by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
A problem that I have pondered a lot is why it is that we just don’t seem to have major vibe shifts like we used to. The “vibe” of the 1950s was dramatically different than that of the 1980s and so forth.
Then came the mid-1990s and everything seemed to freeze in place.
You could drop someone wearing 2026 clothes in to 1996 and they wouldn’t stick out other than their smartphone.
But recently, I think I figured out where all the vibe shift energy has been channeled into — language or more specifically, slang.
While there hasn’t really been a big change in clothes because of any recent vibe shift, slang has changed a great deal. Seemingly overnight we have “maxxing” this or whatnot.
So, it seems as though something — the Internet? — is still holding back any sort of clothing vibe shift, but maybe that same thing is aiding in a major, overnight shift in slang.
