We spend a lot of time talking about cringe, but we can’t always agree on what it is. What to some may be irredeemably embarrassing could be perfectly acceptable to others. In fact, this is the main reason why there is so much cringeworthy content around in the first place. We’ve all done things that …
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A Collection of Cringe That May Cause Secondhand Embarrassment
As the old saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. By the same token, one man’s cool is another man’s cringe. As a socially created thing, embarrassment is a matter of perspective. What might make another person recoil in horror might just be what we consider a normal way to be living life. …
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Cringeworthy Cringe Designed to Be Cringed At
Being alive is an inherently embarrassing pursuit. No matter how hard we try and how many social rules that we learn, it’s inevitable that we’re going to end up being humiliated at some point. While it used to be that we could reassure ourselves that nobody was going to remember our awkward moments more vividly …
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A Cringeworthy List of Lots of Cringe
The day that people stop being idiots is the day that we stop being human. The day that we all stop being idiots for attention is the day that hell freezes over. In the meantime, we are left with ample opportunity to embarrass ourselves in front of others — and boy, do we take every …
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A Curation of Cringe Compiled From Murky Corners of the Internet
Self awareness can often feel like a curse. When we have too much knowledge of social rules, judgments, and potential consequences for acting out, it can seem like we’re living our lives with very restricted freedoms. While many instances of cringe seem to demonstrate a stunning lack of this trait, some might argue that they …
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A Cringeworthy Closet Packed to the Gills With Undeniable Cringe
Being weird, uncomfortable, embarrassing: in this age of engagement bait and attention seeking, these things come as naturally to some people as breathing. While our natural urge might be to recoil at these kinds of behaviors, they’re also a normal part of being human. This is even more true in the times we live in …
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Different Flavors of Cringe Scraped from the Bottom of the Cringe Barrel
My thoughts go out to the first people to ever experience cringe, whether they were on the giving or receiving end. Having an uncontrollable, icky wincing feeling overtake your body due to witnessing or dishing out pure embarrassment is never going to be pleasant. When it was an unknown sensation, though, the whole thing had …
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Examples of Cringeworthy Things to Cringe At
We can try to ignore it all we like, but to be human is to cringe. While we might all be driven by simple, biological impulses deep down, it’s that cursed level of self-awareness that allows us all to be as we are. However, we’re constantly learning the hard way that we all operate on …
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Awful Cringe Sourced Straight From the Bowels of the Internet
Considering that we’re meant to be the most intelligent species on this planet, we sure don’t act like it a lot of the time. It might be proof of our intelligence that we’re capable of having such strong feelings of embarrassment, but we should not be getting it activated by other people or ourselves so …
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Awful Cringe That Really, Really Sucks
Some people need to be sat down and talked to. They are far past the point of «are you OK?» and veer dangerously into «please, just stop doing this» territory. There are as many reasons for us to do embarrassing things as there are stars in the sky, and that’s probably why many produce such …
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