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50 People Who’ve Hit New Levels Of Cringe And Got Posted In The ‘Cringetopia’ Online Group
Watching cringey stuff is painful. Our eyes are running away from it, our gut is repulsed, maybe even our muscles are involuntarily contracting. But we can't help it. Teens congratulating their classmates because they are black, a woman licking a toilet bowl in hopes of starting the 'coronavirus challenge'... For some reason, we need to see how these things play out. Even if our body is refusing to allow it.
The subreddit r/Cringetopia is a gold mine for this type of content. With 1.1 million active members constantly sharing some of the cringiest things they can find on the Internet, it's just getting bigger and bigger, too. Continue scrolling and check out what they have collected so far!
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#1
It’s Actually Quite Sophisticated Stuff
Frieder Paulus, a psychologist at the Lübeck University in Germany, told Quartz that embarrassment is social: it tells us when we have violated a social norm and makes us feel bad for doing so. But it's not clear why exactly we have the capacity to cringe or as scientists call it, feel vicarious embarrassment.
We feel others' embarrassment because we are empathetic—we imagine how someone else thinks and feels because it determines how we treat others and cooperate with one another. Feeling second-hand embarrassment might be just a byproduct of a more important trait, much like how the belly button is a symbol of the umbilical cord.
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#2
Imagine The Conversation
#3
Posting Buzzfeed Is Practically Cheating
#4
Hysteria Has Always Been Everywhere
Sargundeep Singh 4 years ago (edited)
Why do some people just spew garbage from their mouths about the things they do not know about? It's awful if a tornado drill image can be twisted to form such hate in people.
#5
Cringe Post Followed By A Funny
#6
He's Also 1 Million Times More Useful Than She'll Ever Be
#7
Rather Be Single And Homeless Than Paying Half Rent
#8
Yikes
#9
The Definition Of L
#10
Yes
#11
Whitewashing
#12
Ummm Yeah That’s A Big Yikes
#13
I Always Think That Too...
#14
This Would Haunt Me For The Rest Of My Life
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago (edited)
It should. Even picking up a child without the parents' permission is questionable.
#15
This Animal Crossing Shit Is Cringe But Entertaining As Hell
#16
Oof
#17
Just Do The Challenge, Man
#18
I Hate This Sub But This Fits Here So
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago (edited)
If you send someone an unsolicited d-pic , you deserve that message sent to everyone. Your parents, your grandparents, your employer, any friends remaining, and the rest of the world so they know what a disgusting human you are.
#19
How To Ba Hypocrite 101
#20
Saying “Ok Boomer” To A Distinguished Scientist Because You Can’t Actually Defend Yourself
#21
What Can I Say
#22
Disney Keeps Taking This Down
#23
Honestly More Sad Than Cringe But Wtf Netflix
#24
Nobody Cares!
#25
What Is Even The Human Race Anymore
#26
This Aged Like Milk...
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Well, both were charismatic. They just chose to use that charisma to do horrible things. Try and use yours for good.
#27
Stop Being Norwegian, You Racist
#28
This Is Why I Can't Go To Anime Con
#29
Accidentally Uploading A Picture Of Yourself On Your Catfish Page
#30
When Your Mom Accidentally Shares Erotica In The Family Chat
#31
Oh Lord
#32
Oh God...
Maddie Star ⭐ 4 years ago
I can't believe this. What the actual f... I really hope this isn't true and just someone trying to stir some s**t.
#33
What Is Wrong With People?
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Todorokie-dokie 4 years ago (edited)
Honestly, the Post Title (Required) is the funniest thing in this post~ I just... can’t stop laughing for some reason.
#35
Dentists Gonna Have A Field Trip With This One
#36
I See A Lot Of Vegan Cringe I Here But I Think People Who Are Anti Vegan For No Reason Can Be Cringe Too
#37
Dude Is Flexing His Louis Vuitton Bag On Auschwitz Train Tracks
#38
Bro Get Help Please
#39
This Man Is 22
#40
Ok I Know Tiktok Comes Round A Lot Here But Holy Crap This Is Disgusting..
