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50 People Who’ve Hit New Levels Of Cringe And Got Posted In The ‘Cringetopia’ Online Group (New Pics)
Interview
Trust me, cringe is addictive. Once you cringe over [insert a wish-wash subject of debate] or the anti-vaxxers and get that sweet aftertaste from the sheer absurdity, you want a second hit. ‘Cause cringe is real and everyone loves it, from me, you, to 1.2 million members of the “Cringetopia” subreddit.
And there’s an infinite source of things to recoil from in laughter and embarrassment because the world, like the people in it, and like the subreddit itself, is colorful. As the community’s description says: “In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because I am enlightened by my intelligence.” You may even get a philosophical drift on your way to the cringe journey.
So get ready to swim in the ocean of biased opinions, naive beliefs, less than logical statements, and anything in between. Be sure to upvote the cringiest posts down below and check out part 1 of this post.
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Dude Probably Begins Posts With "Females Of Reddit..."
Gatekeeping... A Language?
To find out more about this insanely popular community, Bored Panda reached out to the “Cringetopia” subreddit's moderator Fjallmadur, who was happy to share some insights.
“We started this subreddit to break away from the politics and hate that CringeAnarchy was becoming saturated with. /u/IAmMrPositive founded this subreddit and brought along me and a few other CringeAnarchy moderators who were tired of the mess that place had become,” the moderator recalled.
Fjallmadur added: “He basically made it a full-time job promoting this place in relevant subreddits and building this community from the ground up while telling people that this subreddit was going to be a place for everyone to come together, put politics aside, and just cringe at the people doing really weird and awkward stuff that they post online.” Today, it has turned into the one of the most regularly active subreddits on the entire site.
W H I T E P E O P L E A M I R I G H T!!!
Do people not realise that “skin” is literally the wrapping paper of your body. It’s nothing more than that. The pigmentation was decided by evolution as it it light or dark depending on what side of the world your ancestors lived given hotter countries have people with darker skin so the sun can’t burn them. Likewise colder countries people have lighter skin as the sun isn’t there often
Face Of Unemployment
When asked what the term “Cringetopia” refers to, the moderator explained that it’s exactly what it looks like, “an amalgamation of the words 'cringe' and 'utopia.'” Moreover, “It's a place where any cringe that doesn't break our relatively lax community rules or Reddit sitewide rules is allowed.”
The moderator of the community sees cringe as inherently subjective. “What makes one person cringe, another person may think is entirely normal,” he said and continued that “My take on it is that we've all done stupid stuff that we look back on and cringe about, and looking at these people is a good way to relive that feeling, even if it's not the exact situation that we've been in ourselves.”
The Youth Baseball Team Had To Put These Signs Up Because Of The Amount Of Karens Acting Like Karens
Magnetic Vaccine
Shakuhachi Master Piled On By Sjws For Being White
News Channel Body Shaming, She Doesn't Even Look Bad
Fjallmadur also added that “we laugh at those folks, feel second-hand embarrassment over what we see, and share it with others, but I think that it's ultimately a way for us to empathize with the people who are being featured on this subreddit.”
And although there are “some bad apples in the bunch,” according to the moderator, “we're not about bullying or spreading hate at all; it's all just for entertainment and understanding other people at the end of the day.”
Turns out, the subreddit has a bit of a bad rep from other communities because “they feel like we're bullying people,” but Fjallmadur stressed the fact that their community is exactly the opposite. “Our community is all-inclusive, as you can see from our wonderful mod team, and I feel like we do a pretty good job as a whole to enjoy the light-hearted picking while avoiding actually hurting anyone,” they concluded.
Those Damn Scorpios
A Divorcing Couple Dividing Up Their Beanie Baby Collection In Court, 1999
Rip Ronnie......
This Is A Classic "Ooof" Moment
Offended King
Stole This From A Discord Server I’m In. Other Kin On Tumblr
Notice At An Anime Convention
This Made Me Cringe
The Meme Itself Isn't Cringe. I Mean The Article Part
Nihari And Pulao Are Both Names Of Dishes In Pakistan
Lisa Still Hasn't Enightened Them
A [friggin] Child
![A [friggin] Child](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/6022ad897762a_piww1dxe2te61-png__700.jpg "A [friggin] Child")
How. Omg i hate people so much sometimes, its so hard to be tolerant when people are so harmful
Fellas Is It Gay To Change Your Underwear Everyday?
Airsoft
"I fought for this country. And by that I mean I yell at minorites when I go to Walmart. Look at this smoke canister! It's Trump colour! 'Murica!"
