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If there’s one thing the internet has taught us, it must be our enduring appreciation of a good cringe. Urban Dictionary defines the term cringe as “when someone acts/is so embarrassing or awkward, it makes you feel extremely ashamed and/or embarrassed.” But the feeling is way better felt than explained in words.
If you’re already a self-confessed cringe addict who dove down the cringetopia hole and experienced the most cringeworthy moments of life, then we've got this new treat for you. Welcome to The Cringiest Posts Twitter page that does exactly what it says in the title – shares the posts that make you curl up like a tortoise out of the sheer cringe and then cringe once more.
Below we wrapped up some of the funniest, I mean cringiest examples, so enjoy with caution!
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Headless Roach Headless Roach Community Member Follow
He's discreetly looking for the edges
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Dunning-Kruger at its best.
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ugh
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If you've ever spent enough time browsing in the land of the internet, you must have inevitably encountered cringe-powered content at some point. It takes only one word, five letters, to be exact, to present the inexplicable feeling known as cringe. For some, it’s a curled upper lip, for others it’s a shake of the head, for the rest, it's curling into a ball that forgets any social norms. According to Kaitlyn Tiffany, the term cringe took off on forums in the early aughts, when the practice of humiliating oneself online was still somewhat novel. Now, however, it’s absolute mainstream — it’s both an internet genre and a meme, as well as an insult of some kind. It's natural to wonder if we all suddenly became more prone to cringe as a group, or if there’s another reason why there’s so much cringeworthy content out there.
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With all my training I can easily picture the ‘novelist’ biting their fist after that reply
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im dying from second hand embarrassment 😭
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I have no words and yet so many questions
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Well, in a piece for The Atlantic, Tiffany argues that “it’s because we’ve been given more opportunities to display our cringeworthy characteristics, and also to point out the cringeworthy behavior of others.” She adds that “Whereas people used to feel secondhand embarrassment on behalf of their friends and family, or wince at their own awkward behavior, they are now exposed to the potentially embarrassing behavior of entire social networks.”
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wow. cringe-o-rama
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Headless Roach Headless Roach Community Member Follow
Oh that's easy. You'll only need a crystal ball, a shroom picked at midnight and 3 roach heads
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intelligent thoughts have always followed him, but he was faster
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As if that wasn’t enough, we have spent years, a decade, if not more, in this kind of environment. No wonder our sense of cringe has become heightened to the point where “we can sniff out the tiniest flaws in someone else’s public performance, dig them up, share them around.” Tiffany calls us “the connoisseurs of cringe,” and you may wonder if that’s even a thing to be proud of. ADVERTIsem*nT
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Bored Batgirl Bored Batgirl Community Member Follow
Blackberries??
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Poor kid. At least he took it in stride.
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If this is real, i don't want to live on this planet anymore
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Meanwhile, according to evolutionary history, cringe is birthed by the fear of social rejection — a feeling similar in intensity to physical pain. Psychology professor Rowland Miller argues that people literally crinkle in embarrassment because the ability to “feel vicarious embarrassment is influenced by our ability to empathize with others.” Miller argues that people cringe for reasons beyond contempt; it can be compassion, too, for having experienced a feeling similar to that unfolding in real time. Cringe is then about secondhand shame and empathy — human emotions that define anything and everything we do.
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lol!
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This has to be trolling-
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What an asshat. Anyone looks like s**t photographed like that. He’s trying to get lifelong attention from bringing his wife down. And succeeding apparently
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Melissa Dahl, a senior editor at The Cut and author of Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness, suggests that cringe content is “a controlled way of facing this really deep fear.” She argues that “It’s funny to talk about being embarrassed during the year 2020 when there’s such scary things going on,” referring to the height of the pandemic. Cringe content, on the other hand, shows that there’s nothing scarier than being cast out on your own and laughed out of the group.
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Laura Mende (Human) Laura Mende (Human) Community Member Follow
What the FÜCK??!!! This can't be real... Or could it be?!
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kinda like bone apple teeth but stupider
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Headless Roach Headless Roach Community Member Follow
Explain this to the paramedics
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seems like someone doesn't know his root!
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Who else had to read that out loud in Mario's accent? :)
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No need to self diagnose. We all know you're stupid.
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I thought the NFT was a digital code attached or with in the picture. You own a line of 1's and 0's not the picture, which means the artist that made the picture doesn't get paid, because you never bought the 'picture'.Anyways nfts booooo!
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Hospital is where you get disemvowelled
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Wait, what?
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This video is sponsored by Durex
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I've got a thing for pizza, so I'm clearly 🇮🇹
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what
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Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member
As far as I know? hom*o antecessor with about 1.2my but probably there are older undiscovered remains
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The sheer amount of vapid ignorance is just sad.
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Mark and Elmo Mark and Elmo Community Member Follow
Extremely cringe, and some were just plain rude. Very good article, though! :)
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Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member Follow
Agree.
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Ari Ari Community Member Follow
Isw.. Sometimes you need it, but other times it's kind of plain rude to point **SOME** of these people out (emphasis on the some) most of these people struggle mentally. But I still respect other people's opinions on this.
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The sheer amount of vapid ignorance is just sad.
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Mark and Elmo Mark and Elmo Community Member Follow
Extremely cringe, and some were just plain rude. Very good article, though! :)
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Sardonyx_3 Sardonyx_3 Community Member Follow
Agree.
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Ari Ari Community Member Follow
Isw.. Sometimes you need it, but other times it's kind of plain rude to point **SOME** of these people out (emphasis on the some) most of these people struggle mentally. But I still respect other people's opinions on this.
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