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While most of us can internalize that we all have different preferences, some people’s actions are so annoying that we can’t help but shake our heads in frustration. Even worse, through constant repetition, certain actions end up becoming accepted or at least tolerated by the majority of society.

One netizen asked “What's something other people do that you find really cringy?” and people online gave their examples of things that have become too normalized. We got in touch with No-Hamster7526 to learn a bit more, so get comfortable as you scroll through and be sure to upvote your favorites. 

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Gender reveals.

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason child pageants - grown adults dressing their kids in skimpy outfits and parading them around on stage, so many parents living their lives through their children despite most of them just wanting to live ordinary lives. starting high school beef with one another, makes me wanna rip my skin off

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason People who flaunt helping others online. Like the ones who clearly do it for clout.

My friend’s gf does this, she constantly looks at the camera, smiles & poses, waves, asks the homeless (who looks *so* uncomfortable) to wave to the camera too. NO.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And before the “but but it raises publicity!!!!” crowd comes along: if you want to do that, do it in the back room of the soup kitchen or something. No one cares about my volunteer group taking photos of ourselves because we don’t exploit people who are in a situation where it’s difficult to say no.

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Bored Panda got in touch with No-Hamster7526 who made the initial post asking for people's ideas. They were kind enough to answer some of our questions. First and foremost, we were curious to hear why they wanted to pose this question to the internet.

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“I just created the Ask Reddit post because I thought it'd keep me entertained for a while,” they shared with Bored Panda, which does seem like it’s a pretty common reason to get thousands of internet users to share their thoughts. However, the post itself ended up with over three thousand comments, more than enough to keep someone reading for days. 
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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason filming urself crying for social media

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Filming yourself for social media, period, just stop. You want to film you and your drunk friends doing trick shots, please do. You want to show me how you make a burrito with pizza rolls and scrambled eggs, hell yeah. You want to film yourself acting petulant, entitled and crying because the Starbucks batista spelled your name wrong, please f**k off. "Hashtag" "over it".

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason “Tough” bumper stickers like “I don’t retreat. I RELOAD” like sir we’re in the Taco Bell drive thru who are u shooting at?

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Talking badly about the poor and homeless. Any sort of talk where a person is devoid of empathy will make me cringe.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Living in a huge city I thought I knew the story behind every homeless person. Then I got a job at a social service agency working with the homeless. Come to find out I knew nothing. But I did hear some of the saddest most horrifying stories and met far too many women who fled their homes with absolutely nothing to escape a violent abusive partner. Some of them the police would just dump off at our door. I'll never forget one woman who was barefoot, no purse, had been beaten to a pulp by her husband and they had just moved to the city and had no family or friends there. Thankfully we were able to send her to family. The burnout rate at those jobs is high.

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As No-Hamster7526 noted, “I got hundreds of comments at a time, so it was hard to sort through them,” when we asked them if they had any personal favorites. “I think there was one about someone telling you heaps about something you don't care about,” they shared as the one they related to the most. 
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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason People filming for social media, and acting like everyone around them just walking by is being rude and getting in their way. Where I live (a pretty beach town) I see this s**t every week, at least. I’ve literally heard people say “uh, can you leave?” to random strangers

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s time for influencers to be shamed out of existence

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Guys that HAVE TO BE the “alpha male” in a group. Talking over people. Trying to be the toughest person around. Talking s**t for no reason.

It’s so gross it literally gives me goose bumps. I’m like bro, just be you. If you’re a badass, you don’t have to prove it.

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Calling the man your dating "Daddy"

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That Daddy kink trend is something I cannot wait to see die out.

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Most of the answers here ranged from annoying to downright bad for society. This is both a representation of how many bad things have become normal as well as an indication that the word cringe has perhaps lost some of its nuances. As No-Hamster7526 told us, the appeal of the thread came from it being so universal, “Everyone has something they find cringe.” 
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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason People who don't pick up after their dogs on walks. My neighbour makes this massive production of flicking a few leaves or pieces of grass over her dogs turds and leaving them on peoples lawns while making out she is a paragon of community responsibility.

Its your dog, and poo bags are cheap if not fashionable.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I lived in Brighton there was a woman on our street who would draw around dog poo with chalk and be so passive aggressive about it, it was brilliant. pick it up!

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Post personal (often medical) details about their children on social media

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Something about people talking about how tough and scary they can get irks me so badly. Someone the other day described themselves to me as a Doberman because they were “cute but people know not to f**k with them because they’ll bite their face off” and my innards curdled from the second hand embarrassment.

