>>1135347>It's really not. Part of the whole identity of being a hipster is having money to throw at trendy things while pretending to be bohemian.I was in my 20s from 2002-2012. Hipsterism was a bit more complicated than that. The real trendsetter, -- the bike messengers, the punks, the squatters, acidhead artists -- they'd go colonize a dangerous neighborhood. Then waves of progressively richer, less-cool people would show up, thinking "wow all the cool people live here"
In reality, the actually cool people left years ago, and the posers are just following slightly less posery people. It's a real ecosystem for urban gentrification. Very funny to observe.
Anyways, the coolest kids to party with when I was young were bike messengers missing half their teeth, pretty girls who did heroin, train hoppers, etc. I was just a punk. Not quite on their preferred, wave 2 or 3. Btw the final wave is when NPR retirees move in from the suburbs, then you know it's all over
