History Main / Hipster

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgGItLYyBQ0 "That Boy That Girl"]] by Hadouken! mocks the hipster/indie scene that was popping up in the UK at the time (2006). There was a whole a whole scene sort of analogous to the American {{Crunkcore}} scene, of Website/MySpace famous bands merging indie music and electronics, and fans dressing like they were going to a rave (NME labelled the genre "New Rave"). Most of Hadouken!'s early output was basically this but PlayedForLaughs, and by the time their first album came out in 2008 they'd gotten past it, and most of the new songs on it were serious.

* Website/{{Tumblr}} is considered to be full of hipsters. The whole site works as such: You post some content (usually a picture). If others like it, they reblog it, and people who like it seen from those sites reblog it, and so on. You get recognition as the person who posted the thing before it was popular because it always leads back to you. Other subcultures have cropped up since then, but they still collectively refer to the community still focusing on this original form of blogging as "hipster blogs".

* Website/CollegeHumor sometimes makes fun of hipsters. Of particular note is their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-dD-QKYN4 Instagram song]], a parody of Photograph by Nickelback (which is a band that a true hipster would never ever listen to).

Spiritual--if not actual--descendant of the {{Yuppie}} (albeit with less overt or crass materialism [[note]] Whereas a 1980s yuppie would ostentatiously wear Brooks Brothers shirts and Rolex watches to display their wealth and status, a hipster will wear a vintage shirt and carry brand new Mac laptop to display their taste and style.[[/note]] and class anxiety). Also, compare EmoTeen, {{Beatnik}}, GranolaGirl, NewAgeRetroHippie, BourgeoisBohemian, TechBro. See also [[AgingWouldBeHipster Aging Would-Be Hipsters]] who are characters who either were hip years ago and are now desperately trying to get back into "the scene" (despite having little or no idea of what's going on) or are long-term hipsters who sense the world is drifting away from them.

** Hipsterdom and geekdom is discussed and played with in the comic, the main characters are vaguely nerdy guys and girls that enjoy their lives and defy stereotype of both Hipsters and Nerds (While they like video games, comics and anime, they also go to parties and have relationships which is considered un-geek by the media. They play in a indie band an have certain unusual interests but their tastes are genuine and honest instead of trying to look cool like hipsters do). The villains and antagonists in the other hand are trying too hard to be hip and appear as cool, Envy, for example, rejected her [[OtakuSurrogate otaku]] past and adopted the persona of a sexy, mature rocker. Ramona Flowers also exemplifies this, by being a hipsterish woman that doesn't feel bad for hanging out with her much geekier boyfriend and his friends, while Knives is a teenager looking for her identity and tried to be both geek and hipster, she failed in them two. If this comic [[AnAesop teaches something]] is to be yourself, as the most well adjusted characters are {{Cool Loser}}s while the antagonists are just losers pretending to be cool.

* ''WebVideo/TheKaskadeRegion'', a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Fakemon]] region based on the Pacific Northwest US, takes many cues from its cultures, and the eighth Gym Leader, Trip, is a beanie-wearing hipster. He is very well-traveled, encourages everyone to ignore the labels that society gives them and just [[BeYourself be themselves]], and is rather smug when showing off his Pokémon, which his opponents have probably never seen, from regions they've never been to before.

** Hipsterdom and geekdom is discussed and played with in the comic, the main characters are vaguely nerdy guys and girls that enjoy their lives and defy stereotype of both Hipsters and Nerds (While they like video games, comics and anime, they also go to parties and have relationships which is considered un-geek by the media. They play in a indie band an have certain unusual interests but their tastes are genuine and honest instead of trying to look cool like hipsters do). The villains and antagonists in the other hand are trying too hard to be hip and appear as cool, Envy, for example, rejected her [[OtakuSurrogate otaku]] past and adopted the persona of a sexy, mature rocker. Ramona Flowers also exemplifies this, by being a hipsterish woman that doesn't feel bad for hanging out with her much geekier boyfriend and his friends, while Knives is a teenager looking for her identity and tried to be both geek and hipster, she failed in them two. If this comic [[AnAesop teaches something]] is to be yourself, as the most well adjusted characters are cool losers while the antagonists are just losers pretending to be cool.

