the.com/hipster
someone who liked it before it was cool and will make sure you know that.
means a person who cultivates obscure tastes in music, food, and style specifically to signal cultural superiority over the mainstream.
from from 1940s jazz slang hip meaning in the know; the beatniks got hep, the 2000s got hipster and a whole lot of fixed-gear bikes.
irony overloadthe label itself became too mainstream to claim
brooklyn epicenterwilliamsburg became shorthand worldwide
beard economysingle-handedly revived artisanal barbershops