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One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
He pretends draping things in miles of cloth is art, and that he’s an artist, but it’s always the same gimmick with different details, and he’s just a poseur.
She only dresses like that because she thinks she is getting the boys' attention; she doesn’t even like the clothes. She’s such a poseur.

The playwright Oscar Wilde has been described as a "poseur". Thomas Hardy said of him, "His early reputation as a poseur and fop – so necessary to his notoriety – recoiled upon the scholar and gentleman (as Wilde always innately was), and even upon the artist".

Lord Alfred Douglas said of Wilde, "That he had what passed for genius nobody will, I think, nowadays dispute, though it used to be the fashion to pooh-pooh him for a mere poseur and decadent."

The painter James A. Whistler has been sometimes described as a "poseur" for his manner and personal style. It has been suggested that Whistler's genius lay partly in his ability to cultivate the role of the poseur, to "act as if he were always on stage", in order to stir interest, and cause people to wonder how such a poseur could create work that was so serious and authentic. His fame as an artist seemed to require that he present himself as a poseur.

The playwright and critic, George Bernard Shaw, has been described as a poseur; in that context Shaw is quoted as saying, "I have never pretended that G.B.S. was real ... The whole point of the creature is that he is unique, fantastic, unrepresentative, inimitable, impossible, undesirable on any large scale, utterly unlike anybody that ever existed before, hopelessly unnatural, and void of real passion."

In the ancient Greek comedy The Clouds, the playwright Aristophanes portrays Socrates as a "poseur".

 #: ''He pretends draping things in miles of cloth is art, and that he’s an artist, but it’s always the same gimmick with different details, and he’s just a '''poseur'''.''
 #: ''She only dresses like that because she thinks she is getting the boys' attention; she doesn’t even like the clothes. She’s such a '''poseur'''.''
+The playwright [[Oscar Wilde]] has been described as a "poseur". [[Thomas Hardy]] said of him, "His early reputation as a poseur and [[fop]] – so necessary to his notoriety – recoiled upon the scholar and gentleman (as Wilde always innately was), and even upon the artist".
+[[Lord Alfred Douglas]] said of Wilde, "That he had what passed for genius nobody will, I think, nowadays dispute, though it used to be the fashion to [[pooh-pooh]] him for a mere poseur and decadent."
+The painter [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler|James A. Whistler]] has been sometimes described as a "poseur" for his manner and personal style. It has been suggested that Whistler's genius lay partly in his ability to cultivate the role of the poseur, to "act as if he were always on stage", in order to stir interest, and cause people to wonder how such a poseur could create work that was so serious and authentic. His fame as an artist seemed to require that he present himself as a poseur.
+The playwright and critic, [[George Bernard Shaw]], has been described as a poseur; in that context Shaw is quoted as saying, "I have never pretended that G.B.S. was real ... The whole point of the creature is that he is unique, fantastic, unrepresentative, inimitable, impossible, undesirable on any large scale, utterly unlike anybody that ever existed before, hopelessly unnatural, and void of real passion."
+In the ancient Greek comedy ''[[The Clouds]]'', the playwright [[Aristophanes]] portrays [[Socrates]] as a "poseur".
 ==See also==
 *[[Hipster subculture]]
 * [[Rockism]]
 * [[Superficiality]]
-{{short description|Someone who poses for effect}}
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-[[File:Georges Seurat 047.jpg|thumb|''[[Models (painting)|Models]]'' (''Les Poseuses'') by Georges Seurat]]
-A '''poseur''' is someone who poses for effect, or behaves affectedly,<ref>Allen, R.E. Fowler, H. W. ''The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English''. Clarendon Press. (1984). {{ISBN|0198611331}}</ref> who affects a particular attitude, character or manner to impress others,<ref>Morris, William. editor. ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language''. American Heritage Publishing. (1969) page 1022</ref> or who pretends to belong to a particular group.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/poseur |title=Cambridge Dictionaries Online |publisher=Dictionary.cambridge.org |access-date=7 February 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208141451/http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/poseur |archive-date=8 December 2011}}</ref><ref name="dictionary">[http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=poseur Definition of poseur] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060526232744/http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=poseur |date=26 May 2006 }} at Dictionary.com</ref> A poseur may be a person who pretends to be what they are not or an insincere person;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poseur |title=poseur – Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-webster.com |access-date=7 February 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128022953/http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poseur |archive-date=28 January 2012}}</ref> they may have a flair for drama or behave as if they are onstage in daily life.<ref name="Hardy, Thomas 2016. page 256">Hardy, Thomas. ''The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy, Volume 2''. Lennart A Björk, ed. Springer, 2016. {{ISBN|9781349066520}}. page 256.</ref><ref>Hicks, Wynford. Quite Literally: Problem Words and How to use Them. Routledge (2004) {{ISBN|9781134361656}}. page 174.</ref>
