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Post by al on Apr 19, 2018 7:10:49 GMT 10
I'm wondering if this varies by region because there seems to be varying opinions on this topic.
Personally I first noticed sprinklings of hipster-dom during the 2008 election. It became quite "cool" to be liberal and concerned with one's carbon footprint. This seemed to lend itself to the "buy local" and thrifting movements that ensued. I also remember indie bands growing in popularity by 2009, with MGMT being the "in" group at my school. The 08-09 schoolyear was the last one where emo looks and music still had a strong influence over the general population. By 2010, tumblr was becoming widely used and the overall hipster look of baggy sweaters and large glasses was taking over.
If anyone else can think of some more key drivers of hipster culture I'd love to know them.
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Post by rainbow on Apr 19, 2018 7:40:30 GMT 10
From what I can remember, hipsters started becoming big during the 2012-2013 school year. At the beginning of this decade, there were barely any hipsters.
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Post by Telso on Apr 19, 2018 7:51:55 GMT 10
If you mean as a whole, around the mid-late 2000s. If you mean the mainstream breaktrough, it would be 2011-2012.
Fun fact: Hipster was also used as a term to describe cool types of jazzmen in the 40s
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 8:21:58 GMT 10
I do think it depends on where you live. If you live in a big urban city, you probably heard the (modern sense of) the term earlier. I lived in Toronto and people were throwing the word around in 2008/2009. I guess you could say I was hipster, lol. People who shopped at local stores instead of big chains, who bought food from the farmer's market instead of the grocery store, people who got their clothes from thrift shops, people who went to art shows, people who only listened to indie music, people who wore scarves, people who grew beards, people who wore a lot of tattoos, people who eat only at ethnic restaurants and of course people who rode bicycles. By 2010 it was a certifiable trend in all major cities. This popular image "Theory of Hipster Relativity" was posted onto the Internet in 2010. 
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Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 19, 2018 10:00:05 GMT 10
I don't remember "hipsters" becoming a movement until at least Early 2012, around the time "Pumped Up Kicks" and "Lonely Boy" were achieving success on the Top-40 charts. With that said, I can't say that I have ever actually seen any hipsters in my local area, even though Wollongong is a city of roughly 300,000 people.
As for Indie music, it has actually been a movement here in Australia since 2006. Here are a few Indie songs which were popular here back in 2006-07:
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Post by al on Apr 21, 2018 9:08:21 GMT 10
I do think it depends on where you live. If you live in a big urban city, you probably heard the (modern sense of) the term earlier. I lived in Toronto and people were throwing the word around in 2008/2009. I guess you could say I was hipster, lol. People who shopped at local stores instead of big chains, who bought food from the farmer's market instead of the grocery store, people who got their clothes from thrift shops, people who went to art shows, people who only listened to indie music, people who wore scarves, people who grew beards, people who wore a lot of tattoos, people who eat only at ethnic restaurants and of course people who rode bicycles. By 2010 it was a certifiable trend in all major cities. This popular image "Theory of Hipster Relativity" was posted onto the Internet in 2010. Hillarious that that was drawn in 2010. They were so on the money for the time and it has only intensified. I'm from the Boston area and even though this is not normally a big place for fashion trends, I assume this one took off early due to its quasi political nature. I don't remember "hipsters" becoming a movement until at least Early 2012, around the time "Pumped Up Kicks" and "Lonely Boy" were achieving success on the Top-40 charts. With that said, I can't say that I have ever actually seen any hipsters in my local area, even though Wollongong is a city of roughly 300,000 people. As for Indie music, it has actually been a movement here in Australia since 2006. Here are a few Indie songs which were popular here back in 2006-07: Really, no hipsters in Oz? God it describes like every other (young) person here lol.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 21, 2018 16:01:43 GMT 10
Really, no hipsters in Oz? God it describes like every other (young) person here lol. We definitely have them, but they're just not that common in the area I live in. 
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2018 22:03:55 GMT 10
Really, no hipsters in Oz? God it describes like every other (young) person here lol. We definitely have them, but they're just not that common in the area I live in. I'd imagine that the inner-city suburbs of Sydney & Melbourne and parts of the NSW Far North Coast (Byron Bay, Nimbin, etc.) would be some of Australia's "hipster hotspots"!
