Hipsters are hated for denouncing imitation while themselves imitating.

Evidence

In his essay “What Was the Hipster?” Mark Greif notes that the word “hipster” is “primarily a pejorative—an insult that belongs to the family of poseur, faker, phony, scenester, and hanger-on.” Everyone hates hipsters, even hipsters themselves. As the Hipster Barista meme illustrates, a primary source of perceived hipster villainy is their complaints about the imitative behavior of mainstream society while engaging in imitative behavior. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 164

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-Semites secretly imitate the Jews they claim to despise — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 143; Pluralistic ignorance makes even genuine individual distinction look like imitation — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 176

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semites secretly imitate the Jews they claim to despise #expands (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 143
• Pluralistic ignorance makes even genuine individual distinction look like imitation #complicates (0.75) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 176