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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love the ones who tell you their hands are registered weapons. Yeah, ok pal. Where do you get the registration form, the DMV?

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Those TikTok videos where someone just stands there without speaking, pointing at bits of text as they appears one by one on the screen, pulling a different pose/expression for each text.

🙂👉🔠
😉👉🔠
😏👉🔠
🤭👉🔠

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tiktok trends in general. All of it. Literally notllhing is worth watchimg. Tiktok is trash.

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason People who video call in public and talk loudly, especially in trains or busses, I recently dealt with a customer who was on video call and had to show me a coupon in her phone and her whole family saw my face and I cringed and was so uncomfortable that I told her to put it away or I’m not authorising the coupon.

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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the past month, I have had 5 instances of women on loud speaker on their phone coming into public toilets in my local shopping centre and jabbering away while they take a p**s, flush etc...wat is happening?

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason When they think everything that’s traditionally feminine is useless or stupid. I hate misogyny. Women shouldn’t have to compete with men to be taken seriously.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BrownTabby - you're sounding awfully bitter and misandrist.

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Brag about how mentally unstable and "psycho" you are. Like... dude, I legit hear and see things and I'm paranoid all the f*****g time. It's not fun. It's not something to be proud of. Just stop.

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Adults doing baby talk.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's good to do with little children and pets however. It's actually proven that the slow speech, higher pitch and repetitions help babies learn language. And pets are just put at ease by it. There is a reason people do this instinctively with little kids and animals.

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason People that make "i hate Kids, all People are horrible and suck i only get along with animals, dogs are better than People" their whole personality and never shut Up about it.

I get it, i Like dogs and Kids can annoy me too but some People Just Go too far with those Jokes to a Point where it Just gets grotesque and dark.

and with peace and love, i know people can suck but if someone truly only ever gets along with an animal that was breed throughout centuries to be obedient and love Humans unconditionally then i think there might be a chance they are the people that suck.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes when I see people communicate this sort of thing it's because they've had extensive social trauma and it has been only animals they've had anything close to consistent safety with. It's not that they suck, they're just hurt. :(

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Tiktok dances

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bro in public spaces too. I mean its fine if its like a cool dance, or the area is quite and it doesnt disturb people. But the people that go out of their way to go to a tourist destination or busy places just to do a half-arsed dance with the loudest music istg

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Make politics their personality

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Explicitly telling the price of stuff they own

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only time I do this is if one of my thrifting friends likes my sweater because when I say "thanks, it was only a dollar!" then we can gush over what bargain babes we are

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Explaining something in a condescending tone - and incorrectly.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Condescending" is when you talk down to someone, for those of you who don't know ;)

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Being annoyed by other people’s joy.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I enjoy watching other people's joy when it's justified and deserved. What does annoy me is watching pretentious YouTubers buy a family tickets to a baseball game then expect to be praised and earn their spot in the Hall of Fame next of fu**ing Christ himself because they did a good thing. Doing "good deeds" shouldn't be about views and more money.

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Spit

I'm a guy and sure I did it it as a kid but it's so low class for adults to do it.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate this more than most things, what is wrong with people? It's disgusting.

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason recording while on public transportation.
during peak hours.
idiots.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

.......The Tube Girl Trend. That s**t just looks uncomfortable for everyone around them.

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Post inspirational quotes online that they don’t live by.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Life is definitely fun and not awful at all" - Ranger Kanootsen

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason People who demand attention. Need to be the loudest in the group/room. It’s exhausting

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

some of us do this because we don't get enough when or where we need it so we do stuff like this so we can get good or bad attention

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason obnoxious/pretentious people especially in public. i’m a freshman law student, and whenever my class goes out to hang out there’s this one mate who heavily uses legal jargons, references, and terms around other people just to let them know that we’re law students. it’s so annoying. like chile we’re still on our first semester lmao.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same thing for medical professionals. I can blow your mind with talking about how a patient of mine ended up needing a laparoscopic colecystectomy, but it’s easier and less arrogant to say that they needed a gall bladder removal.

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Anything that has to do with eating in front of a camera

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30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Back when I used Facebook, I found it cringy when people boasted about how happy they were with their spouse . Why are you telling us this. ( it automatically made me say to myself that they must be having problems) Or people who would come on and say life is great and everything is working out for them. I am so superstitious, I feel like a piano would fall on my head if I went around boasting how happy they are.

People filming themselves at the gym is another one. Uggh, just stop it already.

Cringiest thing I did on Facebook was keep the world updated on how my divorce was going.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When people do that, they’re really trying to convince themselves. Nobody buys that story they’re telling.

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