Cringe = Sublime
surrender to the cringe
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now... See more
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
It's all going to flicker out at some point with everything else.
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now... See more
Cissy Hu • Year of doing the damn thing
Cringe is more than just internet slag: It’s an entirely new, and dangerous, way of operating. Before cringe, people just….tried things, some of which landed, and come of which did not. Cringe suppresses the truth-tellers: The chaotic, creative idiots who gleefully prod us to reassess what we thing we know and believe. It raises the cost of taking
... See moreEarlier this year, Dirt contributor Michelle Santiago Cortés wrote about “yearnposting”, examining the trend of Instagram and TikTok content for people that “want to be devastated (in a good way).” These posts, “combine the warmth of a wholesome meme with the hope of a motivational post and the raw emotion of a trauma meme,” like a video by noted... See more