These articles miss the point of "hipsters" being anticonformist in that "hipsters" aren't anticonformist, they are merely alternative. Meaning they're ok with someone having tatoos and giving you legal advice, that you can look atypical and not be a boogie-person.

It seems that either writers tend to ignore the rich history of counter-culture movements in the society (the beats, hippies, off-griders, Latter Day Saints, MOVE, Black Panthers, goths, punks, anarchists) or are simply ignorant of them.