The Most Cringeworthy Dating App Encounters This Week (July 12, 2023)

The only thing more embarrassing than being in love is looking for it. This mean having to admit that a. we’re lonely, and b. we’re willing to entertain the BS of dealing with other people to stop that being the case. While the reward is worth the effort in the end, putting in the effort …
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Cringeworthy Content for Curious Cringe Fans (July 8, 2023)

What’s the most cringe-worthy thing you’ve ever seen out in the wild? Like as an immediate witness. Surely, you have at least one experience that was so cringe that it’s seared into your memory, right? Maybe you saw someone’s prom-posal go terribly wrong? Maybe someone trying way too hard to be cool? Maybe just a …
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Cringeworthy Content for Curious Cringe Fans (July 1, 2023)

Happy Saturday cringe fans! We’re back once again this week for another healthy heap of second-hand embarrassment. What better way to spend your day off than to look at content that makes you feel slightly better about yourself? Cringe has existed since the dawn of the internet. Well, it has kind of always existed. But …
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Fresh Cringeworthy Moments to Cringe at This Week (June 17, 2023)

The human race: we’re a pretty embarrassing species. First, we invent one of the most developed concepts of shame in the animal kingdom, then we decide to ignore it in favor of indulging all of our worst base impulses. Even worse, different people ignore it at different times while others look on in horror, and …
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Fresh Cringeworthy Moments to Cringe at This Week (June 10, 2023)

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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