If there’s one thing the internet has taught us, it must be our enduring appreciation of a good cringe. Urban Dictionary defines the term cringe as “when someone acts/is so embarrassing or awkward, it makes you feel extremely ashamed and/or embarrassed.” But the feeling is way better felt than explained in words.
If you’re already a self-confessed cringe addict who dove down the cringetopia hole and experienced the most cringeworthy moments of life, then we’ve got this new treat for you. Welcome to The Cringiest Posts Twitter page that does exactly what it says in the title – shares the posts that make you curl up like a tortoise out of the sheer cringe and then cringe once more.
Below we wrapped up some of the funniest, I mean cringiest examples, so enjoy with caution!
#1
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Headless Roach Headless Roach Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
He’s discreetly looking for the edges
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Ralph K. Ralph K. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
Dunning-Kruger at its best.
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Miocha Miocha Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
ugh
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If you’ve ever spent enough time browsing in the land of the internet, you must have inevitably encountered cringe-powered content at some point. It takes only one word, five letters, to be exact, to present the inexplicable feeling known as cringe. For some, it’s a curled upper lip, for others it’s a shake of the head, for the rest, it’s curling into a ball that forgets any social norms.
According to Kaitlyn Tiffany, the term cringe took off on forums in the early aughts, when the practice of humiliating oneself online was still somewhat novel. Now, however, it’s absolute mainstream — it’s both an internet genre and a meme, as well as an insult of some kind. It’s natural to wonder if we all suddenly became more prone to cringe as a group, or if there’s another reason why there’s so much cringeworthy content out there.
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Final score: 415points Fembot Fembot Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
With all my training I can easily picture the ‘novelist’ biting their fist after that reply
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love u love u Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
im dying from second hand embarrassment 😭
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Bored Batgirl Bored Batgirl Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
I have no words and yet so many questions
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Well, in a piece for The Atlantic, Tiffany argues that “it’s because we’ve been given more opportunities to display our cringeworthy characteristics, and also to point out the cringeworthy behavior of others.” She adds that “Whereas people used to feel secondhand embarrassment on behalf of their friends and family, or wince at their own awkward behavior, they are now exposed to the potentially embarrassing behavior of entire social networks.”
#7
Final score: 348points Miocha Miocha Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
wow. cringe-o-rama
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Final score: 345points Headless Roach Headless Roach Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
Oh that’s easy. You’ll only need a crystal ball, a shroom picked at midnight and 3 roach heads
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Final score: 339points Headless Roach Headless Roach Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
intelligent thoughts have always followed him, but he was faster
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As if that wasn’t enough, we have spent years, a decade, if not more, in this kind of environment. No wonder our sense of cringe has become heightened to the point where “we can sniff out the tiniest flaws in someone else’s public performance, dig them up, share them around.” Tiffany calls us “the connoisseurs of cringe,” and you may wonder if that’s even a thing to be proud of.
#10
Final score: 335points Bored Batgirl Bored Batgirl Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
Blackberries??
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Final score: 314points Tara Moov Tara Moov Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Report
Poor kid. At least he took it in stride.
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Final score: 313points Headless Roach Headless Roach Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
If this is real, i don’t want to live on this planet anymore
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Meanwhile, according to evolutionary history, cringe is birthed by the fear of social rejection — a feeling similar in intensity to physical pain. Psychology professor Rowland Miller argues that people literally crinkle in embarrassment because the ability to “feel vicarious embarrassment is influenced by our ability to empathize with others.”
Miller argues that people cringe for reasons beyond contempt; it can be compassion, too, for having experienced a feeling similar to that unfolding in real time. Cringe is then about secondhand shame and empathy — human emotions that define anything and everything we do.
#13
Final score: 312points Miocha Miocha Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
lol!
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Liv Liv Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
This has to be trolling-
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Final score: 287points Fembot Fembot Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
What an asshat. Anyone looks like s**t photographed like that. He’s trying to get lifelong attention from bringing his wife down. And succeeding apparently
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Melissa Dahl, a senior editor at The Cut and author of Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness, suggests that cringe content is “a controlled way of facing this really deep fear.” She argues that “It’s funny to talk about being embarrassed during the year 2020 when there’s such scary things going on,” referring to the height of the pandemic. Cringe content, on the other hand, shows that there’s nothing scarier than being cast out on your own and laughed out of the group.
#16
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Laura Mende (Human) Laura Mende (Human) Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
What the FÜCK??!!! This can’t be real… Or could it be?!
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Final score: 270points love u love u Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
kinda like bone apple teeth but stupider
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Final score: 233points Headless Roach Headless Roach Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
Explain this to the paramedics
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Final score: 229points Miocha Miocha Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
seems like someone doesn’t know his root!
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There Is No Planet B There Is No Planet B Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
Fücking idiots
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Caro Caro Caro Caro Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
No need to self diagnose. We all know you’re stupid.
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Ponypower Ponypower Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Report
I thought the NFT was a digital code attached or with in the picture. You own a line of 1’s and 0’s not the picture, which means the artist that made the picture doesn’t get paid, because you never bought the ‘picture’.Anyways nfts booooo!
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Peppermallow Peppermallow Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
Hospital is where you get disemvowelled
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Final score: 178points Headless Roach Headless Roach Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
Wait, what?
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Final score: 175points Amsterdude Amsterdude Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
This video is sponsored by Durex
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Final score: 167points Tara Moov Tara Moov Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Report
I’ve got a thing for pizza, so I’m clearly 🇮🇹
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Final score: 129points Miocha Miocha Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Report
what
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Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Report
As far as I know? Homo antecessor with about 1.2my but probably there are older undiscovered remains
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