...but you wouldn't know about it.

I have yet another person to thank for prolonging my premium membership: Huuuuuge thank you to for a whole year of these features I was already mentally preparing to lose  - my stamps and display options have become quite dear to me

Apart from that, it's time for another observational rant.
I've come across this... phenomenon quite a few times among the people I used to or still do call friends: Limiting individualism while, at the same time, promoting it.
Now I'm as annoyed by hipsters as the next guy but I think if someone does something out of the ordinary because they like it (and not simply to underline their uniqueness), that's completely fine. And as long as they're not hurting anybody by doing/liking/whatever-ing it, why look down on them?
Now, among these... let's say classmates of mine are a few which claim to be extremely individual and exceptional and oh being unique is such a wonderful thing and you don't know anything about it go away - and support being unique. Oh yes they do. As long as it falls into one of the categories they like themselves.

Wut?

Look. Either you like people who are unique, are tolerant towards anyone's hobbies, or you aren't. But if you aren't, you can no longer claim to support individualism and people being colorful and different and special. If you only accept uniqueness if it's made out by things you like, you don't support being unique in general. You support some mutation of pop-culture you personally prefer.
Which is fine, too. But it pisses me off to talk to a friend about how being different is completely fine one day, and seeing her pull her nose into curls on another when I tell her about something interesting, but different/new somebody did or I liked.
As with many things, this is highly influenced by publicity. Depending on who does what, that "what" becomes the shit or just shit. Wether it be a celebrity or a kid at school. If the hottest guy on campus is into wearing collars, that might become the next trend. If it's that weird girl from that class you have in the afternoon doing the same thing, that's... well, weird.
And I'm not anywhere near unimpressionable. Hell no. But I try my very best not to be a hypocrite. And sure I think better of certain abnormalities than of others, depending on my own preferences. Everybody with emotions and interests does. But that's not the same thing as looking down on someone for being eccentric or having an unusual interest while still, at other times, constantly pointing out that "ohmagurr I LOVE uniqueness!"
No. You love promoting your own specific differences by claiming to be open-minded.
Geez.
I hate young people.

And by the way: Being unique is SO mainstream.