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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he secretly trying to get the plane over the edge
Load More Replies...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.
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...Lmao. Reminds me of the time a classmate in High School said we should get rid of all girls sports there and my retort was to say well I guess we'd never watch anyone win again. Us girls were really good in several sports that year with several outstanding athletes. The boys not so much.
And men shouldn't be allowed an opinion on what women choose to do with their bodies.
And you sir, should be red carded from procreation. You incel WOHS.
Insert GIF of a person throwing a grenade, it bounces off of a tree, and lands right back in their foxhole.
Why why why, do these people take selfies/pics with their tongue out, I don’t get it
Oh my God i don't know i just want to find this girl and grab a pair of metal tongs and shove it back in her mouth. BP do your thing
Load More Replies...Tongue out, eyes closed. Tongue out, eyes open. What versatility! 🎭
Do you have any talent besides sticking your tongue out? I need some more info to email the Netflix people
I dreamed that once as a kid, that I was a movie star in a movie and I knew nothing about it. They had just taken a pic and put my face on someone else or something. This was in the 70s, ages before they made those deep fake things with Mr. Bean. https://youtu.be/oc81HVDr7WQ My son had an app in which you can put your own face in some movie. I can finally make my dream come true. Yay! I'm Jack Sparrow now.
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.
I think that might have been the joke though- not the most well executed joke, but I think the point was that “ohhh no I dEFINITELY didn’t put that there myself”
Guys please, he did it on purpose, that was the joke
Load More Replies...With so much makeup who can tell what her original skin color is O.o
I was really confused. I thought it was two different girls.
Load More Replies...I think she means black hole queen...the space in her head is so dense not even valid thoughts can escape.
wait.. if someone plays basketball, they become black? noted.
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.”
Why am I imagining an obese 15yo with acne who's GF is actually his crush, he never even talked to?
No no, he has a girlfriend but he haven't seen her in person because she lives in Japan
Load More Replies...Scary af, particularly because of that redundant space before the question mark at the end
niceguy, believes he's a demon, weird-a*s astericks... yep, we got a whole cringe bingo, guys! (confetti and balloons pour out from ceiling as dope music plays)
Oh that's easy. You'll only need a crystal ball, a shroom picked at midnight and 3 roach heads
Nope, in the rest of the post not shown they immediately apologize as they confused the two words.
Load More Replies...this person then commented something like oh my gosh im so stupid sorry. this is unfair to that guy.
I think this is my favorite. (BTW I did that once; change my zodiac sign. Or rather told them the wrong sign when asked "I KNEW IT!" she yelled, "See, astrology really works.")
I remember when I was young, I put a Chik-fil-a sandwich in the microwave, still in the foil wrapper, and it caught on fire. I just kinda stood there staring at the microwave because my brain didn't want to comprehend that there was a chicken sandwich massacre happening in my kitchen. But I was also, like, 7 years old.
Even fast food wrappers without foil shouldn't go in the microwave. They have plastic coatings that leech PFAS compounds when heated in a microwave. They aren't joking when they write "do not reheat in this wrapper".
Load More Replies...Suprising how few have a clue how things work. Back when home compters were relativly new a local shop put a message that popped up on april fools saying that the machine was dangeously overheating and to pour a glass of water into it. Cost them a few bucks replacing ruined computers.
And that boys n girls is why everything you see on the internet isn't always true.
Hey! Darwin's doing his best! But our society has been set up to protect these idiots, so it's a little harder these days
Load More Replies...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.
gooseberries because they're goose-coloured. (note: only applies to mouldy geese)
Orange is not correct since it's the other way around. The colour was named after the fruit, not fruit after a colour.
Peach? Cherry? or are the colors named after the fruit? Red Grapefruit?
Ahh this is nothing, i had an ex that forgot to Turn off her phone right after talking to me lol, and that's how She became an ex.....
Load More Replies...The last thing I want to do is hurt you; but it’s still on the list.
