[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

it is all a continuum. Nothing ends, nothing begins out of thin air.

Hipster used to be what squares called the freaks. They were HIP to shit that the Norms were and are not hip to.

Then, for some twisted reason, the hipsters themselves decided to use the term to denigrate those they considered POSERS. How or why that happened would be a neat ethnological inquiry, but it is what happened.

word meanings change, due to the ignorance of the humans uttering them, or due to a purposeful attempt to re-define the word.

Every single person on this SY Gossip forum is a goddamned hipster!

Yes!