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

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.

ElJayEm80 , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

Final score:

220points

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KinoEel 11 months ago

Especially when it harms others

58points

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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

sheerduckinghubris , Tamilles Esposito Report

Final score:

198points

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Nick (He/Him) 11 months ago

BREEDING GROUNDS for pedophilia.

92points

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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.

vivrelavie , Timur Weber Report

Final score:

180points

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BrownTabby 11 months ago

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.

64points

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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.

“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.

30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason filming urself crying for social media

cottonballs-_- , stockbusters Report

Final score:

163points

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SonicAlchemy 11 months ago

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".

96points

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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?

Strokesonfire , rside81 Report

Final score:

159points

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BrownTabby 11 months ago

The toilet

90points

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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.

ReflectiveObjective , Jon Tyson Report

Final score:

157points

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Zack Vander 11 months ago

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.

13points

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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.

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

Burgundy_Starfish , Blue Bird Report

Final score:

153points

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Ima Manimal 11 months ago

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

124points

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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.

TypicalJeepDriver , Pressmaster Report

Final score:

148points

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troufaki13 11 months ago

Not just guys. Women too.

59points

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

Ionisasleep , SevenStorm JUHASZIMRUS Report

Final score:

146points

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VioletHunter 11 months ago

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

83points

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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.”

#10

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.

cruiserman_80 , Victoria Strelka_ph Report

Final score:

127points

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Red Reilly 11 months ago

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!

27points

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#11

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

I_am_Reddit_Tom , Pavel Danilyuk Report

Final score:

117points

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Nick (He/Him) 11 months ago

Posting pictures of a teenager w/o permission.

33points

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#12

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.

agentwhizkey , Quinn Buffing Report

Final score:

113points

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DB 11 months ago (edited)

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

13points

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#13

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.

🙂👉🔠
😉👉🔠
😏👉🔠
🤭👉🔠

eggmayonnaise , Ivan Samkov Report

Final score:

110points

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Rostit. . 11 months ago

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

7points

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#14

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.

angelmaddie , Heather McKean Report

Final score:

108points

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Libstak 11 months ago (edited)

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?

34points

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#15

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.

RosePeonylavender , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

Final score:

103points

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Kat Lyle 11 months ago

BrownTabby - you're sounding awfully bitter and misandrist.

6points

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#16

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.

ImANuckleChut Report

Final score:

102points

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Ranger Kanootsen 11 months ago

I've got psychosis too, and trust me it is no joke.

36points

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#17

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

Ermitanyong-Avocado , Hannah Olinger Report

Final score:

99points

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VioletHunter 11 months ago

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.

10points

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#18

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.

ComprehensiveTap190 , Ihor Malytskyi Report

Final score:

90points

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Linden 11 months ago

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. :(

49points

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#19

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

NorskoTheScorpion , Ron Lach Report

Final score:

86points

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11 months ago

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

8points

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#20

Make politics their personality

FalconJay1 Report

Final score:

84points

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Ima Manimal 11 months ago

Those people are the absolute worst.

35points

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#21

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

No-Reach5853 , Godisable Jacob Report

Final score:

83points

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Firstname Lastname 11 months ago

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

69points

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#22

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

KatKaleen , Medienstürmer Report

Final score:

81points

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Apatheist Account2 11 months ago

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

80points

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#23

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

Tasty-Tree-6243 , Christian Erfurt Report

Final score:

80points

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SonicAlchemy 11 months ago

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.

9points

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#24

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.

fusiongt021 Report

Final score:

80points

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Corinne Wheeler 11 months ago

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

7points

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#25

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

Acceptable-Golf-1584 , Mediocre Studio Report

Final score:

69points

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11 months ago

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

12points

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#26

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

eatingaclitkat , Jonathan Borba Report

Final score:

67points

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Ranger Kanootsen 11 months ago

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

31points

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#27

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

KiKi31Rose , Helena Lopes Report

Final score:

66points

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omnisexual_weeb【ツ】 11 months ago

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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#28

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.

reginaphalange46 , Luis Villasmil Report

Final score:

55points

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Mr. Nurse Man 11 months ago

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.

18points

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#29

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

paigeesummers , Mikael Blomkvist Report

Final score:

54points

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Susie Elle 11 months ago

I hate mukbang videos with a passion

30points

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#30

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.

ouijahead , Samson Katt Report

Final score:

54points

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Ima Manimal 11 months ago

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

12points

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#31

30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Talk too loud, especially when they are on the phone and it is speaker.

