30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason
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While most of us can internalize that we all have different preferences, some people’s actions are so annoying that we can’t help but shake our heads in frustration. Even worse, through constant repetition, certain actions end up becoming accepted or at least tolerated by the majority of society.
One netizen asked “What's something other people do that you find really cringy?” and people online gave their examples of things that have become too normalized. We got in touch with No-Hamster7526 to learn a bit more, so get comfortable as you scroll through and be sure to upvote your favorites.
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Gender reveals.
It was fine when it was just cutting into a cake, then everyone had to turn it into a one up contest
Exactly, when they don't clean up afterwards. People are just so selfish now :(
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Ding ding ding! I think that is the true message! Without polluting hand-cannons etc.
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I think gender reveals are fine when intimate and personal. My brother sent me cookies in the mail to reveal they were having a daughter. I thought it was very cute (and delicious!) The huge reveals are the problem.
I think done respectfully, gender reveals can be fun. What annoys me about them are the extreme people go to where the environment and sometimes other people get hurt. Also, where the parent shows visible disappointment in the gender is annoying AF. I get gender disappointment is a thing and doesn't necessarily mean the baby isn't going to be loved but if you are going to record it and be an a*s about it don't do it!
Cutting into a cake/cupcakes/sweets/ whatever and reveal the colour inside? Fine. If you wat to, go for it. Putting a dissolving tablet into a glass of champagne that'll colour the drink red or blue or something similar? Fine, go for it if you want to. Gifts with toys or clothes inside that reveal the gender when unwrapped? Well you need baby clothes anyway, don't you? Colour changing cups that reveal the gender when getting hot or cold? Fine, if you want to. Little satchels that burn in different colours if thrown in a fireplace? As long as it's non-toxic, have fun. Opening a celebratory capsule that reveals coloured streamers that are attached to the capsule? Well, if you have to, fine. But why creating trash? But you do you. Anything you leave for others to clean up or can't be cleaned up especially in nature? Please don't do it. It's horrible.
I hate the blue and pink stereotype. It's such an absurd thing to me that BABIES are given certain names and "assigned colors" and wardrobes based on how they look. WHY ON EARTH are you making SUCH A BIG DEAL out of what chromosomes your child has? It's ridiculous.
Ultrasound tech - It's a girl - Me phoning each person in the family and telling them it's a girl
My preferred method of gender reveal is going onto say Facebook and posting 'It's going to be a boy/girl'
And it might turn out to be wrong. Based on an ultrasound? Some babies are intersex, after all.
For the majority of the population, unless there’s a severe abnormality, a baby is XX or XY. XX is a female body. XY is a male body. Call it whatever you want, but this is the news that they are finding out at the reveal party. It’s that simple, one or the other, which one. No one is assuming what the baby identifies as.
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Seen when someone ruined a city's water supply with blue dye just for one of these
Ours was fun, intimate, and harmless. We handed a sealed envelope with the gender to a baker who made a blue/pink cake frosted in a way to not show what was inside. My wife and I didn’t know the gender yet, so when we cut the cake in front of family we all found out at the same time. Unfortunately, due to the need to share and one-up on social media people keep looking for the next bigger and better way of getting attention, and this is what gives these a bad name.
Ours was a lot of fun and totally harmless. We gave the gender result to a local baker that created a pink or blue cake core with a nice thick frosting. Neither my wife or I knew the gender, so we both found out when we cut the cake.
it's like they can't wait to tell everyone what shape their children's genitals are.
And they never reveal a gender. It's always one of the two we all already know about.
Typically, a public disclosure of an unborn baby's gender. While they used to be something simple such as cutting into a cake and seeing if the inside is blue or pink, they've recently become a big trend on social media, and people have been doing crazier and crazier things for them. Most cause messes, fires, or even harm to animals and other people. There's even been a case of a plane crashing during one, killing the pilot in the process
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Shut tf up with your virtue signalling attention seeking nonsense
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No biggie. They're having fun. They could of course trigger types who don't recognize gender or who think these parents are "forcing gender" on their newborn.
I think it's more of the big gender reveals that are more common in the news that they're talking about
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child pageants - grown adults dressing their kids in skimpy outfits and parading them around on stage, so many parents living their lives through their children despite most of them just wanting to live ordinary lives. starting high school beef with one another, makes me wanna rip my skin off
People who flaunt helping others online. Like the ones who clearly do it for clout.
