You're so hip it hurts. Your jeans are so tight you'd think they're spray painted on. Your leather rucksack is full of awesome new albums and ticket stubs. You're a V.I.P at Le Baron and the casual coolness with which you go about Betsu Ni is to be applauded.
But what now?
You can't simply plateau in your journey of awesomeness. For what? A full-time income and an apartment in Shoto? Not on my watch.
This hipster shall not go to waste.
The trick is to follow the social current upstream and stay on top of the "cool" for as long as you (or the waist band of your skinny-legs) can last.
According to a study conducted by the Gerson Lehrmen Group in 2007 the Internet is a "key enabler" of creative content sharing within Japan, to all over Asia and the world.
Why am I telling you this?
Don't you see?
The best way to stay on top of what is the ever-changing notion of the "Hip", the "Cool", the "Now", is to create it yourself.
While you have learnt enough in this blog to pass as a hipster in Japan, you have also in some part been able to see what a blog does (projects your individual ideas to a potentially global audience)...
If the internet is the way of the future then why not use it as a tool to your advantage.
Create your own content for the masses to mirror, digest, remix, mashup and tailor.
Who knows, perhaps one of you hipsters reading this will go on to write a highly acclaimed blog on "How to be a World-Dominating Hipster"...
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