Pictured above, flyer for a club in area of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, flyer explicated below.
It appears that the hipster community often gets a bad reputation, and is often openly disliked. Their culture creates stereotypes and vicariously prejudice. There is even a website devoted as a "Place to laugh at Hipsters" known as www.diehipster.com, in which people constantly poke fun of the hipster culture. Reviewing the urbandictionary.com's hipster definition archive reveals clear over assumptions with such labels, as "maybe gay" "complains" and "probably living off parent's money". These entitlements are unjust overgeneralizations and near impossible to pin any truth behind them. Interestingly enough all of these phrases are listed in urbandictionary's top voted "Hipster" definition. For those who do not know, urban dictionary is a archive of defined popular terms about today's urban and suburban youth by but not limited to today's urban and suburban youth. Even the website has a disclaimer that some of the information could be offensive to users and further promotes the site only for people above age thirteen. Nonetheless, researching what it means to be a hipster through various sites, it proves that some of the explanations mentioned on urbandictionary do seem to have some factual understanding toward the hipster culture but likewise strengthen the non-factual information as well. Take for example the beer Pabst Blue Ribbon, urban dictionary states that Hipster's drink this beer, and this bears similarities across the board. Pabst Blue Ribbon beer has become almost a icon of the Hipster culture. Interestingly enough in the picture above which is a flyer for a dance party in which they are openly discriminating against hipsters, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer is crossed out in the corner. Going onto the Free Williamsburg Website there is a further description about the party in which it states, "The dress code? No tight pants, ironic t-shirts, or "Plad" (it's ok, hipsters can't spell either). No dirty sneakers, shoes, ungroomed beards, and the number one rule: YOU MUST HAVE GOTTEN A HAIRCUT IN THE LAST TWO MONTHS. Well, shit. There goes the neighborhood." At first glance the information seems offensive claiming that hipster's are also illiterate but then the irony is revealed... "Zeps, of the Point Dot Period crew, is throwing a "No Hipsters Allowed" dance party, tomorrow night, with a lot of music by DJ Johnny Mambo. But here's the thing....they're hosting a Street Fighter 2 tournament on the big projector screen at Public Assembly (70 N. 6th Street between Kent and Wythe streets in Williamsburg, Brooklyn)!!!! WTF? So this is an invasion invitation to everybody out there with tight pants and a taste for the irony." The location of the dance party is in Williamsburg Brooklyn which is deemed a popular area that hipsters live, and the flyer acknowledges this. It appears this flyer is pure satire by the hipster community. Playing on the stereotypes about their culture and even agreeing with some of them. It reveals the type of clothes they wear which are for the most part the trends of today with an additional bohemian vintage touch. The most interesting part about the Hipster culture is that stereotypes seem to be a fine line between reality and overgeneralization. The hipster culture acknowledges the irony of their culture which is greatly based on "what is deemed cool by the cool" notes www.hipsterhandbook.com. It is also further revealed in such articles by New York Times, "Will The Last Hipster Please Turn out the Lights? New York cool dies its thousandth death. A Satire" which opens up the ideas of cool by cool, and the the hipsters that have decided to move on from New York City, because it just isn't hip enough for them anymore.
Visit http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster to view the most voted definition of "hipster" mentioned in this article, feel free to browse through the other definitions as well.
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