I appreciate how well informed and articulate you are in your narrative. I also enjoyed the silliness peppered all through out to give a quick break to allow the previous information to sink in before moving on. Thank you for this!

This was brilliant! Best explanation I've heard yet.

Thanks for sharing it with us ! Everyone must have cared so much!

This is hilarious! Nicely done!

Very good and descriptive video.

this is gold!

absolitely excellent!!!

wow favourite new channel

All I like about the hipsters is the mustache. I want that mustache, that is all.

Very interesting!

The counterculture in the 80's WASN'T the mainstream culture. The counterculture, back then, was underground music, like hardcore punk, post-punk, and hip-hop. The 90's is when the counterculture became the mainstream, because Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc, were on the radio back then. Dave Matthews' peak was 1994, not the late 90's. Teen comedies had been around WAY before then. The Breakfast Club, for example, was released in 1985. Who did your research, Helen Keller? Sheesh.

excellent overview in such a short length, but somehow I have the feeling that Hipsterdom is here to stay quite some years further on, it just has the right ingredients to stay in fashion, matter of fact I am also growing a beard right now just to be more hip

here's some hipstery things for reference, American apparel, Tim and Eric, pbr, urban outfitters, thrift shops, Harmony Korine, Sofia Coppola, Daft Punk, Wu Tang Clan, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Lars Von Trier, Crystal Castles, M83, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, also pretty much anything that is popular but not overly popular

2:52 "...in the late 199's we were searching for a word that indicated culture sophistication but separated for the creepiness of hipness or the mainstream popularity hip-hop" Brilliant text, seriously.

The dude with all the glasses is a legend.

Thank you for reading out the Wikipedia article of hipsterism.

The modern style of hipster was given to American Hipsters by the Scandinavian and English hipsters from around 2003 to today. The large frame glasses, sweaters, tight jeans of different colours. All started in Europe first and then migrated to the US. Typically you see fairly subdued versions of the Euro trend, but in more wealthy and urban areas of the US like San Fransisco, Seattle, and New York, you see almost exact copies of the Euro Hipster style. Retro items on a necklace, loafers with no socks, all very European Hipster. Oh and the vintage craved lunacy is also apart of the Euro Hipster style.

this is so damn funny I almost can't handle it!

Hipster handbook is some goooood reading

instead of studying i have re watched every factuary good enough right?

So what will happen to the hipster when she is in her mid 40's and midlife has caught up to her? Will her hipster days get swallowed up by a younger generations counter culture?

@chrishenniker5944

7 жыл бұрын

Anthony Rizzo No, everything is now part of the mainstream these days. There can be no counterculture because by the time it has become crystallised, it would become another mainstream fashion as soon as it hits social media.

Hard to know that without knowing him yourself... But in my opinion he is and that is all that matters to me. Thanks for commenting though it gave me another chance to watch this video again.

actually... modern "hipsters" were inspired by the british post punk indie scene of the 80s, who took their looks from new york and california art rock/garage rock bands, who took inspiration from the 50s beatniks, who took inspiration from the traditional/modern jazz scene of the late 40s and 50s. so yes, the 80s had a HUGE underground scene

Once the recession ends, it will be cool to have a Mad Men / Breaking Bad -esque explicit ambition and skill. It will be the 80s all over again and every single person reading this knows it. Something kind of like "Hipster Achiever" will be a solidified category of luxury branding. I should know, I'll be creating it.

That guy from "That 70's show " is cool as hell. I like him. Don't know his name exactly but he is that hippie looking guy from Cheech and Chong.

Great video. I was under the impression that the term "Hipster" came from their tight, low-riding girl-pants; skinny white guys, wearing nostalgia shirts, riding fixed-gear bikes . . . and wearing girl-pants. Clearly I did not understand the historical roots. Thanks again for taking the time for producing valuable social commentary.

God bless you.

My cousin actually has that mustache tattooed on his finger, he's fucking awesome.

Hahahahahaha. Molly Soda appears at 4:50

The Factuary is sooo mainstream~

Economics will sort these people out... Drops Mic...

"they are conquestadorable" lol

this needs about half as much interjections by the dude at the bar

Hip is a Waliff word that comes to American English via the argot 'Shuck n' Jive' (it is important to know what an argot is) (its and ingroup defensive language designed to sound like the oppressor's language, but mean totally different things. In Walif the word hip means: 'To know, or to understand, to have one's eyes wide open." Source Sept issue discover magazine 1995

Cristen Hi, thanks for the link My back still hurts even more. Voya having to lie down. Tonight or Mañan todo.Gracias quiet look, I love Emmi

Thumbs up if you love the Joe Anderson in Across the Universe cameo! (fell off my chair!)

You're the CGPGrey of pop culture.

"Excuse me sir? Can I get a shot of your finest tequila please?" (In British accent)

Was the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" pro-hippie, anti-hippie or indifferent?

From Senegal, the word 'hip' means 'to see' . the language is called 'wolof'

'can i have another pbr?' hahaha so funny, thats what everyone i know drinks

a kid at my school called me "mainstream", flicked my hat and laughed ......now i have to go to anger management and am suspended, both for two weeks.

Check out Glove and Boots "Evolution of a Hipster" video too. Its also funny and informative.

