Is "hipster" the new "emo" for dated nerds?

[mjrpes3]

If hipster is old, what is new?

 

[Ghiddy]

Hipster is not a "2001-2003 term," it existed decades before 2001 and continues to be popular. It sounds like you live in an area of Brooklyn that is heavily populated by hipsters - the term wouldn't be popular there, because hipsters don't call themselves hipsters.



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Brooklyn is crawling with hipsters. OP doesn't know what he's talking about.

 

[slackerinabox]

Hipster is not a "2001-2003 term," it existed decades before 2001 and continues to be popular. It sounds like you live in an area of Brooklyn that is heavily populated by hipsters - the term wouldn't be popular there, because hipsters don't call themselves hipsters.



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I know it dates far back, but the big resurgence these days was tied to the early 2000s, with hipster bands and hipster ironic fashion. Don't get me wrong, I dislike hipsters mostly because they're 30 and act 16, skateboarding and drinking expensive drinks in shitty thrift shop clothes instead of having bills or responsibilities, I just wonder what's with the uptick of using it to describe people who just like a movie that you dislike. Hipster movies include crappy indies or ironic camp, where does this calling someone who likes transformers a hipster come from?

 

[Perknose]

it's a term that originated around 5-6 years ago, why is everyone using it now?

Time and again, in ways big and small, you relentlessly keep reminding us what a clueless ass you are.

 

[alkemyst]

It's funny how people that don't get out think they understand counter culture

 

[shortylickens]

I see a lot of people calling each other hipsters on forums, a term that's been out-of-use and dated here in Brooklyn for years (it's a 2001-2003 term)>... Reminds me of how everyone was calling each other emo years after the word lost its meaning in the real world. What triggered the resurgence? Why do you call everyone a hipster, even when it doesn't apply?

Actually you're out of date.
The term is MUCH older than that and made a comeback in New York in the mid 90's and (according to you) 2001.

 

[pontifex]

No one here pretends to be a gangster. Well, a couple, maybe, but they are entirely irrelevant.

Yeah, I don't agree with wankster in the urban dictionary definition.

wanker is much better description.

 

[slackerinabox]

Actually you're out of date.
The term is MUCH older than that and made a comeback in New York in the mid 90's and (according to you) 2001.

See above, I know it's been around before my time but the resurgence of its use was early 2000s, but I only see people using the term only lately (unless we're talking about gawker.com or pitchfork). My question is really not the origin time but why it's being used to just describe anyone people disagree with, not a very particular socio-economic class of new age slackers.

 

[Dumac]

See above, I know it's been around before my time but the resurgence of its use was early 2000s, but I only see people using the term only lately (unless we're talking about gawker.com or pitchfork). My question is really not the origin time but why it's being used to just describe anyone people disagree with, not a very particular socio-economic class of new age slackers.

I know what you mean. I first started seeing widespread usage on the internet around when Scott Pilgrim started development. I'm sure it was used in other places before then, but after SP it seem to stick online.