Time takes hipsters far too seriously

A hipster in his natural habitat. From Look at this Fucking Hipster (latfh.com)

There’s a little piece on the Time magazine website offering a brief history of Hipsters. Seriously.

Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay. They’re the people who wear T-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you’ve never heard of and the only ones in America who still think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a good beer. They sport cowboy hats and berets and think Kanye West stole their sunglasses. Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don’t care.

But they do care, they just want you to think they are too cool to care. And the obsession with irony? Like, “I grew this beard ironically” really makes me want to get punchy.