“Hip” is good.
HipSTER in BAD. No one likes hipsters.
“hip” and “cool” have some “operational definitions” that folks should think about.
Being “hip” or “cool” means being on that leading edge of rebellion to tradition, parents, or society, in order to fit in with the value system of the world, and not that of parents or parents’ generation.
The term “hipster” needs to die.
I am no expert on this, but I thought “hip” and “hipster”
are both decades old. I have no personal experience of the
older usage, only print.
If a current “hipster” is 21 or so, and his parents were
30 when he/she was born, then they were too young I think
to encounter “hip” and “hipster” in the earliest usage.