The evolution of The New York Times' favorite buzzword: 'Hipsters'

The term is "a kind of shorthand for all things young or urban or tight-jeaned or ironic or tattooed or … whatever."

So hip.
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The New York Times is back in Brooklyn again, awkwardly documenting a trend that just won't go away: Young people being young people. This latest entry is a humor/trend-spotting piece for the Grey Lady's Style section called "How I Became a Hipster" (formerly "Will.i.amsburg," though the title was changed overnight).

You'll remember that in 2010, standards editor Philipp Corbett asked the staff to cool it with everyone's favorite buzzword — "hipster" — which the paper had sprinkled throughout its pages more than 250 times the year prior.

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Chris Gayomali is the science and technology editor for TheWeek.com. Previously, he was a tech reporter at TIME. His work has also appeared in Men's Journal, Esquire, and The Atlantic, among other places. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.