It feels like a lot of people are getting into "millennial optimism", but it feels a lot like hipster shit.

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

No.

Hipster to me was just the trust fund kids who wanted to cosplay as working class. They never went away, just the popularity of the term. They were mostly contrasting themselves with the people who had office jobs and thus had to dress for the office and were more 'yuppie' in their aesthetic.

And where I live there are still lots and lots of hipster types, though the working-class aesthetic isn't 'peak' anymore, it's considered more niche and the younger trust fundies are much more about conspicuously and overtly displaying their wealth.

That said, I know plenty of people who are like 35-50, who dress like they make 40K a year, and they make 500K a year, and they identify as 'poor working class'. Also a lot of them gave up being a hipster once they got full access to their trust in their 30s/40s. Turns out being authentic working in a bicycle shop/cafe/bar for 30K a year isn't something you want to do when your 1.5million trust is available...

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    So you've defined millennial hipster, but what would you say makes it different from millennial optimism?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    I have no idea what that term is, I have never heard of it until this post. Sounds like some counter-doomer trend on social media where folks are being 'optimistic' to contrast them from the endless glowering about how the world is awful. Which I could see older and established millennials gleefully participating in to distinguish themselves from the younger folks who are screeching about how broke and mentally ill they are 24/7, and well, like half of the millennials who do that too.

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