Embracing Cringe - Topic of the day 5/19/25
One of social media's newest trends is railing against the panopticon of 'cringe.' To not care what others think about you actually caring a great deal about something, or not filtering your expression through acceptable, non-cringe channels...is this the future artistic style and expression needs right now? Or is this already another trend that social media will chew up and spit out quickly?
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My rigards get compliments every day but people also call me eggman from sonic wearing them
Its all confidence
Embrace the cringe and you become the cool guy on the street ppl look at
what? I feel like this chart implies that its both cringe to follow trends and cringe to not follow trends?
is there a way of being somewhere in between trend following and doing my own thing in a normal way?
I think the implication is that no matter what you do it's going to be cringe to someone/some group
so with that in mind, who cares
also the chart implies that its insincere to follow trends. why?
Embrace or ignore the cringe of outgroups you don't give a shit about. Use the cringe of the people better at what you want to do than you and learn from it. Unless they are dicks about it.
Yeah call me insincere and delusional but I do not blindly follow trends
Cringe is different for everyone and like ya do not care
but also if you wear ahegao hoodies or shit I WILL judge you and call you cringe
100% agree, I used to be laughed at so much during school (sometimes still am) for how I dress but I kept doing my own thing and now most people think it‘s cool
Cringe is only what you make it to be
If you think something is cool it is:letsfuckinggo:
What profit is there in a crown of gold if the head beneath remains void?
insincere to blindly follow trends in specific
idk, i'm not sure what i think is and isn't insincere , but i do think some people follow trends to try to project something they don't really feel
But everything in the sincere side is not following trends
yeah, not a perfect meme
but. it's a silly lil graph
idk, i still feel like i struggle with trying to hard to not be cringe. so i'm trying to :post: :fit: a little more often. it always feels a lil cringe to post when i don't think my fit is necessarily good, but getting over that seems good
i don’t think cringe is a defined enough thing for it to be possible to embrace or reject idk
I did a monologue from hamlet in waywt talking to the cardboard daft punk head from my Halloween costume
We are way past embracing cringe
We are living in it
