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Is This Guy From The Distant Past Or Just A Hipster?

Can you tell modern man from his very cool ancestors?

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Nora Whelan
Nora Whelan
BuzzFeed Staff

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  1. 1. Buddy Holly's bud or record store clerk who doesn't like your favorite band since they got signed?

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    That's a hungry hungry hipster.

    Patrick Carney plays drums in the Black Keys.

    Via Ethan Miller / Getty Images

  2. 2. Actual old dude or Portland troubadour?

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    It's an actual old guy!

    Spotted "serenading" this woman, not just busking for kombucha funds, in 1894 Italy.

    Via Hulton Archive / Getty Images

  3. 3. Mid-century man or Yeezy collaborator?

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Oh, he's totally an old guy.

    The photo of this monk was taken in 1950s Thailand.

    Via Richard Harrington / Stringer / Getty Images

  4. 4. Old guy or hipster?

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    That's an old guy, alright.

    This photo of runner David Segal was taken in September 1956.

    Via Getty Images / Staff

  5. 5. Legit 1950s-era greaser or potential member of the fedorati?

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    You've gone and caught yourself a hipster.

    That's Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme.

    Via David Livingston / Stringer

  6. 6. Vintage bank robber mugshot or new neighbor at the McKibbin Lofts?

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    That, my friends, would be a hipster.

    It's Bleachers musician and T Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff.

    Via Larry Busacca / Getty Images

  7. 7. Old guy or hipster?

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Hipster as fuck.

    That's musician and producer Steve Aoki.

    Via Rachel Murray / Stringer

  8. 8. Disco daddy or guy whose show you'll have to pay to get into even though he's your boyfriend?

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    It's a real-life old guy!

    Meet Denis Myers, a model at Paris's 1968 International Wool Secretariat fashion show.

    Via Ted West / Stringer / Getty Images

  9. 9. Lumbersexual or actual original transcendentalist?

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    That's a hipster, baby!

    Nick O'Malley is the bassist for Arctic Monkeys, and probably stays very warm in winter.

    Via Andrew Cowie / AFP / Getty Images

  10. 10. Old guy or hipster?

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Hipster all the way.

    Ted Dwane plays bass for Mumford & Sons. What's with the bass players?

    Via Larry Busacca / Getty Images
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