It’s difficult to articulate precisely, but everyone knows that moment when something or someone becomes the ick.
A friend, a foe, a song, a shirt, or even a simple text can go from a lovable to losable affair in a matter of moments.
Not dissimilar to the opposite of a vibe, an ick is something you just can no longer stand to be around. Everyone has experienced this flash moment and usually, there is an episode or event that precipitates it. Once the ick sentiment surfaces, it is hard to see it any other way.
I love the ick dance. Not the schadenfreude of reveling in someone else’s fall from grace, but rather the idea that we humans are such mongoloids who can collectively ostracize individuals people, or things at the drop of a hat.
Pop culture loves to ick things as well… Beyond Meat, Teva sandals, and even Kanye West numerous times in the past decade only to come back again on top.
The ick does not always know they are the ick and this can be uncomfortable. Akin to Cardinal Spencer in The Young Pope telling Lenny that times are a changing by saying, “you think you’re the hinge Lenny, but you’re really the door,” … the ick rarely knows where they stand. Suddenly, where the rizz at?
To all the unbeknownst icks out there, chin up, your vibe moment is coming soon.