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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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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.”
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Headless Roach 2 years ago
Oh that's easy. You'll only need a crystal ball, a shroom picked at midnight and 3 roach heads
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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.
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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.
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ItsJess 2 years ago
This voice in my head still sounded better than Chris Pratt's Mario
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Katy McMouse 2 years ago (edited)
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.
Chris berkley 2 years ago
I'm so happy I'm not the only one dying right now 🤣🤣
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Erla Zwingle 2 years ago
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.
DC 2 years ago
Maserati! Spaghetti! La notte degli alberi a camme! Moto Guzzi Falcone! Pesto! Sospensione posteriore incasinata.
aZZy_d3Lta 2 years ago
Rharah???? I didn't expect to see you on this website :0
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Pontificate 2 years ago
A friend of mine is an Italian with no hands, he tells me how awful it is going through life with a speech impediment.
Jacob Stone 2 years ago
its too sad that gen z is like this, but at least we ain't worse than what we are
lapis lazuli 2 years ago
my dad was ve egg confused why i was choking on my water laughing so hrs
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Mark and Elmo 2 years ago
Extremely cringe, and some were just plain rude. Very good article, though! :)
Okatango 2 years ago
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.
Marnie 2 years ago
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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Extremely cringe, and some were just plain rude. Very good article, though! :)
Okatango 2 years ago
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.
Marnie 2 years ago
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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