You will hear people like me talking about hipsters, scenesters and other fakes.

Who are these people?

Simple definition: anyone who makes the art the means and themselves the ends.

An artist makes the art the end, and themselves (and anything else) the means.

The hipster is the inverse artist, who wants the cachet and cool of being an artist. They want to be unique, different, innovative, charming, etc. because inside they're ordinary.

That's part of their inversion… they turn themselves inside out to demonstrate to you how cool they are, and to justify their meaningless, modern lifestyles. They make their ego the goal and use their lives as accessories to that end.

Two great definitions:

Kill the hipster: A modest proposal to save New York cool

Hipster: The dead end of Western civilization

And some related articles:

The field guide to the North American hipster

Hipster fatigue

Hipster: a subculture ripe for parody

End the bike hipsters

The hipster grifter

Your Scene Sucks!

And here's a stunner:

Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20's and 30's that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence, and witty banter. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster

Let me re-write that for you:

Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20's and 30's that value the appearance of independent thinking, the appearance of counter-culture, "progressive" politics, an appreciation of "unique" but banal art and indie-rock, the appearance of creativity, the appearance of intelligence, and cleverly self-righteous and vapid banter. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster

If all hipsters and scenesters died tomorrow, would life be:

(a) better

(b) worse

Think hard about that one as you reload.