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50 People Who’ve Hit New Levels Of Cringe And Got Posted In The ‘Cringetopia’ Online Group
Watching cringey stuff is painful. Our eyes are running away from it, our gut is repulsed, maybe even our muscles are involuntarily contracting. But we can't help it. Teens congratulating their classmates because they are black, a woman licking a toilet bowl in hopes of starting the 'coronavirus challenge'... For some reason, we need to see how these things play out. Even if our body is refusing to allow it.
The subreddit r/Cringetopia is a gold mine for this type of content. With 1.1 million active members constantly sharing some of the cringiest things they can find on the Internet, it's just getting bigger and bigger, too. Continue scrolling and check out what they have collected so far!
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It’s Actually Quite Sophisticated Stuff
Frieder Paulus, a psychologist at the Lübeck University in Germany, told Quartz that embarrassment is social: it tells us when we have violated a social norm and makes us feel bad for doing so. But it's not clear why exactly we have the capacity to cringe or as scientists call it, feel vicarious embarrassment.
We feel others' embarrassment because we are empathetic—we imagine how someone else thinks and feels because it determines how we treat others and cooperate with one another. Feeling second-hand embarrassment might be just a byproduct of a more important trait, much like how the belly button is a symbol of the umbilical cord.
Imagine The Conversation
Posting Buzzfeed Is Practically Cheating
Hysteria Has Always Been Everywhere
Why do some people just spew garbage from their mouths about the things they do not know about? It's awful if a tornado drill image can be twisted to form such hate in people.
Cringe Post Followed By A Funny
He's Also 1 Million Times More Useful Than She'll Ever Be
Rather Be Single And Homeless Than Paying Half Rent
Yikes
The Definition Of L
Whitewashing
Ummm Yeah That’s A Big Yikes
I Always Think That Too...
This Would Haunt Me For The Rest Of My Life
It should. Even picking up a child without the parents' permission is questionable.
This Animal Crossing Shit Is Cringe But Entertaining As Hell
Just Do The Challenge, Man
I Hate This Sub But This Fits Here So
If you send someone an unsolicited d-pic , you deserve that message sent to everyone. Your parents, your grandparents, your employer, any friends remaining, and the rest of the world so they know what a disgusting human you are.
How To Ba Hypocrite 101
Saying “Ok Boomer” To A Distinguished Scientist Because You Can’t Actually Defend Yourself
What Can I Say
Disney Keeps Taking This Down
Honestly More Sad Than Cringe But Wtf Netflix
Nobody Cares!
What Is Even The Human Race Anymore
This Aged Like Milk...
Well, both were charismatic. They just chose to use that charisma to do horrible things. Try and use yours for good.
Stop Being Norwegian, You Racist
This Is Why I Can't Go To Anime Con
Accidentally Uploading A Picture Of Yourself On Your Catfish Page
When Your Mom Accidentally Shares Erotica In The Family Chat
Oh Lord
Oh God...
I can't believe this. What the actual f... I really hope this isn't true and just someone trying to stir some s**t.
What Is Wrong With People?
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Honestly, the Post Title (Required) is the funniest thing in this post~ I just... can’t stop laughing for some reason.
Dentists Gonna Have A Field Trip With This One
I See A Lot Of Vegan Cringe I Here But I Think People Who Are Anti Vegan For No Reason Can Be Cringe Too
Dude Is Flexing His Louis Vuitton Bag On Auschwitz Train Tracks
Bro Get Help Please
This Man Is 22
Ok I Know Tiktok Comes Round A Lot Here But Holy Crap This Is Disgusting..
Wow, So Relatable!
Caption: "Waited Outside Her Hotel For 46hrs Straight For This Opportunity. Worth It"
What A Simp
Domino's Or Sex?
Teaching "abstinence-only" simply doesn't work. Teach the kids about safe and consensual sex and about birth control. If you really care about fewer children getting pregnant and requesting abortions, this is the only reasonable way to go. (Nothing wrong in abstinence as an idea, though.)
What A Hero
"Haha I'm So Quirky"
I'm Stuck In A "How To Play Fortnite" Speech. This Is A College Class
Probably a basics of presentations/ communications class that let people pick whatever topic they like. I had a student pick wrestling once. 15 min of sweaty unintentionally homoerotic pictures later, it thankfully ended.
