The yuccie coinage fused creative aspiration with profit motive

Evidence

In 2015, David Infante of Mashable proposed a replacement term for hipster: yuccie, short for “young urban creatives.” Yuccies, he wrote, were “infected by the conviction that not only do we deserve to pursue our dreams; we should profit from them.” Their dream was “getting rich quick and preserving creative autonomy.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 309

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the yuccie coinage and its cultural logic.
• CANDY: A fun dated coinage worth mentioning in casual conversation about work culture.