The word “cringe” used to mean an unpleasant feeling you get if you saw something that didn’t feel right. Now it’s just used to mean “thing I don’t like or think is weird”.
“Like to draw? Cringe!”
“Like anthropomorphic animal characters? Like to dress up as them? Cringe!!”
“Got a happier life than my sad, miserable, creatively bankrupt ass!? MEGA CRINGE!!!”
The harassment towards Jellybean from 3 years ago should’ve been a wake up call to everyone on how dangerous cringe culture can REALLY be, yet there are still people that still have that mentality.
These people can be summed up with my own twist on Buzz Lightyear’s quote:
“You are a sad strange little man that not even you have my pity”
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Pretty cringe opinion tbh
80% of people that are on the internet definitely shouldnt be tbh
The word cringe also used to be a verb. Now it’s an adjective, apparently. As Nancy Spungen said, “… And I don’t want to live this life”.
nothing on the internet should make you seethe tbh
I don’t think they’re seething, I believe they would be cringing.
If they’re constantly cringing, they probably shouldn’t leave the house either tbh
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I don’t think your definition is quite right. It’s not just seeing something that isn’t right. It’s seeing something that makes us feel awkward or embarrassed just for witnessing it.
I get that there’s lots of cynical people out there these days, but a lot of the people that might make a less cynical or well adjusted person cringe might not be the sort that they could befriend or wouldn’t push other people away anyway. No matter how much someone wants to make things work. And It feels like any talk in good faith about this sort of thing will fall on deaf ears here on Reddit at least. Like it’s some catch 22 in the end. Like I went though that phase where I thought that other people were in the wrong, and my feelings, thoughts, etc that pushed other people away were justified. I was the rock for my best friend who worked though her personal issues too. You just got to work though that stuff and get the healthy level of emotional intelligence to really thrive in your life.
Your words describe exactly how I feel I just can’t say it like you. I love your perspective
Cringe lost its meaning
Dressing up as anthropomorphic animals makes me genuinely cringe tho
“thing I don’t like or think is weird”
Uhm yeah it’s always meant that. That’s the whole “doesn’t feel right” part. Whether you agree something is cringe or not comes down to if you approve of it or not.
Cringe is subjective. When I was a kid my parents showing up to my school made me cringe. As an adult I’ve shown up to my kid’s school and it doesn’t make me cringe.
Cringe Department wanted to talk with you.
> The word “cringe” used to mean an unpleasant feeling you get if you saw something that didn’t feel right. Now it’s just used to mean “thing I don’t like or think is weird”.
It has always been used this way. Where did you get the idea that it used to mean something else?
Just be glad you’re not like that.