of hipster attitudes as contradictory or contrived counterculture, the mainstreaming of what was once counterculture, and how hipsters paradoxically follow obscure trends to appear different.
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There is a big trend on this thread for people to declare themselves the counter culture like it is an aspiration to be so.
More of a counterculture really.
This comment is a bunch of contradictory hipster attitudes.
This is what might be described as the 'hipster' sentiment distilled to its base axiom.Not necessarily knocking it, though!
Seems to me they are being hipster - the opposite of true cool. They're grasping at straws - whatever seems to be hot.
You seem arbitrarily biased against something you think is too "hipster".
Sounds like how hipsters can appear similar while aiming to be being different within their circles.
That's the cliche, but that's not how it works. I'm in the middle of so-called hipster culture. There are no trends and there isn't really a disregard for trend following. There's more an apathy toward the entire concept of trends. There's also not much self-obsession, either: My friends who wear obnoxiously oversized glasses usually bought them with other friends and wear them because they think it's funny. It's not a nonconforming thing and it's not a trend. If anything it's more of an impulse
This is because the counter-culture is now just the culture.These are all just normal things, it's sort of cringey when people pretend otherwise.
That sounds like an issue with mainstream counterculture. :-)