Tech grifters out, Abercrombie in: what the ‘vibe shift’ will bring in 2023

Sean Monahan, who coined the term, sees a difficult year ahead for Silicon Valley and the music scene

You may not need to be a trend-forecaster to know this but 2023 is going to be a bad year". So says Sean Monahan, who writes the substack 8Ball, and last year correctly predicted the vibe shift" popularized in a widely shared essay in the Cut by Allison P Davis.

It's hard for me to predict or have a strong intuition on 2023, because the economy is behaving very strangely now," Monahan tells the Guardian.