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in all fairness, and if what @Samantha Lomb suggested about the communications class is happening here, this student can pick whatever topic they want. Besides, just because someone plays fortnite doesn't automatically make them a basement hermit who only speaks in grunts and eats doritos. In fact many people would find this useful who perhaps want to play fortnite and don't know how. It's not like they're making a presentation on why the earth is flat or on hentai. The person who posted this should probably reconsider the situation before bitching on the internet (and maybe give more context, because to like Samantha said, it could have been a class where this presentation would have some sort reason)
In every single "Intro to Public Speaking" the first assignment is a speech about "how to" do something. Mine was "How to watch TV" in high school and "How to Bowl" in university.
Ummmm. This shouldnt be happening. Two reasons. One, it’s super easy to teach how to play fort nite for a college class. Two, it’s super easy to learn to play ON YOUR OWN.
I feel you. YOu don't wanna know how many time my class has talked about sport teams (not that weird I just have no interest in them) and CANNIBALISM. Like not even in ancient times some guys in my classes wanna make it legal. :|
Next time someone brings up cannibalism, remind them of kuru - a prionic transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. It's a spongy brain disease you get from cannibalism. It's basically Mad Cow on crack, but with people.
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This among many many other reasons is why tax payers should never be forced to pay school loans. A whole reconstruction of our education systems must be done if we have to pay for this nonsense...at 20-80K a year.
I would 100% force my self to believe it was a test of patience... I would believe it actually had nothing to do with the content but the ability to remember new facts. This is the only way I would be able to mange and not fall asleep.
I Think He's Lost His Mind
Ok Now Wtf
These Fucking Youtubers
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I like elon musk made an appearance SEVERAL times during this article.
It literally went from cringy and somewhat wholesome fun to frikin sex, racist, and news related bullcrap. 41094728_6...c9feff.gif 
The internet doesn't make people stupid, it just makes stupid people more visible.
I have said it before, and i will again...big companies need to start saying they will look at everything when hiring, they will see you eat a pod, lick a toilet, disrespect atrocities, be racist, homophobic etc and you will never get a job. They need to do it so that kids see and make better choices, because something is not working.
These people make me look like a genius. Shame so many are still in the gene pool. Now I can sleep the sleep of the just.
My friend's little dog got out right as we were finishing up a walk, came running up to my dog and I didn't realize he bit her in the nose. She had 11 pups so she just rolled him and scared the pee out of him (even though he tried to bite her again), looked really surprised when I was like "whoa!" Then I was so off-kilter that when my friend reached out her hand I F*****G SHOOK IT. I forgot she loaned me a coffee cup I was still holding. I now have to fake my death and move to Mongolia.
Ripley Dog - I enjoyed your post, though enjoyed isn't really the right words it's more schadenfraude XD (if it helps, off the top of my head, i regularly respond with "you too" when a shop person says "thanks for shopping at [example]" then scurry away. Or my son's favourite tale to reminisce over: when we were walking into the supermarket and the wind flipped my dress up [thank God I was wearing leggings so it wasn't as bad but still!])
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I like elon musk made an appearance SEVERAL times during this article.
It literally went from cringy and somewhat wholesome fun to frikin sex, racist, and news related bullcrap. 41094728_6...c9feff.gif
The internet doesn't make people stupid, it just makes stupid people more visible.
I have said it before, and i will again...big companies need to start saying they will look at everything when hiring, they will see you eat a pod, lick a toilet, disrespect atrocities, be racist, homophobic etc and you will never get a job. They need to do it so that kids see and make better choices, because something is not working.
These people make me look like a genius. Shame so many are still in the gene pool. Now I can sleep the sleep of the just.
My friend's little dog got out right as we were finishing up a walk, came running up to my dog and I didn't realize he bit her in the nose. She had 11 pups so she just rolled him and scared the pee out of him (even though he tried to bite her again), looked really surprised when I was like "whoa!" Then I was so off-kilter that when my friend reached out her hand I F*****G SHOOK IT. I forgot she loaned me a coffee cup I was still holding. I now have to fake my death and move to Mongolia.
Ripley Dog - I enjoyed your post, though enjoyed isn't really the right words it's more schadenfraude XD (if it helps, off the top of my head, i regularly respond with "you too" when a shop person says "thanks for shopping at [example]" then scurry away. Or my son's favourite tale to reminisce over: when we were walking into the supermarket and the wind flipped my dress up [thank God I was wearing leggings so it wasn't as bad but still!])
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