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50 Painful Pics That Will Probably Make You Say “Okay, Enough Internet For Me For Today”
Is your life going too smoothly lately? Are you craving some good ol' cringe to offset the normality and wholesome mundanity? We've got you, dear Pandas! Although I personally can't relate, even on social media, it seems that everyone is constantly on the verge of a mental breakdown, right?
But if you're looking to feel uncomfortably entertained for a few minutes, we've got just the content for you. We're featuring the Images That Make You Feel Pain page today. The pictures might confuse you, and you may even utter an 'ew' or two. But they are entertaining, even if you are not a fan of cringing.
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The Images That Make You Feel Pain page has been making its fans feel uncomfortable since 2020 and has 1.5 million followers. It's another page in the vast array of meme content on the Internet where the name of the game is nonsense and cringe. Somehow, netizens came to love and adore cringe, as it's one of the most prevalent forms of comedy online today.
Some people attribute it to schadenfreude; that we like to take pleasure from someone else's misfortune. That's why we love trashy reality TV and chuckle at an image of someone burning their pizza to a black crisp. But cringe is not just about laughing at someone else. It's not 'punching down' comedy.
Is this a reality show? For real? Who will put kids through such an ordeal. How is this legal, and where?
Just one message should be enough to say what you need to say
We've never been as connected as we are in this digital social media age. 20 years ago, we only had our family members and friends to give us second-hand embarrassment. And there weren't many opportunities to showcase our own cringy behavior like there are now.
Kaitlyn Tiffany writes for The Atlantic about how in the old days of the Internet, cringe was about empathy. For example, we felt embarrassed watching the Star Wars kid, proclaiming, "It's hard to watch." We thanked our lucky stars it was not us in that video and felt dread for the person who was in it.
Sören Krach, a professor of Psychiatry at Lübeck University in Germany, told The Ringer how cringe is rooted in empathy. "You're really suffering with the other person. You're empathically sharing this awkward state, and it's not really pleasant." If the person who observes the cringe wouldn't be able to put themselves into another's shoes and feel their pain, the whole concept wouldn't work.
I'd tip extra if they said something like that to me. That's hilarious
Sometimes, people conflate cringe with shock. In their eyes, cringe is supposed to be shocking, to make one so uncomfortable they might want to crawl out of their skin. But that's not true. At least according to the person who started the r/cringe subreddit, Michael Dombkowski. "In the early days, we would get a lot of people posting stuff that just didn't really match what I was looking for, or people who would post videos of people breaking bones or, like, gross-out stuff," he told The Atlantic.
or when the translators words dont match the subtitles
"I hated that," Dombkowski went on. "It really bothered me. I always saw these videos as an empathetic exercise. It was always like, 'Oh, I could totally see myself doing this,' or it just felt like one of those nightmares where you're at school with no pants or something. It just fills you with dread for that person."
Wait, f**k the Devil or "f**k" the Devil? Context is very important
Baby whale doo doo doo doo doo baby whale doo doo doo doo doo
In a previous interview for Bored Panda, comedy scholar Dr. Steven S. Kapica also emphasized that cringe comedy is not about punching down. "Shock is not cringe. If comedy generally relies on incongruity and types of comedy are defined by their particular brand of incongruity, then cringe is the outlier, the absurd exception. Cringe does not emerge from a reversal or distortion of a premise, nor does it emerge from oppositional stances," he explained. "Cringe does not point out incongruity. It breaks incongruity."
"On the outside always looking in" Yes, that's me, why does the song make it sound like such a bad thing?
How so? Judging by the smile on his face, looks likes he got the better end of the settlement
Load More Replies...now i see why the divoce is happening...the wife has no humor
The photo says "divorce selfie", but to be honest, I'm not sure that's what's actually happening in the picture. The man and woman are sitting at the same desk. If they were a married couple, and this were an actual divorce, they'd each have their OWN lawyer, and be on opposite sides of the table. Also, looking at the woman's desk, there's something (the calculator?) that just says "finance" to me. My guess? They were just approved for a loan, and the wife is horrified because they're going into major debt with the loan and the guy is doing a funny selfie, while she's thinking "what have we gotten ourselves into?" I know the post is just a joke, so forgive me taking it literally. It's a habit.