-"Poseur" or "poseuse" is also used to mean a person who poses for a visual artist—a [[Model (art)|model]].<ref>Waller, Susan. ''The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870''. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. (2006) {{ISBN|9780754634843}}. page 49-51</ref><ref>Burns, Sarah, ''Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America''. Yale University Press (1996) {{ISBN|9780300064452}}. p 183.</ref><ref>Madsen, Axel. ''Chanel: A Woman of Her Own''. Macmillan (1991) {{ISBN|9780805016390}}. p 31</ref>
-==Examples==
-[[File:Homosexualitywilde.jpg|thumb|Oscar Wilde (right) and Lord Alfred Douglas]]
-The playwright [[Oscar Wilde]] has been described as a "poseur".<ref>Ellis, Havelock, Mrs. "A Note on Oscar Wilde". ''The Lotus Magazine''. Vol. 9, No. 4 (Jan., 1918), pp. 191-194. "When people say that Wilde was only a poser what do they mean?  They forget that his 'poses' were his reality."</ref> [[Thomas Hardy]] said of him, "His early reputation as a poseur and [[fop]] – so necessary to his notoriety – recoiled upon the scholar and gentleman (as Wilde always innately was), and even upon the artist".<ref name="Hardy, Thomas 2016. page 256"/>
-[[Lord Alfred Douglas]] said of Wilde, "That he had what passed for genius nobody will, I think, nowadays dispute, though it used to be the fashion to [[pooh-pooh]] him for a mere poseur and decadent."<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/oscarwildemyself00dougrich/oscarwildemyself00dougrich_djvu.txt Douglas, Lord Alfred.  ''Oscar Wilde and Myself.''] Duffield & Company. New York. (1914) Introduction. page 3.</ref>
-The painter [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler|James A. Whistler]] has been sometimes described as a "poseur" for his manner and personal style.<ref>Spielmann, Marion Harry. editor. "James A. McNeil Whistler, 1834—1903; Personal Recollections" ''The Magazine of Art'', Volume 1. Cassell, Petter & Gallpin, 1903. page 578.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/thirteenyearsab00ethgoog/page/n210 <!-- pg=168 quote=poseur+"whistler". --> Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. Alec (Ethel). ''Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life''.] Chapter XV. Publisher: John Lane (1912). page 168 - 175.</ref> It has been suggested that Whistler's genius lay partly in his ability to cultivate the role of the poseur, to "act as if he were always on stage", in order to stir interest, and cause people to wonder how such a poseur could create work that was so serious and authentic. His fame as an artist seemed to require that he present himself as a poseur.<ref>Burns, Sarah. ''Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America''. Yale University Press (1996) {{ISBN|9780300078596}}. p 236</ref>
-The playwright and critic, [[George Bernard Shaw]], has been described as a poseur; in that context Shaw is quoted as saying, "I have never pretended that G.B.S. was real ... The whole point of the creature is that he is unique, fantastic, unrepresentative, inimitable, impossible, undesirable on any large scale, utterly unlike anybody that ever existed before, hopelessly unnatural, and void of real passion."<ref>Henderson, Archibald. ''George Bernard Shaw His Life and Works''. Stewardt & Kidd Co. (1911). p 498</ref>
-In the ancient Greek comedy ''[[The Clouds]]'', the playwright [[Aristophanes]] portrays [[Socrates]] as a "poseur".<ref>Silk, M.S. ''Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy.'' Oxford University Press (2002) {{ISBN|9780199253821}}. p 172.</ref>
-==Etymology==
-The English term '''poseur''' is a loanword from French. The word in English use dates back to the mid 19th Century. It is from the French word ''poseur'', and from the Old French word ''poser'', meaning "to put, place, or set". The ''Online Etymology Dictionary'', suggests that "poseur" is in fact the English word "poser" dressed "in French garb, and thus could itself be considered an affectation."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=poseur&searchmode=none |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |publisher=Etymonline.com |access-date=7 February 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010024654/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=poseur&searchmode=none |archive-date=10 October 2012}}</ref>
-== Use within contemporary subcultures ==
-"Poseur" is often a pejorative term, as used in the [[Punk subculture|punk]], [[Heavy metal subculture|heavy metal]], [[hip hop]], and [[goth subculture|goth]] [[subculture]]s, or the [[skateboarding]], [[surfing]] and [[jazz]] communities, when it is used to refer to a person who copies the dress, speech, and/or mannerisms of a group or subculture, generally for attaining acceptability within the group or for popularity among various other groups, yet who is deemed not to share or understand the values or philosophy of the subculture.
-[[File:Castle Party p 114.jpg|thumb|right|Devotees of various music subcultures, like the [[goth subculture]], value authenticity highly]]
-===Punk subculture===
-David Marsh, in an article in ''Rock & Rap'', speaking of "those first punk kids in London" says, "The terms in which they expressed their disdain for hangers-on and those whose post-hip credentials didn't quite make it came straight out of the authenticity movements: ''Poseurs'' was the favorite epithet".<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite journal |volume=124 |date=June 1995 |title=LIVE THROUGH THIS.... |first=Dave |last=Marsh |journal=Rock & Rap Archives |url=http://www.rockrap.com/archive/arch124b.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114211815/http://www.rockrap.com/archive/arch124b.html |archive-date=14 January 2012|access-date=11 November 2011 }}</ref> Ross Buncle argues that eventually the Australian punk scene "opened the door to a host of poseurs, who were less interested in the music than in UK-punk fancy dress and being seen to be hip".