The ineluctable desire to count hipsters! Old Williamsburg joke: `Q: How many hipsters does it take to change a light bulb? A: You mean you don’t already know?`
One thing about hipsters, they’re always telling you it’s over. I was told that when I moved to Billyburg 2001. Then the NYT wrote it up, so that was really over. By 2008 & your N…
The ineluctable desire to count hipsters! Old Williamsburg joke: `Q: How many hipsters does it take to change a light bulb? A: You mean you don’t already know?`
One thing about hipsters, they’re always telling you it’s over. I was told that when I moved to Billyburg 2001. Then the NYT wrote it up, so that was really over. By 2008 & your Nick and Nora that moment was backdrop for rom-coms, by 2011 self-parody in Portlandia, by 2022 nostalgia in sitcoms and the revisionism of Meet Me in the Bathroom.
I doubt hipster culture has been replaced by poptimism. It was always awkward in the dayglo of the mainstream. It broke, attracted money, then economics moved a generation out of the neighborhoods. (Although I saw a lot of grey hair at Wet Leg`s gig at Union Pool.) Many had kids. Some of those kids are unsurprisingly alienated from the mainstream. Don’t get them started on mall goths or Hot Topic.
Now there’s always someone ready with a YouTube rundown on the history of goth, grunge or post-punk or what came before. Cost of entry to subcultures is reduced. Somebody out there is buying those cassette tape versions of albums made on nuclear test equipment while sharing their own phased locked loops.
Since the 40s hipsters have curated intentional subculture, often co-opting older or other cultures. Occasionally that triggers a fad or a fashion which, in hipster terms, was over before it went mainstream. Those awkward kids still need their own scenes for some sense of belonging.
The ineluctable desire to count hipsters! Old Williamsburg joke: `Q: How many hipsters does it take to change a light bulb? A: You mean you don’t already know?`
One thing about hipsters, they’re always telling you it’s over. I was told that when I moved to Billyburg 2001. Then the NYT wrote it up, so that was really over. By 2008 & your Nick and Nora that moment was backdrop for rom-coms, by 2011 self-parody in Portlandia, by 2022 nostalgia in sitcoms and the revisionism of Meet Me in the Bathroom.
I doubt hipster culture has been replaced by poptimism. It was always awkward in the dayglo of the mainstream. It broke, attracted money, then economics moved a generation out of the neighborhoods. (Although I saw a lot of grey hair at Wet Leg`s gig at Union Pool.) Many had kids. Some of those kids are unsurprisingly alienated from the mainstream. Don’t get them started on mall goths or Hot Topic.
Now there’s always someone ready with a YouTube rundown on the history of goth, grunge or post-punk or what came before. Cost of entry to subcultures is reduced. Somebody out there is buying those cassette tape versions of albums made on nuclear test equipment while sharing their own phased locked loops.
Since the 40s hipsters have curated intentional subculture, often co-opting older or other cultures. Occasionally that triggers a fad or a fashion which, in hipster terms, was over before it went mainstream. Those awkward kids still need their own scenes for some sense of belonging.