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Beret much so

I’VE BEEN WORRYING about the vibe shift. LOLS, I am the vibe shift. As earnest Millennial moaners give way to breaking Gen Z nihilists, it is more apparent than ever that the former are basically ’boomers, Gen Z a re-hashed Gen X. Accordingly, as Millennials themselves would put it: “I got this.”

Still, others may be fretting about their ability to get with the scene, and I am nothing if not charitable. In her editor’s letter magazine, Kenya Hunt notes that, where the has described the current fashion moment as “chaotic”, “messy”, and “falling apart”, the as “weird”, so she would argue that “the general vibe is one of rebellion”. To which I say, “The sane are never not rebelling.”

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