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Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 21, 2018 22:42:31 GMT 10
We definitely have them, but they're just not that common in the area I live in. I'd imagine that the inner-city suburbs of Sydney & Melbourne and parts of the NSW Far North Coast (Byron Bay, Nimbin, etc.) would be some of Australia's "hipster hotspots"! Yep, I agree. Actually, I think Newtown, in particular, would be a hot-spot for hipsters. A lot of hipsters would probably go to the cafes along King Street. 
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Post by AussieTV on Apr 21, 2018 22:58:01 GMT 10
We definitely have them, but they're just not that common in the area I live in. I'd imagine that the inner-city suburbs of Sydney & Melbourne and parts of the NSW Far North Coast (Byron Bay, Nimbin, etc.) would be some of Australia's "hipster hotspots"! Definitely. At least in Melbourne, the Hipster Hotspots are Brunswick, South Melbourne, Collingwood, Richmond, which are all inner city suburbs, like you mentioned. Anyway, the further you get away from the city (at least in Melbournme) the less hipsters will be of an occurrence, as, generally the suburbs are filled with Families, couples are elderly people because they have no Nightlife whatsoever.
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Post by skullmaiden on May 1, 2018 5:47:48 GMT 10
I'm wondering if this varies by region because there seems to be varying opinions on this topic. Personally I first noticed sprinklings of hipster-dom during the 2008 election. It became quite "cool" to be liberal and concerned with one's carbon footprint. This seemed to lend itself to the "buy local" and thrifting movements that ensued. I also remember indie bands growing in popularity by 2009, with MGMT being the "in" group at my school. The 08-09 schoolyear was the last one where emo looks and music still had a strong influence over the general population. By 2010, tumblr was becoming widely used and the overall hipster look of baggy sweaters and large glasses was taking over. If anyone else can think of some more key drivers of hipster culture I'd love to know them. I first noticed the subculture in 2013. Not as in that's when it caught on around here. People I see every day still favor those huge plastic glasses and I still see boys in skinny jeans and cardigans when I go out in public. When I go shopping I see an increasing amount of "healthy" options and vegetarian alternatives to foods and drinks. The "going green" thing began earlier than that, some time in the early 2010's is when I noticed people using those cloth shopping bags as opposed to plastic. Not that those things are hipster on their own, but tend to be what hipsters like.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2018 6:43:51 GMT 10
2009-2010: "Origins" of Hipster culture
2011-2012: The trend starts to gain popularity
2013-2015: Peak of hipster culture
2016-2017: Decline of hipster culture
2018: End of hipster culture
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2018 7:05:53 GMT 10
Beyond the Hipster Age - What happened to the hipsters?I would say by around mid to late 2016, a small amount of these hipsters who had radical political views changed their music choices. Those on the fringe left seemed to stay within the indie spectrum (Arctic Monkeys, Fleet Foxes, and basically any "obscure" indie band). Those on the fringe right, on the other hand, seemed to move to fringe black metal groups (Graveland, Absurd, M8l8th) or fashwave (Cybernazi, Xurious). ![]() Most of the hipsters, on the other hand, seemed to evolve into perfectly normal people by this point.
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Post by Telso on May 1, 2018 7:21:59 GMT 10
Those on the fringe right, on the other hand, seemed to move to fringe black metal groups (Graveland, Absurd, M8l8th) or fashwave (Cybernazi, Xurious). ![]() Now that's a quite weird shift
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2018 7:41:16 GMT 10
Those on the fringe right, on the other hand, seemed to move to fringe black metal groups (Graveland, Absurd, M8l8th) or fashwave (Cybernazi, Xurious). ![]() Now that's a quite weird shift I've actually noticed it a bit. In 2013 those fringe black metal groups seemed very irrelevant, and not a lot of people really seemed to give a rat's ass about them. Unfortunately, due to the surge of fringe politics in recent years, you may hear about non-fringe black metal groups (Moonsorrow, Borknagar, Eluveitie, Begerith) getting disrupted by protestors. Even though I am not a fan of black metal, it's sad to see this happen because those groups seem to put in a lot of effort and hard work in making their music. I heard that this issue got so bad that some even cancel their shows. However, when you get to the fringe bands like the ones I mentioned, then I don't feel bad if their shows get protested. The whole environment change between 2013 and 2018 was very big for just five years.
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