Six steps from hipster to hippie

I have definitely seen a few folks walking around who are in the middle of this hipster-to-hippie metamorphosis.

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sirkowski

Dreadlocks is to hippies what baggy pants are to whiggers.
Anonymous

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Does that count if I’m french ?
Anonymous

Your HIPSTER is evolving!

… *sequence above*

Your HIPSTER evolved into HIPPIE!
Anonymous

Hippies don’t have holes in their jeans. That’s a punk thing. The hippies spent hours sewing patches to their jeans. Even if there were no holes.
Anonymous

HippieHipsters.com is for sale :) Yoopie…
t3knomanser

So Hispters can evolve! Good, I always feared that the poor things would be stuck that way. Hippies are at least personable and interesting.

I was always so sad that only hipsters turned out when I was in a band. I mean, any crowd is a good crowd, but it just had to be hipsters, my least favorite sub-culture.
- Anonymous
  
  how about in step 6 adding “patch sewn over hole in knee.”
  this is a great graphic. i think there are little things that could be added that would keep improving on it.
  maybe mention in step 1: “kung-fu slip-ons”
- bat21
  
  I don’t think “evolve” is the correct word for this.
petezombie

I find most “character traits” associated with hipsters can be applied to most people.

People poke fun at the fact that kids drink PBR, buy vintage clothes and ride fixed gear bikes even though all of these things are great cause they’re affordable, encourage a “re-use” mindset and help the environment.
Anonymous

Very good. Now let’s see the design graduate progress from corporate shill to full out 1984 fascist
Anonymous

This “evolution” can also go in the other direction.
Anonymous

Hipsters are annoying, hippies are annoying and smelly. I guess I’ll take hipsters as the lesser of two evils.
Axx

Along with former boinger Joel Johnson, I’m chilling in Eugene, Oregon. I’m pretty sure the 6 forms shown above cover a healthy 40% of the male population here.
AZsnowman

Wow, this is disappointing. Figured boingboing might be above this sort of base hipster-bashing. In fact, I’m kind of disappointed most of you aren’t over it by now. This is embarrassing.
- Anonymous
  
  Really? If you can’t bash hipsters and hippies who can you bash these days?
  
  Loved this! I am def swirling somewhere between steps 4 and 5. You might have added what music was coming out of the ipod eternally lodged in my ears. My Grateful Dead > Fleet Foxes > Vetiver mix covers my pretension and grassrootsy-ness. All bases covered.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Hipsters are way too hip and hippies way too stoned to care if anyone makes fun of them. Dude.
Anonymous

Next step – BRAIIIINZ!!!!!!
EH

Are logins broken? It took me several page reloads to get to this point, Movable Type errors otherwise.

That said, isn’t this Devendra Banhart’s entire gimmick? Replace the tiedye with a red suit and you’re golden.
- Robert
  
  digg.com is taking forever to load. I can’t even get BB to acknowledge that I’m logged in until the ad or whatever it is loads from digg.com, so here I am, Anonymous.
poagao

Aside from having a fondness for old styles, I have yet to find a defining attribute for “hipster” on the Internet that doesn’t basically equal “People I really hate and can’t adequately describe why”.
- Anonymous
  
  for your future reference:
  
  http://re1000.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/hipster1.jpg
- leland
  
  “Aside from having a fondness for old styles, I have yet to find a defining attribute for ‘hipster’ on the Internet that doesn’t basically equal ‘People I really hate and can’t adequately describe why’.”
  
  How about “People who generally despise you and refuse to describe why, though it probably has something to do with your choice in music, clothing, and espresso”?
  - Anonymous
    
    How ironic. Aren’t taste in music and fashion exactly the same criterion critics use to define them?
Anonymous

Dreadlocks =/= dirty. Dreads are totally washable and lock up best when kept clean. Some folks with dreads don’t bathe, but some folks with brushable hair don’t bathe either. Folks are going to have differing opinions aesthetics and style, and make fun of each other–have at it. But they should have the facts. :)

Curious people can head over to GUDU for more information: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=get_up_dread_up
usonia

I’m a little lost on this: step one is more or less anyone between, roughly, 20-45 (AKA Gens. X & Y). 2 is just a regular cokehead. 3 is, yes, a hipster (though that stained t shirt should be a stained purple cardigan). 4 is a portlander, and both 5 & 6 are hippies. THis is more list than evolution, isn’t it? This is doubly amusing since yesterday on my way home (on the hipster choked L train to Brooklyn, of course) I was fathoming a hipster (c. 1960) to hipster (c. 2010) evolution.
- Anonymous
  
  I doubt any current fortysomething is interested in tight jeans. We lived through tight jeans the first time, and it was a liberation when they weren’t cool any more. Why another generation would subject itself to this masochistic imperative is a mystery.
- Anonymous
  
  No one my age (42) can get away with the hipster look without being a poser. At forty you are officially “not cool” anymore. Our kids are hipsters for crying out loud no one dresses like their kids.
Anonymous

Bold Italic has a poster version up for sale:

http://www.zazzle.com/from_hipster_to_hippie_poster-228662276496535560
Anonymous

That’s funny, I went in the opposite direction. Now I’m a total square.
Anonymous

the most superficial hippie in existence.