ANipster is a youngneo-Nazi who has embraced aspects ofhipster culture. Historically, German neo-Nazis promoted an ultra-masculine and extreme right-wing image, preferring short hair, violent imagery and combat gear—in keeping with thewhite power skinhead orcasual subcultures—while rejecting most modern pop culture. This has changed, with young "nipsters" embracing causes such asanimal rights andenvironmentalism alongside historicallyfar right positions, includingultranationalist views. Nipsters, rather than rejecting modern pop culture, seek instead to appropriate it to promote neo-Nazi ideals.[1] This has also been seen in theNew Right andNational Anarchism movements.
Rolling Stone magazine profiled Patrick Schroeder, one of the founders of the nipster movement, who said he desires to "give theGerman National Socialist movement a friendlier, hipper face". Schroeder says that neo-Nazis who can "live within the mainstream", such as nipsters, are "the future of the movement".[1]