scenesters

Noun

scenester (plural scenesters)

1. A non-musician who is active in a particular musical scene, especially one whose involvement carries social status.
   • 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
2. (broadly) A person who associates themselves with a particular trending or fashionable cultural scene.
   • 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...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