Good observation though. Probably most people including myself missed those things
Load More Replies...I think the comment is meant to show the pettiness of the "divorce selfie" remark
I didn't take a selfie, but I did take myself out to the very expensive restaurant across the street to celebrate my divorce.
I got a gorgeous dinner and had a huge cake for myself. The relief!
Load More Replies...I'm probably wrong, but this was used before and someone said this is a YouTuber who married and divorced every character in Stardew Valley. Feel free to correct me
I hear you can get divorce papers at the library (2000 price) for one hundred dollars. Being as I am ... I sincerely doubt that as true.
The court house in my city has them for the cost of copying them, about 10 cents a page.
Load More Replies...It looks like he has that filter, that makes a person look like there sad. Lol
Now you've learned your lesson, have fun buddy. F*** em, dump em, then hang out with your friends and actually enjoy your life. The lawyer: "Why does the man always do that?"
Nah, you're wrong. This is hilarious. And good for him for being happy!
Load More Replies...Nah you don't know any details. Don't jump to conclusions Mark
Load More Replies...Again, how do you figure that considering her face vs his.?
Load More Replies...Kapica used Borat (2006) as one of the most famous examples of cringe comedy. "While we certainly can (and probably should) take offense at Cohen's appropriation of Kazakh culture, the comedic ire and cringe of Borat is directed at Americans (not Kazakhi). Borat's premise is inherently funny (from a subject position of superiority); however, the cringe ultimately reveals the lunacy of American exceptionalism."
As with all forms of comedy, it's all about intent with cringe. "It's the context that counts. It's the user. It's the intention behind the words that makes them good or bad. The words are completely neutral. The words are innocent… It's the context that makes them good or bad," George Carlin said in his 1990 HBO Special, Doin' it Again. "The same is true with cringe," Kapica told us. "Intent and context matter."
Kapica also warned us that social media might be the culprit in people misconstruing cringe and our sense of humor in general. "Social media and digital culture by-pass important culture work—editing, contemplation, temperance, review, practice, reception."
"The speed of the digital is such that we get everything now now now! So, when we combine speed of access and distribution with blatant disregard for editing and filtering—and then pour in a big scoop of cringe? Goodbye, intent. Goodbye, context. Hello, outrage."
"I would argue that the vast majority of social media-based comedy consumers lack the critical acumen to determine if a bit of cringe is punching up or punching down," Kapica also told us back then. If people are Googling things like "Is Borat really from Kazakhstan?" or "Is Borat based on a real person?", that's a clear sign they're misunderstanding it."
"A consumer culture that asks these questions about incisive, daring, shocking, boundary-pushing, cringe comedy is not a culture served by wildly unfiltered digital content," the comedy expert cautioned.
Ok side note why would you make the heart the D and not the V?? A heart doesn’t look like a D!!
I love how BP just stole all of these from this one Twitter account Edit: I got a looooot of replies to this and yes I understand that they are content aggregators! I just find it kinda funny that they went so far as to include the actual post in each image instead of just the pic itself. I kinda wish more BP stuff was original and not just pulled from Reddit/Twitter ya know? Also please stop telling me I’ve “killed” the page or saying it must be my first day on BP or that I “hate laughter” or whatever.
What's wrong with her? If she's happy, let her look like whatever she wants.
Note: this post originally had 87 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
I think thoughts about thinking thoughts. What else do I think bored panda?
Those were good. Just found out a scammer took $21k from my grown kid’s account, Wells Fargo is like, too bad. This helped.
Wells Fargo are scammers themselves, so no surprise. Contact the comptroller's office, and report this. There's laws in place for this situation that they are ignoring.
Load More Replies...I was talking in a general chat in a game and the one troll signed in to me saying in one line "just watched my bro put ice cream in the microwave" and the troll typed "yea that's enough internet for me" and he left the chat.
I think thoughts about thinking thoughts. What else do I think bored panda?
Those were good. Just found out a scammer took $21k from my grown kid’s account, Wells Fargo is like, too bad. This helped.
Wells Fargo are scammers themselves, so no surprise. Contact the comptroller's office, and report this. There's laws in place for this situation that they are ignoring.
Load More Replies...I was talking in a general chat in a game and the one troll signed in to me saying in one line "just watched my bro put ice cream in the microwave" and the troll typed "yea that's enough internet for me" and he left the chat.