My friend’s gf does this, she constantly looks at the camera, smiles & poses, waves, asks the homeless (who looks *so* uncomfortable) to wave to the camera too. NO.
And before the “but but it raises publicity!!!!” crowd comes along: if you want to do that, do it in the back room of the soup kitchen or something. No one cares about my volunteer group taking photos of ourselves because we don’t exploit people who are in a situation where it’s difficult to say no.
Bored Panda got in touch with No-Hamster7526 who made the initial post asking for people's ideas. They were kind enough to answer some of our questions. First and foremost, we were curious to hear why they wanted to pose this question to the internet.
“I just created the Ask Reddit post because I thought it'd keep me entertained for a while,” they shared with Bored Panda, which does seem like it’s a pretty common reason to get thousands of internet users to share their thoughts. However, the post itself ended up with over three thousand comments, more than enough to keep someone reading for days.
filming urself crying for social media
Filming yourself for social media, period, just stop. You want to film you and your drunk friends doing trick shots, please do. You want to show me how you make a burrito with pizza rolls and scrambled eggs, hell yeah. You want to film yourself acting petulant, entitled and crying because the Starbucks batista spelled your name wrong, please f**k off. "Hashtag" "over it".
“Tough” bumper stickers like “I don’t retreat. I RELOAD” like sir we’re in the Taco Bell drive thru who are u shooting at?
Talking badly about the poor and homeless. Any sort of talk where a person is devoid of empathy will make me cringe.
As No-Hamster7526 noted, “I got hundreds of comments at a time, so it was hard to sort through them,” when we asked them if they had any personal favorites. “I think there was one about someone telling you heaps about something you don't care about,” they shared as the one they related to the most.
People filming for social media, and acting like everyone around them just walking by is being rude and getting in their way. Where I live (a pretty beach town) I see this s**t every week, at least. I’ve literally heard people say “uh, can you leave?” to random strangers
Guys that HAVE TO BE the “alpha male” in a group. Talking over people. Trying to be the toughest person around. Talking s**t for no reason.
It’s so gross it literally gives me goose bumps. I’m like bro, just be you. If you’re a badass, you don’t have to prove it.
Calling the man your dating "Daddy"
Most of the answers here ranged from annoying to downright bad for society. This is both a representation of how many bad things have become normal as well as an indication that the word cringe has perhaps lost some of its nuances. As No-Hamster7526 told us, the appeal of the thread came from it being so universal, “Everyone has something they find cringe.”
People who don't pick up after their dogs on walks. My neighbour makes this massive production of flicking a few leaves or pieces of grass over her dogs turds and leaving them on peoples lawns while making out she is a paragon of community responsibility.
Its your dog, and poo bags are cheap if not fashionable.
When I lived in Brighton there was a woman on our street who would draw around dog poo with chalk and be so passive aggressive about it, it was brilliant. pick it up!
Post personal (often medical) details about their children on social media
Something about people talking about how tough and scary they can get irks me so badly. Someone the other day described themselves to me as a Doberman because they were “cute but people know not to f**k with them because they’ll bite their face off” and my innards curdled from the second hand embarrassment.
Those TikTok videos where someone just stands there without speaking, pointing at bits of text as they appears one by one on the screen, pulling a different pose/expression for each text.
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People who video call in public and talk loudly, especially in trains or busses, I recently dealt with a customer who was on video call and had to show me a coupon in her phone and her whole family saw my face and I cringed and was so uncomfortable that I told her to put it away or I’m not authorising the coupon.
When they think everything that’s traditionally feminine is useless or stupid. I hate misogyny. Women shouldn’t have to compete with men to be taken seriously.
Brag about how mentally unstable and "psycho" you are. Like... dude, I legit hear and see things and I'm paranoid all the f*****g time. It's not fun. It's not something to be proud of. Just stop.
People that make "i hate Kids, all People are horrible and suck i only get along with animals, dogs are better than People" their whole personality and never shut Up about it.
I get it, i Like dogs and Kids can annoy me too but some People Just Go too far with those Jokes to a Point where it Just gets grotesque and dark.
and with peace and love, i know people can suck but if someone truly only ever gets along with an animal that was breed throughout centuries to be obedient and love Humans unconditionally then i think there might be a chance they are the people that suck.
