no joke, everyone bullied by cringe culture is still the big targets on todayās social media:
fat people, weebs, furries, young and/or beginner artists, alt communities (scene, emo etc.), leftists, lgbtq+ people, women, otherkin/therians, neurodivergent people
cringe culture is alive and well.
ācringe culture is dead!ā
no itās not. like i totally get saying this when youāre from an alt community or have an unconventional hobby and want to have fun, more power to you, but cringe culture literally never died. in fact, in the past few years, itās actively been getting kinda worse
i remember back in 2016 at the peak of ācringe cultureā that it was still very easy to avoid. cringe was a genre that could be filtered and blocked. you could stop watching leafyishere and keemstar and whatever. you could very easily just see an EPIC SJW CRINGE COMPILATION and scroll past and forget about it. they were popular, sure, but you as an individual could ignore it. you had to actively go to a ācringeā subreddit or scroll through the pits of deviantart to view cringe-related content.
cringe culture doesnāt need to call itself cringe culture because cringe culture has become normal internet culture.
it isnāt a niche anymore. it isnāt something that you can just switch off or block out. itās in short-form content, in AI content, on social media. mocking peopleās appearances and hobbies and interests and mannerisms isnāt a ācringeā thing anymore, itās just an average day on Instagram. AI content farms regurgitate everything tenfold. the divide between right and left has never been as defined on the internet as it is now.
An extinct breed of lyric video from an era past...
She's no you // Complicated // Monster high // If You Seek Amy // Butterfly // Starstruck