scenester

From 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, Cary Darling, “Australian Rock: Boiling from Down Under”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], 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) A person who associates themselves with a particular trending or fashionable cultural scene.
   • 2021 November 30, Sara Harrison, “A Normie’s Guide to Becoming a Crypto Person: How to (cautiously and skeptically) fall down the rabbit hole”, in New York Magazine‎^[2]:

     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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