Vibecore: The Economics of Authenticity
This only works if you truly know yourself. All this “vibe externalization” assumes you’ve put in the existential legwork of interrogating your preferences, separating signal from noise, distinguishing between the shoes you love and the shoes Instagram loves for you. It presumes you have a coherent vibe to transmit, not just a Pinterest board in... See more
Tina He • Vibecore: the economics of authenticity
The idea of being a poser, of being driven to do things because it’ll look good and for the satisfaction of knowing someone thinks it looks good, not for the satisfaction of actually doing the thing. Could it be this is more prevalent today, because more eyes are on us all the time with the internet? Because we watch so much TV, we start thinking
... See moreThis is the strange paradox of our moment: the most valuable selfhood is the one that is scarce enough to be non-fungible, yet legible enough to circulate frictionlessly through the algorithmic and economic marketplace.