Let’s get this straight: we all have the right to be cringe. It’s a free country, as they say, and this instinct is basically baked into our DNA. What is not acceptable is when we are cringeworthy at the expense of others, which is unfortunately what happens a lot of the time. Either way, cringe …
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Cringey People Who Were ‘Just Kidding’ and ‘Totally Didn’t Mean To’
It can be pretty tempting to save face with a lie after experiencing humiliation from something as harrowing as getting rejected by a crush. ‘Omg, someone stole my phone and texted that to you as a joke, that totally wasn’t me. I would never ask you out lol.’ The problem is, people aren’t as stupid …
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Fresh Cringeworthy Moments to Cringe at This Week (June 3, 2023)
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we are all cringe in our own way. The question isn’t whether we can achieve cringe salvation, it’s what our particular flavor of cringe is going to be. There are many paths that this could go down, and some are a lot more preferable than others. …
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Fresh Cringeworthy Moments to Cringe at This Week (May 20, 2023)
My honest opinion as to why we are so attracted to the awfulness of cringe content is that we relate to it. Yes, even the examples of terrible people saying and doing wildly offensive things that we would never even dream of. The fact of the matter is, we’ve all had those moments that end …
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A Heap of Cringe to Feel Bad About
Misanthropy is a bad habit, but it’s easy to maintain when you realize that people are the worst. Billions of us are so irrevocably messed up that we can’t help but spend most of our time making the world a slightly worse place. The internet age has only made this more apparent, with all of …
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A Collection of Posts Full of 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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Facepalm Moments From the Silly Side of Humanity
I often wonder if social media is making people stupider or if it’s just exposing the stupidity that was there all along. I’m inclined to believe the latter is true, but one thing is for sure—Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram aren’t raising any IQs. And this isn’t to say that I’m better than anyone else. On …
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The Most Agonizing Instances of Cringe This Week (April 22, 2023)
Many of us spend a lot of time judging and laughing at others for their cringeworthy qualities, but the fact is that there is freedom in being unashamedly cringe. If we spent our whole lives trying to avoid acting in certain ways just because we were worried about what somebody else might think — and …
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The Most Agonizing Instances of Cringe This Week (April 15, 2023)
Cringe is one of the most human emotions there is. With all of our complicated social rules and hierarchies, it’s inevitable that we are going to have a visceral reaction to other people (or ourselves) doing it wrong. It gets even more complex when we’re sorting between the categories of honest mistakes and full-on evil …
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Awful Cringe 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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