Help? Looks like you got the rejection figured out all by yourself, Ella.
I mean he’s not entitled to anything. He’s the dumbáss who spent all that money on someone who doesn’t even care to address him by name
A lot of people who send twitch players and youtubers gifts don't put their name or they want to be anonymous.
Load More Replies...For those who don't know, high end graphics cards like these were actually more difficult to get ahold of during the height of the pandemic than a ps5. The current retail is about 750 to 850 usd. When I was trying to find one 2 years ago every store was out and private sellers were getting asking as high as 2.5k. Average price for this exact card that I saw was about 1.5k
Yup. A 3080ti was $2.2K this past January. The ones she is showing are slightly more expensive.
Load More Replies...Maybe the person wants to be anonymous? To be honest, I don't see any cringe. It's not like it is my money or something.
Buying some stranger a ps5 and THREE graphic cards is pretty cribgy if you ask me
Load More Replies...Why do people buy they're favourite youtuber/twitch/yadda yadda stuff like that, as if they can't get it themselves?
Is this the same girl as the one who said one of her twitch subs got her a tesla?
Wait, wait, wait. First we had cam girls, who would get money and gifts for NSFW content, and now you're telling me all this time I could be getting free s**t just by playing video games???
Load More Replies...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.
In June of this year, Alabama was rated as the worst state for education in the US.
I saw this but it was a girl and she said “I’m not American I’m Arizonian.” Lol
I've seen that before. This has the same energy
Load More Replies...Well, I do prefer to be known as a Californian than as an American. It's less embarrassing.
Wait. What? Is it 2026? Have I been in a coma for four years or something? If not, and it’s still 2022 for another couple months, then people born in 2003 are only 19. Those born at the end of the year are still only 18. Oh yeah, now I get it. Alabama public schools.
And the tattoo made her look so much worse than real life! Hope they're divorced and he has to look at this on his body forever.
They are a couple in the UK that play stupid pranks on each other for shits and giggles but mainly the likes and views. Bad as each other.
Load More Replies...When (not if) they divorce and he has to go on the dating pool again with that tattoo.... well, good luck
Hahahaha didn't thought about that good point. Guess this guy is doomed.
Load More Replies...Not only is this an ugly gesture, the tattoo itself is poorly done. It's rough, and looks scratched on, and there's almost no contrast. It's going to become a grey mess in a few years. Good luck with that, fool.
Judge: so why are you filing for divorce? She: honey, pull your shirt up, would you? Judge: oh... Granted.
Idk I think just having the photo would be a good memory, but like ask her if she wants you to delete it when she wakes up, delete it if she wants you to, and for the love of frogs don't get it tattooed
Before people start burning this guy at the stake...1. this was part if a prank war that BOTH the husband and wife participated in. 2. It's on his thigh, so probably not a ton of people seeing it in public. 3. Although the wife was angry at first, she's came around, and thinks it's really funny. 4. It's a picture if his wife...so calling the tattoo "ugly" is kind of like calling her ugly. For those calling it "abuse," simmer down. It was a prank between a LOVING COUPLE who play pranks on each other as a fun part of their relationship. https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/12/26/wife-horrified-after-husband-gets-ugly-tattoo-of-her-snoring/amp/
It really doesn't make it any less cringe-worthy, though. I would have just ordered a couple dozen of pillow covers or something.
Load More Replies...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.
Hopefully she's pretty too. You can carve out a decent life for yourself if you're kind and pretty....
Load More Replies...I just said that to my dogs. I think they think I'm extremely stupid
Load More Replies...I understood the conversation thanks to your joke 😆 I was too confused to even understand what he was talking about
Load More Replies...Also who says 'are you dumb' and 'dumbass' to a chick they're trying to hit on?
Good luck getting through a job interview now. (Sorry but if the person I was interviewing had food stained fingers I’d be really put off. Gross)
His only hope now is getting a job at the Cheeto factory.