Explicitly telling the price of stuff they own
The only time I do this is if one of my thrifting friends likes my sweater because when I say "thanks, it was only a dollar!" then we can gush over what bargain babes we are
Explaining something in a condescending tone - and incorrectly.
"Condescending" is when you talk down to someone, for those of you who don't know ;)
Being annoyed by other people’s joy.
Spit
I'm a guy and sure I did it it as a kid but it's so low class for adults to do it.
Punishable by fines in London. And rightfully so, what a disgusting habit.
recording while on public transportation.
during peak hours.
idiots.
.......The Tube Girl Trend. That s**t just looks uncomfortable for everyone around them.
Post inspirational quotes online that they don’t live by.
"Life is definitely fun and not awful at all" - Ranger Kanootsen
People who demand attention. Need to be the loudest in the group/room. It’s exhausting
This needs more context, some people don't realise they're load, so you just need to remind them
obnoxious/pretentious people especially in public. i’m a freshman law student, and whenever my class goes out to hang out there’s this one mate who heavily uses legal jargons, references, and terms around other people just to let them know that we’re law students. it’s so annoying. like chile we’re still on our first semester lmao.
Same thing for medical professionals. I can blow your mind with talking about how a patient of mine ended up needing a laparoscopic colecystectomy, but it’s easier and less arrogant to say that they needed a gall bladder removal.
Anything that has to do with eating in front of a camera
Back when I used Facebook, I found it cringy when people boasted about how happy they were with their spouse . Why are you telling us this. ( it automatically made me say to myself that they must be having problems) Or people who would come on and say life is great and everything is working out for them. I am so superstitious, I feel like a piano would fall on my head if I went around boasting how happy they are.
People filming themselves at the gym is another one. Uggh, just stop it already.
Cringiest thing I did on Facebook was keep the world updated on how my divorce was going.
When people do that, they’re really trying to convince themselves. Nobody buys that story they’re telling.
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people who smoke weed and make it their whole personality like have posters with it on claim to like Bob Marley always talk about how high they got
People who brag about having a therapist, and by extension look down upon others for not having a therapist. I see that alot here on BP. Just a little free advice folks, it's no shame to have a therapist, but it isn't a goddamn flex either. Maybe keep it down a little but about the fact that you need a life coach.
I didn't see one about shaming others around you. Especially the gym ones posting about some guy/girl doing an exercise that the "influencer" doesn't understand and they make fun of them. Or posting a stranger doing whatever, and laughing at them. (very cringy) Shaming people (unless you don't pick up after your dog) needs to stop.
Reaction videos. I've seen some come up that are like 3 people deep. Just let me watch a video and have my own reaction!
I thought this was supposed to be a 'people do' thread. Not one of these have I actually seen anyone do, and I'm no spring chicken.
Although I agree with a lot of these (to an extent), I found this post generally mean spirited and cringe based on the bitterness I'm reading from a lot of the commentary.
Can't imagine how the young will cope after the next war without their social media. It seems to be the world's most prevalent evil.
I think they will like it once they realize how freeing it is. Not at first. But eventually.
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People who brag about having a therapist, and by extension look down upon others for not having a therapist. I see that alot here on BP. Just a little free advice folks, it's no shame to have a therapist, but it isn't a goddamn flex either. Maybe keep it down a little but about the fact that you need a life coach.
I didn't see one about shaming others around you. Especially the gym ones posting about some guy/girl doing an exercise that the "influencer" doesn't understand and they make fun of them. Or posting a stranger doing whatever, and laughing at them. (very cringy) Shaming people (unless you don't pick up after your dog) needs to stop.
Reaction videos. I've seen some come up that are like 3 people deep. Just let me watch a video and have my own reaction!
I thought this was supposed to be a 'people do' thread. Not one of these have I actually seen anyone do, and I'm no spring chicken.
Although I agree with a lot of these (to an extent), I found this post generally mean spirited and cringe based on the bitterness I'm reading from a lot of the commentary.
Can't imagine how the young will cope after the next war without their social media. It seems to be the world's most prevalent evil.
I think they will like it once they realize how freeing it is. Not at first. But eventually.
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