Hispters vs. Hypebeasts

Currently being a hispter or hypebeast is not necessarily a good thing. Many people don't know the difference between the two, so here are a few tips on how to identify them. Hipsters are trendy offsprings of hippies traditionally (when it wasn't such a bad thing), they are easy to spot if a group (but not a large group) of people start wearing some obscure or vintage attire. A hypebeast doesn't really have a roots like hipsters and hippies. It's more of an evolution of typically minorities that have adopted many previously shunned fashions ex: neon colors, tight jeans, shirts that fit (in some cases too small). All of this applies solely to their style, but their personalities are an even bigger part of what makes them hispters and hypebeasts.

Hipsters are easy to spot with their "too cool for school" mentality and always talk about how they did something or listened to someone before it was cool(which results in a bias towards "indie" music), which isn't so bad, but recently they have developed a few distasteful qualities. Hipsters can be annoyingly apathetic, and generally think they are better than other people. Hypebeasts in many ways are the polar opposite of hipsters, rather than constantly trying to stay original they try to pull off "the look" better than everyone else, and do not care how many people are doing/wearing the same thing. Music also a polar opposite and evolutionary development resulting in a large amount of mainstream music(including rock which was previous taboo) Hipsters will try to always stay as far away from the norm as possible, but after enough time has gone by will happily bring an old style back and call it vintage because to hipsters vintage trumps all name brands. Hypebeasts oddly enough do the same thing, and call them throwbacks, but it takes a little more time for something to become cool again. The hipsters go straight for the vintage look wearing the 20 or so year old clothing, but before hypebeasts can wear something old it has to look new again.

Seeing how these are new terms almost solely used among younger demographics (14-25) there are some older people (25-35) who just can't seem to grow up and continue abiding by these trends. Despite all of the differences between these two mixing them up, or not being able to identify them is still common and understandable due to the amount of people trying to do one and failing, or simply walking the tightrope between them(which is done fairly often). It all depends on your personality and fashion sense. There are white hypebeasts and minority hipsters. Now you know a little about these significant(because they are everywhere) yet insignificant(because no one really care) social categories.