It does have hipsters.
I don't think Skins US ever tried to push the envelope, and for the most part it was a fairly tame show even by MTV standards as, with only one major exception, most of the explicit stuff was kept off camera. It made all the boycotting of the show by parents groups, to me, all the more baffling. Certainly it was much more tame than the first series of the British show. The problem was, I imagine, that the kids there were supposed to be playing teenagers on the cusp of adulthood (so obviously they were still pure, innocent, and had no idea what any of these illegal substances or devious sexual acts were because teenagers don't think about those sorts of things), while Pants presents us with independent adults.