Idk like most campaign ads are pretty cringey. Corporate cooptation of cool or woke rhetoric. White people making comedic rap songs. Hamilton. That "Imagine" video. TED talks. Just a few examples off the top of my head
I guess when you call those things embarrassing, you'd have to assume they have a sense of shame. To be embarrassed they have to think what they're doing is worthy of embarrassment. That stuff doesn't tend to make me cringe, it's just pointless to me.
Uhh in my country comrade is a mainstream word used to refer to either party members or close people. Is America really so fucked by anti communist propaganda that the word comrade is considered "cringy"
Is America really so fucked by anti communist propaganda that the word comrade is considered “cringy”
Yes, America is that fucked by anti communist and anti-Russian propaganda. To the vast majority of Americans, the word "comrade" would sound very distinctly and self-consciously Soviet.
Not gonna say my age but probably older than you. The things I listed feel very high-school to me tbh. Maybe it's mean to be annoyed by harmless kids and I don't really care enough to attack people over it but hey you brought it up.
It's just implying that cringe is objective rather than subjective. I just found her statement to be very awkward but I wouldn't have classified it as cringe.
Like what?
To be embarrassed you have to care what others think, generally, and I'm honestly too old to give any fucks.
Idk like most campaign ads are pretty cringey. Corporate cooptation of cool or woke rhetoric. White people making comedic rap songs. Hamilton. That "Imagine" video. TED talks. Just a few examples off the top of my head
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Was it Contrapoints?
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Oh yeah if it's that long then it's 100% her.
it was https://youtu.be/vRBsaJPkt2Q
I guess when you call those things embarrassing, you'd have to assume they have a sense of shame. To be embarrassed they have to think what they're doing is worthy of embarrassment. That stuff doesn't tend to make me cringe, it's just pointless to me.
I feel like a lack of self-awareness is kind of a defining feature of what I'm talking about?
A few other things that I would define as "cringe" specifically in the context of online leftists, which is probably more relevant here:
Uhh in my country comrade is a mainstream word used to refer to either party members or close people. Is America really so fucked by anti communist propaganda that the word comrade is considered "cringy"
Yes, America is that fucked by anti communist and anti-Russian propaganda. To the vast majority of Americans, the word "comrade" would sound very distinctly and self-consciously Soviet.
Okay as a non American that is really weird, many African countries use the word comrade a lot for example. It has almost no Soviet association here
Yes. Anything left of radlib gets labeled tankie.
100% its akin to m’lady larpers but instead of medieval chivalry its 1920s revolutionary speak
Don't take this the wrong way but how old are you?
Not gonna say my age but probably older than you. The things I listed feel very high-school to me tbh. Maybe it's mean to be annoyed by harmless kids and I don't really care enough to attack people over it but hey you brought it up.
I'm 36, so try me.
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You don't have to answer, man, I don't know why this is such a big deal though.
i used to be cagey about my age on the internet before too (40 btw) but that was when I still cared what teens thought of me.
Like chillin in cedar rapids
It's just implying that cringe is objective rather than subjective. I just found her statement to be very awkward but I wouldn't have classified it as cringe.
does it still count if it doesn't sound like cringe to people we don't like?
Did anyone not find the cedar rapids thing embarrassing?
How about "call me your abuela?"
ok, every single person finds those things embarrassing, now what will you do with this info?