* {{Hipster}}: One of ten Types is this. Hipsters usually wear their hair in a bun, have small beards and/or mustaches, and wear narrow glasses and high-class outfits. They typically like avant-garde art, artisan coffee, and activities related to activism.

** The episode "Cool Bikes" is a big [[AffectionateParody affectionate]] criticism towards the subculture, as it pretty much makes fun of the shallowness of recent hipster attitude. In this episode Benson takes the golf cart out and gives Mordecai and Rigby some old-fashioned bikes instead, and says that he won't give it back unless they become cool. To achieve this, Mordecai and Rigby start to buy very expensive clothes that squarrly fit into hipster stereotypes and adopt an aloof and cold attitude, it works just fine as they start to be admired by other hipsters who imitate their style, but although Mordecai and Rigby do look pretty cool, they do nothing to deserve that distinction. A common criticism toward current hipsterdom is that they are much focused on their image rather in real artistic merits (This was criticized since their early days, but it has become more prevalent during the late [[TheNewTens 2000s]].) and they just do un-cool stuff (Old-fashioned bikes, miss-matched outfits with an 80's feel) with a "super-cold" attitude that immediately makes that stuff cool. Later in the episode they are accused of being "way too cool" for being alive (ItMakesSenseInContext), and the prosecutor in the trial comment how everyone else copied their style and even mentioned "Ironic T-Shirts" (A staple of hipster fashion and attitude) as another trend popularized by Mordecai and Rigby.

** Hipsterdom and geekdom is discussed and played with in the comic, the main characters are vaguely nerdy guys and girls that enjoy their lives and defy stereotype of both Hipsters and Nerds (While they like video games, comics and anime, they also go to parties and have relationships which is considered un-geek by the media. They play in a indie band an have certain unusual interests but their tastes are genuine and honest instead of trying to look cool like hipsters do). The villains and antagonists in the other hand are trying too hard to be hip and appear as cool, Envy, for example, rejected her [[OtakuSurrogate otaku]] past and adopted the persona of a sexy, mature rocker. Ramona Flowers also exemplifies this, by being a hipsterish woman that doesn't feel bad for hanging out with her much geekier boyfriend and his friends, while Knives is a teenager looking for her identity and tried to be both geek and hipster, she failed in them two. If this comic [[AnAesop teaches something]] is to be yourself, as the most well adjusted characters are [[CoolLoser cool losers]] while the antagonists are just losers pretending to be cool.

* [[AffectionateParody Affectionately used]] in GameMod ''VideoGame/RedAlert3Paradox'' with the Viet Cong, who are hipsters by virtue of being ''underground'' and because no one has ever heard of them when they attacked.
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'': Who stuck Tao in a Hipster?

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Commander Shepard uses a hilarious line when pretending to be prey for Morinth:
-->'''Shepard:''' I like obscure music.\\
'''Morinth:''' How obscure?\\
'''Shepard:''' If you've heard of it, it's already too mainstream for me.[[note]] This approach actually fails to attract her, because Morinth is at heart a hedonist, while eschewing the mainstream for the obscure is done many times for bragging rights.[[/note]]
** Morinth herself counts as one, as her typical prey includes artists and creative persons. She also loves anything which celebrates hedonism and the grotesque.

* This kind of personality is parodied in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'' of all places. One of the new personality types that can move into your town are known as "Smug". These kind of villagers are males villagers who talk about how suave and stylish they are, often try to hit on female and male players and how they're into obscure kinds of music (and 8-bit chiptunes "because those are glorious") and other geeky things like trains and anime. However, [[ClosetGeek they rather would be called "enthusiasts"]]. They also complain about how they don't have a favorite TV show anymore because whenever they get into one, the network cancels it.
* In the office simulator in ''VideoGame/JobSimulator'', you can hire "Hipster Bot". He wears glasses, founded Font Snob Club, and has worked at a grape juice brewery.
* In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryWetDreamsDontDry'', most characters (excepting TheBartender and the time-shifted protagonist) are hipsters. Becky, an alcohol connoisseur whose quest for [[BlandNameProduct Instacrap]] fame leads her to drink a GargleBlaster, gets the most savage commentary from a game that's primarily an AffectionateParody.
* ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'' has Jordan Cross, lead singer of indie band The Class, who has the dress sense, beard, manbun haircut, and veganism of a typical hipster. This being ''Hitman'', it's down to 47 to ensure he joins the infamous 27 Club.

