What The Hell Are Hipsters

An out-take from the NY culture panel at the PSFK Conference New York 08 where Faris Yakob asks a panel what the hell are hipsters. Panel includes Doug Jaeger of thehappycorp/LVHRD, Sascha Lewis of Flavorpill, Jen Chung of Gothamist and Steve Bryant of Thrillist.

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[armydude162]

this video was ok, but it became too mainstream after it passed 90,000 views, it reminds me of this unkown local band that i own every nylon copy of every one of their songs, i would tell you the bands name, but its not like you would know it. -0-0-

[t0f0b0]

"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."

— Eric Hoffer

[maciverandy]

@armydude162 youre hip maaaan

[HoorayTV21]

What The Hell Are Hipsters you say?

Well........YOOOOOOOOOOOU ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR­E!!!!!!!

[TheCreeperloc13]

who cares!!! what positive change are they doing?sound like posers to me. trust fund kids? have they done anything positive for humanity? these people are breathing precious air!!! i just wasted time in my life i can never get back. i saved a little girl from being run over. i save her.

[etmup80]

It seems like "Hipster," is one of the only group lables that people don't want to be refered to. Jocks, Hippies, Goths, Punks, Preppies, etc... all wear their title with pride. Even Nerds & Geeks will own up to their name. But I've never heard 1 person call themselves a Hipster.

[etmup80]

Its funny how everyone thinks that modern hipsters originated near their home town. These people are on the East coast & believe that hipsters are from "Williamsberg." I happen to live in Southern California & people here think the term hipster solely refers to people from Los Feliez & Silver Lake.

[duces02]

I finally found out what hipsters are and that is they're the same as everyone else, they just have a particular perspective. And BOOHYAA 

[MegaSkunkster]

@TheFragile89 its not really in what we have accomplished ? Its more like what are we doing to change the world of subcultures because a lot of hipsters including my self are in there early 20s and we dont like pop music or popular fashion so we dress in a manner thats diffrent then the "mainstream culture", I dont get why people have to rag on it and put us down because they dont understand why were doing what were doing its pointless to say one is a moron or fag for there subculture choice

[MegaSkunkster]

As a hipster i accomplish getting my art work out to a larger community of individualistic thinkers through social networking that cater to like minded "hipsters" and artist with the same taste in music and art.Its not really oh what has the whole scene accomplished to me but what one as a individual has accomplished in aspects of creativity and that's what really the real hipster thing is about is being creative and different in the way you express your self. It has alot to do in those aspects

[TheFragile89]

@MegaSkunkster And what do hipsters accomplish?

[WatcherPrime]

So, a bunch of hipsters try to defend the term hipster from people who would use it as it was meant to be....

They are Heretics of the Church of the Fonz! They are Hipsters!