It is true! “Hipster” first gets a mention in Cat and Girl on November 12 2001. Although shirts with flames are included in the equation. So clearly the meaning has yet to be ironed out.
Sev and Erika, my best guess is that Dr. Evil was using “hipster” in the old 1940s-50s sense of a jazz enthusiast – the joke would have been at Dr. Evil’s expense, showing how he was so out of touch that he called a “hippie” a “hipster” (it would be like calling him a “beatnik”).
Oh, you have your precious sincerity now, but one day the pendulum will swing back towards ironic detachment and we’ll all have a good sneer at its banal inevitability.
November 10, 2011
Maybe not Berlin, but . . . Prague?
November 10, 2011
Chat et fille, je vous aime.
November 10, 2011
It is true! “Hipster” first gets a mention in Cat and Girl on November 12 2001. Although shirts with flames are included in the equation. So clearly the meaning has yet to be ironed out.
November 10, 2011
I share a birthday with… Hipster!?! Wow!
November 11, 2011
Dr. Evil called Austin Powers an “aging hipster” in 1997. It’s surprising how young the modern sense is.
November 13, 2011
Hip hip, hooray.
November 13, 2011
If there was a cat and girl drinking game, it would be to drink every time Girl looked up in realization with a line under her eye.
November 13, 2011
@Sev Dr. Evil was using “hipster” to mean “hippie,” or something of the sort… certainly the meaning seems to have changed since he used it.
November 14, 2011
Sev and Erika, my best guess is that Dr. Evil was using “hipster” in the old 1940s-50s sense of a jazz enthusiast – the joke would have been at Dr. Evil’s expense, showing how he was so out of touch that he called a “hippie” a “hipster” (it would be like calling him a “beatnik”).
November 14, 2011
Well clearly, Dr. Evil was into talking about hipsters 4 years before everybody else started doing it.
November 14, 2011
Oh, you have your precious sincerity now, but one day the pendulum will swing back towards ironic detachment and we’ll all have a good sneer at its banal inevitability.
Not that it matters.
November 14, 2011
Lenny Bruce claimed “There is nothing sadder than an aging hipster”. And he died in ’66.
November 15, 2011
What about Elaine calling Kramer a hipster doofus?
November 21, 2011
Jakarta. Fixed gear bikes are all the rage.
January 12, 2012
angel headed hipsters etc. etc.
it’s been a thing for a good while.
January 12, 2012
Hipster is a term that’s been around for a looong time. And it’s basically always referred to pretentious artholes, too!