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. 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?'

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