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No. "Hipster" was mostly a millennial youth thing, there's still recognizable bits around but the culture moved on. Especially from the word "hipster". Peaked around 2012. There are still kids who try too hard to be unique, quirky, and authentic in a way that makes them all do the same stuff... but it's a different vibe than a decade ago.

Look, a graph!:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=h...

Yeah, this feels a bit like people complaining about the hippies, but in 1981.

What vibe replaced it? I could see social networks shattering into a million vibes, but the music and art tells some of the story.

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