I have discovered an anti-hipster.

There's this guy in one of my classes who is pretty much the exact opposite of a hipster. At first I thought he was just mainstream, but now it's become clear to me that he's much more than that.

While a hipster is someone who aggressively acts against mainstream culture, an anti-hipster is aggressively for it.

This is different from just being a mainstream person, instead of just enjoying mainstream culture, you have to fight for it. Most mainstream people aren't anti-hipsters, they just sort of go with what's cool. An anti-hipster will instead tell you why it's cool an why you should be doing what everyone else does.

If you think one of your friends might be an anti-hipster, listen closely for these key identifying phrases or behaviors:

• "[Popular Work of Fiction] isn't overrated."

• "You just hate [Popular Thing] because it's cool."

• Can only genuinely enjoy something if others are enjoying it.

• May be indistinguishable from a hipster in areas with large hipster populations.

I'd say that sounds like a sheep, but actually that wraps all the way back around to sounding pretty original. So, good for him, I guess?

So, he's a tool then? Okay.

So he's an intelligent individual who doesn't buy into stupid concepts like things being "over" or "under"rated? Good for him, then.

This post was thumped by the Merciless Hammer of Doom

I'm so hipster, hipsters are too mainstream for me. Thus I go full circle and enjoy mainstream entertainment. Am I an anti-hipster?

But....does he do it unironically?

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Isn't an anti-hipster merely a hipster going backward in time?

edited 2nd Dec '11 5:32:35 AM by Carciofus

So an anti-hipster and hipster annihilate if they meet?

Considering the proposed personalities involved, I gather they would!

edited 2nd Dec '11 5:35:49 AM by Matrix

What is the electric charge of a hipster, anyway?

edited 2nd Dec '11 5:39:51 AM by Carciofus

probably a negative. Because positive numbers are so mainstream and stuff.

It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it.

edited 2nd Dec '11 5:41:03 AM by inane242

That's so square, daddy-o.

i bet he uses firefox

I love firefox. Proving I am not Steve Jobs.

Wow, it's like someone divided by zero all up in here.

I bet he loves the shit out of puppets. Ironically, of course.

If we keep a hipster near an anti-hipster, could we power a starship?

we have found renewable energy
the earth is saved

edited 2nd Dec '11 6:24:16 AM by CommanderObvious

this attitude makes me homicidal.

WICKED!

MY BROTHER OF THE SPIRIT

Well, we could always accelerate a hipster and an anti-hipster into each other, in the LHC.

edited 2nd Dec '11 11:02:19 AM by Inhopelessguy

I have this one friend who only takes movies seriously if they're live-action American films did well at the box office, and only watches You Tube videos with a 99:1 like/dislike ratio.

Re: Counterculture physics discussion: Where does a Dark Hipster fit into this?