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Forsyth ([personal profile] forsyth) wrote2005-11-03 08:29 pm
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A Question

Okay. So what exactly IS a hipster anyway? Wikipedia's definition is so vague as to be useless. Which, I guess, is the point of labels like that, since you can apply them to almost anyone then.

Actually, the definition of hipster there might as well say "an extroverted geek." Or something.
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[personal profile] frustratedpilot 2005-11-03 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno, a "geek" is either someone whose intelligence or ugliness or both mitigates against social success, whereas a "hipster" is someone who downplays his own intelligence and/or ugliness in the hopes of social success, and values social success over all things.

[identity profile] colinmo.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hipster is a file sharing network based on booty shaking.