Is Cringe Culture dead?

[Daytripper]

Is cringe culture dead or is it still a thing?

 

[E350]

God I hope so.

 

[PettyNomu]

Half and half. You're not "allowed" to blatantly seek it out anymore for the purposes of Cringing at it, and the bar for what's acceptable to mock has been lowered/raised plenty, both because weirder stuff is going mainstream now in general, and because people are realizing Cringe Culture was the real Cringe all along, and there are plenty of dead horses. However, this means that when something does happen across people's feeds and it passes the bar, people leap on that shit, and you're still allowed to actively try and find it if you can paint it as morally reprehensible somehow.

So no one's going to shit on you for having a side account where you RP as your Sonic OC except if you put it on LinkedIn or something, but people will leap down Nagatoro fan's throats and try to paint them as pedophiles whenever a new episode comes out.

 

[LurkerOfSurfers]

Cringe Culture is still a thing but it just been reframed/changed/adopted by another form of it. Like PettyNomu says, people typically understand that making fun/taking advantage of someone whose clearly neurotypical is frowned upon... until they don't. People have and will always continue to have blind spots, and those blindspots are where people still make fun of others. Case in point, making fun of other people via gifs and images of the disabled, framing things in a 'rightous' manner like Petty says, and things that would genuinely confuse others. To that extent, Cringe Culture like in the case of those at Kiwi Farms is still alive to an extent.