They are harmless but their elitist and douchebag attitude is what mainly makes me despise them. And it seems they try way too hard to dress different but they end up looking pretty much the same. Basically, they need to be nuked from orbit.
Let's do an examination of the hipster as a species. What do their parents look like. Well, they're yuppies. Traits of the homo yuppie: middle class, materialistic, elitist, self righteous, self centred, conformist. Your typical yuppie is clean cut, drives a BMW, is politically centre, values a cookie-cutter lifestyle, and values people by material possessions they own. Modern pop culture is heavily driven by this species. A culture created to be bland, uniform, and inoffensive.
The hipster is an evolution of the yuppie rather than a revolution counter culture. Out of the core traits, homo hipster has evolved to reject materialism and conformity. However they still retain the self righteousness, self-centrism, and elitism of the earlier species. These two changes have greatly shaped their species to be fundamentally similar to the yuppie while being completely different at the same time. The beauty of evolution at work!
Hipsters reject materialism by embracing anti-materialism. They prefer to shop at mom & pop stores, thrift stores, buy bargain brands despite having the wealth to afford higher end items. It's homo hipster is lashing out at his environment that has surrounded him with meaningless acquisition. He seeks the "authentic", yet the hunt is an endless search. Every movie, music, book he sees is all the same corporate drivel. He rejects anything as soon as it becomes "mainstream". So instead he embraces the ironic. To reject conformism, he never identifies himself as being a member of his species. As doing so would be admitting to conforming to the pack. The hipster attempts to be a solitary creature but finds comfort in other members of his species.
He values himself and others on how ironic he can be, and uses this to attract a mate. Rather than living lavishly, it is a race to the bottom. He attempts to emulate the related species homo homeless in order to attract a female hipster. The more ironic, the better his chances.
Yet he still retains the elitism of his yuppie ancestors. He looks down on homo sapiens who sadly do not share his species' traits. Politically, he is paternalistic and left wing, believing that inferior homo sapiens should serve him and his compatriots through lavish tribute and a free liberal arts education.
Yet the hipster finds difficulty conforming to his environment. He cannot obtain work due to his disheveled appearance and slow, sloth like movement. Large numbers of idle hipsters are known to convene at large gatherings known in the scientific world as Occupys. In these gatherings they will vent their frustrations with mainstream society as a group. However such events do not last long as the hipster has a genetic defect that leads them predisposed to attention deficit disorder.
The homo hipster is a truly vulnerable species that deserves our protection. We are creating a habitat and nature preserve for them known as San Francisco, where they can live in their natural element free from harassment from human influence.