Wearing Harry Potter type glasses all the time even thought they don't need glasses
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Having an obsession with pot plants and trying to grow your own veg (or just chilis).
Shaping the ends of your moustache with moustache wax.
Drinking artisanal coffee / beer or eating artisanal bread
Shaping the ends of your moustache with moustache wax.
Drinking artisanal coffee / beer or eating artisanal bread
Wearing clear lens glasses (but probably took the piss out of the “speccy” kids at school)
Band tees
Old, frayed and bobbly cardigans
Only drinking craft beers
Men in those tight slim fit shorts and espadrilles combo
Band tees
Old, frayed and bobbly cardigans
Only drinking craft beers
Men in those tight slim fit shorts and espadrilles combo
Don’t shave their armpits?
I would say that's more the professional eco-warrior types. Hipsters tend to be immaculate.
Guilty as charged!
Oh god, a few of my cousins are the BIGGEST hipsters going.. Christmas dinner with them is insufferable.
These are people who went to art college with their fellow hipsters and did degrees in 'visual cultures', 'service design', 'new media studies' (i.e. I wanted the vibe of going to art college, but I can't draw for tit).
They frequent restaurants that serve drinks in mason jars, have menus in childrens books and paintings of weird moustaches on the wall. They will also usually only eat foods from countries whose cuisines haven't gone too mainstream (yet). duck your wagamama ramen, that's sooo basic... I only want authentic Vietnamese pho and a kambucha bubble tea smoothie from a food truck that hasn't registered with the food safety authority. If they decide that alcohol is acceptable, only ales from micro-brewers and the likes are acceptable. And for the love of god, don't bring up the micro-brew beers with them, I swear they could go on about IPAs for months.
Buying clothes is a whole ordeal with them as well... everything is 'thrifted' or from a 'vintage' pop-up store (charity shop goods, but at ridiculously high hipster prices). Every shop is a pop-up. They all have strange tattoos, usually a crescent moon shape being a common denominator.
They have all been 'DJs' at one point and 'dropped tracks' of synthwavey rit on YouTube with music videos are so highly saturated in contrast that you'll think that you just dropped a tab of acid after watching it. Also they have weird ass raves and concerts... music that "doesn't exactly fit into any genre??" in abandoned warehouses. Oh and if they're not into making music (if you can call it that), they're into photography. Which none of them are great at either.
Smoking weed has somehow become toxic in their minds, but at their crappy get-togethers everyone is on pills. They claim they go to a spiritual retreat ('a healing ceremony') every year to have deep emotional experiences under the guidance of a 'Shaman' but it's really just them doing hallucinogenic drugs in a field somewhere with a dealer who read a book on new age philosophies.
Finally, they all say they work in media.. but they're all on the dole (and this was pre-covid).
Dickheads. The lot of them.
These are people who went to art college with their fellow hipsters and did degrees in 'visual cultures', 'service design', 'new media studies' (i.e. I wanted the vibe of going to art college, but I can't draw for tit).
They frequent restaurants that serve drinks in mason jars, have menus in childrens books and paintings of weird moustaches on the wall. They will also usually only eat foods from countries whose cuisines haven't gone too mainstream (yet). duck your wagamama ramen, that's sooo basic... I only want authentic Vietnamese pho and a kambucha bubble tea smoothie from a food truck that hasn't registered with the food safety authority. If they decide that alcohol is acceptable, only ales from micro-brewers and the likes are acceptable. And for the love of god, don't bring up the micro-brew beers with them, I swear they could go on about IPAs for months.
Buying clothes is a whole ordeal with them as well... everything is 'thrifted' or from a 'vintage' pop-up store (charity shop goods, but at ridiculously high hipster prices). Every shop is a pop-up. They all have strange tattoos, usually a crescent moon shape being a common denominator.
They have all been 'DJs' at one point and 'dropped tracks' of synthwavey rit on YouTube with music videos are so highly saturated in contrast that you'll think that you just dropped a tab of acid after watching it. Also they have weird ass raves and concerts... music that "doesn't exactly fit into any genre??" in abandoned warehouses. Oh and if they're not into making music (if you can call it that), they're into photography. Which none of them are great at either.
Smoking weed has somehow become toxic in their minds, but at their crappy get-togethers everyone is on pills. They claim they go to a spiritual retreat ('a healing ceremony') every year to have deep emotional experiences under the guidance of a 'Shaman' but it's really just them doing hallucinogenic drugs in a field somewhere with a dealer who read a book on new age philosophies.