Load More Replies...I assume this is a joke. As someone who has always struggled with maths, it made me smile.
I have to admit, I don't get it. THe square root of 49 is 7, but what is the message of 7 supposed to be?
Its 7... I could've answered this with a 7th grade education lmao
You’re right, I’m in 7th grade pre-algebra. This is simple 😭😭
Load More Replies...This voice in my head still sounded better than Chris Pratt's Mario
Load More Replies...I'm laughing so hard right now. I keep going back to the "cooka da meatball" part and the "mamma mia" part and I can't decide which line I want to annoy my family with. Jesus Christ... this is a conundrum.
I'm so happy I'm not the only one dying right now 🤣🤣
Load More Replies...Props to Pittsburgh and Zull. The man on the left was Giovanni Falcone, a judge and prosecuting magistrate in Palermo, Sicily, who spent years working against the Mafia; he's talking with his partner, judge and also prosecuting magistrate Paolo Borsellino. Falcone was assassinated by a car bomb on May 23, 1992, and Borsellino met the same fate on July 19, 1992. Their bodyguards also died, in case you think they didn't have any. Enough with the stupid Italian stereotypes, not everyone in Italy is a mafioso. These men dedicated years of their lives, talent, skill, and determination to try to break the Mafia even though they knew they were going to be killed eventually. Everything Italian isn't a joke or a punch line.
Hey, woah woah! Don't lump this loser in with the likes of me, we don't claim her!! 🤣
Load More Replies...There are even people pretending to be physically disabled and buying crutches etc (I'm selling an old wheelchair and this man wanted it to pretend he was disabled to skip the queue at a theme park as he asked if he could sell it back to me after, I told him I would report his name to the theme park and blocked him!) to skip queues and get into places for free and even skip security in airports. Being legit disabled is hard enough as it is, without idiots thinking it's cool to impersonate us to take advantage of the very few perks (in a world of many more negatives) we have to use. Makes me so angry
Load More Replies...I feel like the real question is "I'm racist/ bigoted but hate the judgement I get for that. Is there a medical diagnosis I can use as a get out of jail free card?"
God damnit I hate this. All those tik tokers out there faking disorders. Making fun of my clinical depression is a coping mechanism - and now people go crazy if you even mention having a disorder because they assume "you made that up for attentionnnn booo"
It’s people like this that make me so f*****g mad when I tell people that I have a certain disorder they say I’m lying and that I just want attention
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!
Exactly. They don't actually own the picture, so there's nothing stopping us from screenshotting it and using it as our own profiles pics just to annoy them.
Load More Replies...The first profile picture is a masterpiece by a XIX century painter Jan Matejko - "Stanczyk" - a Polish national treasure. Quite a contrast there. Stanczyk-J...31a1e4.jpg
On a separate note, why do people think they can sue someone for all their money?
Judge: "You're suing the defendant for how much?" Me: "All. All of it." Judge: "That's not a number." Me: "All the moneys."
Load More Replies...I suddenly feel very very stupid. I really want to understand but it's just not clicking for me. And I hate it because I don't like not understanding something
If it's any consolation we're all in the same boat with you. Not understanding and quite possibly sinking, but definitely not understanding.
Load More Replies...It's perfectly simple: for the low, low price of lots of money, you can buy the right to say you own something that you don't own and which doesn't, in any tangible sense, exist. Think of it as buying the freehold on an imaginary house.
Load More Replies...Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrch Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč. Czech: "Vowels are for weaklings"
all the people in the comments posting words with the letter Y in them are making me cry. yes, Y is *sometimes* a vowel, but Y is *always* a vowel if there are no other vowels in the word. look it up, it's true. it's painfully obvious some of you didn't finish elementary school. go back to first grade & learn your vowels & consonants.
