28 Posts That Hit A New Level Of Cringe, As Shared By This Twitter Page

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.

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Fembot 2 years ago

With all my training I can easily picture the ‘novelist’ biting their fist after that reply

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Kristine Johnson 2 years ago

It’s.. Karma.

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Moonwatcher the NightWing 2 years ago

Garjhield

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#theKingofOlympus 2 years ago

gaetield garfiels gartirdlf garfirls garfirld garfield YAS

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Beck 2 years ago

Garfueks

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Lucy James 2 years ago

Garrf*>ukv

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Eline 2 years ago

Gesundheit.

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Monday 2 years ago (edited)

garflied.....I got close! I love that everyone is trying it out for themselves!

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musicaldashtrash 2 years ago

gardield

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Weirdest Bi You’ll Ever Meet 2 years ago

Garfield. Bruh, I got I perfectly!

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Bryan W. 2 years ago

Garfield (Using Voice to text)

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Lizard Queen 2 years ago

nice

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Tracy Barnwell 2 years ago

Garfuekb

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the one panda _ 2 years ago

Gartoiel

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Christina Wang 2 years ago

gardro;d

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BoxerQueen907 2 years ago

garfeils

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Lizard Queen 2 years ago (edited)

Garfiels

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Lizard Queen 2 years ago

Damn!

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BeepBeepBoopBoop 2 years ago

hardiels! I'm so amazing

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OwenHasADHD 2 years ago

gareduwks

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Denise Melek 2 years ago

gariffls

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Denise Melek 2 years ago

i like it. ill name my next cat gariffls

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Gay Dsmp Fan (she/her) 2 years ago

Gardield

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Mel The Axolotl 2 years ago

Gatdield

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GB 2 years ago

Garpheeld

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kath morgan 2 years ago

Garxielz

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ace lesbian demigirl(she/they) 2 years ago

I did it. Who else actually tried?

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Dacă nu pierdeam, câștigam 2 years ago

Gardield

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imontape 2 years ago

Garfkfmf

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Eline 2 years ago

Garforkx. Perfect. Phone azerty keyboard power.

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The only Plueschopossum 2 years ago

Garfield ... ok, didn't expect that ಠ_ಠ Let me try once more... Hatrfirlf Ah yes, that's much better ^-^

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love u 2 years ago

gargield is what i got

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I Am, In Fact, That Weirdo 1 year ago (edited)

Gardiels gardield gsrfoueld garfield

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Lyra Myers 2 years ago

garfield WOAH I DID IT

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Bluebrains 2 years ago

Karma Silverwind. My dear. Shhhh.

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Oh Deer 1 year ago

garfiel

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M. 1 year ago

I'm gonna try this challenge! VTvudlz garfiepd garfueld faediwls garduwls fardiwlsd garfueks garcueks garfueld gardueld garduwls gardueld ga3fulef farfuels garfueld farfueld garfueld gaefuwod gaefiwld garfuekd (yeah, I can't personally do it.)

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Cybele Spanjaard 2 years ago

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Marnie 2 years ago

I don't see anything cringy in this. Karma's reply was perfectly valid, and the final reply was a great comeback. All in all, a fun time.

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Jackson 2 years ago

GARFIELD

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William Handlon 2 years ago

She would put all the editors out of business.

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ariana 2 years ago

gargeils- oops i didnt do good

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RandomFunLex 2 years ago

Garcield

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Shona Cortez 2 years ago

Garfe9ld

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My True Form, Apparently 2 years ago

Ok, I noticed something. Look very carefully at the third user.

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I Am, In Fact, That Weirdo 1 year ago

what is it OH GOD NO

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bubble cat 2 years ago

Garfuks

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Kar Red Roses 2 years ago

Garfuejd

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Kriss Ambers 2 years ago

gargeilf

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Blue 2 years ago

gatdirkg

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Your Neighborhood Alien 2 years ago

Gardiele (mobile phone keyboard)

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aZZy_d3Lta 2 years ago

gardwukd

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aZZy_d3Lta 2 years ago

garfe8ld

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Book Worm Panda 2 years ago

GDcdbmd

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Book Worm Panda 2 years ago

Can't even spell words with my eye open!🤣

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Biliegh Berrie 2 years ago

GRdudks

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Kinetics Loves Apples 2 years ago

Her name alone discounts her from any 'novelist' status...

