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

[slackerinabox]

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?

 

[Wanescotting]

everything is cyclical

 

[schneiderguy]

Hipster is in common use in CA amongst people my age (20), not just including nerds.

 

[mrkun]

Hipster is in common use in CA amongst people my age (20), not just including nerds.

Yeah it's quite common everywhere on the West Coast I think.

 

[slackerinabox]

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

 

[schneiderguy]

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

Because being a hipster has suddenly become popular in the last 3 or so years? :hmm:

 

[fire hazard]

buncha squares amirite?

 

[BillGates]

Maybe if people weren't hipster douchebags, we wouldn't have to use the term?

 

[TheSlamma]

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

I didn't know the 1940's was 5-6 years ago..

 

[BillGates]

 

[BillGates]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Hipsters and emos are sexy. Nerds are not. Fail premise.

 

[Wanescotting]

Hipsters and emos are sexy. Nerds are not. Fail premise.

I don't think you understand the premise........OP is referring to "nerds" that use the outdated word "hipster"

 

[nageov3t]

shouldn't you be busy playing in an ironic kickball league?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I don't think you understand the premise........OP is referring to "nerds" that use the outdated word "hipster"

Nerds are, however, quite intelligent.

 

[mugs]

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.

shouldn't you be busy playing in an ironic kickball league?

WIN

 

[Wyndru]

Here is the hipster time-line.

 

[pontifex]

so if i believe those hipster links from cracked, then most atoters are hipsters

 

[Wanescotting]

so if i believe those hipster links from cracked, then most atoters are hipsters

Nah, wanksters is more like it.........

 

[alkemyst]

Hipster is what the emos call themselves when they move from upstairs into the basement.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Nah, wanksters is more like it.........

It's wanker, you English-posing-hipster you.

 

[JulesMaximus]

It's a lame way for people who like to fit in, to describe people they feel threatened by, in order to make them feel better about themselves.

 

[zzuupp]

Hipster is what the emos call themselves when they move from upstairs into the basement.

This.

 

[Wanescotting]

It's wanker, you English-posing-hipster you.

Nah, thats not what I meant. Look here:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wankster

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Nah, thats not what I meant. Look here:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wankster

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