Worsethanboys , Ketut Subiyanto Report

Final score:

20points

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troufaki13 11 months ago

I talk loud, it's my default volume. I can't help it. 😕 But I never put my phone on speaker. Putting someone on speaker in public irks me too, especially in cars and it's so loud, people can hear the whole conversation from 10 meters away

9points

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#32

30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Posting an hour worth of concert footage on Snapchat stories

HondaRedneck16 , Mantas Hesthaven Report

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16points

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Roger9er 11 months ago

Just enjoy the concert for the experience of it and leave that stupid phone in your pocket. I don't want to see your damn screen, I want to see the stage.

7points

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#33

30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Jumpers. As in people that jump to conclusions. It seems like every online discussion becomes an argument of putting words in other people’s mouths. “You just seem the type.”

Nobody knows each other here. Just listen.

Jooj-Groorg , Pixabay Report

Final score:

15points

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Firstname Lastname 11 months ago

Thank you for elaborating, because at first I thought of sweater jumpers and was quite opposed to cringing.

20points

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#34

30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason people who get mad at others for being happy in the morning. i see too many people saying “it’s to early for all this happy energy” and i’m not even a morning person myself but who gets mad at someone for being positive ????? i don’t understand and it annoys me so much

hurricanebonni , Toa Heftiba Report

Final score:

11points

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Helena 11 months ago

Because night people are expected to tone it down when morning people want to go to bed, but morning people don't extend the same courtesy. Morning people get all kinds of cranky if you make noise at night or bounce with energy. But giving night people c**p for being night people is socially sanctioned, while society expects everyone to be bright eyed and bushy tailed in the morning. Screw that noise

45points

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#35

People who consistently keep up with the fashion trends, what ever happened to personal style?

Tatgatkate Report

Final score:

11points

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Apatheist Account2 11 months ago

Fashion - defined as something so awful that we have to change it every six months. I much prefer "comfortable".

13points

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#36

30 Cringe Things People Do But We Accept Them For Some Reason Auto defense when asked questions

DarkGraphite , Jessica Da Rosa Report

Final score:

5points

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SonicAlchemy 11 months ago

Subjective and objective, honestly. You're allowed to defend yourself when someone just crashes right through the gates with challenging and accusational BS. Tact is a lost art in social skills. Think about your approach before you get all butt thirsty about how someone reacts.

11points

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What do you think ?

Ariom Dahl 11 months ago

So many of these related to the (over)use of social media.

EP 11 months ago

For Good reason. Altho repetitive.

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Tobias Reaper 11 months ago

people who smoke weed and make it their whole personality like have posters with it on claim to like Bob Marley always talk about how high they got

DB 11 months ago

Thinking you're an expert on something because you watched a few videos on YouTube.

Aaron Parker 11 months ago (edited)

People who brag about having a therapist, and by extension look down upon others for not having a therapist. I see that alot here on BP. Just a little free advice folks, it's no shame to have a therapist, but it isn't a goddamn flex either. Maybe keep it down a little but about the fact that you need a life coach.

4points

Rottweiler Mom 11 months ago

Not a life coach.

K. LNU 11 months ago

I didn't see one about shaming others around you. Especially the gym ones posting about some guy/girl doing an exercise that the "influencer" doesn't understand and they make fun of them. Or posting a stranger doing whatever, and laughing at them. (very cringy) Shaming people (unless you don't pick up after your dog) needs to stop.

3points

Kay Kelly 11 months ago

Or spit in public.

0points

MissTrue 11 months ago

When politicians try to be "cool" or "trendy" such as posting on tiktok etc

BarkingSpider 11 months ago

Reaction videos. I've seen some come up that are like 3 people deep. Just let me watch a video and have my own reaction!

David Paterson 11 months ago

I thought this was supposed to be a 'people do' thread. Not one of these have I actually seen anyone do, and I'm no spring chicken.

INGI 11 months ago

This stuff is cringy, but I certainly don't "accept" it. Dumb list with a dumb title.

Averysleepypanda 11 months ago

Although I agree with a lot of these (to an extent), I found this post generally mean spirited and cringe based on the bitterness I'm reading from a lot of the commentary.

Can't imagine how the young will cope after the next war without their social media. It seems to be the world's most prevalent evil.

I think they will like it once they realize how freeing it is. Not at first. But eventually.

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