I want to be a hipster

Beholder · 2014-02-16 11:04:37

A proper hipster. I think it will be good for my mental health.

Any ideas of where to begin?

I am thinking of getting myself a hand-made bracelet with figurines of Starbucks frappachino cups. It would be a good start.

Any other suggestions?

Tachyon · 2014-02-16 11:06:43

the first step is to not want to be a hipster, and indeed to regard hipsters with contempt, while priding yourself in your authenticity

Obā-san · 2014-02-16 11:08:26

Beholder · 2014-02-16 11:09:32

@Tachyon

Hmm, I am working on it. But wouldn't snarking at hipsters and at my own desire to be one, and wanting to be one ironically, be sufficient?

Tachyon · 2014-02-16 11:11:42

anything is permissible if you do it ironically, no matter how counterintuitive or contradictory it might be

Tachyon · 2014-02-16 11:11:57

stereotypes

Beholder · 2014-02-16 11:20:59

The reasons I think it would be good for my mental health:

1) I would be less worried for my lack of achievement - if anything, I might take pride in it as it signifies refusal to take part in The System
2) I would be less worried about job, which currently stresses me greatly, as it is normal for hipster to drift from job to job and take none seriously
3) It would be good for me to take life less seriously, in general
4) It would improve my abysmally low self-esteem
5) I am already snarky, ironic and contradictory, might as well have a justification
6) Speaking of justification - fancy coffee!

All of the above is said with an even amount of seriousness and facetiousness. Am I on the right track?

Imipolex G · 2014-02-16 12:11:06

Yon Assassin said:

entry-level hipster garbage

Tachyon · 2014-02-16 12:13:51

best genre tbh

Section42L · 2014-02-16 14:48:25

Previous Calica · 2014-02-16 15:16:35

Tachyon said:
the first step is to not want to be a hipster, and indeed to regard hipsters with contempt, while priding yourself in your authenticity

Klinotaxis · 2014-02-16 16:27:11

criminalscum · 2014-02-16 18:26:38

spinor said:

Tachyon said:
the first step is to not want to be a hipster, and indeed to regard hipsters with contempt, while priding yourself in your authenticity

So post in this thread.

Haven · 2014-02-16 18:46:22

You've already been to Portland, I don't know if you have to do anything else.

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-02-16 18:52:51

Live there and grow a beard?

Beholder · 2014-02-16 21:27:09

I'd like to! On both counts. The second looks vaguely more possible

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-02-16 21:31:38

If all else fails, make a vaporwave album and ride around on a penny farthing.

Imipolex G · 2014-02-16 21:33:56

You can't like anything that anyone has ever heard of

MetaFour · 2014-02-16 21:38:28

Beholder said:
A proper hipster.

The first challenge on your epic quest: define "proper hipster".

The second challenge: get someone else to agree with your definition.

Bee · 2014-02-17 00:40:01

Doesn't trying to be a hipster automatically preclude you from being a hipster?

Beholder · 2014-02-17 11:06:34

It seems so. But how do I become a hipster then?

sunn wolf · 2014-02-17 11:34:25

trying to be a hipster can make you into a hipster, but it will not make you into a hipster.

sunn wolf · 2014-02-17 11:35:17

^ saying things like tha,t are incidentally a good start. soon you will be like me and going to house parties full of anarchists and doing a spoken word performance and dancing to vaporwave, and having large in depth conversations about the merits of Berlin techno.

Salix Babylonika · 2014-02-17 11:36:45

first you must reach enlightenment

Haven · 2014-02-17 15:54:10

Tachyon · 2014-02-17 15:55:06

a classic

Section42L · 2014-02-17 16:51:07

Klinotaxis · 2014-02-17 21:09:48

i just noticed that ogrdon freeman's neck cushions look very comfortabl;e

Previous Calica · 2014-02-17 21:31:31

basically a neck pillow almost

glennmagusharvey · 2014-02-19 08:34:45

what should i do if i want to be a thighster or a shinster?

Calica · 2014-11-25 04:15:16

it's too bad bix dugan wasn't here for beholder

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