The Most Agonizing Examples of Cringe This Week (March 25, 2023)

When you think about it, social media is almost entirely powered by cringe. Sure, we use it to keep up with friends and family, share innocent memes, and learn things, but the stuff that really keeps everybody hooked up to their internet pills is when other people publicize an insane opinion or reaction. Like it …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (March 23, 2023)

As the USA continues to flirt with the idea of a TikTok ban, perhaps it’s appropriate to think about what it will be remembered for in the years to come. We have no choice but to acknowledge its ability to produce the very highest caliber of cringe, and its magical ability to get Gen Z …
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The Most Cringeworthy Dating App Encounters This Week (March 22, 2023)

What are your worst dating app turn offs? Personally, I have many. I get the ick from anyone whose profile only has selfies on it (I’m a shut in, and even I manage the occasional nice picture with friends), and those who talk at length about fandoms that I find annoying. With men, I assume …
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The Cringiest Parenting Posts of the Week (March 21, 2023)

Parenting Facebook groups have obsessions with the many «natural remedies» they think will cure all childhood ailments. My favorite supposed cure-all miracle is breastmilk. For some reason, crunchy moms think that breastmilk can do anything. I will give credit where credit is due: breastmilk offers babies essential nutrients they can’t get anywhere else. Unfortunately, breast …
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A Bunch More Cringe Because People Just Don’t Stop Embarrassing Themselves

I dream the impossible dream that one day, we will never have to deal with the feeling of shame ever again. That when we are doing things that are just harmlessly embarrassing, we kill the part of us that cringes, not the part that is the cringe. We’ll be free to express ourselves as we …
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The Most Agonizing Examples of Cringe This Week (March 18, 2023)

We’ve cultivated an extreme sense of superiority over the years, but the reality is the human race is pretty dumb. Sure, we have developed levels of consciousness and communication that far exceeds the capabilities of anything else in the animal kingdom, but we don’t exactly use it for great purposes a lot of the time. …
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The Most Cringeworthy Dating App Encounters This Week (March 15, 2023)

For numerous boring reasons, I have been out of the dating game for quite a few months now. I’m getting to the point where I want to ease myself back into it again, if only so I have some mildly entertaining gossip to tell my friends. However, every time I summon the energy to try …
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Wildest Posts From the Depths of Facebook (March 12, 2023)

Authenticity isn’t something that is valued on many social media platforms. These days, Facebook is probably the closest we come to a true, unbridled look at the personalities of people that we know (and strangers who go viral).  There’s something about the touch of the Zuck that makes a certain proportion of the population bare …
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Cringey Things That Aged Poorly

Most things in life are not evergreen. Everything ebbs and flows in and out of relevance; it’s a natural part of living in this world. I remember when the whole Kony 2012 thing happened; I was obsessed. I was sharing the video on my Facebook page. I was telling my friends all about this Joseph …
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The Most Agonizing Examples of Cringe This Week (March 11, 2023)

Here’s an awful thought: pretty much none of us have experienced our last embarrassing moment yet. Just when we get lulled into a false sense of security that we’re safe from cringing at ourselves, something is going to come along and make us so mortified that we’ll be ready to let the ground swallow us …
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