A Collection of Cringe That Goes Beyond Cringeworthy

Other people give us cause for secondhand embarrassment all the time. The beauty and horror of cringe is that there are so many ways for it to manifest, and we can’t always see them coming. If we’re lucky, most of the moments that we make cringeworthy happen in a place where only those who are …
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Cringey Moments That Prove Cringe is Eternal

Nothing in this life is truly immortal. We all die eventually, and any legacy we leave inevitably fades over the passage of time. Even the most famous among us get resigned to history after a long enough period of time, but it’s a difficult thing for many of us to conceptualize. When we’re out here …
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Cringey and Embarrassing People Who Should Log Off Immediately

We definitely don’t need to tell you that the internet is full of cringe. As hard as you might try to look away, as long as you are online, the cringe will follow you. We may not be able to force those embarrassing people who consistently flaunt their worst qualities online to log off, but at …
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Awful Cringe That Makes the World Seem Like a Bad Place

Every single day, things happen to remind us that there are a lot of terrible things out there. Atrocities happen in the world, and people commit awful acts that lead us to believe that almost no-one can be trusted. Also, there are countless individuals out there who will go out of their way to embarrass …
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A Fresh Compilation of Cringe for Anyone Who Wants to Feel Bad

Have you been feeling a bit too good about yourself lately? Like, maybe you’re not waking up every morning and actively jumping for joy, but you are starting to feel like everything might just be alright, at least for now. You’re starting to appreciate the small things in life, and value both what you have …
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Cringeworthy Moments That Have to Be Cringed At

We think, therefore we cringe. It doesn’t take a lot of brainpower to instinctively recoil at somebody else doing something icky, and these days it tends to happen with alarming regularity. When we give a peek into our lives and psyche that is a little too revealing, it’s only natural for everybody else to want …
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Horrible Cringe That Goes Beyond Cringeworthy

From the moment we gain some basic level of self-awareness, being alive is a horribly embarrassing enterprise. Worse still, we don’t come with an inbuilt instinct of what is wrong and right when it comes to not making a fool of ourselves. It means that every day, we’re on a journey of trying to learn …
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A Buttload 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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Moments of Cringe to Make Us Feel Better About Our Own Sad Existence

If we’re being completely honest with ourselves, part of the appeal of watching others be embarrassing is that we get to feel better about ourselves. We’ve all had those moments that not only make us want to curl up and die, but horrify the people around us, too. What’s even better is that most of …
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A Showing 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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