Y is considered a vowel only in multiple other languages though and it's generally a vowel even though it can sound like a consonant in English and some others, but then again, multiple other languages Y never sounds like w or j, it has it's own vowel sound but no consonant sound _at all_ in some languages. I speak mainly languages where Y is nothing but a vowel so it's not universal, only exception is English in the ones I know.
Load More Replies...From the Onion, 1996: "Before an emergency joint session of Congress yesterday, President Clinton announced US plans to deploy over 75,000 vowels to the war-torn region of Bosnia. The deployment, the largest of its kind in American history, will provide the region with the critically needed letters A,E,I,O and U, and is hoped to render countless Bosnian names more pronounceable."
I think Biden printed more money so the US could go on wheel of fortune and buy vowels to send to foreign countries
Load More Replies...Also, obvious bull aside- it bothers me way too much how many TikTok people have seemingly changed the meaning of "POV" to its exact opposite.
What meaning other than point of view is there? I'm confused
Load More Replies...Goes along with the holocaust trend they did by pretending they were in a concentration camp...
What the actual fudge? "People" are doing what?
Load More Replies...You never had to act like you don't care. You had to act like you DO care, because what kind of useless excuse of a friend are you if not? Also, beating someone just because NEVER was considered legal, even in times it wasn't considered the same regardless of colour - still is in too many way, but that's another point to be made elsewhen. Imagine if it's the 1950's, and you see your friend, looking at you getting beaten, and acting like she doesn't care. Would you still consider that bidge a friend? Why? How?
It's nice that you're commenting so seriously a tiktok trend, when you were making fun three posts above of two people who've been murdered for real, but you know, they're italians, so that's funny to joke about it.
Load More Replies...No. There were plenty of people—-of all races—-in the 1950s who did care, and would intervene, though they risked also being beaten up for it. By the 1960s, they were traveling south to help African Americans safely register to vote. Some even gave their lives to help. Though the lions share of any gains made from the Civil Rights Movement belong solely to the courage of African Americans themselves, there were plenty of people of all races who stepped up as well. Civil Rights is a human issue, though we have to address it one group at a time. As long as black lives are viewed as mattering less than others, we have no right to say all lives matter. Because all lives means ALL lives, not just a chosen few.
I thought it was about the languages they learned watching anime/listening to K-pop... *facepalm*
I was a nerd that went to college to study Asian cultures because of anime and Kpop... And I'm still cringing so much at this
Guess all these bored suburban white kids these days are black now, because they like an over-commercialized version of watered-down hip-hop culture.
Some people think that if you're thin or promote being thin then you're "fatphobic". Apparently that means you hate fat people (?)
Load More Replies...Shaming someone for losing weight is the same as fat Shaming to me. If they want to lose weight that's great, if not that's great too. My opinion on this post though, dude you really can rock the long hair look, I wish I had a luscious mane like that
I need to erase some fat. Where can I buy a fat eraser? Or do I just use a pencil reader?
Load More Replies...Some people have no personality so they hide behind…that
Load More Replies...Why are they an incel? I feel like I've missed something that makes this actually make sense?
Dude is part of a Reddit sub that exclusively puts down fat people, shames, and mocks them. Even said Mariah Carey is a disgusting fat person. So he’s on this list not for getting in better shape, but being a rude hypocritical asśhole.
I'm just going to say it. Fat people are unhealthy. But fatphobia is telling them what they can and can't do with their bodies or treating them less well then thin people. You're allowed to lose weight.
You have no idea why people could be overweight. There are many reasons out of a person's control why they can't lose weight. Also, there are many unhealthy thin people. Either way, don't judge. Do you, worry about your own body. Glass houses and all
Load More Replies...I'm...guessing that the reply is calling losing weight fatphobic?
Load More Replies...He wants to be healthier. How is that "fatphobic" and how is he an "incel" because of it?
As far as I know? Homo antecessor with about 1.2my but probably there are older undiscovered remains
One of my favourite songs has the lyric "Columbus didn't find America, it wasn't lost it was always there"
Oscar Wilde — 'America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up'
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.
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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