Sometimes that involves a reaffirming kiss on the forehead, and sometimes that involves making light of historic assassinations. About to get a WWE-style smackdown with a folding chair for tweeting about how quirky your love for Target is? Vibe check.Ī vibe check boils down to expressing your emotional state, whether it's heartwarming or deeply concerning.
Caught a glimpse of yourself looking cute in the club bathroom? Vibe check. You can't really explain vibe checks with words - a vibe is a vibe. At the end of the day I'm just some dude vibin on Twitter," he said. "I do think I've played a role in popularizing it, though. "Checkin in and making sure people's days are off to a good says he's gotten "some heat" from other Twitter users, who think he claims to be the creator of the phrase. "Consider a vibe check to be a little check up on the people," he said in a Twitter DM. "It's the new gm "ĭespite the questionable imagery of hedgehogs wielding pistols or the jellyfish from SpongeBob SquarePants dancing around a burning clarinet still believes vibe checks are a morale boost. "We should all just text our friends every morning 'vibe check," she said. In a similar vein to daily vibe checks, Verge reporter Makena Kelly says the phrase is a way to keep tabs on loved ones. Think of it as a heads-up so you can brace yourself for impact. Sometimes you read someone by smacking them."Īnd you can argue that after reading someone's bad mood, you can smack them with a call out. "To my understanding it also means whacking the shit out of someone. " vibe check is getting a read on someone's mood, aura, or aesthetic," writer Palmer Haasch said. To truly unpack what "vibe check" really means in this hellscape, I turned to my group chat of Very Online people. Instead of a verbal explanation, Umru says this video best captures up what a vibe check means to him. He did note that "the world is definitely fucked for young people" so the violent imagery often paired with vibe checks makes sense. It's a jab at whose morning vibe checks are not vibing with Umru.īut even the phrase's creator couldn't quite summarize what "vibe check" has come to mean over the past six months. "I'm not gonna claim ownership of it but I find it funny that a couple large Twitter accounts have made it their "thing" in the months since then," he said in a Twitter DM to Mashable. Saying "vibe check" was the most efficient way to convey that to their graphic designer. Umru, a music producer, first said the phrase "vibe check" out loud while planning an event and trying to figure out the vibe it needed. It was further popularized by Twitter user in April, who starts every day by tweeting bizarre images with a good morning vibe check. Thanks a ton for your feedback, I always enjoy considering other people's perspectives of my work.Although Urban Dictionary also includes a definition dating back to 2011, the first documented public vibe check on social media occurred in March this year, when Twitter user tweeted, "vibe check?" I was really worried about the volume of this I was overly worried about it clipping because it screws up the atmosphere, so I overshot and made it super quiet. There's this meme where this oddly disturbing looking emoji face that turns red and gets closer with his hands out saying "you didn't pass the vibe check" and I imagined this song as having a similar feeling of just chilling at first and then going straight to Hell. I couldn't think of a good title for this because it wouldn't be right to call it something totally serious and it wouldn't be right to call it something totally stupid either. Funny isn't the theme of the song but it's moreover its existence as a whole that I find hilarious just for being something bizarre that I'd never do traditionally. That plays into why the piece is so funny to me. The transitions aren't that fluid because I approached the song in a really whatever way lol, in a way it kind of IS my stream of conscious.
Yeah, I kinda shot for horror vibes in some of this so I'm glad a little made its way through.
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