Well, you ARE learning. maybe not what you need to pass a test but at least you're learning.

i always suspected the current ironic fashion and tastes of hipsters today (journey are so bad they're good, ugly haircuts rule, hideous momjeans and huge foster-grants etc) all started with the first ugly sweater xmas party

now I understand why hipster was born, 90s kids were tired of extremely commercial mainstream culture. Although I'm getting a little tired of hipsters here in Denmark (in my home country there is a tiny minority), they look the same, but it is not even comparable to the boy band horror that I had to endure during my teens. Before that I can't even remember promoting such annoyingly commercial music. Now of course we have mainstream rap and Justin Bieber. But you can avoid this because the main channel is the internet, not TV or radio any more. Then it wasn't a choice

was that molly soda

lol they turned into Molly Soda.

i started the 90's

i remember the first time i saw two thin beardy guys sitting together at the english orig. version movie theater in frankfurt. 2006 or so. these guys dressed grungy, clothes looked like they cost a lot and i got the feeling the guys were made of money. they looked sick & thin, like junkies. they "fascinated and repelled". i had been over here for a few years, out of da US loop, so i was really confused. and repelled. my son clarified. "metro hipsters, dad". funny shit. stupid times we live in.

thats what I listen too...

Where are you man?

People try too hard to define their identities... they should just be. I guess whatever makes them happy.

molly soda? lol

have you even read any henry miller or kerouac? i don't know who hipsters are supposed to be reading today, so yeah, maybe i was an x generation version reading all that stuff kerouac influenced many great artists. it's not just bullshit because hipsters of whatever era like it.

"I started the 90's" LOL

ashton kutcher =executive producer. LOL

my friends always say that i am "hipster" and i am definitely not a hipster, how can i be a hipster if i dont even know what it is. and i am also black so its weird lol just thought i'd share

Mollysoda isn't a hipster. 3:55

I have heard of luke warm reggae... al of it.

lolll 3:35 is the best

most that comment badly about hipsters here.... just cant pull it off or they would be hipsters :/ Artist is an Artist no matter what era!

This guy in the video is hipster. I can tell just by what he is reading.

"or possibly from an African word for having your eyes open" "an African word" one country, one language

0:34 Is Jeremy Davis of Paramore. Not really a hipster...

196th...

somebody help me, I'm dying of First!

@alex93md To be fair, Quentin Tarantino makes great films and Wu Tang Clan were a great rap group

If we are going to narrow it down to one epicenter, then hip-hop started in the South Bronx, not Harlem. DJ Kool Herc & the Merry-go-round...

@estebansteverincon7117

9 жыл бұрын

Technically, it started in the center of the Bronx, Sedgwick avenue.

I look like a hipster, i have old car, I buy unethical child-labor clothes, I listen 80's and 90's hip hop and rock, I drink rum & girly drinks. So i have no idea what sub-culture should i embrace. Can't be hipster, too white to be thug. So lend me a hand and tell what labels me best.

@tonylu2471

9 жыл бұрын

Forget labels man. Just be whatever you are. I personally hate labels because they limit me. I think its kind of fun to be undefined sometimes.

@tonylu2471

9 жыл бұрын

Just don't be so undefined you don't know who you are anymore.

@Williamwestp24

9 жыл бұрын

MrBuzusima Be anything you like to be but most of all just be you primarily..

ive seen plenty of black 'hipsters' they call me one to.. but the difference is dont hipsters try to be something? i really dont try. i just enjoy rock music, always have, and like to expand by collecting shirts.. my own style is just clothes! why does that make me a hipster?? wtf is a hipster?

How did that end up with you in anger management and suspended? Did you attack him for it or something?

the photo's so distorted i feel like it could be almost every brunette chick with bangs. she looks like my ex as well. i think we see what we're familiar with

my girlfriend looks exactly like the 50's hipster 2nd on the left. i did a double take. just showed it to her and she thinks its her as well spooky :S

mollysoda

hmmm, I don't think Harry Brant is a hipster: his style is too expensive (but looks nice though).

So then, are "hipster Doofus' " a sub-category...or are ALL Hipsters, by definition, Hipster-D.'s?

haha

Hating Hipsters makes you one.

you know you want too.

gloveandboots did this video before it was cool

pff I watched this vid. Before it had 301 views.

Y can't people just be party animals life is so much easier that way

i punched him once and i guess that knocked him out ps. the anger management staken off today which is like a week and a half early

what? hipsters were always part of those scenes

fiiiii.....fiiiirrr...... nope not gonna say it

lukewarm reggae =P

u want to throw the baby out w/ the bath water. sure at all the points you mention most were hangers on, layabouts posers. but the expats had Henry Miller, the Beats had Kerouac, the 60's produced dozens of great bands .beats, hiippes, punks, grunge all took a look at the American status quo, made necessary comment; tried to move away from tight assed conformism, mcarthyism, jingoism, materialism all the isms you want, the hipsters annoy more cuz that's their only mission & they do it well

all in all hipsters are the biggest posers in history

Why is this topic even being made seriously?

where does emo fit into this?

72nd

Hip Hop started in the Bronx not Harlem ... WTF

SECOND!

@juredddd I hope you were being ironic. The word mainstream is too mainstream. Foremost-brook is far superior.

Highly doubt that...him being awesome, not the tattoo

third even if it's gay

second

they're conquistadorable.

I think the only true hipsters are the ones who are unbearably pretentious, the rest are just people who pick and choose the parts of hipsterdom they think are 'cool' and adopt them as part of their own image