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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why is will smiths face blurred i mean even if it was someone who they were trying to cover the identity of they didnt do a good job
I’ve got a contact at work who got the same virology degree I did - he states often that viruses don’t exist because nobody has ever actually seen one. So he went through 3 years of microbiology, biochemistry, virology studies while believing that this was all fiction. Just….what? (Yeah he’s also antivaxx so I don’t talk to him much. I have no time for those people)
Wait whaaaaat?! Molecular (NOT microbiology haha) biologist here. I've taken all those classes... How in the... How did he... Duuuuuuuude..... Is the degree real??? I'm just trying to wrap my head around how he got thru all those classes thinking he was a liberal arts major or something... All that money just wasted down the drain.....
Load More Replies...To protect his identity. Still obviously him tho
Load More Replies...The Earth is not flat. If it was, cats would push everything off the edge.
How do you think the moon got where it is? It used to be on Earth.
Load More Replies...I like going to their fb page if I'm in a bad mood and need something to cheer me up. "At least I'm not flat-earther stupid" usually does the trick hahaha
Load More Replies...What do the folks who think the earth is flat think the edges are? If the earth is flat there should be 4 edges why can't they look over the edges?? If the sun, moon, and all the other planets are round why would the earth be flat?
I think it would be fun to take a plane full of flat earthers on a non-stop flight around the world.
Load More Replies...A virologist who has never heard of electron microscopy? You can see the actual virus. With even a regular microscope you can see globs of virus (Tzanck Test for Herpes etc.). More specifically with a fluorescent antibody stain for the virus using UV microscope.
How the hell do people in these fields with proof literally right in their field of vision manage to be so utterly stupid? Firstly proof is in the Petri dish, secondly, um, how does one in the airline industry explain the visible curve of this earth Thirdly, both industries rely heavily on…. You guessed it! Science!
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.
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.”
Oh that's easy. You'll only need a crystal ball, a shroom picked at midnight and 3 roach heads
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.
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.
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.
Extremely cringe, and some were just plain rude. Very good article, though! :)
Ok, I barely understood any of these posts, the responses within the posts nor the comments. Is this really how people communicate? No wonder no one seems to understand anyone else.
Most of them I got, but yes there were a few where I think you have to spend way more time online than I do to be able to understand it.
Load More Replies...Extremely cringe, and some were just plain rude. Very good article, though! :)
Ok, I barely understood any of these posts, the responses within the posts nor the comments. Is this really how people communicate? No wonder no one seems to understand anyone else.
Most of them I got, but yes there were a few where I think you have to spend way more time online than I do to be able to understand it.
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