Alternative Medicine At It's Best
Female Dating Strategy Man... They're Calling This Fragile Masculinity, Not Knowing That He Was Knowingly Doing That To Make Fun Of His Own Height
Probably Refers To Him As "He's 173 Months Old"
Gen Z Army For Ever
The Virus Only Affects Women, Obviously
What Legs???
God I Hate These
The Duality Of Man
I Mean, I Understand Being Protective Of Your Daughter To A Point, But Come On...
That is f****d up id just not date that girl if shes ok with that kind of extreme. I guess maybe im weird about guns coz they are uncommon as here, not even police carry them unless special circumstances, but i dont think one pointing at someone is funny it seems so unsafe. Not to mention the dude is clearly uncomfortable/not ok with it
Boomers, Am I Right?
What A Waste Of $100,000
Wth
If I Had To See This, So Do You
More Of A Sad One
Why… Just Why...
Losing Weight Is Fatphobic
Oh I didn't realize that! So taking care of myself has to do with you how?
Why?
Yikes
I Wonder If This Has Ever Worked
He Looks So Depressed
How Dumb Do You Have To Be?
If you're dumb enough to put a phone in a microwave while it's on, you deserve to have your phone broken.
This Feels Really Smug
Chiropractor needs to just put a mask on the tables face hole, but still beside the point I just can't understand why people think it's not real or that masks are bad
Yeah, This Is Cringe
The Baby Would Rather Be Deaf
I take issue with the idea of a baby's consent here. All decisions for a baby is against their knowledge and consent. No one consents to being born. That's not problematic, that's literally how babies work. If a toddler says they don't want to change diapers ever again, letting them decide that would be abuse. Just take care of babies and don't scar them and they'll be fine. Consent is a super important topic but it really means something else when it comes to babies.
Fact is: Babies do not have the mental capacity to give any consent or make decisions.
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But the letters for 'seal' and 'sign' aren't even close on the keyboard....wtf happened here? Besides the obvious lol
So if the baby had a fixable heart disease they shouldn't try and fix it?
Meet the deaf community. It's complicated. I agree with you for that matter. The biggest issue with getting an implant later in life is adjusting to the added stream of information. A baby's job is non stop doing that, so they would adjust very quickly.
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The kid can choose to have the cochlear implant removed, or take out their hearing aids once they reach the age of consent, if they wish to live without hearing. But cochlear implants are most successful installed before a certain age, as the brain has to learn to process sounds. Imagine growing up deaf, in a hearing family, and learning that your parents chose not to give you the chance to hear.
My son was born Deaf. He had his first CI at 11 months and his second implanted at 22 months. His father and I are both hearing. We both learned sign language, as did our daughter. K is now 14, he made the choice last year to take off the external part of his CI and live in silence. We made a choice when he was an infant that he was unable to, he is fully capable of making that choice now and has.
There are sadly many deaf people who consider it somehow a lifestyle. This drives me crazy
Not a lifestyle, but a distinct culture. The same could be said for any language group.
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The baby was given a tick box: "If you do not give your consent to fix your ears, tick this box." And the baby didn't tick it, so that means, the baby gave full consent.
It's not like the baby could give consent in either direction! If the parents had decided to leave their child deaf, that would ALSO have been without the baby's consent. Baby's can't consent, full stop. You HAVE to make their decisions for them.
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This is actually a big debate in deaf culture. Are you taking away from a dead baby's experience of its culture and community if you give them CIs (cochlear implants)? Sure, as an adult you'll be able to decide if you want to take them out, but that doesn't take away from the fact that that person was raised hearing, probably didn't learn sign, and has no connections to other deaf people.
Ninety percent of deaf babies are born to hearing parents, and only 75% of those parents learn sign to communicate with their child. That 25% doesn't mean they opted for CIs either, they might just deal with the deaf baby treating as though its hearing and vocally communicating, even though they know the child can not hear them.
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I think it is kinda insulting to deaf people. It suggests that being deaf is not a big deal and shouldn't be treated or accommodated for. But I am not deaf, so I am not sure.
This is actually a big issue in Deaf culture (capital "D" is for the culture, lower case is the medical state). Many believe it is absolutely wrong to ever try to fix a child's hearing because they don't view being deaf as a disability but as a positive ("deaf gain"). One argument I've heard is that people look so lifeless to them when they're just speaking but when people are signing they "come alive". (I am not expressing an opinion on this, just saying this is what's contributing to the above comment).
