Time Out vs. Hipsters, sweet vs. viscious

Under the guise of “irony,” hipsterism fetishizes the authentic and regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity. Those 18-to-34-year-olds called hipsters have defanged, skinned and consumed the fringe movements of the postwar era—Beat, hippie, punk, even grunge. Hungry for more, and sick with the anxiety of influence, they feed as well from the trough of the uncool, turning white trash chic, and gouging the husks of long-expired subcultures—vaudeville, burlesque, cowboys and pirates......

.....The fault lines are clear enough already. We know that there are Sweet hipsters, who practice the sort of irony you can take home to meet the parents, and there are those Vicious hipsters, who practice the form of not-quite-passive aggression called snark..... [Time Out]

The entire hipster table of contents HERE. Are you a hipster? Sweet or viscious? Name your favorite sweet & viscious hipsters in the comments.

For further reading, check out this (hip) article from last week's Time Out:
Savvy concertgoers reveal eight proven strategies to get you in.