#cringe culture is so dumb

[glittertomb]

Call me, my interests, my clothes, or my lifestyle “cringe” if you want, I’m having lots of fun 💁🏼‍♀️🌸✨

As long as you aren’t hurting anyone, who the hell cares 🐸

#kidulthood #animation #video games #manga #Disney #young adult fiction #musicals #90’s nostalgia #stuffed animals #fairy kei #personal #cringe culture is so dumb #cringe culture is honestly ableist

[paperhats-and-evil-schemes]

Me: //brushing up on my old Paperhat fanfics to make sure I'm getting details right for the new one//

Me @ my past readers:

#paperhat #villainous #OP #HOW DID ANYBODY ENJOY THESE??? LMFAO #THE GRAMMAR IS AWFUL I REPEATED SO MANY PHRASES WAY TOO MUCH WTF #SO MANY UNNECESSARY EPITHETS #THE CRINGE DIALOGUE #WTF #THE AMOUNT OF BULLFUCKINGSHITTERY THAT PPL LET ME GET AWAY WITH BACK THEN. ASTOUNDING. #IF I DIDNT HAVE SUCH A HARD TIME LOOKING BACK ON THESE DUMB THINGS ID GO BACK AND REWRITE THE SHIT OUTTA EM #GOD #AWFUL #Like sure I get that the concepts themselves work fine but wow reading these back makes me physically cringe #Just from like... how bad on a technical level that the writing //itself// is #Look I know that cringe culture is dead but THAT DOESN'T HELP STOP ME FROM FUCKING CRINGING AT THIS GARBAGE #Yeesh. Oh well. I guess I was never a professional or anything lol. But WOW #I mean I'm glad that people enjoyed them back then regardless of the flaws but man. MANNNNN...... #I can do better #One day I will prove it lmao #Whenever I get around to finishing another goddamn fic lol

[reel-fear]

Honestly, every single time the whole 'poppy playtime is a bendy rip-off' stuff ever shows up I find it all extremely unconvincing and silly.

For one thing, rip-off usually is meant to imply that it's a cheap lazy copy of a better more polished thing, and uh. Sorry but even from chapter 1? Poppy Playtime is a better game than Bendy, it has a simple but understandable story, the game manages to be thrilling, creepy, and very intense at times... I mean that Huggy chase in the vents ALONE puts it way above Batim for me.

I mean BATDR had the most slow stupid chase I've ever seen [and every other encounter with the ink demon is text telling u he's there and then a timer goes down and u get jumpscared] and batim's chases were either silly or just not nearly as theatric or terrifying as that.

When making the vent sequence I mean not only is it absolutely horrifying to realize how fast Huggy is in there but also it's so theatric and cool? The fact that you round a corner after thinking you escaped only to see a terrifying animation of that thing crawling toward you is awesome! I wish Bendy had stuff like that!

And all the stuff it shares with Bendy are generic things Bendy ripped from other horror games/media anyways. I'm not saying Poppy Playtime isn't inspired by Bendy I for sure think it is but Bendy is such a generic story that somehow fails to do tropes 100 other horror games have done any comparison only makes Poppy Playtime look better.

"It has employees being sacrificed for their company" That is not a concept Bendy invented, literally look at any of the sci-fi horror series Bendy is very inspired by. This is literally a twist in the original Alien.

"It has a scary woman forcing you to do tasks for her" Once again, not a concept Bendy invented, a scary mysterious person forcing you to do fetch-quests is a concept found in tons of horror media. And at least Poppy Playtime gave you a chase with her and let you defeat her, look at poor malice. She's barely on screen for more than 10 minutes before she gets stabbed.

"It has a cult worshipping the monster" This is something tons of horror games and media have done too. I mean In The Tall Grass has a guy who worships a giant magical rock in the middle of a grass maze, Bioshock [which Bendy has only been taking more and more direct inspiration from while failing to grab any of the compelling parts] also had a lot of themes of religion and cult-ish behavior, almost every horror media franchise has at one point done a cult thing.

