So why was it uniquely hated? Was it just another "everything millennials do is bad" thing? Was it just reactionaries associating them with "muh latte sipping liberal elites"?

Dudes just wanted to dress like 40s farmers. These trends rotate like every 20 years, so why were hipsters in particular hated?

(I have to admit I was guilty of joining in making fun of it too when I was younger, peer pressure is a fuck)

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[–] 16 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

I remember hipsters dressing like lumberjacks and 1920s flappers, more than farmers.

I associate the peak of hipster culture with people opening up boutique cocktail bars with cutesy themes, trying to turn arts and crafts and manual labor into a profit, when the post-2008-crash economy meant jobs were scarce and retail rents were cheap. It was a rebellion against the housing and finance based economy, but not against capitalism as a whole.

People hated hipsters because they were a bunch of fresh out of college kids dressing weird and "refusing" to get a normal job (because the economy was fucked). Also because a lot of them were gay. Also because those hipster bars were a huge gentrification vector.

I can't be as sure about cottagecore, because it's still happening, and I'm less in the thick of it. It is also an arts and crafts movement. But it mostly exists in pinterest mood boards, because it doesn't have a weird economic moment thrusting it into reality (except all the farmers markets in my area doubled in size this year for some reason, what the fuck is that, and is it cottagecore?).

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    Those hipster bars ruined my city.

    Primarily PoC area (mainly black Muslims), they all got priced out of their homes and livelihoods and got replaced by those bars that put their fries in a metal basket and put a big ass knife inside the top of the burger when they serve it to you.

    City saw all that "growth" and they were gonna finally extend the metro out to that area, because I guess only white people deserve nice things.

    The hipster trend died down, shops closed up, all the white people moved away, and the original community (what's left of it) has slowly been picking up the pieces.

    Oh, and the city cancelled the plans to extend the metro out after that.

    Colonialism still exists even from within Amerikkka. What is one person's home and community can get uprooted in an instant when whitey wants to "find themself" and larps as a working class individual.

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