In the [[TheForties 1940s]], "hipsters" were middle-class white people (often Jewish, or at least [[AmbiguouslyJewish ambiguously so]]) who [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy emulated]] the lifestyles of black {{jazz}} musicians. This was, for them, an existentialist rejection of "square" mainstream society. These hipsters were an unorganized movement that eventually morphed into poetry-reading, marijuana-smoking {{beatnik}}s of the [[TheFifties 1950s]] and [[NewAgeRetroHippie the psychedelic drug-using, free love-oriented hippies]] of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].

Sometime in the late [[TheNineties 1990s]] - [[TurnOfTheMillennium early 2000s]], the term "hipster" was dusted off and applied to a new generation that expressed the old hipster ideals--being against mainstream trends--in new ways. They were now predominantly middle-class or upper-middle class (especially the well-off "trust fund hipster"), college-educated, , white 20-something-year-olds, usually from the Pacific Northwest, New York City, or New England, interested in "alternative" culture: left-of-center politics; [[AlternativeIndie alternative music]]; independent, cult classic, and foreign films; thrift-store or vintage fashion; [[IProduct Apple products]]; a diet of locally-grown, organic, or vegetarian/vegan food, and craft beers. Hipsters prefer to live in genrifying areas where the rents are still a bit affordable and where there are bars, cafes and stores (record stores, vintage clothes stores) catering to their interests.

In TheNewTens, self-identified hipsters (if such a thing can even be found, as no one seems willing to call themselves by this name) view themselves as intellectuals who reject the mainstream and carefully define their own identities, taking [[{{Postmodernism}} a buffet-style approach]] to elements of other cultures and subcultures. Your typical hipster outfit will appropriate and/or cannibalize elements from the punk, hippie and rave scenes, plus [[TheNineties '90s]] {{Grunge}} and modern geek-chic, as well as some token from a non-Western culture (usually Asian or Native American); lacking the ''[[{{Postmodernism}} raison d'etre]]'' of any of these subcultures, the hipster will instead use [[DeadpanSnarker an air of sarcasm]] to tie the ensemble together (the '60s hippie did much the same, only without the irony).

Hipsters' musical tastes are eclectic but generally centered around such genres as IndiePop, AlternativeHipHop, PostRock and minimalist {{Techno}}. Particular bands hipsters tend to enjoy include Music/BelleAndSebastian, Music/BenFolds, Jens Lekman, Music/AnimalCollective, Dr. Dog, Music/BestCoast, and all of the Elephant 6 Collective bands (especially Music/NeutralMilkHotel), although only knowing those bands is only [[Franchise/GIJoe half the battle]] as an obscure and eclectic taste in music is preferred, and much of which is collected on vinyl. ''[[http://pitchfork.com Pitchfork]]'', a music blog, is probably the most important hipster tastemaker and gatekeeper of the past decade. It's often joked that this is what {{Emo}}s turn into when they grow up.

It should be noted that [[DontShootTheMessage while these bands may be popular among hipsters, this doesn't make the bands themselves 'hipster bands']]. Conversely, a nominal 'hipster band' may actually be abandoned by hipsters if it [[ItsPopularNowItSucks becomes too "mainstream"]]. (Music/ArcadeFire, for instance, were written off by many once they found mainstream popularity from its Grammy wins and soundtrack appearances in movies like ''Film/WhereTheWildThingsAre'' and ''Film/TheHungerGames''.) Additionally, a good portion of bands loved by hipsters actively reject the sarcasm, snobbery, and trendiness that often go along with hipster culture. Music/ArcadeFire have been known to throw in [[TakeThatAudience jabs]] at them in their songs ("they will eat right out of your hand/using great big words that they don't understand!") and indie folk group Music/BonIver outright defied the label by recording an ultra-sincere, proudly cheesy {{autotune}}d PowerBallad for their second album.

