Do What You Want

If there is one topic that had been so severely over done that I makes me want to remove my face, it's 'I hate Hipsters'. There is an unnatural amount videos and blogs just going on and on about how silly these individuals that call themselves 'Hipsters' are. I'm not trying to dig out any person who has said that they don't like the idea of hipsterism, because you are allowed to say you aren't a fan of something. I love our right to free speech and that we are in a society that, for the most part, is completely open to you having a distaste to a fashion or music or whatever. But it's completely over done, and I understand that there are pressures to put out new material regularly, however there is nothing new or original  about just saying what you don't like and not suggesting a compromise.

You may notice this is kind of going against the grain of the usual blogs and shit, I know that this subculture is often criticised, I will stand up for the Hipsters, not that they really care for my input when they hang up side down in their caves drinking their tea, but you should be able to do whatever the hell you want. I mean that generally, but also more specifically in terms of what you wear or what you upload to Tumblr or Instagram. If you want to wear minimal amount of clothes or wear knitted jumpers with Aztec patterns all over it (which admittedly I like), then fine. It's totally fine. Similarly, if you like to wear turtle necks or read poetry in the countryside, then why shouldn't that be acceptable?

Admittedly, the word mainstream makes me want to vomit, maybe it's because I hear it all the time or if you do anything that's not like everyone else, clearly it's 'too mainstream' blah blah blah blah. However great movements have sparked from not complying with mainstream society. For example, the Punk era, this was a movement of sticking it to the authority or to anyone; wearing things that were obscene, getting tattoos and piercings and with a do it yourself ethos. I'm not comparing Punk with Hipsters entirely, if anything they were merely slightly influenced.

It almost makes me sad that we are so critical of wearing glasses without proper lenses, I mean seriously, we moan about plastic glasses. It's just insane that there are so many other more important issues in the world, if anything, the tedious issue of what day the rubbish truck come to collect your recycling is far more of a problem than whether you wear fake glasses. Jesus, and even that annoys me, who's world simple revolves around when your rubbish get's collected?!

Do what you want, why should you care what people think of you? It's your personal choice, so go forth Hipster, embrace the world with the strange shapes in your twitter name, go forth and kick mud at 'the mainstream'.
I dare you.