Originally Posted by filtherton

Also, as noted above, the word "hipster" doesn't refer to any objective set of people. Anecdotally speaking, I have found that the people most likely to talk shit about hipsters are hipsters themselves (with an underdeveloped sense of self awareness). I think that the word "hipster" serves mainly as means of emotional validation for people who never grew out of the adolescent need to categorized and dismiss people based on superficial features. We might as well be talking about jocks, stoners and heshers.