A critical mind might see hipsters as yet another subculture dedicated to individuality ended up manifesting just as much herd mentality as the mainstream it rejected, along with a tendency to act as though [[ItsPopularNowItSucks popularity and quality are inversely proportional]], and to be aggressively smug (read: shamelessly arrogant) about it. This often leads to parodies of hipsters that boil down to one joke-hipsters as hypocrites concerned with making themselves superior by being different.

In the [[TheForties 1940s]], "hipsters" were middle-class white people (often Jewish, or at least [[AmbiguouslyJewish ambiguously so]]) who [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy emulated]] the lifestyles of black {{jazz}} musicians. This was, for them, an existentialist rejection of "square" mainstream society. These hipsters were an unorganized movement that eventually morphed into poetry-reading, marijuana-smoking [[{{Beatnik}} beatniks]] of the [[TheFifties 1950s]] and [[NewAgeRetroHippie the psychedelic drug-using, free love-oriented [[hippies]] of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].

* Max Caulfield in ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' is mocked for being a hipster, something she agrees with somewhat. She talks about raiding a thrift store for a new wardrobe for school, watches not-mainstream-but-not-really-obscure movies like ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' and ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'', and her playlist seems to consist only of slow, acoustic guitar music. She's not "in your face" about it though.

* In ''VideoGame/FossilFighters: Champions'', the TerribleTrio is made up of AcceptableHobbyTargets. They're eventually made sympathetic by the end - they only fell in with the [[spoiler:supposed]] bad guy because he's the only one who treated them decently - but Cole the hipster is still the target of more mockery than the other two (a metalhead and a hippie, for the record).

Sometime in the late [[TheNineties 1990s]] - [[TurnOfTheMillennium early 2000s]], the term "hipster" was dusted off and applied to a new generation that expressed the old hipster ideals--being against mainstream trends--in new ways. They were now predominantly middle-class or upper-middle class (especially the well-off "trust fund hipster"), college-educated, urban, white 20-something-year-olds, usually from the Pacific Northwest, New York City, or New England, interested in "alternative" culture: left-of-center politics; [[AlternativeIndie alternative music]]; independent, cult classic, and foreign films; thrift-store or vintage fashion; [[IProduct Apple products]]; a diet of locally-grown, organic, or vegetarian/vegan food, and craft beers. Hipsters prefer to live in genrifying urban areas where the rents are still a bit affordable and where there are bars, cafes and stores (record stores, vintage clothes stores) catering to their interests.

Politically, the typical hipster will be center-left, being against "[[MegaCorp big business]]" and believing strongly in social justice, but still wary of high taxes and, like their fashion and music tastes, taking a mix-and-match approach to political views. This is sometimes [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] into a [[PoliticalOvercorrectness politically overcorrect]] [[StrawmanPolitical liberal strawman]] who thinks EverythingIsRacist and that [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical everything has political undertones]]. A more modern example that emerged in the 2010s, inhabiting more or less the same side of the political spectrum but with very different preoccupations, is the self-described socialist who associates themselves with 20th-century left-wing revolutionary imagery and, living in a gentrified urban neighborhood, fixates on issues like student debt relief, cannabis legalization, and bringing back rent control that specifically affect urban, middle-class residents.

* Music/ArcadeFire's ''Music/{{The Suburbs}}'' mocks hipsters in several songs, most obviously in "Rococo," which is in part about the band's early fanbase abandoning them once they became popular and thus no longer 'cool.' "Month of May" attacks hipstery cynicism and aloofness, and "Suburban War" tells a loose story of two friends who become separated when their musical tastes clash (mixed in with a lot of GrowingUpSucks imagery).

-->''There goes that OG suburban drifter\\

* On the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Lady and Gentrification", Peggy sells a lot of homes in Enrique's neighborhood to hipsters, who like it for its ethnic flavor. Eventually they start opening business and driving up property values, to the point that poor Enrique can't afford to live there anymore; he ''rents'' his house, not ''own'' it. Peggy and Hank fix this by [[spoiler: pretending that rednecks and typical suburban white people were moving in]].