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waterlesscloud
4980 days ago
The trend has been named for at least a decade.
Oh, I see what you did there.
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gruseom
4980 days ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(1940s_subculture)
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waterlesscloud
4980 days ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subcultur...
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gruseom
4980 days ago
The point is that the word "hipster" has been in continuous use to describe alternative youth culture since the Beats.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hipster&yea...
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zerostar07
4979 days ago
As wikipedia explains, the term has been used to describe the culture of 2 distinct decades, not the decades in between
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gruseom
4979 days ago
Where does Wikipedia say that it wasn't used in the intervening decades? That's not true. Look at the ngram link I supplied – it clearly was in use. What do you think it meant?
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