Cringe doesn’t always come from the people you despise. It can sometimes come straight from your closest buddies. A couple of months ago, one of my best friends and I went to see a movie at a weird indie theater above a bar. It was super intimate, and one of the audience members was peppering her commentary throughout the entire movie. With the theater being so small, everybody could hear her, and it started to get irritating. Towards the end of the movie, after she made yet another unclever remark, my friend said very publically, «You’re not more entertaining than the movie.» I was half happy that he told her to shut up and half cringing at the awkward social interaction that had just played out in front of me. 

Cringe comes in all forms, and if you’re in the mood for some incredibly sad cringe to put you in a bad mood, this collection of sad cringe will hopefully tide you over for the week.