"X is a vibe"

I know i shoulda posted this several years ago when it was getting ridiculous but now it has become acceptable for headlines like "Euphoria Season Two Is a Whole Vibe"... which tells us nothing! "This thing is a feeling" is lazy writing and it's everywhere.

This thread has me in my feelings

cf "and that's okay" / "and here's why"

Wait, I mean my feels

I think the phrase 'is a whole thing' has its uses, that's something I'll concede off the bat. It's a whole thing

what use is that precisely? couldn't you say, "x is a complicated subject" or "x is zeitgeisty but problematic" and hit roughly the same character count while simultaneously telling me something of value?

It's aesthetic.

It's a tactic to sound similar to a tweet or a conversation with a friend. It probably "resonates" with their target demo

"a whole thing" is a whole thing, used for when a thing is a thing. "a whole vibe" is not really, at most it tells me 'there is some sort of world-building' which is...most cultural artefacts

obviously, vapid buzzfeed blather is a curse. and a thing

and a vibe?

wondered how long this thread would take to get to “old man yells at cloud” status

i think that vulture headline is mostly tongue in cheek, but also trying to say something about euphoria as a show. a bit too cute tho

Eventually all headlines will be replaced by gifs of people rolling their eyes or clapping etc.

xp maybe? i feel like it's being used knowingly ironically to say we are down with the kids which is effectively unironic imo

premise of thread v much has the old man yells at cloud vibe baked in from the outset. itt we teach forks to love the cloud, love its foggy miasma, love its energy

media professionals seem to have mostly stopped with YAAASSSSSSS in print if not in public

"here's the thing"

the cloud is owned by amazon and made of PEOPLE

it's made of connections

actually Euphoria S2 is a 9-hour real-time vibraphone performance by Zendaya, pretty bold move imo

xp maybe? i feel like it's being used knowingly ironically to say we are down with the kids which is effectively unironic imo

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, January 10, 2022 4:50 PM (one minute ago)

i think it is ironic and also slightly mocking of gen z as well as euphoria and the, er, vibe the show aims to create. but i also agree w/ you it's not a very good headline bcuz it takes like several layers of ironic understanding to potentially process its meaning

xp to LJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2aH9tu4s30

People that don't understand it are all "I can't even"

the alternative to "x is a vibe" can also sometimes be jarring (witness "The Wildly Viral “Alors On Danse” Dance Is An Elite TikTok Because It’s Effortless And Can’t Be Replicated" but perhaps a midpoint is possible.

This construction's overuse annoys me too but if any TV show were custom designed to have a "Season is a whole vibe" headline written about it, it would be Euphoria.

the very act of writing an article about an elite tiktok is way more cringe than calling something a vibe in a plausibly ironic manner

Why do bash “dead-beat” dads for not being there for their kids but we never question if the child has bad vibes? Or if they’re just unpleasant to be around?

— sadiq (@SadiqoJN) December 7, 2018

sorry junior, but you are emphatically not a vibe

these headlines are designed to kill old people

a whole elite-vibes-killing-the-people thing

i was starting to figure out which things are a big mood, and they hit me with this "whole vibe" shit

I'm just glad things, particularly songs, don't fuck as much as they did a year or so ago.

One of the power ingredients is Manuka honey, which we’re low-key obsessed with for its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.

Has a sex toy company used this as an ad slogan yet?

Dave ... Dave is a vibe

x is a low key vibe that i'd hit because it fucks

Dave is the name of my vibe

only obsessed with a vibe if it slaps

that's when it becomes iconic

Gen X is a vibe

Beyond the use of specific slang terms, I think the broader trend is headlines than adopt the casual, dishy style of certain social-media posts (and other forms of online writing). They feel like attempts to establish intimacy, less "This is the way it is" and more "Let me tell you how it is -- and how we're all feeling about it." This is kind of interesting, IMO!

The problem is that that voice can sometimes seem inauthentic or alienating if that's not your...vibe. But I also think it's weird to assume that publications are doing this as a way to be "down with the kids" when a lot of it seems like it's written by millennials for an audience (real or imagined) of other millennials.

"X is a vibe," "low-key obsessed": these are things that actual humans (who don't post on a 21-year-old message board) say to one another.

actual humans say all sorts of things to one another; that's poor reasoning behind using meaningless, twitterbaiting, (and yes, i continue to maintain it is entirely possible that a corporation may seek) gen-z virtue signaling as your headline.

i hasten to point out that i am not unfamiliar with the phrase "issa vibe" both from my world of young people and from the grand infinite jukebox which continues to be an umbilicus to the young, whether by means of fivio foreign or nef the pharoah or (the one i prefer) ty dolla with tity boi. I would even go so far as to assert that I have used the phrase myself and unironically! However I'm not writing for a major culture site and I'm just asking for your headlines to mean SOMETHING without resorting to multilayered irony as a delivery service.

Further, i'm not even really picking too much of a fight with this particular example. It's just an overused gambit already and, as noted in OP, I shoulda called this out when the thread idea occurred to me years ago before this euphoric straw broke my resolve.

Thee. Vibe. Hath. Changed.

I high key think this thread is relationship goals

low key removing bookmark from this thread and that's ok

#NoVibes2022

Letssssss gooooooooooo!!!!!

Naugahyde and tie-dye t-shirts are a vibe.

No cap, this thread got kinda sus vibes and we are NOT here for it!!

This thread is that terrible SNL hospital sketch with Elon Musk

Naw bestie, it just hits different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxeBxpm2R4

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22vibes%20are%20off%22&src=typed_query&f=live

Squashing Toxic Positivity and Getting Honest about Being Well

milhouse is a vibe. but "milhouse is a vibe" is not a vibe.

