baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Hm, I'm not convinced by this. Personally I'm not too bothered what music other people consume, it's the unfriendliness/ironic detachment (in terms of personality) I've encountered in places that might be deemed 'hipsterish' that has made me have negative feelings towards them.
In fact I'm fine with the hipsters I've met who have been friendly enough, don't have any particular problem with them, it's just that they've tended to be in the minority in the places I've been to. More often I've encountered tedious oneupmanship. Which is not to say that this attitude doesn't exist elsewhere (of course it does), but that it seems very common in hipster environments. As does (blatantly) 'ironic' dancing - the sense that doing anything earnestly must be somehow uncool. And that is as damning as it gets.
But as you rightly say, doesn't apply to all hipsters/people who hang around in hipsterish places. Some are very nice people.
In fact I'm fine with the hipsters I've met who have been friendly enough, don't have any particular problem with them, it's just that they've tended to be in the minority in the places I've been to. More often I've encountered tedious oneupmanship. Which is not to say that this attitude doesn't exist elsewhere (of course it does), but that it seems very common in hipster environments. As does (blatantly) 'ironic' dancing - the sense that doing anything earnestly must be somehow uncool. And that is as damning as it gets.
But as you rightly say, doesn't apply to all hipsters/people who hang around in hipsterish places. Some are very nice people.
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