Its time that you are more pretentious. How do you achieve this? Pick up a fucking book and actually read it. Listen to indie rock classics that everyone knows about. Listen to indie rock albums that no one knows about. Watch arthouse films. Learn everything about a sport. Take photos. Do it all in public, or at least in front of your friends. Form real opinions. Learn about things just so that you can make other people feel stupid. Buy expensive things. Don't use them. Pick a favorite poet. Have a to-read list and a to-watch list and a to-listen list and a to-do list. Go to bed exhausted and let other people know why you're so exhausted. Make yourself impossible to convict. If you're unique enough and indie enough and different enough it will be impossible to assemble of jury of your peers. I mean you don't even have your own website yet.