The Death Of Hipsters (the worst alt subculture??) 

yeah i pretty much agree with you but dont generalize everyone with a beard and who might try to eat healthy or a new enjoy a spicy ginger kombucha if there stomach hurts because i grew up extremely poor and also worked my ass off at a industrial brew tank fabrication facility building custom brew systems for the craft brewing industry(ironically)and have had plenty of character defining moments in my life and i remember some chump dump parts room helper boy with a brand new stock engine subaru that he spent a bunch of money on wheels and fancy brakes and racecar seats his parents probably bought him had the nerve to call me a hipster.people need to not generalize people so much because theres dull priveledged people everywhere not just bearded men.....and ive never not once had one of those long curly mustaches lol shit pissed me off

Nihilists ARE cry baby pussies, but nice video dude

Lol that is incredible

😁😅

I'm sure that wasn't a satire article at all

Damn that sounds like it’s out of the onion, if that’s true that is the most hilarious thing I’ve ever heard… why do I have a hard time believing that?

@@jeremysiron9622 it's true, was in a news report years ago, can probably still find it if you Google search

Exactly.

The singularity

Wow. What Hipster broke your heart Finn?

Bruh, what?!!!

I unironically always get serious hipster vibes from Finn

We all have our own cross to bear.

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA thank you, Finn. I know you can relate to the Tebow conundrum where you just want to run this Christian channel and Megan Fox keeps calling you

@@Augrillsyou must be a hipster bro 😂

Well the only way out is through 🤔

*_First step to redemption is to shave the beard._*

Lol I feel you. As a 42 year old who was rocking the hipster aesthetic before it became THE hipster aesthetic, I hated being lumped into this category. I'm a blue collar guy who's done quite well for himself, all while actually caring for my appearance (my wife is eternally grateful for this), and a lot of my work peers don't get it. They're fine with dressing like slobs in their Carhartt gear or their athletic pants, and I just can't do that. Again, I'm blue collar, and my rough hands are a testament to that, but I refuse to dress in bibs and work boots outside of my job. I no longer rock the man bun, nor the waxed mustache, but I still like my flannel shirts and fitted pants lol.

You can still enjoy those things and not be a hipster. You like what you like, you're only a hipster if you have the hipster mentality of thinking that the things you like are better because they're less popular.

@@maynarddrivesfast804 don’t feel bad for presenting yourself nicely. So many dudes I know look like shit and refuse to take care of themselves and then constantly complain about how they can’t get a date. Keep doing you bro

We live in a society lol

I’ll allow it. You are NOT a hipster. You are just old.

i dunno how ure a hipster by doing what u always did

which is ironic because a common stereotype of hipsters is that they only liked very specific indie music which sounded similar to the mainstream rock, electronic, rap and pop music they didn't like but sounded quirkier so they liked but once those artists and bands got big they didn't like them anymore because they were big

I'd say the bigger influence there was arguably technology. Streaming, digital distribution and online communities and resources have made it so easy for people to enjoy and explore a wide series of genres quickly and easily in a way that previous generations couldn't. If you wanted to get into Death Metal in the 80's/90s you needed to find out the genre existed, go to shown and meet people / find a record store that sold that stuff and then put down actual money on tickets or records. It's not exactly super hard but you needed to put quite a bit in. In the 2000's all you needed was an internet connection and to eventually stumble onto it on limewire and from there it has only gotten easier.

Right! Eclectic & diverse! Like, my new favorite band is I Don't Know How But They Found Me, where it USED to be Saint Motel, and before that was Franz Ferdinand, and... wait. Goddammit.

Very true

I mean, shoegaze and elevator music isnt really that diverse

Thank you for watching!

Have you thought about covering freeride MTB? Like red bull rampage which combines downhill MTB with slope style's crazy tricks.

@@tickandslug doubt it as this is a music centered channel

@@aliasfakename2267 I replied to Jimmy, he talks about sports and culture

This could become a new trend. Fitting in with everybody 😁

I agree, let’s all be normies.

SAME!!

I used to be like this throughout high school. All I wanted was to work on myself to fit in with others. As an adult, I've come to terms with some of my differences and quirks. That's not to say I can't improve, but I think it's a whole lot more healthy and interesting than trying to be normal. People should just learn to accept and be proud of themselves, no matter how boring or weird

Yeah, independent coffee shops and craft beers have provided so much variety. I love the results at least, just maybe not the pretense of hipsterism. :D

Hipsters could be what they were, and we think of their heyday in positive terms mostly because of decisions made at the Federal Reserve immediately after 9/11. A recession had been on the horizon for at least a year by then but the Bush admin, knowling that it was about to go onto a massive war called for economic and monetary policies to support that. This led to a consumption and debt bubble that lasted seven years, those crucial seven years between 2001 and 2008 when indie rock and hipsterism really thrived. Once that particular party was over the culture kept going for a few more years on sheer inertia but it was basically a dead man walking. Without easy access to credit and a labor market that was overheated and fuelled by speculation, hipsterism couldn't have happened. I´ve always felt the 2000s were a bit of a replay of the Roaring Twenties and the youth cultures reflect that.

