Cringe is everywhere around us. Within us, even.

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“Cringe culture” emerged from informal social policing on social media, but it is also prevalent in real-life interactions. Behaviors that are tagged as awkward or overly eager are shared and mocked. ...

There was a time when millennials ruled the internet with ironic Tumblr posts and the golden age of Instagram filters. But now, in the TikTok era, their once effortless cultural currency is being ...