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.perthpunk.com/orphans_story.htm |title=The Orphans Story |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002134806/http://www.perthpunk.com/orphans_story.htm |archive-date=2 October 2009}}{{unreliable source?|date=November 2011}}</ref> Describing a rehearsal of The Orphans, he says there "were no punk-identikit poseurs" present.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perthpunk.com/the-orphans/|title=The Orphans - The Geeks & Other Perth Punk Stories|website=perthpunk.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002072423/http://www.perthpunk.com/the-orphans/|archive-date=2 October 2016}}</ref> A 2015 article about early punk subculture in ''[[The New Republic]]'' states that punk "...was as immersive as a motorcycle gang or membership in the Mafia; part-time participants were derided as "poseurs", while any deviation from orthodoxy was a "sellout"...; this punk militancy created "... an economic and social ghetto which was nearly impenetrable to corporate infiltration and which only adventurous or deranged souls dared enter."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/123187/how-npr-killed-college-rock |title=The Rise and Fall of College Rock: How yuppies and NPR gentrified punk |last=Svenonius |first=Ian |date=23 October 2015 |website=newrepublic.com |access-date=7 June 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608034618/https://newrepublic.com/article/123187/how-npr-killed-college-rock |archive-date=8 June 2017}}</ref>
-In a review of [[The Clash]] film ''[[Rude Boy (film)|Rude Boy]]'', a critic argued that this "film was another sign of how The Clash had sold out – a messy, vain work of punk poseurs".<ref>{{cite web|last=Ranger |first=Joshua |title=It Used to Be about the Music, Man: Rock 'n' Roll Fan Movies and the Post Facto Creation of the Nostalgia Market (archived MSWord document) |url=http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/program/student_work/2007spring/s07_1806_ranger_a3.doc |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823233817/http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/program/student_work/2007spring/s07_1806_ranger_a3.doc |archive-date=23 August 2010 }}</ref> US music journalist [[Lester Bangs]] praised punk pioneer [[Richard Hell]] for writing the "strongest, truest rock & roll I have heard in ages" without being an "arty poseur" of the "age of artifice".<ref>{{cite web|title=Richard Hell Press Bio/Resumé|url=http://www.richardhell.com/pressbio.html|publisher=Richard Meyers & Roy Suggs|access-date=30 July 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001121050000/http://www.richardhell.com/pressbio.html|archive-date=21 November 2000}}</ref> Another critic argues that by the late 1970s, "punk rock had already, at this early date, shown signs of devolving into pure pose, black leather jacket and short hair required".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://starling.rinet.ru/music/temp/genres.html |title=Genre Definitions |publisher=Starling.rinet.ru |access-date=7 February 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320010126/http://starling.rinet.ru/music/temp/genres.html |archive-date=20 March 2012}}</ref> ''Please Kill Me'' includes interviews with punks in New York and Detroit who "rip their English counterparts as a bunch of sissified poseurs".<ref>{{cite web|last=Singer |first=Matthew |title=Books that rock |url=http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/?id=3433&IssueNum=74 |publisher=Southland Publishing |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718185300/http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/?id=3433&IssueNum=74 |archive-date=18 July 2011 }}</ref>
-The term ''poseur'' was used in several late-1970s punk songs, including the [[X-Ray Spex]] song "I Am a Poseur", which included the lyrics "I am a poseur and I don't care/I like to make people stare/Exhibition is the name."
-Another song using the term was the [[Television Personalities]] song "Part-Time Punks". The Television Personalities' song "was a reaction to the macho posturing of the English punk scene".<ref>{{cite web|last=Leung |first=Godfre |title=Towards a Post-Gendered Pop Music: Television Personalities' My Dark Places |url=http://www.indiecult.com/2006-04/television-personalities-my-dark-places |publisher=Independent Culture |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717220604/http://www.indiecult.com/2006-04/television-personalities-my-dark-places |archive-date=17 July 2006 }}</ref> The lyrics argue that, "while Television Personalities were not themselves punks in the orthodox sense, neither was anyone else". The song "declared that either everyone who wanted to be a punk was one or that everyone was a poseur (or both)", and it argues that "the concept of [...] punk rock authenticity, of [[Joe Strummer]], was a fiction".
-An article in ''Drowned in Sound'' argues that 1980s-era "[[hardcore punk|hardcore]] is the true spirit of punk" because "[a]fter all the poseurs and fashionistas fucked off to the next trend of skinny pink ties with [[New Romantic]] haircuts, singing wimpy lyrics". It argued that the hardcore scene consisted only of people "completely dedicated to the [[DIY]] ethics"; punk "[l]ifers without the ambition to one day settle into the study-work-family-house-retirement-death scenario".<ref>{{cite web |last=Symonds |first=Rene |url=http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2307017 |title=Features – Soul Brothers: DiS meets Bad Brains |work=Drowned in Sound |date=16 August 2007 |access-date=7 February 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011095854/http://drownedinsound.com/articles/2307017 |archive-date=11 October 2008}}</ref>
-The [[Oi!|Oi]] band [[Combat 84]] has a song entitled "Poseur" which describes a person changing from a punk to a skinhead, and then into a Mod and a Ted. The lyrics include the lines "Poseur poseur standing there/You change your style every year."
