There’s no way around it: job interviews are usually challenging experiences that can lead to great embarrassment, total humiliation, excessive perspiration, and a whole lot of anxiety. When I interview for a job I sweat like it’s 100 degrees out and I’ve just run a marathon. I look like George Costanza after a few bites …
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A Load More Cringe Because People Never 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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Cringeworthy 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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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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A Squirm-Inducing Collection of Cringe and Cringeworthy Moments
The early 2010s held a lot of questionable beliefs, but one person who got actually philosophy right was Sky Ferreira. Her iconic song Everything Is Embarrassing celebrated its tenth anniversary earlier this week, and if we’re being honest with ourselves, the sentiment is truer than ever. We’re all just out here, flailing around and humiliating …
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Innocent 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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A Fresh Compilation of Cringe for Anyone Who Needs 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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Cringe Pictures to Deplete Faith in Humanity
When the earliest Homo Sapiens began roaming the Earth, the development of embarrassment played an important evolutionary function in the way we act socially. It showed an element of submission, so as to avoid an aggressive reaction on the part of the embarrassing person, and it was meant to regulate social behaviors so that said …
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Moments of Cringe to Make Us Feel Better About Our Own Pitiful 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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Embarrassing Times People Didn’t Get The Joke
When communicating with strangers on the Internet, it’s often difficult to gauge whether someone is being serious or joking. That’s a big part of why tone indications are so popular with Gen Z. For the uninitiated, tone indicators are little acronyms someone might put after a question or comment online to indicate whether they’re being …
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