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Those kids who hate everything that is popular and make themselves like things that everyone else hates in the hope that it will make them stand out and be "original" or "unique." The kind of person who instead of jumping off a cliff if someone else did, would jump off a cliff if everyone else said it was a terrible idea.
Not to be confused to with nonconformists, who choose their own tastes uninfluenced by others.
Joe: "Hey Mary, have you heard the new Katy Perry song on the radio yet?"
Kara: Oh my GOD that song sucks! Who honestly listens to that crap?"
Joe: I know, I hate it.
*Kara walks away*
Mary: She's never even heard the song before. She just hates it because it's popular.
Joe: Wow, what an anti-conformist.
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An anti-conformist is a pseudo-individual who thinks being "non-mainstream" or part of a "sub-culture" is automatically an individual.
Examples include some (but not all) members of many "social outcast" subcultures such as emos, goths, juggalos, bronies, btards, geeks, new atheists, metalheads, stoners, hipsters, Ron Paul fans, SJWs, even Scientologists.
Ironically anti-conformists are more conformist than the majority of "normal people", and are just as bigoted as the stereotypically "cool" or "popular" cliques such as jocks, preps, cheerleaders, sorority girls, etc.
Try arguing that the Phantom Menace is better than the original Star Wars at a Sci-Fi convention, and you may be treated like a heretic in medieval Europe. Try telling a metalhead that you enjoy a few Lady Gaga songs and you'll get a similar result. Or ask a hipster to try watching any movie which isn't "foreign, indie, arthouse", etc and he'll tell you it's crap without even watching it.
Some subcultures started out as something original, but nowadays are often a manufactured image people adopt for negative attention - like the jock who buys his clothes at Abercrombie and Fitch, a metalhead will buy his tattered jeans and black T-shirts at Hot Topic yet still claim to be non-conformist.
In short they're essentially to normalcy what the Punisher (an anti-hero) is to Superman (a hero) - but an anti-hero is still a protagonist no matter how much it denies it.
South Park showed a perfect example of anti-conformist mindset. While the "goth kids" prided themselves on being non-conformist, in reality they generalized and excluded anyone who didn't dress exactly the same as them or listen to the same music as them, proving themselves to be some of the biggest conformists around.
A true individual on the other hand has a wide variety of interests - he may enjoy both heavy metal and pop music at the same time, or might enjoy playing Dungeons and Dragons while still enjoying sports - the difference is that he chooses his interests out of genuine interest rather than just trying to affect a certain image, and is typically a lot more tolerant toward people with different tastes rather than expecting everyone to be a carbon copy of himself.
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There are two defintions of 'non-comformist':
1. A bigot who decides since everyone else like '______' that hey'll be different and hate it. See wannabe non-conformist.
2. A person who doesn't care what anyone else thinks and like what they choose to like, popular or not popular.
Both defintions are considered a weirdo.
1. Everyones wearing watches. I hate watches now.
2. I like watches! In fact, I wear three!
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a conformist, generally claims to not follow the crowd but in reality is just following a different crowd/using another label.
all you non-conformists are all alike.
see goth, emo, chav, punk, skater, townie, ghetto, grunge, prep, kev
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A conformist homosexual is a gay person who attempts to conform to the heterosexual world, through actions such as getting married, and moving to the suburbs.
Sue - "Did you hear about David and Bob? Apparently after their honeymoon they are moving to upstate New York with their pet dog"
Sally - "Dude! They're the biggest conformist homosexuals I've ever met!"
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While sometimes hypocritical - it does vary.
You can't generalize on this definition.
there are the hypocrites and those who really truly believe in non-comformity.
hypocritical NC : god, everyone likes modest mouse now ! I liked them 1stt and like so i muss hate them now !
NC : I don't like all that punk rock shit and I won't pretend I do. Sure, you can like it if you want but i'm not going to pretend I do like it.
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Someone who was once a hypocritical conformist who saw the bullshit in it all. Then, they became a hypocritical non-conformist (really just the early stages of getting used to how full of bullshit they still are after years of it). From this point on, they will peel layers of bullshit away year by year (sometimes by choice, other times from hard unsavory lessons that have the power to scar minds). They will never be well-adjusted, and, in the end, see no reason to be.
An ex-conformist is someone who just said, "Fuck it." Only for them, this was not a stage. They revel in this self-realization while feeling the pain of their knowing human flaws, often leading them to despise the human race, who are often busy calling them conformists or criticizing them for being full of themselves and thinking they're not conformist FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES (often leading to self-destruction). Really, two definitions here. Oh, well. Fuck it.
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