Cringe is having a moment. Millions of posts with the hashtag are shared online, and entire forums on Reddit are dedicated to discussing what makes us cringe. We’re all just too familiar with this ...

“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. ...

Her willingness to derail her own celebrity persona is what makes her such a fascinating cringe figure. It’s performance, ...

Democrats continue to prove time and time again that “the left can’t meme” is than a catchy insult. Piggybacking on a current TikT trend that combines […] ...

"That blue umbrella is still stashed under my bed," Carletta says, recalling the fateful evening that she was declared 'cringe' by a certified Cool person. Two years ago, the policy analyst met her ...

She’s not the only artist embracing cringe. Los Angeles-based writer K. Allado-McDowell’s new novel, Amor Cringe, is a love letter to cringe maximalism. Allado-McDowell set out to write the cringiest ...

Leeron Walter is an award-winning VP Marketing at Teramind, a global cybersecurity leader and an international speaker on secure innovation. In an age of curated feeds and overly polished brand ...