was it just middle class? the hipster anxiety was a collective realisation of the impossibility of authenticity projected onto / channelled through one group
I still hear hipster quite a bit. It's devolved to mean anyone that has interestsI don't think I've even heard the term 'hipster' in a decade. It's weird how it died off. There are threads on here discussing them the way people discuss the Iraq War.
Hipsters: Scourge or Irrelevence
Adbusters attacks the figure of the Hipster: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html Momus responds: http://imomus.livejournal.com/390994.html K-punk confesses and counter-attacks: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/010588.html Are hipsters in fact the scourge of...dissensus.com
Yeah, this is just mainstream culture now.I guess there's the craft-beer-and-beard contingent people moan about, but I don't sense quite the same venom there.
That came to mind reading Luka's comment about James Lavelle's Star Wars figures in another thread. It's become normal to have comics and action figures and whatnot.Yeah, this is just mainstream culture now.
Lavelle very much a proto hipster. I always say the beastie boys 'invented it' with Grand Royal but Lavelles collection of star wars figures etc is part of the same complex.
I remember a bunch of hipster bands with hipster fans writing songs about hipsters as though they weren't hipsters themselves.