Interview: What does Broken Ink have against vibes? [APRIL FOOLS EDITION]

Editor’s Note: This “article” is from our 2020 April Fool’s Day edition of Pacer Times. It is satirical and is not meant to be taken as real news.

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Behind the doors of the Student Media office, an inter-office debate is seen scrawled upon the chalk wall: “No vibes allowed” vs. “Vibes are life.”

In an interview with Editor-in-Chief of Broken Ink, Isabel Martinez, she explained her stance against vibes. The link to the audio recording of the interview is provided below the article.

Martinez stated that if she were to run for president, she would “abolish vibes.”

“I would get rid of vibes in the dictionary… you can say it, free speech, you know, but I prefer [the word] ‘energy,’” she described.

When asked to consider if the definitions of the words were starkly different, she agreed, but argues that “[people] have been getting used to substituting” the words for each other, “with everything.”

“Somebody can say that they like this song, and they would be like ‘I love this vibe.’ What exactly does that mean?,” Martinez questioned.

Emphatically, she continued: “You could just simply say ‘I like this song,’ ‘I like the energy that it gives me.”

Pacer Times, however, considers vibing to be an action, a “mental ability,” as stated in the interview. When supplied this opinion, Martinez justified her position further.

“Recently, I feel like it has been overused. We lost the definition.”

Martinez concluded this statement with her belief that the word is no longer needed in the dictionary. Furthermore, she stated that the usage of the word is an excuse for people to “look down on” millennials.

“Our vocabulary is just vibes, and I don’t approve of it.”

Referring back to Martinez’s hypothetical presidential run, Pacer Times asked if the country would be allowed to continue to vibe, or if it would become a “strictly no-vibes allowed country.”

“I’m all for positive energy in my country,” she clarified. “But I do not want forcible vibing, because you cannot force somebody to vibe with you.”

Emotionally, she described that she gets “upset” when somebody says “I just want to find somebody to vibe with.”

“It’s not how it works!,” she exclaimed.

Currently, the office is still split on its vibing status, but Martinez makes her position clear: no vibes allowed.

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This interview was humorous in nature and is not representative of Pacer Times’ formal interview abilities.