# So what is a hipster exactly?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-a-hipster-exactly/600226>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 20, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-a-hipster-exactly/600226 "2011-10-20T07:28:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-a-hipster-exactly/600226/101 "2011-10-22T09:08:32Z")

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> [@Bridget\_Burke](#):
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> I finally found [this picture](http://www.thefugs.com/fugsfinal.html). Was it a New Yorker cover first? Now it’s adorning _The Fugs Final CD (Part 1)_.
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> Ah, the Fugs! The last gasp of the Beats? (Hey, they sang lyrics by The Originally Beatific William Blake.) Nobody ever called himself a Beatnik–until Fug Ed Sanders wrote _Tales of Beatnik Glory_. Then he went on to try to levitate the Pentagon. (And is [still going](http://www.woodstockjournal.com/).)

Weirdly enough, I actually went to preschool with Tuli Kupferberg’s daughter.

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**Author:** ![Elret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Elret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elret)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-a-hipster-exactly/600226/102 "2011-10-22T12:38:48Z")

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Sorry, wrong thread.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-a-hipster-exactly/600226/103 "2011-10-22T12:48:47Z")

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> [@GovernmentMan](#):
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> Though, honestly, I can’t tell whether this is a serious post or a sarcastic one.

I don’t even know anymore.

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**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-is-a-hipster-exactly/600226/104 "2011-10-22T12:50:52Z")

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> [@GovernmentMan](#):
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> Well, according to the poster before you, SciFiSam, that’s only one type of hipster.
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> Though, honestly, I can’t tell whether this is a serious post or a sarcastic one.

> [@msmith537](#):
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> I don’t even know anymore.

It’s so meta.

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