Am I a ‘Hypster’ if I Subscribe?

No.

Um, yes.

OK well, not in the too-explicit-for-my-blog Urban Dictionary sense of the term.  Listen, if you stumble upon, bookmark or even subscribe to this blog you are not, I repeat, you are not (necessarily) any of the following pejorative definitions:

1. A pretentious person with money, youth and a sense of cultural and intellectual superiority.
2. A term developed by nameless, aimless, sarcastic, fatalistic [...] self-taught philosophers and out-of-time fans of Jack Kerouac/Che Guevara/Wilhelm Reich [blah blah blah].
3. A self-righteous acronym for anyone who gets into the Holy Trinity of Ivy League universities (plus one extra): Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford. A person who is a HYPSter is probably brilliant but crazy.
4. The person responsible for selling or generating “hype” about a new idea or thing. The person behind a HUGE public relations push.

Alright, you’re #4 and I have nothing against Jack Kerouac or IVY leagues, but like you, Mr. R. Kelly, I don’t see nuthin’ wrong with a little like ‘n subscribe.  I say we reclaim hypster and get our power back!  Hey man, if Heather Jarvis can take back ‘slut’…

Get hype, Hypsters, this post is for you!

(Too soon?)