Teen summers before the internet were supposed to be wild and free, but mine were mostly boring, spent clumsily painting my toenails, eating Quavers, alone in a rain-battered tent. The one thing that made all of that tolerable was magazines and, more particularly, teen magazine big summer quizzes. I, for one, loved them. Agonising over my answers, totting up my points using an unnecessarily complex scoring system, then reading earnestly what my “summer style” or “party personality” was or whether I was a “great best friend” was as good as it got.
And so, in honour of the magazines loved and gone, I’ve just wasted spent hours crafting my own summer quiz, which I’m calling “What’s your 2025 vibe?” Apologies to aficionados – it’s insufficiently granular for a proper 90s girls’ mag quiz (true masters could craft 20 psychologically probing questions to tease out what swimsuit style you should try). But if, despite the entirety of the internet, you’re bored this summer, give it a go.