Why was it “superficial.” No less superficial then scene kids, EMO’s. Videos like this are so limited and lame. Subs-cultures have existed since the 18th century around the world and Thanh god for them. Glad you said what you said here, as Finns videos are themselves very superficial, doesn’t ever look at it from a sociocultural pov.

@@thenewwavejoeshow Superficial from the point that, as Finn puts it, in the end their "nonconformity" was based on not being able to buy the things they wanted, and except for a couple of folk bands, they had nothing more to contribute than a network. commercial that allows retro consumption to be transformed into cool. Yes, that superficiality is similar to many "subcultures" of the new millennium, such as the EMOs, but in the case of the EMOs in particular, their punk roots led them to create their own aesthetic and imprint, although perhaps not as distinctive.

@@mazalblues not distinctive at all. All they did was combine goth and punk. By that time EMO reached 2010, hot topic had jumped on board and what started in the late 80’s as emocore had gone mainstream.

I agree. Anti mainstream. But we all know what happens when something not mainstream becomes huge right? The big companies and the big money move in and it becomes mainstream. But irony is a cornerstone of hipster culture, right?

Half of them move into lower income neighborhoods don’t even bother supporting the local businesses that were already there decades before they arrived.

I think the hipster really did some damage to chain restaurants. Which is good because the local eatery’s keep the money in the community. The crazy beer definitely jumped the shark. Any Joe Schmoe who bought at beer kit thought they could open a brewery. The cream has risen to the top and the ones who were actually good at it survived.

This guy (Finn) is just being a judgmental prick and making content out of it for ad revenue.

I have always tried to buy local. But I'm not a hipster. I'm a redneck. Lol

“I’m trying not to rant and scream because I want you guys to like me more…” you know exactly what you’re doing.

Shoplift at H&M, but yeah pretty much

"Be yourself, but not like that!"

You're not weird just neurodivergent.

@@bamafencer12 what is the difference? (I’m neurodivergent)

@@mayalansky whether or not you can hide it, probably.

@@bamafencer12 I've got ADHD but I'm also a little on the weird side.

Wait did 7-11 do that?!

So many ex-scene girls adopted that look

You should be more worried at Anti-SJw Anti-Woke. they became the new Sjw Woke.

Old but underrated comment. My thoughts exactly on the word “woke” and how it’s being used nowadays

Yeah I grew up the same and discovered them back in 2015. 🤣

@@te9591 aside from the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant meltdown, it was enjoyable!

​@@SporkWieldingCanary I also did an abroad year in Japan through 2010 and 2011 (our program was one of the few if even only to stick it out through the events of March all the way to summer!) and the funny thing for me was, I knew the terms "hipster" and "dubstep" but when I came back it felt like they meant *completely* different things. Hipsters had gone from being a certain breed of Brooklyn art hoe to being a generalized urban aesthetic, and dubstep had gone from being a downtone London sub-sub-genre to a LA hardcore guy's new hyperactive sound. Wild time to be alive

@@gregorysteffensen3279 woooaaahhh, same with my program! You didn't happen to be in Kobe around March, did you?

@@SporkWieldingCanary we were just north of Nagoya, in the now defunct SYA program (they still do stuff in Europe but we were a pilot year for Japan) - hadn't heard of any other programs sticking it out in-country, genuinely glad to hear!!

I just realized I am his target audience too. I dont know if this channel has more adults or more teens/young ppl but me and other friend watch him and were in our early 20s

Same.

Same

I'd say it's more representative of the YT algos being scary good at their job.

Same! The last 3 he’s reacted to all showed up in my recommended a few days before he posted his videos reacting to them.

That was too good 🤣😂🤣😂🤘🤘🤘🤘🎶🎵🎶

Punk™️

Yeah, but wouldn’t you say that the hipster movement also consumed part of the emo/hardcore scene? I knew a fair share of people who stopped listening to screamo and started riding fixed gear bikes and listening to indie.

@@rhetttr0 yeah, thats 99% hardcore guys. but hey maybe its just natural evolution of a stereotypes. also wanna mention that hipster was not less widespread term in late 2000s in indie movement, Finn has a great video on those too.

@@ghost_mall in the 1990s they were making fun of a hipster doofus on seinfeld. i cant believe its still a thing

For me, the actual nail in the coffin for the original punk was when alternative music was starting to rise in the mid 80s. The same goes for hipster subculture starting to decline around 2013 to 2015, but the nail in the coffin for them was the pandemic and tik tok.

😂 cart leading the horse

lol same, today i learned Finn hates me

I think this is why this vidoe rubbs me the wrong way a bit and i am not even close to hipster. I get their are alot of pretensous hipsters but i don't believe in judging a book by it's cover or personal interst.

I work at a vape shop and subject everyone to archspire and beyond creation.

