Hipsteric

Photo by Marisa Page

Generally made of ex-traditional hipsters recovering from an excess of indie parties and vintage shopping, the Vegan Hipster category is currently one of the fastest developing breeds.  Very popular in progressive hipster areas (pretty much the entire West Coast except some pockets of OC), Vegan Hipsters define themselves by a green, healthy lifestyle exclusively made of nuts and soy-based products (also known as bird food).

The breed finds its origins in out of control hipsters whose immoderate consumption of the cool lifestyle resulted in a severe hipster exhaustion and overdose. After they bravely decide to retire from the underground scene and finally graduate with a bachelor in sociological art, they usually retreat from large hipster cities to slowly starts their mutation into Vegan Hipsters. While some continue honoring hipster law #3 by finding healthy roommates to love, many chooses to pair up with another recovering hipster soul. Strongly involved in activities such as animal rights or soy food blogging, the perfect Vegan Hipster soul mate is a strong militant who also parted with a past of hipster profusion and debauchery.

An eco-friendly, healthy lifestyle is the rule #1 that applies to all Vegan Hipsters. Following a regime exclusively made of locally-grown food and fair-trade clothes, it is common for Vegan Hipsters to befriend the Hippie Hipster community to share their mutual love for ‘natural’ products (also known as marijuana). While female Vegan Hipsters religiously practice yoga, most males surprisingly enjoy soccer and carefully wathc all European championships – playing not being an option since it is quite hard to find animal-free soccer shoes. Vegan Hipsters are traditionally very fond of Buddhism. But it is Japanese culture that is usually ranked as their favorite interest; a passion they commonly like to display with samourai tattoos or other symbols on their already heavily inked forearms.

Unlike the Barneys Hipster who needs a lavish (but not ostentatious) lifestyle to survive, Vegan Hipsters do not require a six-figure salary to live happily. They are however conscious about working in a stable professional environment related to their vegan interests and generally stay away from the coffee bean industry. Typical Vegan Hipster jobs varies in industries and range from office manager at a bikram yoga center to event coordinator for an independent movie theater specialized in unsubtitled Japanese films.

With an intriguing lifestyle sometimes compared to a rehab program crossed with an organic tomato farm in Oregon, Vegan Hipsters defy almost all laws of the indie world and often surpass in many ways the hipsterness of all the other cool breeds.

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