Rise and Fall of Hipster
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010It 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.