If there's one thing we can all agree on it's that everybody hates hipsters, right?
You know, it's the common enemy that we all have that will unite us,
that will remove all race and gender boundaries and we will say we,
our humanity like Independence Day, and we will fight against the hipsters.
Even the hipsters themselves who, apparently,
don't even know that they are hipsters will also hate hipsters.
Everybody is against the same thing and its kind of,
it's kind of beautiful in a way.
So you can imagine the horror that you would experience
if you started noticing some these hipster-like tendencies appearing in your life.
That, my friends, if I can still call you friends after this,
is what I am suffering from right now.
I think the biggest and most telling example for me was when I bought those glasses.
I mean, just look at that. To be wearing the glasses.
The actual Ray Band Wayfarers that you put on something to turn it into a hipster.
This is-- That's how you turn Ariel into Hipster Ariel by putting these on.
And yet, I am not going to do anything about it.
Like, these were expensive glasses and I think I look good in them.
This is when this worry started for me was when I was
sitting in like a trendy warehouse-type coffee bar,
looking around me thinking, "Heh, there's a hipster there.
Oh, there another one. Look at his funny mustache.
Uh...everyone is a hipster here. Why am I here?"
So my interpretation of the hipster-like personality constitutes a couple things.
First off: you like things ironically.
That, I think I can comfortably say is something that I don't do.
I have my things that I like a lot and I like maybe even to some people too much,
but I don't care 'cause I like them.
That to me is a nerd, but then there's the whole, you know,
"You know that thing that everybody likes now,
I don't like it but when nobody liked it,
that's when I was a big fan. Oh, aren't I cool."
That's the thing I think that we all center on as being like,
"Eww. Hipsters. What rubbish people."
But I have to be honest with myself and think,
"Have I ever been that person?
Have I ever been in the situation where I'm like,
'Ooh! I liked that thing before everybody else did. Doesn't that make me cool?'"
And honestly, I have. I feel like as much as I can try to point out and justify
the things about me that aren't hipster-esque and be like,
"No, hipsters are like this, and I don't do that sort of thing,"
there is a nugget in my heart that is enjoying things ironically.
There is definitely a sense of comfort that I get when I am in a warehouse
that's been converted to a coffee shop, surrounded by lots of trendy looking people.
I feel at home in that-- they're cozy!
They do a good job decorating.
I think if there is a moral to be found here,
I don't want to find it because the moral is that I think there's probably--there's either -
this will be more comfortable - there's either a little bit more hipster in all of us
or there is a little bit of hipster in me, specifically,
and I am a hipster but I don't want to have to deal with that
and the consequences of being that person.
I could, at least, be the first person who will actually admit
that they are a bit of a hipster as opposed to all of the other hipsters
that don't want to admit it. There we go.
That's how I can feel superior.
Alright. Charlie out.
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