-In 1985, [[MTV]] aired a concert documentary, featuring performances by [[Charged GBH|GBH]] and [[the Dickies]], entitled ''Punks and Poseurs: A Journey Through the Los Angeles Underground''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/vintage_mtv_punks_and_poseurs|title=Vintage MTV: 'Punks and Poseurs: A Journey Through the Los Angeles Underground'|date=21 August 2014|website=Dangerousminds.net|access-date=5 September 2020}}</ref>
-====1990s–2000s====
-[[Dave Rimmer]] writes that with the revival of punk ideals of stripped-down music in the early 1990s, with [[grunge]] musicians like "[Kurt] [[Kurt Cobain|Cobain]], and lots of kids like him, rock & roll ... threw down a dare: Can you be pure enough, day after day, year after year, to prove your authenticity, to live up to the music [or else] live with being a poseur, a phony, a [[sellout]]?"<ref name=autogenerated1 />
-[[Refused]]'s [[Dennis Lyxzén]] and [[Bad Religion]]'s [[Brett Gurewitz]] used the term to refer to early 2000s-era [[pop punk]] fans as "kids – more specifically the new wave of punk poseurs who came to the music via bands like [[Good Charlotte]]". They argue that these young listeners want "not to have to think and [instead they] would rather use music as [[escapism]] [,] and too many bands seem willing to comply".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/coverstory.aspx?csid1=60|title=Exclaim! Music|access-date=15 June 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305071146/http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/coverstory.aspx?csid1=60|archive-date=5 March 2009}}</ref>
-One writer argued that the Los Angeles punk scene was changed by the invasion of "antagonistic suburban poseurs", which bred "rising violence [...] and led to a general breakdown of the hardcore scene".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=82 |title=Fantagraphics Books – Artist Bio – Los Bros. Hernandez |publisher=Fantagraphics.com |access-date=7 February 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204065222/http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=82 |archive-date=4 February 2012}}</ref> A writer for ''The Gauntlet'' praised the [[US Bombs]]' politically oriented albums as "a boulder of truth and authenticity in a sea of slick poseur sewage", and called them "real punk rockers" at "a time where the genre is littered with dumb songs about cars, girls and bong hits".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thegauntlet.com/bio/3468/U.S.-Bombs.html |title=U.S. Bombs – Heavy Metal – News – U.S. Bombs Videos – U.S. Bombs Ringtones – mp3s – Tabs – Wallpaper – lyrics |publisher=The Gauntlet |access-date=7 February 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210061221/http://www.thegauntlet.com/bio/3468/U.S.-Bombs.html |archive-date=10 February 2012}}</ref>
-Daniel S. Traber argues that attaining authenticity in the punk identity can be difficult; as the punk scene changed and re-invented itself, "[e]veryone got called a poseur".<ref>{{cite journal |pages=30–64 |doi=10.1353/cul.2001.0040 |title=L.A.'s 'White Minority': Punk and the Contradictions of Self-Marginalization |year=2001 |last1=Traber |first1=Daniel S. |journal=Cultural Critique |volume=48}}</ref> One music writer argues that the punk scene produced "...true believers who spent long days fighting the man on streets of the big city [and living in squats who] always wanted to make punk rock less a cultural movement than some kind of meritocracy: "You have to prove you're good enough to listen to our music, man."<ref>{{cite web |title=RockNotes: Punks vs. Poseurs |work=Beachwood Reporter |first=Don |last=Jacobson |url=http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/music/rocknotes_punks_vs_poseurs.php |access-date=21 October 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419161339/http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/music/rocknotes_punks_vs_poseurs.php |archive-date=19 April 2012}}</ref>
-[[Joe Keithley]], the singer for [[D.O.A. (band)|D.O.A.]] said in an interview that: "For every person sporting an anarchy symbol without understanding it there’s an older punk who thinks they’re a poseur."<ref name=ladouceur2004>{{cite web|last=Ladouceur |first=Liisa |title=Lords of the New Church |work=This Magazine |url=http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2004/05/lords.php |year=2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108060937/http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2004/05/lords.php |archive-date=8 November 2014 }}</ref> The interviewer, Liisa Ladouceur, argued that when a group or scene's "followers grow in number, the original devotees abandon it, [...] because it is now attracting too many poseurs—people the core group does not want to be associated with".<ref name=ladouceur2004/>
-The early 1980s [[hardcore punk]] band [[MDC (band)|MDC]] penned a song entitled "Poseur Punk", which excoriated pretenders who copied the punk look without adopting its values. The lyrics sheet packaged with [[Magnus Dominus Corpus]], the album on which "Poseur Punk" appears, contains a picture of the band [[Good Charlotte]] juxtaposed underneath the lyrics to "Poseur Punk". As part of MDC's 25th anniversary tour in the 2000s, frontman "Dictor's targets remain largely the same: warmongering politicians, money-grubbing punk poseurs (including [[Rancid (band)|Rancid]], whose Tim Armstrong once worked as an M.D.C. roadie), and of course, cops".<ref>{{cite web |last=Seigel |first=Stephen |url=http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Music/Content?oid=67460 |title=Soundbites &#124; Soundbites |work=Tucson Weekly |access-date=7 February 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304031147/http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Music/Content?oid=67460 |archive-date=4 March 2009}}</ref>
-[[NOFX]]'s album ''[[The War on Errorism]]'' includes the song "Decom-poseur", part of the album's overall "critique of punk rock's 21st century incarnation of itself". In an interview, NOFX's lead singer [[Mike Burkett]] (aka "Fat Mike") "lashes out" at "an entire population of bands he deems guilty of bastardizing a once socially feared and critically infallible genre" of punk, asking "[w]hen did punk rock become so safe?"<ref>{{cite web |last=Dunning |first=Matt |title=Punk rock veterans come out swinging, flatten pop-punk |url=http://www.maristcircle.com/punk-rock-veterans-come-out-swinging-flatten-pop-punk-1.2450796 |date=29 June 2011 |work=The Circle |publisher=[[Marist College]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512034800/http://www.maristcircle.com/punk-rock-veterans-come-out-swinging-flatten-pop-punk-1.2450796 |archive-date=12 May 2012}}</ref>
-===Heavy metal subculture===
-[[Jeffrey Arnett]] argues that the heavy metal subculture classifies members into two categories: "acceptance as an authentic metalhead or rejection as a fake, a poseur".<ref>Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen. Metalheads: Heavy Metal Music and Adolescent Alienation (1996)</ref> In a 1993 profile of heavy metal fans' "subculture of alienation", the author notes that the scene classified some members as poseurs, that is, heavy metal performers or fans who pretended to be part of the subculture but who were deemed to lack authenticity and sincerity.<ref>{{cite journal |pages=423–43 |doi=10.1007/BF00989973 |title=Three profiles of heavy metal fans: A taste for sensation and a subculture of alienation |year=1993 |last1=Arnett |first1=Jeffrey |journal=Qualitative Sociology |volume=16 |issue=4|s2cid=143389132 }}</ref> In 1986, ''SPIN'' magazine referred to "poseur metal".<ref name="auto">Gaines, Donna. "Biker Metal". ''Spin''. Aug 1989. Vol. 5, No. 5 p. 27</ref>
