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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The Most Agonizing Instances of Cringe This Week (April 8, 2023)
Did you know that there are two different kinds of cringe: compassionate cringe and contemptuous cringe? Compassionate cringe is about laughing with somebody about a relatable embarrassing experience. Compassionate cringe might occur when you tell your friends about the time you asked out your crush in middle school or when you fell off your scooter …
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Awful Cringe That Simply 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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Twitter Users Share Their All-Time Favorite Deleted Tweets
It’s common to regret things we say from time to time, but making a mistake in a conversation or sending an embarrassing message in a group chat is nothing compared to the potential horror of posting something on the internet that you deeply regret later. Justine Sacco’s infamous tweet is a reminder that deleting a …
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The Most Agonizing Examples of Cringe This Week (April 1, 2023)
How fitting that this compilation of cringe falls on April Fool’s Day. It would be nice to think that all the different people acting embarrassing here were merely making some kind of tasteless joke, or engaging in some expert trolling. While this might be true of a minority, the likelihood is that most of them …
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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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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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