#the cringe level

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #????? #cannot imagine that ever happening.

[saturdaysky]

when your waterdhavian crush ambushes you with extremely cheesy flirting and to your deep horror, it works

if you respond equally cheesily — "Read it? I could've written the thing 😏😏😏" — he hits you with this:

i'm afraid there was simply no one else for me after that

#i cringed through the entire interaction and it was a delight. wouldn't change a thing #don't let this comic fool you tav is just as bad #terminal levels of earnest swaglessness in this galemance run. love that for them. sorry for the rest of the party #sky does bg3 #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #mayhew #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #galehew

[kaleidescopic]

oh you hate musicals? oh so youre allergic to all fun and whimsy then? youre against all joy and giddiness brought in front of you huh? you just hate any and all happiness and silly times dont you?

#“hamiltons so overrated” this #“falsettos is so cringe” that #“the dancing in six is so embarrassing” this #“ride the cyclone is so weird” that #“people dont break into song in the middle of a sentence irl” this #“its unrealistic and not historically accurate” that #SHUT UP #ACTUALLY SHUT UP #YOURE NOT ORIGINAL #YOURE NOT BETTER THAN ANYONE BC YOU THINK UR ABOVE MUSICALS #STOP TALKING AND APPRECIATE THE LEVEL OF TALENT EVERYYTHING ABOUT THAT SHIT TAKES #STOP MAKING FUN OF ACTORS FOR BEING GOOD AT THEIR JOB #musical theatre #kal rambles!! #musical theater #broadway #sorry i just got a little angry

[tizeline]

If by a chance - IF - Donnie joined the drax brothers what his outfit would be?

Like... deadass?

Like deadass.

As in he'd literally just steal this particular Megamind outfit, no question about it.

#catastrophic levels of theater kid bs from donnie #like a deadly amount #also donnie would LOVE megamind omg #donnie is a megamind kinnie 😔 cringe #Tiz Sep AU #tizel talk #tmnt #rottmnt

[rowrowronnie]

anyone remember that pyro is a robot headcanon? yeah um erm i also remembered that and also sorta maybe mightve gotten carried away a little bit.. tee hee..

#fanart #art #doodle #tf2 #tf2 fanart #team fortress 2 #tf2 scout #comic #tf2 engineer #tf2 spy #tf2 soldier #its so funny because it didnt even cross my mind until i was drawing (GET READY FOR CRINGE)… #..scout with bunny ears.. ANYWAYS AHEM. i was like. hey. what if. what if those ears. were like. apart of a helmet. #and then i spiraled #hashtag real #hopefully this comic makes sense i stayed up to do this not realizing the time i am so eepy #this is probably also a blue headcanon i headcanon blu engie is medic levels of unhinged <3 #to the person in the replies: YES!! you have full permission to draw him!! thank you for asking in the first place that’s so sweet of you!! #but anyways sorry for not replying! this is my side account that i’ve turned into a main account #and my main account still has the Mark of cringe past (old fanart) so i’m trying to keep them apart lol #scoutbot

[geosaurus]

back-seat forensics

#ace attorney #ema skye #klavier gavin #eventually i will stop being cringe and post something original but for now: more ace attorney #in any case I would kill and die for ema skye i love her so damn much #i swapped out her black pumps for the boots she wears in investigations bc i refuse to believe she wears open-toed shoes to a crime scene #HC is she keeps the boots w the labcoat in her shitty car that is FILLED w old take out containers and mugs etc #like obstructs the rear window levels of trash. she and edgeworth DO NOT talk about her car bc their fights got too nasty #Phoenix doesnt notice bc he grew up in a messy car family

[swankifyed]

So Andrew Tate just got arrested after starting (and losing) twitter-beef with climate activist Greta Thunberg???

The beginning:

Greta’s reply (that at the moment of my post has 2.9million likes, making it the 22nd most liked tweet ever):

A few hours after this, Tate replies with a cringe video where you can see pizza boxes. These pizza boxes are from a Romanian pizza chain, which was used by the Romanian anti-organized crime agency DIICOT to confirm that he and his brother was in the country so they could raid his house and arrest them on charges of human trafficking.

