scenester

scene +‎ -ster (“agent, person”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːnstɚ/

scenester (plural scenesters)

1. (music) A non-musician who is active in a particular musical scene, especially one whose involvement carries social status.
   • 1986, January 5, “Archived copy”, in Australian Rock: Boiling from Down Under‎, archived from the original on 18 April 2009:

     One of those nights was recorded and, with production by local scenester Chris D., is now seeing the light of day.

   • 2014, Dirk Wittenborn, Jazz Johnson, The Social Climber's Bible:

     Their job is to deny entry to those who don't belong, the wannabe scenester as opposed to the real scenester.

   • 2019, Stefano Barone, Metal, Rap, and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: A Fragile Underground, →ISBN:

     Some scenesters told me of their manic daily life, made of entire days and nights spent without any sleep or food, focusing on the music until exhaustion.

2. (by extension) One who associates themself with a particular trending or fashionable cultural scene
   • 2021, November 30, “Sara Harrison”, in A Normie’s Guide to Becoming a Crypto Person: How to (cautiously and skeptically) fall down the rabbit hole‎:

     This is a guide to actually understanding that universe, whether you simply want to sound literate at a dinner party, know the difference between a bitcoin maxi and an NFT scenester, angle for a promotion by showing off more tech fluency than your boss, or leave your PR job to become memer-in-chief at a new coin exchange.

• fan, scene kid, groupie

• scenesterism

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