Hipsters are a product of rebelling against a consumer society and attempting to diverge against mainstream culture only to become the very culture they despise. Hipsters’ are middle class adults in their early twenties and late thirties that grabbed the public eye during their 2011 Occupy movement. This, in fact, was embodied in the Occupy movement of 2011 in which it was thought that “voices of the working class are sidelined [by the wealthiest 1%]” (Maher 48). As a result, hipsters choose to opt out of consumer society and do this by going against the grain. Did hipsters successfully opt out of the mainstream culture that betrayed them long ago? To understand what created the hipster, it is necessary to look into the hipster politics and
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To illustrate our irony, Paula and me, like true hipsters would keep up with the latest fashion trends and technology which shockingly costed a lot of money. Then we scouted for anti-consumerism rally events around Oakland which my roommate set up through her iPhone 4 which ironically was created by a major corporation. In addition, Paula fit the demographic seamlessly, for example, she had the new iPhone 4, MacBook Pro and Bluetooth speakers and upgraded her devices constantly. Meanwhile I shopped at Forever 21 but took time out to protest the rich. As Petri, a journalist from the Huffington Post states,“Occupy Wall Street protesters protesting corporate greed, all while wearing clothes and carrying signboards and sporting iPhones from Big Corporations” (Petri). In the later years, this purchasing power of the hipster would be known to stimulate local economies. Sadly, many of my friends did not realize we were stimulating local but did it to look …show more content…
The true hipster buys local and visits an authentic businesses. As a result, purchasing is ingrained into hipster psyche and these actions cause pubs and bars to grow substantially. A few months ago, as a short lived retired hipster, I rented a house on AirBnB in the heart of Midtown, Sacramento and witnessed the true purchasing power of the Hipster. A stroll along J and K street in the Midtown District allowed me to witness the buying power of the jaded hipster in skinny jeans and young professionals. These young people in their Buddy Holly glasses kept smaller businesses like Coconut Midtown, Biergarten and Old Soul Coffee crowded whereas, restaraunts in the same neighborhood like McDonald’s and Burger King. According to Tim Wu of The New Yorker,“independent bookstores have grown about twenty percent since 2009… and more than three billion dollars was spent last year on more than four thousand independent feature films”(Castle). The need for authentic foods in the Occupy mindset translates well into sales, American breweries sells about “16.1 million barrels of beer annually” therefore “outselling Budweiser” (Castle). Wu attributes this jump in sales to Hipsters who support small businesses in their neighborhoods. As hipsters lean toward urban areas in search for cool places to live, work and play, it is undeniable that their revitalization driven by their distaste for
To illustrate our irony, Paula and me, like true hipsters would keep up with the latest fashion trends and technology which shockingly costed a lot of money. Then we scouted for anti-consumerism rally events around Oakland which my roommate set up through her iPhone 4 which ironically was created by a major corporation. In addition, Paula fit the demographic seamlessly, for example, she had the new iPhone 4, MacBook Pro and Bluetooth speakers and upgraded her devices constantly. Meanwhile I shopped at Forever 21 but took time out to protest the rich. As Petri, a journalist from the Huffington Post states,“Occupy Wall Street protesters protesting corporate greed, all while wearing clothes and carrying signboards and sporting iPhones from Big Corporations” (Petri). In the later years, this purchasing power of the hipster would be known to stimulate local economies. Sadly, many of my friends did not realize we were stimulating local but did it to look …show more content…
The true hipster buys local and visits an authentic businesses. As a result, purchasing is ingrained into hipster psyche and these actions cause pubs and bars to grow substantially. A few months ago, as a short lived retired hipster, I rented a house on AirBnB in the heart of Midtown, Sacramento and witnessed the true purchasing power of the Hipster. A stroll along J and K street in the Midtown District allowed me to witness the buying power of the jaded hipster in skinny jeans and young professionals. These young people in their Buddy Holly glasses kept smaller businesses like Coconut Midtown, Biergarten and Old Soul Coffee crowded whereas, restaraunts in the same neighborhood like McDonald’s and Burger King. According to Tim Wu of The New Yorker,“independent bookstores have grown about twenty percent since 2009… and more than three billion dollars was spent last year on more than four thousand independent feature films”(Castle). The need for authentic foods in the Occupy mindset translates well into sales, American breweries sells about “16.1 million barrels of beer annually” therefore “outselling Budweiser” (Castle). Wu attributes this jump in sales to Hipsters who support small businesses in their neighborhoods. As hipsters lean toward urban areas in search for cool places to live, work and play, it is undeniable that their revitalization driven by their distaste for