In short: he picked a twitter-fight with a 19yo, got ratioed into oblivion, posted cringe, doxxed himself and got arrested. Amazing stuff.

#andrew tate #greta thunberg #long post #politics #(kinda) #this is so insane #ive been laughing for the last hour #when i say his video reply is cringe im so serious #like dangerous to your health levels of cringe

[ofpd]

one time i explained to my uncle what shipping was and he was like "i don't see that being a compelling way to think about most stories tbh... but do you know what is compelling. torah. have you ever heard of david and jonathan"

#txt #also i feel so cringe remembering having explained the concept of shipping to anyone but it was early 2021 #the insanity was at a pretty high level then #100 #1k

[leanned-too-hard]

Nevermind I regret watching dnp now WHAT DO U MEAN I HAVE 18 YEARS OF LORE TO CATCH UP TO. Being a phannie is not even a job anymore its a full career plus retirement

#dan and phil #my ramblings #obviously joking here i am having too much fun cringing alongside everyone else #as well as reading up all the detective level shithappening here #Lena’s journey to becoming obsessed with the british

[lycansoffspring]

A bunch of bullshit...

#the elder scrolls #morrowind #voryn dagoth #indoril nerevar #nerevoryn #alandro sul #sotha sil #i haven't posted for so long #and now I feel extreme levels of cringe when I do

[flamemons]

It's alright to scream

I'm screaming too

Why'd you think I do the things I do?

For shadows haunted me like ghosts

So I became what I feared the most

I conduct fear like electricity

A manmade monstrosity

Killer — The Hoosiers

i woke up from a nap with this song stuck in my head and. yea

#kouichi kimura #koichi kimura #digimon frontier #digimon #AGH ok drawing to a song is. a new level of vulnerability for me and im trying to get past the mental block of OH THATS TOO CRINGE #because cringe isnt REAL #((but it sure feels like it)) #i fucked up and accidentally made a kouichi playlist and so many of my favorite edgy songs ended up applying to him #and i was like....hmm ok.....this kid is suddenly very interesting #...not that he isnt already very interesting like. he is but hes still sort of hard to grasp since he never had time to really be himself #....anyway #i have. so many thoughts about songs i associate with takuya but. i cant draw that #because i would go through organ failure #like i would literally explode and die #oh the struggle of admitting i have human emotions

[heatsbeloved]

#self shipping #self ship community #self ship #selfshipping #f/o #f/o positivity #polls #something i was thinking about earlier #about how insular internet communities like this sometimes escape containment #and people kinda point n laugh and call it cringe #and like... on some level it IS cringe to people outside of the group #but ultimately it's harmless for the most part #but for me at least its something i want to keep to myself and other people online #i might say so and so character from such and such video game is cute but #that's about the extent of it #and i wanted to see what other people thought :)

[munchboxart]

Sorry this is out of character, I legit couldn't think of anything else

#im trying to cope with irl things #so that means trying to create madokahomura levels of plotting that turns into the cycle of cringe remembering theyre kirby characters #kirby #meta knight #galacta knight #meta knight gijinka #galacta knight gijinka #munch art #my comic #my sketches

[r--kt]

I can't take these two frames seriously, look at the dumb ones. the first dude came just to gossip and flirt, and the second one makes it even worse with his sudden jojo face (and probably voice). also the dialogue is SO AWKWARD WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS. repeating the villain's name three times in two frames in a row is definitely not suspicious, especially for that idiot in a mask. "oh, which one?" yeah that's the point.

#you two are grown men just stop it #idk this scene is the most hilarious for me #“yeah it's me... madara” “oh so you're madara” fuck you guys #Kishimoto wrote this scene and felt like he's doing the most ironic one and he was right #this is a sufficient level of cringe irony to actually enjoy it #kakashi hatake #obito uchiha #kakaobi #obikaka #naruto shippuden #naruto #ch. 460

[tcustodisart]

*cough cough* MoonBird - because ain't no way in hell I'm calling them ConnecticutHeart.