Yeah I dont really get that. I listen to a lot of jazz and have encountered so many people who claim to be super into jazz and all they do is listen to big band swing stuff. There's nothing wrong with enjoying that, big band and swing are good genres, but labeling yourself as a jazz head when your interests lie only in those iterations of it kind of shows how superficial your enjoyment of the genre is as a whole. Like I don't want to gatekeep your enjoyment of jazz (that kind of behavior is pretty antithetical to the genre anyways), but when some of these kinds of people are super resistant to delve deeper into the world of jazz, it makes you question their motivations. I guess its the age old question of "Do you actually like the music, or do you just think you look cool by your association with it?" At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter; people are going to enjoy the things they enjoy no matter their internal motivations, and that's fine. Part of the reason I got into punk was because I liked the image that being a fan of the genre made for me-- to this day its still my favorite genre, but I had to start somewhere, lol. I've learned that when I meet someone like this, gatekeeping or calling them out for being a poser is the lamest thing to do; what i like to do is hit em with the old "You like X? Have you heard of Y? No? Let's rock this shit." Almost always a positive response, almost always a good time.

@@tamajack8179 Yeah, don't gatekeep; enlighten people and expand horizons. Its better for the species as a whole. I think with the jazz music (or any genre), people just like the more familiar, accessable stuff and find the more challenging stuff...well... CHALLENGING! Some people really like a challenge though!

I would take yuppies over what we have now any day of the week. Kinda like Patrick Bateman’s aesthetic ngl

And then once once decent neighborhoods which as a result of gentrification became cheaper to live in than the hood BECOME the hood so when the crime gets outrageous those with the money to do so leave resulting in a no man's land of drugs and crime wherein the people living there only do so because they have to resulting in generational gang violence among other things. YAY!

It's not so much that hipsters are forced to a poor area, my experience from living in a hipster neighorhood in a major city the mid 2000s (I grew up nearby) is that the majority were from upper middle class or affluent suburban white backgrounds. Even if they worked as a barista it wasn't uncommon to be renting a $1500 apartment by themselves because mom and dad were paying for it. The shift to poorer areas was more because after all the yuppies moved in there was another shift in the neighborhood and it was no longer seen as cool by the hipsters.

@@ahorsewithnoname773 I think it can be a mixture of both. Some are poor college kids or recent grads. That said, yes, a lot have parental support

Big fan of modern painters in general

@ghost mall noticing something isn’t really the same thing as being focused on a thing.

I don’t think it’s racist to not want to live in a high crime area.

@@shadow6543 Yeah well, this is why people can't have rational conversations about it.

This needs to be upvoted more. It's same where I live. They wouldn't dare stepping foot in a majority Hispanic/Black area nor would they own a business there.

by the way, was really expensive to buy all the independent label CDs in order to be aware of what the fanzines were talking about.... and God forbid you having casset tapes recorded from your friends in order to save money , what a loser, not an insider at all.

As a hipster in a lot of other regards I understand everything else lol

Unless someone is a Samurai it's unacceptable lol

@@aliasfakename2267 yeah lemme just let my hair go everywhere when I'm on a construction site, seems safe

@@karl_margs a haircut is also an option

@@aliasfakename2267 oh crap! I never realized that! If it weren't for busybodies like you, I would'a kept my hair growing forever

hell ya brother

Hell yeah brother

Hell yeah brother

I do, too. It's called classic menswear and delicious beverages.

Based

Ew spring breakers

Well that sucks.

All subcultures reach a tipping point where they become insufferable. There is also always this weird thing where the people in it think they are nonconformists despite all listening to the same music and dressing the same.

There’s tons of right wing hipsters. It isn’t just woke people. I’d argue the Andrew Tate bro types and wokies are subcultures in the same movement more or less.

@@ryanfraley7113 Andrew Tate isnt right wing. Everything he does and espouses is antithetical to conservative values. Just because he claims to be against the far left doesn’t make him right leaning.

Why is it the boomers’ fault? They aren’t the only people who can vote.

Not saying you’re totally wrong but I don’t think that attitude has anything to do with boomers. I know a lot of 20 and 30 somethings who own homes and literally none of them would be ok with their property value being lowered by opening up zoning laws

Ah yes, trickle down economics, you will trickle down the income spectrum until you fall off the bottom!

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA I'm being slightly sardonic when I say that, but ultimately things like zoning regulations aren't exactly sexy topics that get young voters to give a shit. Which, yes, is the fault of young voters, but that's why it's so hard for states like California and Oregon to pass such extremely radical laws like... new houses don't need to have driveways, or like... houses can have more than one primary entrance. Basically, there are a ton of small little laws like that which make it so that the only housing that's allowed to be built in most of America is the McMansion. Getting rid of those laws is really hard because people who already own McMansions fight tooth and nail to oppose any changes. It's not a Democrat/Republican thing, either.

Yeah I would blame the young people for not voting. Can’t blame the boomers if they’re the only ones who show up to the polls.