Hipsters.
You've seen them before. Wearing large, plastic glasses, some merely framing some glass, and not actual prescription lenses. Shirts from the 70s, jeans that are too tight, and boots that could be found at any local S&M shoppe.
"But Rizz!" you will find yourself saying. Its okay. Go ahead. Finish that thought. What HAVE they contributed? Keep on thinking. Maybe it will come to you. Someday. The fact is, to be a hipster, is to be not a contributor, or not even a user, but rather a re-user. To find something that has already been done, and do it again, using a shield of pretentiousness to deflect any ideas of "haven't i seen that before?"
Lets review:
The CRM, in addition to the blatantly obvious, opened us up to a world of new music stylings. Jazz, Rock and Roll, and Blues were virtually unheard of in mainstream music back in that era. Move into the Free-Love movement of the 60s and 70s and you come up with the Beatles, Woodstock, people realizing that war didn't need to happen because Uncle Sam said so. That movement also settled and evolved into the people that gave us modern-day studio movies (Star Wars, Jaws), and the reason why girls flip flops all seem to have 3-inch platforms on them.
The 90's gave way to both the Grunge and Hip-Hop movements. Enter torn jeans (which you can purchase pre-torn now), long hair, the biggest problem with authority to date (We were nicknamed Generation X), Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, et cetera. We saw the introduction of established Hip Hop rappers - Dr Dre, 2-Pac, Biggie Smalls. The look of Basketball started to change - from daiy-dukes to baggy shorts. Even some of our latest social movements, even whats going on now - with information sharing, and our fascination with digitally manupliating music - we get Youtube, Facebook, and Daft Punk.
Which brings me back to it. What have Hipsters given us, aside from the general annoyance of having to deal with them on the regular? Arcade Fire? Oh no - that's a band. Hipsters have no trouble finding music, and then deeming it worthy of bearing their stamp of approval (which, for the record, in most cases, means you just have to wail inconsolably into a microphone while you are accompanied by, at best, two other acoustic guitars.) This is a trend that seems to extend to most of the Hipster Persona: find something that someone else did, and deem it "cool." And then, to top it all off, they herald every discovery of theirs as something so cutting edge, and so groundbreaking, that only those clearly "in the know" would even have the slightest idea as to whatever they're discussing. In some cases, you might even go so far as to offend said hipster is the topic in question is supposed to be a "well known" one. (This can be any reference to Arcade Fire or NPR Program.)
The 90's gave way to both the Grunge and Hip-Hop movements. Enter torn jeans (which you can purchase pre-torn now), long hair, the biggest problem with authority to date (We were nicknamed Generation X), Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, et cetera. We saw the introduction of established Hip Hop rappers - Dr Dre, 2-Pac, Biggie Smalls. The look of Basketball started to change - from daiy-dukes to baggy shorts. Even some of our latest social movements, even whats going on now - with information sharing, and our fascination with digitally manupliating music - we get Youtube, Facebook, and Daft Punk.
Which brings me back to it. What have Hipsters given us, aside from the general annoyance of having to deal with them on the regular? Arcade Fire? Oh no - that's a band. Hipsters have no trouble finding music, and then deeming it worthy of bearing their stamp of approval (which, for the record, in most cases, means you just have to wail inconsolably into a microphone while you are accompanied by, at best, two other acoustic guitars.) This is a trend that seems to extend to most of the Hipster Persona: find something that someone else did, and deem it "cool." And then, to top it all off, they herald every discovery of theirs as something so cutting edge, and so groundbreaking, that only those clearly "in the know" would even have the slightest idea as to whatever they're discussing. In some cases, you might even go so far as to offend said hipster is the topic in question is supposed to be a "well known" one. (This can be any reference to Arcade Fire or NPR Program.)
So like i said: Not contributors, but rather, re-users. The one problem is that, from what I've seen, regardless of medium, the stuff hipsters like is the shit that nobody wants anymore. Which is why it was thrown out in the first place.
And seriously guys? Would it kill you to put a little product in your hair and run a comb through it?
