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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!

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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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DrBronxx
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now I have an image of a hobo demon with 4 teeth. I'd sell him my soul, but he would probably use it to buy hell-meth.

Terran
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why am I imagining an obese 15yo with acne who's GF is actually his crush, he never even talked to?

Piggy Tee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No no, he has a girlfriend but he haven't seen her in person because she lives in Japan

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Headless Roach
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Scary af, particularly because of that redundant space before the question mark at the end

radioactivecandy (they/them)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

niceguy, believes he's a demon, weird-a*s astericks... yep, we got a whole cringe bingo, guys! (confetti and balloons pour out from ceiling as dope music plays)

Jp@nda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*reveals cringe face and eyeroll that turns into side eye as i walk away from your silly@ss*

Okatango
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

(Sigh) Legally, this person could vote and even reproduce.

somnomania
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

person's probably 15 or so, in ten years they'll realize how cringey they were

Fresh Big
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh I hope his fedora didn't fall off showing his fangs and all. What a lucky girl his girlfriend is. She is real right?

François Carré
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do I picture a 3 day old kitten with eyes still closed trying to hiss at me ?

Altair
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact that this happened on League of Legends just adds to the cringe. Source: was a slave to League for 5+ years

Tess
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The world is somehow even more depressing than initially thought if this is what passes for normality. I would feel sorry for the respondent if it weren't for the missing apostrophe.

Strings
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can understand being protective of a partner. But this? I would be too busy laughing to respond

Wysteria_Rose
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to online roleplay that would do actions like that, and now I just want to crawl under my desk when I see it occur on regular internet interactions.

Virgil Blue
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have garlick and silver jewelers so I’ll be laughing even harder mate…

Bluebrains
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd expect this to be on discord lol. unfortunately speaking from experience. :')

Daycare Attendant Sun
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't even the first time I've seen people roleplay like this via text message. And I roleplay myself. This is just weird.

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2 years ago

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Farhath Fatima
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

plot twist: he is a demon and a hashira is on their way to kill them.

DC
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my... Recently, have encountered one of these in the wild. I have a handcart I use to go grocery shopping. Walked behind a car in the parking lot exit, and had to stop and wait ... stopped right before hitting the car in front - not touched it the slightest - and he told me he'd "kick my a*s" if I "did this with him". I didn't do anything to begin with ... huh? What a weirdass, that guy ... told him I doubt anybody wants to know and, in lack of a better response, asked his adjacent girlfriend if threatening strangers is what made her fall in love with that guy, but this went under in the car, abovementioned. accelerating. Cringe? Yeah. Damned, nothing wrong with being weird, but sometimes, being wrong is weird itself...

PandaRave
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least it’s better than the post where the dude sends an image of a slightly pissed off Freddy Fazbear.

Csaba Hegedűs
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He must be the type who poses with a katana and a Matrix-style trenchcoat and thinks he's cool.

Good Luckas
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you want to play that game then…*pulls out portal gun and sends you to the blender dimension and farts and burps*

Eline
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well you. I'm laughing at you. Don't you dare hurt me, or my little fist here will break your little pointy teeth. Little boy.

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Headless Roach
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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.”

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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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Fembot
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What an asshat. Anyone looks like s**t photographed like that. He’s trying to get lifelong attention from bringing his wife down. And succeeding apparently

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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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Ponypower
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought the NFT was a digital code attached or with in the picture. You own a line of 1's and 0's not the picture, which means the artist that made the picture doesn't get paid, because you never bought the 'picture'. Anyways nfts booooo!

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Ozacoter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As far as I know? Homo antecessor with about 1.2my but probably there are older undiscovered remains

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