The Priceonomics blog, authored by self-identified hipsters, crunches the numbers behind one of the most irksome qualities of hipsters: their haughty attachment to utterly obscure bands. For example,the graph below uses data from the Pitchfork website, described as “probably the most important hipster taste-maker”, and the number of Facebook likes for a Pitchfork review of a band.
If you don’t recognize any of the bands represented by the blue dots, don’t feel so bad.
If you do recognize any of them (apart from Vampire Weekend), what are you doing here?