I'm in the same boat as you with the paragraph about the "hipster bar", though with a bit less racial diversity (everything else is spot on). The worst part is, I've known some people to go to places like that simply for some ill-placed novelty value that they hold towards what they call "hipster" culture. Be it that, or going to a local grimmy record store, eating and drinking locally produced goods even gets a callout sometimes, things of that nature. It is, as you put, a term for people that aren't conforming to what other people want them to be. The media uses the phrase because they know damn well that it will generate views, and in the end, that is what they want. The numbers are what matter, and that helps elevate those numbers. Great comment, things like that are why I use Hubski.