I live near a major university and have to drive through campus on the way to work. In recent years I have noticed an increasing number of kids such as these: the ones who will latch on to ANY trend or cause as an excuse to host some kind of social media-driven shenanigans.
Orientation day? Let's do a lip dub about it set to Call Me Maybe!
Stressful midterms coming up? Let's cheer everyone up with a Gangam Style flash mob!
Record number of student suicides this year? What could be more appropriate than free hugs, a bake sale, and a face painting booth?
This demographic seems to be made of hipster-casual girls who think they're Zooey Deschanel, plus a few awkward guys who I guess want to fuck the girls who think they're Zooey Deschanel.
Yeah, I was going to say I went to college and my father's been a professor since the early 80s and I'm confident it was always this bad. although he's reported a pronounced increase in people who are painfully socially incompetent on all levels in the past 6 years or so.
The term "hipster" is starting to encompass everyone nowadays. You have a mustache? HIPSTER. You ride a freaking bike? DOUBLE HIPSTER. You own a cable knit sweater that you wear occasionally? Too hipster for words.
Around these parts the term "hipster" has encompassed almost everything except for real hipsters (if that's even a real thing, the closest thing I can think of is the guys everyone called "mods" in New England ten years ago) for a very long time.
Yeah, I didn't watch the whole thing but I don't believe I saw any guys whose combination of emaciated body, spindly arms, flannel shirt and filthy beard make them look like an anorexic lumberjack.