scenester

plural scenesters

1. entertainmentA non-musician who is active in a particular musical scene, especially one whose involvement carries social status.

   Their job is to deny entry to those who don't belong, the wannabe scenester as opposed to the real scenester.

   2014, Dirk Wittenborn, Jazz Johnson, The Social Climber's Bible

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   One of those nights was recorded and, with production by local scenester Chris D., is now seeing the light of day.

   1986 January 5, Cary Darling, “Australian Rock: Boiling from Down Under”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2009

   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.

   2019, Stefano Barone, Metal, Rap, and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: A Fragile Underground, →ISBN

2. broadlyA person who associates themselves with a particular trending or fashionable cultural scene.

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   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.

   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