#bg3 #shadowheart #connecticut tav #I'm reaching new levels of cringe I'm sorry #symmetry is my mortal enemy

[luck-of-the-drawings]

my TWO FAVORITE THINGS IN THE WORLD, VAMPIRES N COWBOYS... deacon keller is SUCH a fun character, hes charming and funny but ALSO formidable and STRONG when he feels he needsta be. i hope him and arthur can get a chance to talk more and be better friends. l ike really good friend s. . like. like really good f. hangon i gotta go i think i hauve rabies.

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi suckening #jrwi suckening spoilers #deacon keller #arthur bennett #OOUGUGHHAAOGUguguhh i feel so cringe whenever i ship two characters. like theyre not even REAL #why cant i be more 'hyperfixated' on getting bitched or something. CHRIST. anwyay i want em to hold hands or smth. yknow. freak stuff. #SO DEACON KELLER!! HE OVERHEARD ARTHUR TALKIN ABT THIS PLACE GETTING ATTACKED.. WE SAW HIM APPROACHING #AND THEN THE WHOLE FEAST PORTION OF THE PARTY HAPPENED N HE GOT STUCK #BUT HE KNEEEWW HE OVERHEARD ARTHUR SOMEHOW!! i just think thats neat. hes dedicated to protecting his people. hes respectable!! #GOD he doesnt even have that much screen time but i LOVE HIMMM n his silly lil shadow steed named Sunshine.. like cmon.... ugh..... #hes sweet n hes funny and he CAARES about the things hes in charge of on some levels. he certainly does his best to look after his own. #god idk what else to write here other than how much hes been on my MMMIND lately. the doctors are still running diagnostiscs #i just think hes so neat... also i think its funny that hes afraid o snakes. OH YKNOW lemme just talk abt my damn art. first o all this too #SSSOOO LONG. WEEKS EVEN.IVE BEEN WORKIN ON IT SINCE EP 5 WAS ON PATREON.it was sposed to be justa buncha doodles but then it Evolved #idk man...cowboys are just so cool...especially w VAMP POWERS..fastest shot in the west for a REASON BABY...n with the red smoke #n the glowing eyes..CMOn thats so cool i hadta get my visions into reality. the eyes were inspired by the music video for RATTLESNAKE (kglw #that where the IM THE SERPENT lines come from.lyrics from tha song.ooh yeah i love kglw so much...i also have other hidden messages here #i like to hide things...ALSO ALSO. I HAD SO MUCH TROUBLE W SO MUCH O THIS. the two bits with arthur n deacon biting eachother. AGONY #POSES ARE SO HHARRDDD SAME WITH THAT doodle o arthur slammin deacons head into the ground. WEEKS to get that pose RIGHT. I BLED SO MUCH #OHH AND GUNS???COWBOYHATS?? HIS GAY LIL JACKET? W THE DANGLIES?? AGOONYYY IT TOOK SO LONG TO PERFECT IT..especialy guns. OUUUHH #i also dont draw mustaches enough... which sucks bc im weak for a good mustache... BUT i think im doing pretty well on that. #it was hard but yknow what!! i think i did good! i rly like how this all turned out!! EXCEPT FOR THA FUCKIN RIBBON BOW THING I FORGOT TODRA #IN THE TOP RIGHT... THAT I JSUT NOTICED...its fine its fine i dont care that much. this is good enough to FEAST upon so im content n happy. #anyway i gotta leave ina few hours to start TRAINING for my NEW JOB!! CHEER FOR ME!! TRUCK IS A BLACKJACK DEALER NOW!! IEAAAHHH BABYYYY!!!! #thanku for reading my weird lil scrolls i bury beneath my posts. if u leave tags i WILL absorb them. and feel joy.