Finally, they all say they work in media.. but they're all on the dole (and this was pre-covid).
Dickheads. The lot of them.
I have a basket on the front of my bike, but in my defence, it: 1) came with it; and 2) is retro-style so has that look
- Beards (beardy weirdies)
- Mamils (middle aged men in lycra)
- Middle-aged men who wear 101 coloured bands (friendship band-type style) bracelets on their wrist to appear cool (not those who do it because of religious leanings)
- Middle-aged men who wear Harry Potter-style glasses and drive Mini Coopers! (I'm a middle-aged female who drives a Mini Cooper but that of course is fine!
).
Guilty as charged haha
I wear dr martens and I am no way a hipster 
I imagine you've seen the 'Cool to be a head video' LOL. Even though that's a tad dated now it's still pretty spot on.
I'm a total hipster and proud  hate a bandwagon or mainstream stuff. In fact I am totally hipster over hipsters as they are bloody everywhere.
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Drinking Kombucha and actually enjoying it 
It makes me sad that Doc Martens are considered hipster. They were the uniform of my late eighties goth student days and I regularly wear some form of clunky boots even now in my 50s.
Such an earworm - and accurate
I love my life as a head, all my friends are dickheads, too 
Anyone who considers recognisable people from 2014 tumblr “internet famous”.
It was a blogging website, in which people could reblog photos. Having a high amount of reblogs doesn’t really equal fame, it equals the website being what the website was for.
It was a blogging website, in which people could reblog photos. Having a high amount of reblogs doesn’t really equal fame, it equals the website being what the website was for.
= pompous
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I would say the hipster has evolved as certain things have become ubiquitous and mainstream. Beards, for example, are no longer the sign of a hipster, and plenty of normal people are drinking IPAs etc now.
I think currently, the stereotypical hipster is:
Into environmentalism movements (and lecturing everyone about it), such as forraging, only wearing second hand clothing etc... but they still secretly buy their t-shirts and underwear at H&M and still secretly nip down the Co-Op to buy Quavers etc
Very into “proper’ cocktails, possibly have fashioned their own cocktail smoker at home, and will lecture you about why a smoked Old Fashioned with angostura bitters is superior to everything else, why a Negroni MUST be made with Campari and nothing else blah blah blah
Still very into vinyl but turn their noses up at anyone who bought a Crossley at Urban Outfitters (even though they themselves did) and pre-Covid, they were scouring car boot sales for the most random and weird records they could find, because only basic witches buy a Beyonce vinyl from Sainsburys, it’s too mainstream for them
In their uniform of turned up jeans, weird boots, black polo neck jumper, backpack, glasses they don’t need and a brightly coloured beanie.
I think currently, the stereotypical hipster is:
Into environmentalism movements (and lecturing everyone about it), such as forraging, only wearing second hand clothing etc... but they still secretly buy their t-shirts and underwear at H&M and still secretly nip down the Co-Op to buy Quavers etc
Very into “proper’ cocktails, possibly have fashioned their own cocktail smoker at home, and will lecture you about why a smoked Old Fashioned with angostura bitters is superior to everything else, why a Negroni MUST be made with Campari and nothing else blah blah blah
Still very into vinyl but turn their noses up at anyone who bought a Crossley at Urban Outfitters (even though they themselves did) and pre-Covid, they were scouring car boot sales for the most random and weird records they could find, because only basic witches buy a Beyonce vinyl from Sainsburys, it’s too mainstream for them
In their uniform of turned up jeans, weird boots, black polo neck jumper, backpack, glasses they don’t need and a brightly coloured beanie.
i wouldn't say they are generally considered hipster, maybe for some people! i've been wearing them non stop since elementary school, they are just the best shoes possible in my opinion
and they've been around for so long, it's not like they're some new trendalso, for me an obvious sign of a hipster are their chosen pronouns in their social media bios
Dr Martens aren’t hipster 
. My 71 year old mother has a pair. They’re a classic footwear item that has phases of being more ‘on trend’ at times but they never go away and are worn by quite a wide cross section of people.
Also band tees? Maybe wearing certain band tees for obscure ‘trendy’ bands or bands that the wearer blatantly doesn’t listen to, but all band tees on all people who wear them? No.
. My 71 year old mother has a pair. They’re a classic footwear item that has phases of being more ‘on trend’ at times but they never go away and are worn by quite a wide cross section of people.Also band tees? Maybe wearing certain band tees for obscure ‘trendy’ bands or bands that the wearer blatantly doesn’t listen to, but all band tees on all people who wear them? No.