The moment a culture's mood changes and the old things become embarrassing — named in a 2022 magazine piece about a trend forecaster's newsletter — and used since for every change in taste, from jeans to politics. The record's entry for the phrase that made 'vibes' a unit of history.
Overheard in a supermarket queue, Jun this year: a parent saying "Vibe Shift" to a toddler, entirely straight-faced. The toddler understood. I did not, for a second.
Small fix: the peak year is right but the peak was shorter than a year — closer to six weeks. The rest of 2022 was people explaining it.
The record notes that 'vibe shift' has been declared roughly quarterly since 2022 and that at least two of them were real, and that the record does not know which.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
