Hipsters were so cynical though. Is "optimism" ironic

I haven't heard that term before, but I have noticed "hipster" being used less in recent years.

No

I used to have millennial optimism, but it's slowly turned into millennial depression.

Ive been called a hipster and im an Xer. I have also been called a boomer, nerd, geek, dork, and a whole bunch of things that kinda mean the same thing. Also facist capitalist and communist. Its funny how these things are.

Hipster was largely replaced with performative a while ago. Although I'm usually behind the times so that term may have also been replaced by now.

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...