Has this era of irony poison finally ended? Has cringe culture been killed off for good? This entire movement lead to some of the most milquetoast, boring, samey ironic content on the internet. Killing off edge lead to something even worse.
Is cringe culture dead?
Cringe culture just evolved into twitter puritan mob culture. Anyone involved in the initial grassroots grew up and embraced the cringe.
No, because Zack Snyder and the Star Wars prequels are more popular than they've ever been.
The prequels aren't very cringe
>The prequels aren't very cringe
Correct, they’re extremely sexy instead.
>FARTING
>ISN'T
>SEXY
Snyder is not popular, he just has a small group of very loud cultists.
You must transcend cringe and edge, friend.
Irony poisoning is a mental block that must be slowly chiseled one layer at a time.
It's so funny to watch late milennials like (You) go to bat for Shadow the Hedgehog like it's inherently virtuous to be shit.
It's easy to bat for a great character. I don't see how this is surprising.
shadow is cool i'm afraid, he's sonic but black and read and says pg friendly cuss words, how is that not cool
Yes, unfortunately.
Cringe culture was for the best, unironically bullying people for posting cringe, and showing them it's bad is the best for them. Imagine if nobody called out Chris-chan, who knows what could have happened if his autism was left unchecked?
Join the club? Pretty much every kid was 'one of them.'
The majority of kids are inherently imaginative and creative as a means of playing with their observations about the world, and the majority of them will move from pretend play onto imitative modes of expression like putting on plays and writing stories. Kids and teenagers fricking love writing, hence all the 'cringe' that's online, because they just can't help themselves. But just because it's shit doesn't mean it's not an important developmental step. They don't have to be coddled and told it's great, but they have to be given the breathing room to do it, not just for their creative process (since almost none will go on to become published authors, and fewer if any will go on to become worthwhile published authors) but for their developmental one. Writing isn't just about coming up with some admirable end result, for kids it's about integrating experiences.
To decry this as cringe and useless would be like pointing and laughing at a toddler's amateurish first steps. If the goal is for the toddler to ever be able to walk, they have to be allowed to stumble and fall and hold onto things on their way to getting there.
Granted, being allowed to do those things also means one can't hold their hand the entire time to prevent falls, but I don't think anon was suggesting we have to cheerlead every cringey Wattpad 'author' and tell them they're the next big thing. Just that it's not worth resentment and mockery on sight. It's not a problem, it's a necessary inevitability.
Anon, the novel you wrote in high school was NEVER going to be anything but cringe. No one's intervention or lackthereof could have changed that. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have written it. The fact that you can look back and recognise it as such now shows it did its job. If you're under 30 and aren't looking back at least every couple of years and cringing at everything you were and thought and did, you're just not growing.
I'm a desensitized bugman and a stiff robot now stemming from years of bullying and abuse probably why I'm so unsentimental and never took any literary passion.
The whole Chris Chan thing didn't actuallys nap him out of it and just ended with people writing down every aspect of some random hick's life and shifting through his garbage. So I'm not really sure if its an example of something being for the best.
KiwiBlack folk always delude themselves into thinking they're functional and normal while documenting how many many times chris washes his ass daily for more than a decade now.
yes and no
you can't just call something "cringe" anymore. you have to find a moral objection to whatever trendy shit you hate. from Pokemon GO! to DreamSMP to NFTs. if they have an annoying fanbase, your moralshitting should be just as annoying. you should be making 500 Danny Gonzalez-ass videos about how "____ is the worst most evil thing ever YIKES"
>Imagine if nobody called out Chris-chan, who knows what could have happened if his autism was left unchecked?
you all REEEEEEEd about him for a whole ass decade and he still fricked his dementia-addled mother.
No one does anything that's cringe anymore, besides stuff like being a troony and acting gay. Cringe culture kind of died when it went from Cinemaphile "rage threads" to cringe compilations on youtube and subreddits and shit, where it became less about an enormous amount of second-hand embarrassment and more about "this kid is weird lol".
There's now the morally puritanical anti movement. It's actually gotten worse.
>Muh sekret club
We're not in 2006 anymore.
don't worry you can still bully children online for their creations they just have to go against the hivemind first then it's ok to attack them
>Is cringe culture dead?
No, America is still standing, sadly...
no, it's just the things that were cringe 5 years ago have become nostalgia content for early zoomers
>Has this era of irony poison finally ended?
No. In fact the current generation is wholly incapable of being sincere.