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Just in case the excessive spying and pure carcinogens weren't enough.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
@nico Yes, and i love talking about the Tank Man who does not exist!!
earringnut 4 years ago (edited)
No. These users should be banned. The guy who makes mashups of songs that shouldn't go together but do should be allowed to make his magic. (Thanks Scratch. I didn't catch that the first time around.)
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Luna Lovegood 4 years ago
Most of gay tik tok is pretty cool too. It's straight tik tok that all the "what the hell???" stuff comes from.
Lori T Wisconsin 4 years ago
Disgusting.p! SURVIVORS and VICTIMS of the Holocaust and their families deserve respect. So much for EMPATHY and RESPECT. Are they new concepts to you?
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
I'd pay good money to see these dweebs up against a fully functional Panther, colosseum style.
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Camden 4 years ago
if they had any idea how badly people suffered during that time that wouldn't do this
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
You still have faith in humans, I gather? How commendable.
Load More Replies... Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Yeah, Earth's finished. We've already booted you lot outta the council.
Joseph Kuhlman 4 years ago
Okay, I’m definitely not getting tik tok. I don’t think you could pay me to.
Patrick Ryan 4 years ago
I know I'm dancing with the devil here. If that article is correct then, yes, this is absolutely deplorable. The Holocaust has always been something that has made me sick to my stomach. How could people treat other human beings like this? How could millions of others stand by and watch? When I was in school, we had at least a month dedicated to learning and processing the holocaust and World War II. When my son was about 12 he asked me about it because he hardly knew anything about it. They basically mentioned it in passing in school. Luckily, I have several books about it, and have studied it, so was able to teach him about it and encourage him to study more history on his own. Is it possible that the title of this article is for clicks and has absolutely nothing to do with what these kids were trying to do? Perhaps they were trying to bring awareness to one of the most shocking, sickening, horrible periods in human history? I know, likely not but I'd like to have hope that could be.
Dave P 4 years ago
Disgusting! If you want to know why, only 20% of under 25 even know 6 million Jews were killed, more than half think it was 2 million or less. 15% had no clue what the holocaust was. These numbers were the same in the US, Canada, and UK. Better education could help out these morons. At least they will live in infamy for all to see when they try to get jobs
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
This is just horrible! The Holocaust is not something that should be taken in this way! This is super disrespectful!
Ozacoter 4 years ago (edited)
I am spanish so I have no family stories about the Holocaust because my country barely participated in ww2. But my granmas and granpas lived a terrible and devastating civil war (1936-39) and a starving post war when they were very little. The older were 14-16yo when the war finished and the younger was 4yo. One of my grandpas was imprisoned at 19yo for being left wing (Spain was a fascist dictadure after the war). That is suffering, not like this idiots that are spending a few weeks in lockdown with internet, videogames and TV.
Aamna Shah 4 years ago
It's not just about the Holocaust alone. Empathy should be instilled in kids so they grow up to empathize and honor victims of all genocides. These people are hungry for views and they know the shock factor will get them a lot of views. Negative publicity is still publicity and they're so heartless and fixated on having their 5 minutes of fame that they've abandoned their morals.
deanna woods 4 years ago
This is some lowdown bullshit. The people who died in the Holocaust deserve better than some idiotic TikTokers pretending to be them. Let those folks who lost their lives rest in peace.
StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
The snowflake generation, ladies and gentleman. This is what happens when kids grow up thinking that they are so much more special and individual than they really are. They get stupid ideas like these, and think they have merit.
(Fake)BoredPandaIsAwesome 4 years ago (edited)
WHAT THE F**K THESE PEOPLE ARE MEAN AS S**T!!! THEY CLEARLY ARE MENTALLY UNSTABLE TO THINK IS FUNNY!!! LIKE LITERALLY WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM!!!
Karen Lyon 4 years ago
This is just repugnant. My brother-in-law's family was destroyed by the Holocaust and the Russian pogroms. Turning into some kind of sick role-playing makes me want to hurt someone.
Frankenfrog 4 years ago
These people should be prosecuted for defamation and made to serve prison time or if under the age of 18 community service for ten years and a donation of no less than $100,000 to holocaust victim's and their families. Or be taken out by MOSSAD.
