Indie artists that are actually extremely popular examples include neutral milk hotel, arctic monkeys and radiohead (only 2 of those actually make good music)
person A: put arctic monkeys two
person B: nah, that's some fake indie shit, as a matter affect get tf outta my car
A fake indie lover enjoys and promotes as the end all and be all of indie: Mumford and sons, the 1975, Lana Del ray, arctic monkey, the use of emojis, especially πππ©, genuinely enjoys popular page vines including Lele Pons, Brent Rivera, Brandon Bowen, Lance210, kianlawl etc, takes snapchat stories instead of enjoying the moment, wears a choker, uses the phrases: savage, doe, rt. has more followers than following on their friends only, loves tumblr, doesn't like facebook, flirts with the monkey emojis, claims to be indie, wants matching infinity tattoos with their bff, likes minions, sings along to train, gets genuinely shocked when they find out someone else listens to a semi unpopular artist, "I started that trend"
"People don't know what real music is these days. The weekend is what real music isπ I discovered them before anybody while I was wearing my choker and my flannel tied around my waist" -a fake indie lover
"My favourite classic song is drops of Jupiter by train" -also a fake indie lover