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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter@swolecialism.bsky.social |
One of the worst things about online in the last few years has been the idea of "cringe" and how its been used to crush the ideas of believing in things, wholeheartedness, hope.
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Obvious Pseudonym
@obviouspseudonym.bsky.social
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I'm frankly sick of doomer assholes. If everything is hopeless, then actually give up and stop paying microscopic attention to current events and the discourse. Shut the fuck up about politics and find a more constructive place to work out your mental health issues.
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Mark Shore
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A similar corrosive phenomenon has been the spread of what Jay Rosen called the "savvy style" among political reporters, columnists and editors at major news organizations where facile cynicism is prized and ethics, morality, and caring about outcomes are embarrassingly naive and unprofessional.
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@burstaholic.bsky.social
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I try to stay grounded with things like Steven Universe and She-Ra. There's a real pro-idealism cartoon wave too!
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🌊Just_GillVT🌊 (They/He)
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It's been something I've contended with as a kid, and yeah weaponized cringe sucks. It held me back more than anything because I was so afraid of letting myself and my own interests flourish, out of fears of being annoying and looking like a jackass.
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MissyLissa.bsky.social
@missylissa.bsky.social
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I think so much of it starts as an online posture so as to not let people know the real you (because then when people mock you it doesn’t hurt because it isn’t really you). But it’s Mother Night, you are what you pretend to be. Ironic anything becomes your real position over time.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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hatred of idealism and earnestness is a very funny thing in particular for so many self-professed commies to indulge in
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Half Cocked
@halfcockedlaw.bsky.social
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Calling things cringe is pretty cringe, tbh
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Jesse Baer
@jbaer.bsky.social
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I trace it back at least to the hipsterism of the early aughts.
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Maddie (derogatory)
@pbastronaut.bsky.social
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Is this a new phenomenon though? When I was at school in the 90s caring about things was "gay".
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That’s Too Much, Colby
@thatstoomuchcolby.bsky.social
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Also, cringe is politically effective.
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Lawler Hix, Digital Femboy & Shitposter AI Vtuber
@lawlznet.bsky.social
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Thinking about a friend watching me edit a 6+ hour long VOD and sarcastically going "look at you, putting in actual effort." I didn't respond at the time, but I thought like, "Yeah, no shit? If you want to get anywhere you need to actually give a crap." Like, what even is the proper response lol.
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Luis 🦝🐦⬛🤖
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"Cringe" is the reaction from others wanting to impose their level of acceptability on others for being too weird, too loud, too enthusiastic, too honest with what they are into. "Cringe" is sad sack pieces of shit trying to make you as sad as they are. Why give them that power? Their approval?
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@snowjob.bsky.social
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I think about this a lot, and it's honestly part of why I love RPGs of all stripes. FF14, in particular the most recent Endwalker expansion, has keeping wholehearted hope as a central theme. Disco Elysium is great at tearing down hope and building it back up- more stark and grim, but also stronger.
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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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We need "you ain't cool unless you pee your pants" but for sincerity.
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@nclud.bsky.social
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The online gaming insult of "try-hard" was so much in this vein
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Courtney Love Actually
@hexadecibelle.bsky.social
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literally just self-policing being enthusiastic or caring about things. i blame South Park a lot for starting it.
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Ratatosk the Norse Squirrel God™️
@ratatosk.bsky.social
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The abuse of the word “cringe” is itself very cringe.
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#cringe #sqrlpix #SquirrelWisdom
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Doom_371 🔰
@371doom.bsky.social
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Shame is the most powerful psychological weapon ever invented
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Chris McNeil
@chrismcneil.bsky.social
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Useful heuristic for messaging. Any time a colleague cries cringe my metal detector starts beeping. Cringe works, more often than not.
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Vituperative Erb
@vituperativeerb.bsky.social
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Nobody wake up early to march in the cold for irony
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ChatGPTom
@siropsalot.bsky.social
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Caring means being vulnerable, and we can't let people do that without consequences
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Jesse Fuchs
@jessefuchs.bsky.social
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My most charitable explanation is it as a trauma response to, at some point, wholeheartedly hoping and believing in something that turned out to be stupid fucking bullshit. I think my layer of ironic distance in my 20s/30s was low-reward, but also relatively low-risk. It’s a coherent strategy.
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Jennifer Van Goethem
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Cynicism is just so damn lazy.
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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I still think about James Gunn's interviews before the first GotG movie came out and he said he made it because he was tired of the cynicism of the internet/current culture and he wanted to show it's cool to care, to give a shit.
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iame.li
@iame.li
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i think there’s a pretty big millennial/zoomer divide along these lines
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Lizardguy64
@lizardguy64.bsky.social
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The problem is that "cringe" is the modern "Smurf". It's every kind of word possible. It's entirely grammatically correct now to say "What's Cringe my cringes, did you cringe that cringe last cringe on the cringe cringe? I cringed so cringe that I cringe cringe cringe."
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