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The baby received a cochlear implant- these types of implants are most successful if done before the age of 5... a child between the ages of 8-18 months old are the preferred age. And it was not supposed to say "sign" it was "deal"
That must be written by the guy who sued his parents for having him. Apparently he was so offended by life that his parents should pay him for pain and suffering.
Something along the lines of 'the parent decided the life of the child without the child's consent'...because the parents got the kid hearing aids instead of leaving them deaf.
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Wow, my parents did the same thing! The school called and made my parents take me to the eye doctor, then FORCED me to wear glasses. The school was even more determined to make wear them. Nobody asked me what I wanted. I was six, but I knew I was fine as I was. What problem?
Hopefully the accurate headline doesn’t decide to pursue journalism if they can’t spell simply words like deal, life, or of
I think I understand what the second poster is trying to say. There are some in the deaf community who are against "fixing" the deafness. They view it like a parent "fixing" their child who (if we could diagnose it at birth) would be gay so their child is normative. The child is unable to give consent to this therapy, which is pretty life altering and permanent, as I understand it. I have no definitive opinion really on this.
The thing that tips the balance for me is that a procedure like this is reversible when the kid grows up and can decide whether they want to be deaf or not. If you don't do the procedure they might never be able to hear, so that is also choosing for them, forcing them into what nature gave them, which doesn't define what is right for an individual. So giving them hearing is actually giving them more freedom of choice than the alternative.
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This is just so ridiculous. The hearing aids are helping him hear better, just like it works with older folks whose hearing is diminishing. Clearly there is some ability to hear, otherwise this procedure would be useless. Would this idiot use the same argument with a kid who needed a prosthetic limb?
That's generally what parents do. Make decisions affecting their children. WTF
If you've ever watched a baby hearing for the first time, the "accurate headline" idiot goes right out the window.
C'mon mom, you should have gotten my 6-month-old self's consent for before restoring my ability to hear!
The Sound and The Fury is a fascinating movie about the major decision to give deaf kids the ability to hear via cochlear implants.
Good. A parent can't help their child now. Whee! such a wonderful world we live in!
unless you've been deaf, i don't think you can speak for anyone else, especially a baby...
Most parents, given the choice, will choose to NOT let their child go thru life with a disability. And it is the parents responsibility to make life-changing decisions for their child.
Some people have the implants removed later. They can make a choice.
And now people don't want you to label your child a boy or girl you're supposed to wait until they're 5 and they can decide then
Bruh
Restore A Saved Game To Restore The Weave Of Fate, Or Persist In The Doomed World You Have Created
Nikocado Avocado still has time to turn back. He's going to a dangerous place in the future.
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Random thought: what happened to Krazy Kanuck? Haven't seen him comment for a while.
Or OGs like Hans, John L., etc if you go that far back. I still see a lot of our "popular" pandas out and about occasionally, but their comments are much less frequent. Part of it is probably just changes in their lives, but I feel like the more frequent argumentative/clickbait-y type posts have been large factors. I think in its' golden age BP was 99% pet/animal lists, comics, and art, which meant people had more opportunity to make funny and entertaining comments, but more recently it's been getting bogged down by political content and more "bad" stuff (eg more posts like "50 times people experienced evil neighbors" vs feel good stuff like "50 times strangers helped people"). Also a lot more beauty content, which isn't necessarily bad, but causes a lot of negativity for people with discussions about upsetting beauty standards. I find it kinda sad really, because our pandas are getting into more debates in the comments and we've lost a lot of the unity and good vibes :(
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Some are cringey, some are hilarious and some are how-is-this-person-still-alive.
Random thought: what happened to Krazy Kanuck? Haven't seen him comment for a while.
Or OGs like Hans, John L., etc if you go that far back. I still see a lot of our "popular" pandas out and about occasionally, but their comments are much less frequent. Part of it is probably just changes in their lives, but I feel like the more frequent argumentative/clickbait-y type posts have been large factors. I think in its' golden age BP was 99% pet/animal lists, comics, and art, which meant people had more opportunity to make funny and entertaining comments, but more recently it's been getting bogged down by political content and more "bad" stuff (eg more posts like "50 times people experienced evil neighbors" vs feel good stuff like "50 times strangers helped people"). Also a lot more beauty content, which isn't necessarily bad, but causes a lot of negativity for people with discussions about upsetting beauty standards. I find it kinda sad really, because our pandas are getting into more debates in the comments and we've lost a lot of the unity and good vibes :(
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