Not giving a fuck if you look cringe is a superpower for the great online game. Like Peter Parker getting bit by a spider, I had my superhero moment with the druggie days. And I’m glad it happened. But you don’t need to go down that path to realize this: internet embarrassment isn’t that bad. Stop living in fear of being called cringe. The fear is worse than it actually happening. You get over it. You learn to laugh about it. And it makes you stronger person and a better creator.
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It's all going to flicker out at some point with everything else.
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
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