40 People Call Out Highly Cringeworthy Things That Have Snuck Into Everyday Life

This needs to be number 1.

Nothing wrong with celebrating anything that doesn't hurt anyone. It's the stupid people that ruin everything for everyone else that is the problem.

Pointless waste of time and often times people cause environmental damage due to their stupid ideas.

I may have dodged this bullet. I'm retired / 60s. When me and my circles were young and having kids, these gender parties were not a thing. Now they seem to have peaked and are waning a bit and my friends and most of my friend's kids are done having babies. I'll probably be able to go to my grave without being invited to this cringe.

Even more so in public places, such as that waterfall the idiot parents to be polluted.

I don't get this entire idea. I couldn't care less about your opinions, regarding anything. I've never met you.

Welp, the public are the people who give them power so...

I don't necessarily mind influencers per se, I mind the ones that think they are celebrities and have an overinflated ego.

needs to be number one

i mean im not really a fan of influencers, but they aren’t new. we can see people like Ziryab who were influencers almost two thousand years ago

The misuse of the word "gaslighting" also comes to mind.

When a word is overused, especially for trivial things, it loses its meaning and significance.

I've been subject to both (complex) trauma and gaslighting. It has the potential ruin your life. Or at the least have a very damaging impact. You having a really busy day at work, does NOT constitute "trauma". You. Have. No. Idea.

I work for a rental company and we had to let a girl out of her lease because she could hear her male neighbor speaking (not yelling or swearing) and it was "traumatic and triggering for her". I wonder how she gets through a day without collapsing into a pile of tears

I think this is partly the long-term effect of TV, especially soaps as in my (50s) lifetime there's been big increase in people exaggerating to get a reaction.

The problem is toxic narcissist behaviour is getting more and more common. Attitudes totally frowned upon some years ago seem to be so widespread now!

Can we add 'neurodivergent' to that list please?

Don't forget neurodivergent.

We've lived with "depressed" and "OCD" getting thrown around for years. I think "toxic" can be used more often - it's not like it's a diagnosis. And half the people using "gaslight" have no idea what it means.

so are the concept of "redflag" and "ghosting" (she gosthed me for 2 days.....)

Pranks in general. Most of them involve laughing at someone's misfortune that you (prankster) caused.

Oh I REALLY hate this one. Peanks are not funny because they are based on humiliating and embarrassing their targets. What kind of works do we want to live in?

A prank is funny if it's the kind where the prankee's laughter is genuine and not out of embarrassment. But most pranks are not that. One of the "pranks" I saw was just someone destroying someone's things and saying "haha it's a prank." That's not a prank, it's just vandalism.

A lot (all?) of the practical joke shows are scripted. And before you shout "no way, it's real!," most "reality" type shows are scripted. They have to be, because in reality, reality isn't that interesting 24/7. The "control room" and "punishment/loser" stuff is filmed separately. There are often several takes of a "reaction." The shows will need legal permission from the people they are playing pranks on to show them on TV. None of it is as "gotcha!" as you'd like to think, that's why the people who film practical jokes without realizing in the professional shows, the "victim" is in on it do get their asses beat. Those are the videos you see of some stupid guy with 2 black eyes & a busted lip, being dragged away by the cops, wondering where it all went wrong.

A good prank is one where everyone laughs at the end. It's not supposed to humiliate or demean someone. The people who do that and think its funny are messed up and give us fun pranksters a bad name. Wanna see some awesome pranks? Check out Improv Everywhere! They do some amazing things!

I am blussfully ignorant of this phenomenon, but from what I've gathered it is all a sham. They are just a new type influencers who advertise products, all while displaying a superiority complex. Gardening is great, baking is great, wearing a dress while birthing a goat...probably fake but you do you. But feeling superior to others because of it is just sad.

Have you ever seen a trad wife on Youtube cleaning the toilet? No, it's always baking cookies, making elaborate dishes, playing games with the kids...it's never the messiness of real life.

My wife helps me around the farm. Cotton dresses would get wrecked in about 5 seconds. Get snagged on some barb wire fixing fences, or caked in fertilizer or animal products.