3QQ's: Tarreyn Van Slyke on Vibes

Content creator and ol' pal TVS is an expert on energy of all kinds.

Welcome to Three Quora Questions, our series of interviews in which a guest expert joins me to field strange and interesting questions posed on Quora.com (the internet’s oddest knowledge repository).

Tarreyn Van Slyke is not only one of the internet’s foremost content experts, she’s also one of my oldest longest-tenured friends. (We are not old.) When Tarreyn isn’t busy amassing followers on TikTok or cultivating a chic Instagram aesthetic, she helps brands and clients harness the power of the World Wide Web.

That makes her the perfect person to consult with about one of the vaguest buzzwords of our era: Vibes. As always, these questions were asked by real folks. Thank you to Tarreyn for the authoritative answers!

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What is vibe? How do we emit and receive people's vibe?

TARREYN: I feel like vibe is a combination of energy and aesthetic. The vibe you're giving off is kind of the look and the feel you're projecting. It's how we dress. It's how we decorate things. It's the way we walk into a room.

It's just, you know, the energy. It's the vibe, man.

What kind of vibe do you give off?

TARREYN: Dear God. That's a question I'm scared to know other people's answer to.

What vibe do I give off? I think I give a vibe of friendliness. I think I give an enthusiastic vibe. And I think I give a creative vibe.

I'm writing a fantasy novel. Is it okay to spend over 100 pages to world build the themes and vibes without mainly focusing on the main plotline?

TARREYN: Absolutely not. No.

A true vibe doesn't need 100 pages. A true vibe just vibes.