"my fucking roommate is wearing a goddamn black and white hentai print shirt, the vibes are off and im super uncomfortable"

Golden

Would he be more comfortable with the hentai shirt if the vibes were on?

https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/a-vibe-shift-is-coming.html

comedy

A vibe shift is the catchy but sort of too-cool term Monahan uses for a relatively simple idea: In the culture, sometimes things change, and a once-dominant social wavelength starts to feel dated. Monahan, who is 35, breaks down the three vibe shifts he has survived and observed: Hipster/Indie Music (ca. 2003–9), or peak Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, high-waisted Cheap Mondays, Williamsburg, bespoke-cocktail bars; Post-Internet/Techno Revival (ca. 2010–16), or the Blood Orange era, normcore, dressing like The Matrix, Kinfolk the club, not Kinfolk the magazine; and Hypebeast/Woke (ca. 2016–20), or Drake at his Drakest, the Nike SNKRS app, sneaker flipping, virtue signaling, Donald Trump, protests not brunch.

You can argue the accuracy of Monahan’s timeline or spend hours over dinner litigating the touch points of each vibe era — it’s kind of fun debating which trend was peaking when, or which was just for white people — but the thing that struck fear into Ellen’s heart was Monahan’s prediction that we were on the cusp of a new vibe shift. It is unnerving because when you really consider it, you can feel people flocking to a new thing. You can see that he’s right; something has shifted.

None of this would have been particularly distressing (it’s just how time moves), if not for this paragraph explaining what the flocking looks like:

One day everyone was wearing Red Wing boots and partying in warehouses in Williamsburg decorated with twinkling fairy lights. VIBE SHIFT! Everyone started wearing Nike Frees and sweating it out in the club. Now some did not make it through the vibe shift … ‘Why are you all wearing the same sneakers!’ they would plead. ‘Don’t you care about authenticity? What’s with all this sudden interest in branding!’

This is to say, not everyone survives a vibe shift. The ones still clinging to authenticity and fairy lights are the ones who crystallized in their hipsterdom while the culture moved on. They “bunkered down in Greenpoint and got married” or took their waxed beards and nautical tattoo sleeves and relocated to Hudson. And by that law, those who survived this shift only to get stuck in, say, Hypebeast/Woke — well, they’ve already moved to Los Angeles to houses that have room to display their sneaker collections worth a small fortune.

Unfortunately, I ate this social analysis up with a big-ass spoon. It’s chilling to realize you may be one of the stuck, or if you aren’t, you may be soon. Like Ellen, I haven’t stopped thinking about my own survival odds since.

millennials: they're just like us!

Knew what this revive would be.

Reading that article made me feel dirty in an ancient mid '00s Vice/Hipster Runoff way

I still sing along to Pavement in my car, I am like a trilobite preserved in a sticky layer of vibe seven sedimentary layers beneath the bottom of the dark Scottish loch

did someone really write a whole article about how they never read Raymond Williams?

"I felt a great disturbance in The Vibe, as if millions of tastemakers suddenly cried out in boredom, and were suddenly silenced"

Who among us will survive
the changing of the Viiiiibe??

- Sung in a Ronnie James Dio falsetto

honestly i say vibe sometimes, very useful imo

i guess i could stop because it's annoying people
but then i'd have to think about all the other ways i annoy people
listen, i can't go through with this

I still sing along to Pavement in my car, I am like a trilobite preserved in a sticky layer of vibe seven sedimentary layers beneath the bottom of the dark Scottish loch

“survived”

Drake at his Drakest, the Nike SNKRS app, sneaker flipping, virtue signaling, Donald Trump, protests not brunch

need more details on that big-ass spoon

misread that as Drake at his Darkest. Like "texting underage celebrities" Drake.

I decided to poll my friends about what they’re doing, mostly the ones without kids. Do they think they will emerge on the other side of all of this “as adults” who just accept we lost our last few years of socially acceptable freedom? Will they let themselves get stuck? “I’m writing about a vibe shift,” I wrote in a text to one friend

my vibe over the last 5 years has been cutting the people out of my life who would ever text me something like this or even have these kinds of thoughts, its a great vibe

Finished with my woman cause she couldn’t help me with my vibe
People think I’m insane because I am vibing all the time

“Is it vibing season or a vibing epoch?/Perspective’s relative, I just vibe with my people”

It was the best of vibes,
It was the worst of vibes...

Hipster/Indie Music (ca. 2003–9), or peak Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, high-waisted Cheap Mondays, Williamsburg, bespoke-cocktail bars

The funniest thing about this shit is that the biggest Arcade Fire album didn't even go platinum, like 80% (probably more) of Americans have no idea what the fuck they are even talking about

Do we have any aspiring MCs on ILX who can turn these stray fake rap verses into a banger?

xpost well, a record on Merge going #1 and winning a Grammy is about as much as you can expect from indie

Brooklyn Nets ride good post-trade deadline 'vibe' to snap 11-game losing streak

What??

More details on the upcoming shifting of the vibe:

https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/a-vibe-shift-is-coming.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjgwM2FlYWYtMGM1ZC00NDY4LTgzMDAtOTcxMDEzODkyOWFjL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTYxNjkxOQ@@._V1_.jpg

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/technology/friends-with-benefits-crypto-dao.html

This Social Club Runs on Crypto Tokens and Vibes: Friends With Benefits is a V.I.P. lounge for crypto’s creative class. Is it empty hype or the future of friendship?