Is hipsterism still a thing?

[opebo]

I don't really get the hipster thing, as I thought I was a 'hipster' in 1989-mid-1990s.  I mean, all the things the hipsters wear, I was wearing in 1989-1993 (though I suppose not quite so ridiculously tight).

I remember at one party in the early to mid nineties, one of those 'standard' cool guys of the time - you know, had a goatee and dungarees I guess - said to me 'wow, man, what's with those slacks?' - I was wearing 1970's plaid slacks, old worn out black converse lowtops, and some kind of early-1980s short-sleeve button-down+ cardigan combination...  I said, I don't know, you can get a bag of them for 25 cents down at the thrift store. 

My god, the good old days.

(oh and I've worn glasses like these since about 1974):

[opebo]

I don't really get the hipster thing, as I thought I was a 'hipster' in 1989-mid-1990s.  I mean, all the things the hipsters wear, I was wearing in 1989-1993 (though I suppose not quite so ridiculously tight).

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I see.  Yes I get this.  Though I'm thinking the hipsterism of the late eighties and early to mid nineties was somewhat different from the one you guys are talking about (2002 onwards?).  Kind of fresh and not so.. 'fully developed' lets say.   We really weren't trying very hard at all.

[opebo]

Hipsterism was originally a backlash against commercialism and consumerism. Of course, as it's become popular, it has itself been commoditized. Sooner rather than later some new subculture will come along to replace it.

Yes, I see - I think at the time I was a participant, it had yet to be commoditized at all - in fact it was really very new.  I also remember it as not having the political slant it later developed.