30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It’s Cool

Yeah, this one applies to certain adults, too. In fact, many of these do.

I once was one of those kids with a loud car. Man it drives (no pun intended) me crazy now.

Jeez. We were driving the other day and a car zoomed by so loudly, it was stupid. It literally gave off a massive Zoooooom sound. Completely unnecessary

Definitely applies to most adults or even college students. This is one reason I'm glad I didn't drive in high school. There's no need to drive like you're entitled.

Omg! I absolutely can't stand these wannabe idiots. The bad thing is that it seems like 9 times out of 10, the car is an old Honda POS and the exhaust system has either been removed or modified to be as loud as sonically possible to take being inconsiderate and obnoxious to new levels. The other thing is that these idiots seem to think that everyone wants to race them and no matter how childish or dangerous, they refuse to let someone pass them. They don't seem to understand that people just want to get away from them and that no one cares about their ridiculous vehicle that is somehow supposed to reinforce their fragile masculinity.

As you read these posts, please remember, teenagers brains are not finished being made !

Was on a flight to Amsterdam to see friends and this FOOL was sitting behind me, he spent the whole flight yelling about all the girls he had been with and how they were all ugly. When we were getting off I turned to look at him, Ugliest guy EVER!

The louder you talk about it, the less you know.

Weird... When I was in school? Girl who had sex = s**t/easy and major gossip about her... Boy who did = Stud, got congratulations. Yes... Whoohoo... You managed to put your thingy into another thingy!!! Well done!... Now learn about Respect. To any girls reading this who have been "Sl*t Shamed"? Just tell others that he's got a "TeenyWeeny". Get them back where it hits hardest 👍

TDS is cringe

You flex your vape, I flex my lungs - me to my bf, March 2024

I hate the feeling of the air on the street that was recently in the rotten lungs of a vaper/smoker... 🤢

When I was in middle school back in the 80's one of my good friends had something against one of our teachers. Hated him and never knew why. One day he decided he was gonna "whip the teacher's a**". He definitely made a mistake. He got the first hit in and our teacher picked him up and slammed him down onto the top of the table. My friend finally got up and again went after the teacher and the teach went full on bar brawl with him. Cleared the classroom. Then the teacher told him when he was able to get up he needed to go to the office. Teacher made us all come back inside, fix our desks and right back to the lesson.My friend got suspended. When he came back he was right back in the same class probably reliving that day over and over.

If you don't look back on your old self and think about what an idiot you were, you're probably still an idiot

How about teachers being rude to students? I had a (sub) teacher in 10th grade who wouldn't let one of my classmates use the restroom for some reason I don't remember why. I know there are some students who use that excuse to skip class, but this person needed to go BADLY, but he wouldn't let them. I believe they were arguing, but I don't remember. What is the point of being rude to a student when they weren't being disruptive?

and then there are the ones that are proud of the things they said forever and more so as the year go on...

Don't they learn it from their parents?

Yelling penis was hilarious at the age. Don’t be a fun police.

In my experience it's the 50+ that is loud and obnoxious - too much private info and hatred is shouted loudly 🙄

Eh, sometimes

Oh, come on, everyone's played the penis game lol

As Abe Simpson said, "It will happen to YOU!"

We once called my mom old (she was in her 40s). She laughed and said, before you know it, you'll be my age. Well, I'm in my 50s now. She was right, it went by so fast. Time comes for all of us.

Tbh, hearing, saying or seeing the word cringe all the time.

But isn't this a list of adults calling teenagers "cringe"? Is one better than the other? No. Not really.

Schrödinger's Douchebag: decides whether the $hitty thing they just said was "just a joke" based on the reaction of the surroundings.

"Oh its just a joke, lighten up!" or "You're too sensitive!", "You're overly sensitive!".. Nope, you've just insulted me and do you think I'm going to take it? So fight back verbally, never physically.

I hate hate HATE people who say this. It’s always dudes and they’re always douchebags

anyone who cannot be happy at Disneyland is not human

They want everyone to see their teenage angst 🙄

I think "cool" is now dated an out of vogue with the young folks. At least my high school students make me feel dated when I say it.

That’s sad.

And also, whenever someone is blasting loud music in public, it's ALWAYS the $hittiest music you've ever heard.

THIS. and 9 times out of 10 they'll play the worst music you've ever heard, and they'll say they're "expressing themselves"

Pulling up at a convenience store and going inside and leaving your music blasting out of the crappiest set of speakers ever made.

I see adults doing this too, in super weird places like hiking trails. Even worse, just yesterday I was at the park with my kid and some 40-something guy was BLASTING some podcast while playing disc golf. Super obnoxious. He was alone, too. Why not headphones?

AH! I remember when blasting loud music means carring a huge cassette stereo on your shoulder

aka the Broccoli boys!!

I really don't get the shaved up the back and sides haircuts.........having said that I'm 69 and in my time I've had my hair buzzcut, a mullet, permed, and a pony tail, so I should probably STFU!

As someone who really likes hair (especially long(er) hair on men), these haircuts always make me cringe.

How hairstyles originate: some famous person gets bored of ring a decent person decided to go all crazy and asks the hairstylist for the "Picasso hairstyles". They go on media and then young and the super easily influenced population tries to imitate thinking that the stupid hairstyle is so cool.

“No shade it’s just douchey” - that’s literally shade…

aka.. ThickTok!

THIS... SO. MUCH.

For me TikTok will always be a song by Kesha

I think that's just part of being a teenager. I also regularly hear my daughter (17) and her friends talking about things that, if I may believe, they have enormous experience with, which of course is not the case at all.

They're learning to think about it. That's the point.