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Spirited7Wolf 2 years ago

I got *drumroll* gRFIELL\D. I don't type well, as you can see

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EscapingToMyDreams 2 years ago

Garfield

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Rebecca Kelb 2 years ago

Garfield

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Sharkbait1313 2 years ago

Lol!!!

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XrAtCaTkiD 2 years ago

Hatfurld

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Phoenix Connor 2 years ago

Garfudld. Wtf. I'm trying again. Garfhdld Garfhdld Garfudld Garfield. Took 5 tries but I did it.

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goodguybrad 2 years ago

He got him there!

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Emo Sloth 2 years ago

The novelist's grammar makes me want to rip my hair out. The misplaced comma, the sentence structure, the capitalized and unutilized SINCE... I could go on...

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1.21Gigawatts?! 2 years ago

Garfield LET’S GOOOOO

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Ari 2 years ago

Garfield faredr Garfield

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Ari 2 years ago

Garfuekd

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Annie 🇺🇦 2 years ago

gardield close enough

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red raccoon (she/they) 2 years ago

Gartield

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Do i have to? 2 years ago

Gatdiel garflied gardield garfield

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Rharah-The-Tired-Artist 2 years ago

haha- rip

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Brandy Gray 2 years ago

Gardieks! Perfect

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Marissa Taylor 2 years ago

garfield *yes i spelled this with my eyes closed*

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Weirdest Bi You’ll Ever Meet 2 years ago

Gardield. That was my try! Pretty good.

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Henrik Niewiek 2 years ago

garfkshd

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Antonius van Reisen 2 years ago

Garfield

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Libby Tailor 2 years ago

Garfield 😲😳🙄

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Jasmine Marchesi 2 years ago

Garfi4ld

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Autumn Artemis 2 years ago

Hatfkrld -my attempt

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Ginny can draw 2 years ago

Gardeujc

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Gina Mangin 2 years ago

Karma Silverwind..cant wait to not read your Novel😙

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Freddy M. (He/Him) 2 years ago

garfueld

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Ephemeral Mochi 2 years ago

Garrfeild.

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Unnamed Hooman 2 years ago

Garfield

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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago

Garfrild. Garfed. Garfrd. Garced. Garjeild. Garfed. Garfeild. Ok I give up -_-

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Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago

I write books too but I make thousands of typos anyway- and that's not counting me googling a word because I'm not sure how to spell it lol

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Terran 2 years ago

Gatdueld.

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Mihai Mara 2 years ago

Garfield

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Your Local Slytherin 2 years ago

Garfield

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tHeBoRdEsTpAnDa 2 years ago

I kinda wanna try this now. gaarbwjld

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Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago

Garfutcmv

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LapCat 2 years ago

Garfield

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LapCat 2 years ago

Whoa 😳

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radioactivecandy (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)

novelist... sure. i'm pretty sure they just wrote warrior cats smut on ao3 and boast to everyone about how they're a published novelist. imma try it: gardfield

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CatWoman312 2 years ago

Garfield

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Bored_Panda 2 years ago

Gatgi4lr

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ℚ𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕎𝕠𝔽𝕊𝕙𝕚𝕡 2 years ago

garfield

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xolitaire 2 years ago

garfield ... I had hoped for a funny result worth posting, but fail

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N8 Lamphere 2 years ago

How do you know someone is a vegetarian..?? Oh they'll tell you. Same goes for a writer.

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Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago

tweyywkd, Not so fun with the phone keyboard. Oh well one letter right.

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Autistic apricot 2 years ago

Just find the voice typing button and you’re all good

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ThatBiBookLover 2 years ago

Gardield

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Liv 2 years ago

Garfjekd

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Felicia Dale 2 years ago

And you spelled “whoa” wrong.

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butt soup 2 years ago

both "whoa" & "woah" are correct, but the first one is the older spelling & the second is the newer spelling. the new one is considered informal but still correct.

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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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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.

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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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