Isn't the trend of "hipster" rather strange? I mean, my understanding of "hipster" is wrapped up in four words: Before It Was Cool. That might just be the joke, but I feel like that's where it started out. Glancing around the Internet, it sounds like "hipsterism" as we know it started in the '90s as a reaction against... something. Hipsters created their own look by not looking the way everyone else did. They popularized hobbies that no one else did. They listened to certain types of music that weren't popular. So... hipsters did stuff before it was cool.