It seems like every few years Americans adopt and overuse some new word. Some go out of style, while others stick around — probably because what they refer to doesn’t go away and the word seems impossible to replace (e.g. “hippie”). The current overused term is “hipster.” It seems to have replaced “metrosexual,” which has mercifully gone away.
We’re not the only ones tired of “hipster.” Gawker recently polled its users in an attempt to replace it with something more palatable. The results were a bit disappointing: The plurality vote came in at only 34%, for “fauxhemian.”
Google Trends suggests that “hipster” has neared its peak and has nowhere to go but down:
Google Insights identifies these hipster-related blogs as Rising searchers:
It’s also worth noting America’s much greater interest in nerds.
Tags: fauxhemian, haley brothers, Hipster, insights, Metrosexual, nerds, trends
April 28th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
If “hipster” is going out, by golly it may as well to bring “douche” along with it… http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=hipster%2Cdouche&cmpt=q
April 28th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Same comparison filtered for United States shows a suspiciously close correlation: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=hipster%2Cdouche&geo=US&cmpt=q
April 29th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
“Hipster” is def not a replacement for “metrosexual”. Totally different cultural identities.