What is it about hipsters that set some people off or leave some tragically confused? There’s a thread on Brookynian that keeps getting longer and long on the hispster topic. It started with this:

What’s the deal? The dark frame glasses, tight jeans, scruffy faces, Brooklyn Industries bags, incredible skinniness, Chuck Taylor sneakers? Why are they all such carbon copies? I thought that whole style started as a way to be different, and now it’s like a population of people who are exactly like each other and who are, in fact, very difficult to tell apart. I’m not trying to be offensive here, I’m truly curious. Does anyone know?

Uh, yeah, some people know. For instance:

I believe, that in one fashion or another, the current hipster movement may have reared it’s horn rimmed black glasses and skinny bs head from the mid-90’s yuppie movement when the yuppies started to migrate from their posh lives uptown to the gritty and filthy scenes below 14th St. At that time, Hush Puppie shoes became the choice of footwear (for yuppies and those that wanted to be “cool”) and soon it became an epidemic which was then caught by the rest of the population.

Soon enough, more and more people were wearing them and a new fad of “hipster” was born…out of yuppies. The blow, the clubs and bars were a breeding ground for “new” fashions which evolved into the current “hipster movement”. When those particular neighborhoods started to become more like a mutated yuppie paradise(over priced and understocked), they started to move in and force the punks and residents out…as the “hipsters” number grew, they expanded and moved across the river to Williamsburg, now Hipster central.

Sure, maybe this seems far fetched, a crazy idea, but i have a feeling that it def. contributed to the current state of affairs.

The thread eventually degenerated into an attack on all people not born in Brooklyn. Fascinating.