The example picture for dressing “modestly” (what is it, the 1800s? is he scared because some absolute whore has dared to show her ankle?) shows a woman in a long, wool jacket, boots, thick-looking leggins… probably sensible clothing for cold-ish weather. Also, the thickest eye liner since queen Cleopatra.
Gentrification doesn’t fix anything, it just displaces
Every person I know married and had kids: eeeeeh… as someone who grew up in that time, no, not really, plenty of people didn’t, sounds like confirmation bias
Music was about joy? Man, I remember listening to the most vulgar political rap with my friends at the end of high school, also, wasn’t there a big phase of metalcore and electro-metal stuff around that time?
The drug epidemic is scarcely the result of music and fashion
Let’s take a look…
In fairness, I’m not sure those genres are “hipster”. Though Death Cab for Cutie is and most of their songs are depressing.