-In 2014, Stewart Taylor wrote that in the Bay Area thrash metal scene in the 1980s, in venues where bands like [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]] played, metal fans who liked "[[hair metal]]" bands such as "[[Ratt]], [[Mötley Crüe]] and [[Stryper]]" were considered to be poseurs.<ref>Taylor, Stewart. ''Route A666 - A Heavy Metal Journey''. Lulu Press, Inc, 2014. Second page of Ch. 5</ref> A sociology book states that "[t]rue [metal] fans separate themselves from the posers through devotion to the history of the genre as well as the history of the particular bands and artists."<ref>Lundskow, George. ''The Sociology of Religion: A Substantive and Transdisciplinary Approach''. Pine Forge Press, 2008. p. 377</ref> If a music fan came to an Exodus show at thrash clubs "...with a Motley Crue shirt or a Ratt shirt, [[Paul Baloff]] [of Exodus] would literally tear that shirt off the person's back," and then the band would "tear up the shirts and tie them around their wrists and wear them as trophies...[or]...badges of honor."<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |url=http://www.metroactive.com/features/Bay-Area-Metal.html |title=Thrash Masters: A new book recalls the slam-dancing days in the mid-'80s when thrash metal bands stalked Bay Area stages at clubs like the Keystone Palo Alto and the New Varsity Theater |last=Singh |first=Gary |date=7 December 2011 |website=metroactive.com |publisher=Metroactive |access-date=7 June 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170604182415/http://www.metroactive.com/features/Bay-Area-Metal.html |archive-date=4 June 2017}}</ref> Additionally, "...Baloff would often command the audience to 'sacrifice a poseur'", a ritual that involved the audience throwing the suspected hair metal fan onto the stage.<ref name="auto1"/>
-The Swedish black metal band [[Marduk (band)|Marduk]], which aimed to be the "...most brutal and blasphemous band ever", uses Nazi imagery, such as the Nazi Panzer tank, in their songs and album art (e.g., their 1999 album is titled ''Panzer Division Marduk'').<ref name="auto2">{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-list-december-10-16-2009/Content?oid=1250867 |title=The List: December 10-16, 2009 Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: the Flaming Lips, Pelican, Keri Hilson, Marduk, Unsilent Night, and more |last=Margasak |first=Peter |date=10 December 2009 |website=Chicagoreader.com |publisher=Chicago Reader |access-date=10 June 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112133620/http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-list-december-10-16-2009/Content?oid=1250867 |archive-date=12 November 2015}}</ref> This use of Nazi imagery offended [[neo-Nazi black metal]] bands, who called Marduk poseurs.<ref name="auto2"/>
-In the heavy metal subculture, some critics use the term to describe bands that are seen as excessively commercial, such as MTV-friendly [[glam metal]] groups in which hair, make-up, and fancy outfits are more important than the music.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}} During the 1980s, [[thrash metal]] fans called [[pop metal]] bands "metal poseurs" or "false metal".<ref>Berger, Harris M. and Greene Paul D. ''Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World''.
-Duke University Press, 2011. p. 39</ref> Another metal subgenre, [[nu metal]] is seen as controversial amongst fans of [[Heavy metal subgenres|other metal genres]], and the genres detractors have labeled nu metal derogatory terms such as "mallcore", "whinecore", "grunge for the zeros" and "sports-rock".<ref>{{cite book |last = Udo |first = Tommy |title = Brave Nu World |publisher = Sanctuary Publishing |year = 2002 |page = [https://archive.org/details/bravenuworld00tomm/page/16 16] |isbn = 1-86074-415-X |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/bravenuworld00tomm/page/16 }}</ref>
-Gregory Heaney of [[Allmusic]] has described the genre as "one of metal's more unfortunate pushes into the mainstream."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/koi-no-yokan-mw0002426695|title=Deftones - Koi No Yokan|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|author=Heaney, Gregory|access-date=29 April 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6GffKiCju?url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/koi-no-yokan-mw0002426695|archive-date=17 May 2013}}</ref> [[Jonathan Davis]], the frontman of the pioneering nu metal band [[Korn]], said in an interview: {{cquote|There's a lot of closed-minded metal purists that would hate something because it's not true to metal or whatever, but Korn has never been a metal band, dude. We're not a metal band. We've always been looked at as what they called the nu-metal thing. But we've always been the black sheep and we never fitted into that kind of thing so … We're always ever evolving, and we always piss fans off and we're gaining other fans and it is how it is.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://loudwire.com/korn-jonathan-davis-were-not-a-metal-band/ | title=Korn's Jonathan Davis: 'We're Not A Metal Band' | publisher=Loud Wire | access-date=8 December 2012 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704184225/http://loudwire.com/korn-jonathan-davis-were-not-a-metal-band/ | archive-date=4 July 2013}}</ref>}}
-Ron Quintana wrote that when [[Metallica]] was trying to find a place in the LA metal scene in the early 1980s, it was difficult for the band to "play their [heavy] music and win over a crowd in a land where poseurs ruled and anything fast and heavy was ignored".<ref>{{cite web|last=Quintana |first=Ron |title=Metallica |url=http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/music/metallica/history.php |publisher=artistwd.com / first published in Thrash Metal, US |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707165906/http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/music/metallica/history.php |archive-date=7 July 2011 }}</ref>
-David Rocher described Damian Montgomery, frontman of [[Ritual Carnage]], as "an authentic, no-frills, poseur-bashing, nun-devouring kind of gentleman, an enthusiastic metalhead truly in love with the lifestyle he preaches... and unquestionably practises".<ref>{{cite web|last=Rocher |first=David |title=The Great Eastern Trendkill |url=http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/articles/chats/1-212_ritual_carnage.aspx |publisher=[[Chronicles of Chaos (webzine)|Chronicles of Chaos]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616181751/http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/articles/chats/1-212_ritual_carnage.aspx |archive-date=16 June 2011 }}</ref> In 2002, Josh Wood argued that the "credibility of heavy metal" in North America is being destroyed by the genre's demotion to "horror movie soundtracks, wrestling events and, worst of all, the so-called 'Mall Core' groups like [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]] and [[Korn]]", which makes the "true [metal] devotee's path to metaldom [...] perilous and fraught with poseurs."<ref>{{cite web|last=Leonard |first=Christine |title=FFWD Weekly, Nov 7, 2002 |url=http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/2002/1107/mus1.htm |publisher=FFWD |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525130252/http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/2002/1107/mus1.htm |archive-date=25 May 2011 }}</ref>
-In an article on [[Axl Rose]], entitled "Ex–'White-Boy Poseur'", Rose admitted that he has had "time to reflect on heavy-metal posturing" of the last few decades: "We thought we were so badass [...] Then [[N.W.A]] came out rapping about this world where you walk out of your house and you get shot. It was just so clear what stupid little white-boy poseurs we were."<ref>{{cite web|last=Yuan |first=Jada |title=Ex–'White-Boy Poseur' - Axl Rose: Album delay is for the fans. |url=https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/20338/ |publisher=New York Media Holdings LLC. |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423121026/http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/20338/ |archive-date=23 April 2008 }}</ref>
-In the [[Alestorm]] song "Heavy Metal Pirates", the song makes numerous metaphors and allusions to pirates, including references to cutlasses, and it includes the line "[[No quarter]] for the poseurs, we'll bring 'em death and pain". The [[Manowar]] song "Metal Warriors" includes the lines "Heavy metal or no metal at all whimps and posers leave the hall" and "...all whimps and posers go on get out".
