> I often typed “hipster coffee shop” into the search bar as a shorthand because Yelp’s search algorithm always knew exactly what I meant by the phrase. It was the kind of cafe that someone like me – a western, twentysomething (at the time), internet-brained millennial acutely conscious of their own taste – would want to go to.
Uh huh, oh look at the time, I gotta get going for a thing I have...
"Indeed, it doth appear of late that every coffee house, whether in Philadelphia or in New Amsterdam, hath a striking resemblance unto one another."
(A young member of the intelligentsia hits her 40s and starts to notice she is part of a social class and has cultural signifiers that comfort her and can be exploited?)
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