A word that isn't cool yet

[cos]

Hipsters are said to like things before they were cool. Now that everyone knows about the thing, to the hipster it's no longer cool.

We're looking for a word for someone who's on the other side of that. They get into things that were cool, but whose cool-time has passed. Now people think "what, someone's still into that?" ... and that's when this person gets into it in the first place. Suggest a good word for that?

Comments

[noahgibbs]

Outdated? Retro?

[cos]

Those are words for the thing itself (though neither seems quite right to me), not a term for the kind of person who only gets into something after its coolness time has passed.

[tylik]

Square is often the natural counterpart to hip and it isn't entirely inappropriate, though not really specific. (Then again, this is only one usage of hipster.)

[tla]

Yeah I was going to suggest that "square" be reappropriated for this purpose. :)

[42itous]

Free-spirited?

[boxofdelights]

Retroster. Rhymes with toaster.

[dmm]

Retro-hipster

[dougo]

Straggler?

[dougo]

Rip Van Winkle.

[macthud]

Coaster.

Latester.

Granny/Gramps/Bubbe/etc.