-===Goth subculture===
-Nancy Kilpatrick's ''Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined'' defines "poseur" for the goth scene as: "goth wannabes, usually young kids going through a goth phase who do not hold to goth sensibilities but want to be part of the goth crowd...". Kilpatrick dismisses poseur goths as "Batbabies" whose clothing is bought at [mall store] [[Hot Topic]] with their parents' money.<ref>Nancy Kilpatrick's ''Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined'' 2004. page 24</ref>
-===Hip hop subculture===
-[[File:Breakdance-oldschool.png|thumb|right|Authenticity or "street cred" is important in hip-hop culture]]
-In the [[hip hop]] scene, authenticity or ''street cred'' is important. The word [[wigger]] is the specific used to refer to caucasian people mimicking black hip-hop culture. Larry Nager of ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'' wrote that rapper [[50 Cent]] has "earned the right to use the trappings of gangsta rap – the macho posturing, the guns, the drugs, the big cars and magnums of champagne. He's not a poseur pretending to be a gangsta; he's the real thing."<ref>{{cite web|last=Nager|first=Larry|title=50 Cent's performance won't propel rapper to next level|url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:trRANTublH0J:enquirer.com/editions/2003/02/23/tem_50cent23.html|publisher=The Cincinnati Enquirer|access-date=30 July 2012}}</ref>
-A ''This Are Music'' review of white rapper [[Rob Aston]] criticizes his "fake-gangsta posturing", calling him "a poseur faux-thug cross-bred with a junk punk" who glorifies "guns, bling, cars, bitches, and heroin" to the point that he seems like a parody.<ref>{{cite web|title=Diamonds and Lint, October 18th, 2007 |url=http://www.thisaremusic.com/reviews/diamonds-and-lint |publisher=This Are Music |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080223061558/http://www.thisaremusic.com/reviews/diamonds-and-lint |archive-date=23 February 2008 }}</ref> A 2004 article on BlackAmericaWeb claims that Russell Tyrone Jones, better known as rapper [[Ol' Dirty Bastard]], was not "a rough dude from the 'hood" as his official record company biographies claimed. After Jones' death from drugs, the rapper's father claimed that "his late son was a hip-hop poseur, contrary to what music trade magazines published in New York" wrote. Jones' father argued that the "story about him being raised in the Fort Greene [Brooklyn] projects on welfare until he was a child of 13 was a total lie"; instead, he said "their son grew up in a reasonably stable two-parent, two-income home in Brooklyn".
-The article also refers to another "hip-hop poseur from a decade ago", [[Lichelle Laws|Lichelle "Boss" Laws]]. While her record company promoted her as "the most gangsta of girl gangstas", posing her "with automatic weapons" and publicizing claims about prison time and an upbringing on the "hard-knock streets of Detroit", Laws' parents claim that they put her "through private school and enrolled [her] in college in suburban Detroit".<ref>{{cite web|last=Dawkins |first=Wayne |title=Commentary: Middle-class rappers who extol thug life insult parents |url=http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/odb1223 |publisher=BlackAmericaWeb.com, Inc |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050428033613/http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/odb1223 |archive-date=28 April 2005 }}</ref>
-As hip hop has gained a more mainstream popularity, it has spread to new audiences, including well-to-do "white hip-hop kids with gangsta aspirations—dubbed the 'Prep-School Gangsters'" by journalist [[Nancy Jo Sales]]. Sales claims that these hip hop fans "wore Polo and Hilfiger gear trendy among East Coast hip-hop acts" and rode downtown to black neighborhoods in chauffeured limos to experience the ghetto life. Then, "to guard against being labeled poseurs, the prep schoolers started to steal the gear that their parents could readily afford".<ref>{{cite web|title=Peddling the Street: Gangsta Wannabes, Allen Iverson, and Black Masculinity (Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in Basketball, University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books, May 2007) |url=http://www.undertheboards.com/excerpts.html |access-date=16 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110062908/http://www.undertheboards.com/excerpts.html |archive-date=10 January 2010 }}</ref> This trend was highlighted in [[The Offspring]] song "[[Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)]]".
