We spend a lot of time talking about cringe, but we can’t always agree on what it is. What to some may be irredeemably embarrassing could be perfectly acceptable to others. In fact, this is the main reason why there is so much cringeworthy content around in the first place. We’ve all done things that …
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Cringeworthy Cringe Designed to Be Cringed At
Being alive is an inherently embarrassing pursuit. No matter how hard we try and how many social rules that we learn, it’s inevitable that we’re going to end up being humiliated at some point. While it used to be that we could reassure ourselves that nobody was going to remember our awkward moments more vividly …
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Wildest Posts From the Depths of Facebook (January 29, 2023)
February 4, 2004 is a date that will forever go down in internet history. The reason? It’s when ‘The Facebook’ began to grace our screens as a social networking site for Harvard students. In the nearly two decades since, it has transformed into something almost unrecognizable. What was once a trendy part of the internet …
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A Curation of Cringe Compiled From Murky Corners of the Internet
Self awareness can often feel like a curse. When we have too much knowledge of social rules, judgments, and potential consequences for acting out, it can seem like we’re living our lives with very restricted freedoms. While many instances of cringe seem to demonstrate a stunning lack of this trait, some might argue that they …
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15+ Insufferable Times People Had Incurable Main Character Syndrome
Whether we are willing to admit it or not, most of us are pretty selfish. Even if we do a good deed now and then, it’s ultimately ourselves that come first, or maybe our kids (if we have them). The world could probably do with a few more of us caring less about me, myself, …
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A Cringeworthy Closet Packed to the Gills With Undeniable Cringe
Being weird, uncomfortable, embarrassing: in this age of engagement bait and attention seeking, these things come as naturally to some people as breathing. While our natural urge might be to recoil at these kinds of behaviors, they’re also a normal part of being human. This is even more true in the times we live in …
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Examples of Cringeworthy Things to Cringe At
We can try to ignore it all we like, but to be human is to cringe. While we might all be driven by simple, biological impulses deep down, it’s that cursed level of self-awareness that allows us all to be as we are. However, we’re constantly learning the hard way that we all operate on …
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People Ponder the Pure Weirdness of the TJ Maxx Food Section
I don’t know about you, but I have a pretty fixed idea of the places I buy food from. The grocery store is obviously top of the list, followed by your average 7/11-style businesses. If I’m treating myself, I’ll go to a restaurant or café, and I might go to some kind of fancy chocolate …
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Awful Cringe Sourced 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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Awful Cringe That Really, Really 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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