KWifler wrote:
but I think hipsters just do things and wear stuff without really understanding what they're doing until someone criticizes them.
That is definitely false. One thing for sure about hipsters is that they like to be ironic. You have to know what you are doing to make irony work.
They target specific cultural components to imitate; if they didn't, they wouldn't be recognizable.
Pabst blue ribbon beer
handlebar mustaches
1980s American fashion and pop music music
ski caps
dressing like loggers (blue jeans and flannel)
fixie bicycles
huge eyeglasses
"working class" habits such as eating lots of macaroni and cheese (junk food) or prefering to shop at thrift stores even if they can afford new clothes
and the reason they are reviled and called hipsters (they don't call
themselves hipsters except to be ironic) is because they are totally faking their interests and (often being middle-class or higher) appropriating elements of working class lifestyle for amusement