just vibes

vibes are a catch-all error term. The way that we are talking about how people feel is like “yeah buddy sorry you’re feeling that way.” Like the vibes are off for reasons that make sense

“We started talking about vibes in September 2020,” says Dr Antonia Ward, chief futurist at trends intelligence company Stylus. “We were looking at how social media was reflecting a more chaotic mood. Before that, platforms such as Instagram had been quite buttoned down and filtered, but something shifted. We began sending a more impressionistic... See more

It has become clear that there is nothing in this world too far-fetched to become a vibe. The vibes are out of control. Anything can become a vibe. Even “zero vibes” could soon be a vibe trend, as long as you market it correctly

In our present technological era, humans have also needed a new framework to avoid drowning in the daily firehose of entertainment, media, and information. Given this setting of increasing complexity, it becomes more appealing to use an associative concept like “vibes” as a simplifying framework for understanding or self-expression. If we can’t... See more

The vibes are off, but they’re off fundamentally because they focus only on feelings and emotional connections that have already existed. They don’t provide or imagine pathways to new futures; they allow only for an understanding of what feels good or bad based on experiences that have already happened, things that have already been seen.

In other... See more

The em dash has become an unexpected flashpoint in the AI discourse, with Gen Zers calling it the “ChatGPT hyphen,” a supposed tell of ChatGPT-generated writing.

As everything becomes automated, as machines take over, what remains — is us. The revolution isn’t technological. It’s human. It doesn’t just ask us to reason. It asks us to resonate. To enter into harmony with the living

You know that gut instinct? That visceral hit, that fuzzy chill that shows up uninvited — a warning, or a sudden go for it, even when nothing's clear. We’ve all felt it. Sometimes we trust it. Sometimes we shove it under a pile of airtight reasoning. But it always comes back. Stubborn. Unsettling. And often right.