-A 2008,'' Utne Reader'' article describes the rise of "[[hipster (contemporary subculture)|Hipster]] Rap", which "consists of the most recent crop of MCs and DJs who flout conventional hip-hop fashions, eschewing baggy clothes and gold chains for tight jeans, big sunglasses, the occasional [[keffiyeh]], and other trappings of the hipster lifestyle". The article says this "hipster rap" has been criticized by the hip hop website [[Unkut]] and rapper Mazzi, who call the mainstream rappers ''poseurs'' or "fags for copping the [[metrosexual]] appearances of hipster fashion".<ref>{{cite web|last=Mohan |first=Jake |title=Hipster Rap: The Latest Hater Battleground |url=http://www.utne.com/2008-06-13/Arts/Hipster-Rap-The-Latest-Hater-Battleground.aspx |publisher=Ogden Publications, Inc. |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604161304/http://www.utne.com/2008-06-13/Arts/Hipster-Rap-The-Latest-Hater-Battleground.aspx |archive-date=4 June 2011 }}</ref> ''Prefix Mag'' writer Ethan Stanislawski argues that there "have been a slew of angry retorts to the rise of hipster rap", which he says can be summed up as "white kids want the funky otherness of hip-hop [...] without all the scary black people".<ref>{{cite web|last=Stanislawski|first=Ethan|title=The Chicago Reader has hip-hop hipster backlash against hip-hop hipster backlash|url=http://www.prefixmag.com/news/hip-hop-hipster-backlash/19451/|publisher=Prefix Mag', 20 June 2008|access-date=30 July 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927025524/http://www.prefixmag.com/news/hip-hop-hipster-backlash/19451/|archive-date=27 September 2012}}</ref>
-African-American hip hop artist [[Azealia Banks]] has criticized [[Iggy Azalea]], a white rapper, "for failing to comment on 'black issues', despite capitalising on the appropriation of African American culture in her music."<ref name="monicatan">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/05/azealia-bankss-beef-with-wigger-iggy-azalea-over-us-race-issues-misses-point|title=Azealia Banks's Twitter beef with Iggy Azalea over US race issues misses point|author=Monica Tan|work=The Guardian|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909234724/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/05/azealia-bankss-beef-with-wigger-iggy-azalea-over-us-race-issues-misses-point|archive-date=9 September 2015}}</ref> Banks has called her a "[[wigger]]," and there have been "accusations of racism" focused on her "insensitivity to the complexities of [[race relations]] and [[cultural appropriation]]."<ref name="monicatan"/>
-===Other genres and subcultures===
-Mark Paytress writes that in 1977, [[Rolling Stones]] frontman [[Mick Jagger]] called singer/songwriter [[Patti Smith]] a "poseur of the worst kind, intellectual bullshit, trying to be a street girl".<ref>{{cite book|last=Paytress|first=Mark|title=The Rolling Stones: Off the Record|year=2003|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-0711988699|url=http://www.omnibuspress.com/Product.aspx?ProductId=80427|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324142930/http://www.omnibuspress.com/Product.aspx?ProductId=80427|archive-date=24 March 2013}}</ref> A music writer for ''The Telegraph'' called [[Bob Dylan]] an "actor and a rock 'n' roll poseur to rival [[David Bowie]] and Mick Jagger at their most flamboyant".<ref>{{cite web|last=Hudson |first=Mark |title=Bob Dylan: a poet and a poseur. There, I've said it... |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3619992/Bob-Dylan-a-poet-and-a-poseur.-There-Ive-said-it....html |publisher=Telegraph Media Group Limited 2009 |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529101445/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3619992/Bob-Dylan-a-poet-and-a-poseur.-There-Ive-said-it....html |archive-date=29 May 2009 }}</ref>
-The [[skateboarding]] subculture attempts to differentiate between authentic skaters and pretenders. A ''New York Times'' article on the 2007 skateboarding scene notes that "some first-time skaters drawn into the sport by catchy choruses or candy-colored sneakers are dismissed as poseurs" who are "walking around with a skateboard as an accessory, holding it in a way we call 'the mall grab.'"<ref>{{cite web |last=Detrick |first=Ben |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/fashion/11skaters.html?pagewanted=print |title=Skateboarding Rolls Out of the Suburbs – New York Times |location=Brooklyn (NYC) |work=The New York Times |date=11 November 2007 |access-date=7 February 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605044406/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/fashion/11skaters.html?pagewanted=print |archive-date=5 June 2015}}</ref> In the 1988 video game ''[[Skate or Die!]]'', "Poseur Pete" is the name of the challenger for beginner-level players.