Hilary Mol 4 years ago
*jawdrop* Are these people related to the jerk who modeled his designer handbag on the tracks of Auschwitz?
Joan Humphreys 4 years ago
I began to comment but I just can't find the right words. I am mortified.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
Not one is thin enough or ill looking enough to be a holocaust victim
Meredith Gossland 4 years ago
I think they need 6 months in a concentration camp in order to get the REAL look going on.
Chung Lao Official 4 years ago
I remeber seeing this on the Trashy subreddit. I just want to tay that I whish the absolute worst for these kinds of peolpe.
AlmightyOne 4 years ago
I- can you not? Like, hon, I dunno what it is you think you're doing but unless you're Jewish and doing it in honor of said victims then it's not ok
Niall Mac Iomera 4 years ago
...yet when steven spielberg organises a bunch of people to do the same thing, and even pretend to be the perpetrators of the holocaust: oscars start getting awarded.
Keryl Cryer 4 years ago
I can’t believe someone was sick enough to even come up with this concept.
Capelli rosa e patate 4 years ago
There are some incredibly intelligent kids nowadays, and then there’s this. What kind of disrespectful lil pine cone thought this up?! 😑
Downunderdude 4 years ago
Hopefully, they'll grow out of immaturity. The crassness, I'm not so sure.
Tarryn Louise 4 years ago
If only they too could experience the pain. Then maybe they would think twice about their shitty attention seeking choices.
sylvanticx 4 years ago
i can't believe people can be THIS HORRIBLE. millions of people died and you're using it to get fame?!?!?
BabaBizzle 4 years ago
I wish they would really die. I wish the whole Tik Tok s**t would end. This is despicable!
Carman Davis 4 years ago
I hope people realize and know that China created TikTok and everyone who downloaded the app they know everything about you. They spying on you/us. Don't believe me? Look it up
Charlotte 4 years ago
Misogynists never stop at anything to get more attention/money. Just saying.
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Wow, So Relatable!
#42
Caption: "Waited Outside Her Hotel For 46hrs Straight For This Opportunity. Worth It"
#43
What A Simp
#44
Domino's Or Sex?
Pamela24 4 years ago
Teaching "abstinence-only" simply doesn't work. Teach the kids about safe and consensual sex and about birth control. If you really care about fewer children getting pregnant and requesting abortions, this is the only reasonable way to go. (Nothing wrong in abstinence as an idea, though.)
#45
What A Hero
#46
"Haha I'm So Quirky"
#47
I'm Stuck In A "How To Play Fortnite" Speech. This Is A College Class
#48
I Think He's Lost His Mind
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Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
To all y'all who have done cringeworthy things: Behold, you are in good company. This is why I never mock people for doing dumb@$$ things - I would be the pot calling the kettle black. Except when the dummies are tRump chumps.
Bored Little Panda 4 years ago
I like elon musk made an appearance SEVERAL times during this article.
I'manoob! 4 years ago
It literally went from cringy and somewhat wholesome fun to frikin sex, racist, and news related bullcrap. 41094728_6...c9feff.gif 
Toujin C'Thlu 4 years ago
The internet doesn't make people stupid, it just makes stupid people more visible.
Sasy 4 years ago
I have said it before, and i will again...big companies need to start saying they will look at everything when hiring, they will see you eat a pod, lick a toilet, disrespect atrocities, be racist, homophobic etc and you will never get a job. They need to do it so that kids see and make better choices, because something is not working.
Octavia Hansen 4 years ago
These people make me look like a genius. Shame so many are still in the gene pool. Now I can sleep the sleep of the just.
Ripley Dog 4 years ago
My friend's little dog got out right as we were finishing up a walk, came running up to my dog and I didn't realize he bit her in the nose. She had 11 pups so she just rolled him and scared the pee out of him (even though he tried to bite her again), looked really surprised when I was like "whoa!" Then I was so off-kilter that when my friend reached out her hand I F*****G SHOOK IT. I forgot she loaned me a coffee cup I was still holding. I now have to fake my death and move to Mongolia.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
Ripley Dog - I enjoyed your post, though enjoyed isn't really the right words it's more schadenfraude XD (if it helps, off the top of my head, i regularly respond with "you too" when a shop person says "thanks for shopping at [example]" then scurry away. Or my son's favourite tale to reminisce over: when we were walking into the supermarket and the wind flipped my dress up [thank God I was wearing leggings so it wasn't as bad but still!])
