Generation: HYPEBEAST 

                                                                    By: Zeek

      As I stand in a crowd of people at the CW Lofts in Atlanta, at the Wiz Khalifa show last April, I look to my right then to my left. Stuck in the middle of two teenage guys I notice two things: both guys are smoking a blunt and both similarly dressed with: Chuck Taylors and Levis jeans, with designer tee shirts. I look down at myself and I realize I am wearing the same thing, just in a female form. Nicely dressed in a 10 deep tee, skinny Levis jeans, and Chuck Taylors. It didn’t bother me that I was wearing something like them, cause most of the crowd had on the same thing; worn in different ways. 

   A hypebeast is a person who follows a trend to be cool or in style, or a person who wears or does what is hyped up.  Lets cut to the chase; most of our friends and us included are hypebeasts. Its not that we are set out to be one, we want to do what’s cool to our peers so we imitate what they do subconsciously. To call someone a hypebeast, you should take a close look at yourself first cause you most likely are one. As a generation we follow each other without noticing that we are really doing the exact same thing. It has nothing to do with race, age or gender. None of us are really “original” either. We all try to be different but end up looking the same. I’ve been called a hypebeast before, but I didn’t care at first but now it strikes a nerve with me. I have yet to meet a person who doesn’t wear anything trendy or not in style. Someone who is a hundred percent original, who doesn’t do what’s considered “cool” now-a-days. If we could just accept each other for who we are, and not what society, culture, and our peers wants us to be, the term hypebeast would fail to exist.