-An ''LA City Beat'' magazine writer argues that "[[dance music]] had its ''[[Spinal Tap (band)|Spinal Tap]]'' moment some time around the year 2000", arguing that "the prospect of fame, groupies, and easy money by playing other people's records on two turntables brought out the worst poseurs since [[glam metal|hair metal]] ruled the Sunset Strip. Every dork with spiky locks and a mommy-bought record bag was a self-proclaimed turntable terror."<ref>{{cite web|last=Romero |first=Dennis |title=Poised Against Poseurs |url=http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/?id=5179&IssueNum=197 |publisher=LA CityBeat |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308105741/http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/?id=5179&IssueNum=197 |archive-date=8 March 2008 }}</ref> A ''Slate'' magazine article argues that while the [[independent music]] scene "can embrace some fascinating hermetic weirdos such as [[Joanna Newsom]] or [[Panda Bear (musician)|Panda Bear]], it's also prone to producing fine-arts-grad poseurs such as [[The Decemberists]] and poor-little-rich-boy-or-girl singer songwriters".<ref>{{cite web|last=Wilson |first=Carl |title=The Trouble With Indie Rock |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2176187/pagenum/all/ |publisher=Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC |access-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304030901/http://www.slate.com/id/2176187/pagenum/all/ |archive-date=4 March 2009 }}</ref>
-In 1986, ''SPIN'' magazine referred to "poseur [[Motorcycle|biker]]s", individuals who ride motorcycles and wear biker clothing, yet who lack the missing teeth and scars of real bikers.<ref name="auto"/> An obituary for Colorado motorcycle enthusiast Walt Hankinson stated that "[h]e was an old-time biker, not a poseur", because he "...wasn’t looking for the most stylish leather outfit and never had a fashion crisis about what to wear on the next ride", instead just wearing a "flannel shirt, jeans and a cloth jacket" when he rode his motorcycle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.denverpost.com/2007/04/08/longtime-biker-reveled-in-the-ride-taught-others/ |title=Longtime biker reveled in the ride, taught others |last=Culver |first=Virginia |date=8 April 2007 |work=The Denver Post|access-date=10 June 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512200717/https://www.denverpost.com/2007/04/08/longtime-biker-reveled-in-the-ride-taught-others/ |archive-date=12 May 2018}}</ref>
-In Canada, there are "[[military impostor|alleged military posers]]", individuals who wear army uniforms and medals, who are not actually current or previous members of the armed forces. In November 2014, Ottawa police charged one of these alleged poseurs for impersonating a soldier, after he appeared in TV interviews during Remembrance Day ceremonies wearing a uniform and medals which he had no right to wear.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.torontosun.com/2014/11/16/ottawa-cops-praised-for-charging-alleged-fake-soldier|title=Ottawa cops praised for charging alleged 'fake' soldier|date=17 November 2014|website=Toronto Sun|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129012617/http://www.torontosun.com/2014/11/16/ottawa-cops-praised-for-charging-alleged-fake-soldier|archive-date=29 November 2014}}</ref>
-The concept of a "jazz poseur" dates back to the 1940s. Bob White from ''[[Downbeat (magazine)|Downbeat]]'' argued that some jazz critics knew nothing about new jazz ([[bebop]]) and nothing about chords, tone, or the technical aspects of jazz; instead, they would just learn the names of a few old masters and "...become a romantic, a charlatan, a poseur, a pseudo-intellectual, an aesthetic snob, ...well on the way to success" as a jazz critic.<ref>''The Rise of a Jazz Art World.'' Paul Douglas Lopes. Cambridge University Press, 30 May 2002 p. 202</ref> In the 2000s, the CBC produced a radio show about how to spot "jazz poseurs" in a jazz scene. These were described as people who do not know much about the music, but they can "name-drop" the names of famous performers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.music.cbc.ca/blogs/2014/2/How-to-spot-a-jazz-poseur|title=CBC Music|access-date=15 June 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225154/http://m.music.cbc.ca/blogs/2014/2/How-to-spot-a-jazz-poseur|archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref>
-''Salon'' writer Joan Walsh calls US politician [[Paul Ryan]] a Randian poseur. She claims that while he purports to believe in [[Ayn Rand]]'s [[Objectivism|Objectivist]] philosophy, which harshly criticizes government social redistribution programs, he actually benefitted from these programs in his life.<ref>Paul Ryan: Randian poseur. Available online at: {{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2012/08/12/paul_ryan_randian_poseur/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-03-05 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306001306/http://www.salon.com/2012/08/12/paul_ryan_randian_poseur/ |archive-date=6 March 2014}}. Retrieved 5 March 2014</ref>
-Poseurs in the realm of sneakers and fashion have even been given their own name: hypebeast. First coined in 2007 on forums like [[NikeTalk]], which were the social media of that time,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theshoegame.com/other-shoes/how-the-word-hypebeast-became-so-popular-w6Dof_G0XkSua4RvsC76TQ|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330010938/http://theshoegame.com/articles/the-first-video-to-ever-go-viral-in-the-sneaker-culture-back-in-2007.html|url-status=dead|title=How the Word "Hypebeast" Became So Popular|archive-date=30 March 2017|website=TheShoeGame.com|access-date=5 September 2020}}</ref> these people are said to "collect clothing, shoes, and accessories for the sole purpose of impressing others."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/97047-what-is-a-hypebeast-5-important-aspects-of-the-hypebeast-lifestyle|title=All Your Questios About Hypebeasts, Answered|first=Mehak|last=Anwar|website=bustle.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330014713/https://www.bustle.com/articles/97047-what-is-a-hypebeast-5-important-aspects-of-the-hypebeast-lifestyle|archive-date=30 March 2017}}</ref> As opposed to the [[Sneaker collecting|sneakerhead]] who purchases and collects shoes because he likes them, a hypebeast will only purchase a pair that is very popular among others and they gauge their self worth only on how many likes they can get on their [[Outfit of the day|#OOTD]] (outfit of the day) Instagram post with that coveted pair of sneakers on.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.narcity.com/toronto/9-signs-youre-definitely-a-hypebeast/#|title=9 Signs You're Definitely A Hypebeast|website=narcity.com|date=4 May 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330013258/http://www.narcity.com/toronto/9-signs-youre-definitely-a-hypebeast/|archive-date=30 March 2017}}</ref>
-==Other meanings==
-In furnishing parlance, a "poseur table" is a high, small table, used by a standing person to place a drink or snacks on while they talk to other people. Poseur tables are used in bars, lounges, clubs and convention centres.<ref name="onlinefurniturehire.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.onlinefurniturehire.com/blogs/what-is-a-poseur-table|title=What is a poseur table |website=Onlinefurniturehire.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913052456/https://www.onlinefurniturehire.com/blogs/what-is-a-poseur-table|archive-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> Poseur tables facilitate conversation and mingling at social events, because guests are not restricted by fixed seating and they can move about more freely.<ref name="onlinefurniturehire.com"/> Some poseur tables are used with high stools.
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