Load More Replies... Ripley Dog 4 years ago
Man, I do that too! Or I go into customer service mode and welcome employees to the store they work at and I don't (one extremely memorable occasion). It's not so bad when you don't know the people and can flee to the car, but this is one of my closest friends and originally I thought my dog (60 lbs) rolled hers just to be a bully. I was embarrassed and surprised because my dog generally likes little dogs, lives with one (my partner has a 9 lb dog), and I was worried she'd hurt him. I was apologizing and my dog was pushing against my hand when I saw she had a little cut on her nose. That was when the handshake occurred and this is a friend I've had for FIVE YEARS. Fortunately my friends are used to my weird and awkward ways, but this was at the end of October and I still feel my soul leave my body every time I remember.
Ripley Dog 4 years ago
Weird, I thought an article about cringe was the perfect place to share a funny and cringey story of my own, but apparently it's just "a little MUCH." Y'all must be real fun at parties.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
To all y'all who have done cringeworthy things: Behold, you are in good company. This is why I never mock people for doing dumb@$$ things - I would be the pot calling the kettle black. Except when the dummies are tRump chumps.
Bored Little Panda 4 years ago
I like elon musk made an appearance SEVERAL times during this article.
I'manoob! 4 years ago
It literally went from cringy and somewhat wholesome fun to frikin sex, racist, and news related bullcrap. 41094728_6...c9feff.gif
Toujin C'Thlu 4 years ago
The internet doesn't make people stupid, it just makes stupid people more visible.
Sasy 4 years ago
I have said it before, and i will again...big companies need to start saying they will look at everything when hiring, they will see you eat a pod, lick a toilet, disrespect atrocities, be racist, homophobic etc and you will never get a job. They need to do it so that kids see and make better choices, because something is not working.
Octavia Hansen 4 years ago
These people make me look like a genius. Shame so many are still in the gene pool. Now I can sleep the sleep of the just.
Ripley Dog 4 years ago
My friend's little dog got out right as we were finishing up a walk, came running up to my dog and I didn't realize he bit her in the nose. She had 11 pups so she just rolled him and scared the pee out of him (even though he tried to bite her again), looked really surprised when I was like "whoa!" Then I was so off-kilter that when my friend reached out her hand I F*****G SHOOK IT. I forgot she loaned me a coffee cup I was still holding. I now have to fake my death and move to Mongolia.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
Ripley Dog - I enjoyed your post, though enjoyed isn't really the right words it's more schadenfraude XD (if it helps, off the top of my head, i regularly respond with "you too" when a shop person says "thanks for shopping at [example]" then scurry away. Or my son's favourite tale to reminisce over: when we were walking into the supermarket and the wind flipped my dress up [thank God I was wearing leggings so it wasn't as bad but still!])
Load More Replies... Ripley Dog 4 years ago
Man, I do that too! Or I go into customer service mode and welcome employees to the store they work at and I don't (one extremely memorable occasion). It's not so bad when you don't know the people and can flee to the car, but this is one of my closest friends and originally I thought my dog (60 lbs) rolled hers just to be a bully. I was embarrassed and surprised because my dog generally likes little dogs, lives with one (my partner has a 9 lb dog), and I was worried she'd hurt him. I was apologizing and my dog was pushing against my hand when I saw she had a little cut on her nose. That was when the handshake occurred and this is a friend I've had for FIVE YEARS. Fortunately my friends are used to my weird and awkward ways, but this was at the end of October and I still feel my soul leave my body every time I remember.
Ripley Dog 4 years ago
Weird, I thought an article about cringe was the perfect place to share a funny and cringey story of my own, but apparently it's just "a little MUCH." Y'all must be real fun at parties.
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