Bendy couldn't even come up with a reason Sammy worships the ink demon, the best motivation we've ever gotten is just that 'he's crazzyyyy the ink made him insaneeee'. Who is the cheap rip-off here?

At least Poppy Playtime gave their cultist a motive for worshipping the monster + a proper boss fight that feels intense and looks awesome! Bendy didn't even let you kill Malice [she got stabbed in front of you and then just collapsed on the floor how thrilling] meanwhile you get to kill three of the villains in Poppy Playtime and the gameplay and action in those scenes have only gotten better as the game went on.

I mean Sammy walks into a room and goes "AAA SCARY I'M BEING MURDERED" then later shows up and for NO REASON sees a normal human man and assumes it's the ink demon before once again someone else kills him for you. In Poppy Playtime you defeat Catnap as he floods the world with this horrible nightmare-inducing gas that intensifies the color palette and his design. Fight off versions of him that are illusions that you need your flare gun for, then watch in a wonderful animation as he mistakes the monster for his savior before getting killed by it, in a brutal way I might add, which game are we accusing of being cheap, lazy garbage again?

I just find this argument to be people who Really Really need to find a reason to hate Poppy Playtime which I think is silly. The devs being weird, shady people is already enough reason to dislike the game, you don't need to invent reasons why secretly every part of the game is malicious or bad. But esp when I see Bendy fans saying they don't support Poppy Playtime or dislike it bc of its devs or even saying its cringe ummmm.

I have bad news about the fact Bendy's devs are worse and it took not one, but TWO over an hour long videos to cover it all. Plus the Bendy games are just the worse games in every aspect, if I could sell my batim copy for a copy of Poppy Playtime I wouldn't hesitate at all.

Saying this as a bendy fan, we have no right to be super judgy towards Poppy Playtime. If Poppy Playtime is embarrassing cringe, Bendy is too and is way more embarrassing of an interest. We shouldn't spread misinformation just because we all want to hate Poppy Playtime, you can dislike Poppy Playtime without making up a bunch of nonsense to justify it.

Honestly seeing people just blatantly be unfairly mean to Poppy Playtime only makes its critics look worse and makes it hard to take any backlash to the games seriously. Because surprise surprise if you spread misinformation to make a point people will quickly stop listening to Anything you have to say bc they won't trust you're telling the truth anymore.

#feel free to reblog but Im not gonna tag this its way too rambley at least for my taste to go in the main tags #ramblez #also man can I say I didnt want to make this post super long but theres so many other points I could make in poppys favor #the fact we got to see the hour of joy and it was terrifying we dont even know if joey actually killed anyone anymore #the gameplay itself is more diverse and fun then batim which is a walking simulator that pretends to have fighting n stealth mechanics #at least Poppy n Missys friendship gives u a reason to care for missys safety before shes put in danger #Missy can actually express unlike Boris who sits there looking cute with no proper expressions until he gets yoinked and ur supposed to car #bc he was uh adorable? And therefore you spend an entire chapter tryna get him and get an extremely bad boss fight in return- #also soundtrack wise I like poppys tracks more theyre unique and fun and you can tell which part of the game they come from #bendy has so many dramatic reveal stingers and tracks that are really hard to tell which part of the game they come from #bertrums boss fight has my favorite theme bc its so specifically crafted for him and unique and meanwhile Norman has one of the worst imo #a lot of Bendys soundtrack if I played it for you right now it would be hard to guess where its from bc it all kinda sounds the same #the reveal music for the machine for bendy land for heavenly toys for alices domain all sound the same x_x #its just so frustrating but yeah my point is can we all stop making up new reasons to shit on poppy playtime its just kinda dumb #it feels less like actual criticism and at this point just feels like elaborate justification for cringe culture which I hate #okay thats it bye sorry this is 10 pages long-

[licorishh]

Yknow what honestly I'm kinda tired of only liking songs with deep meaning. Yes they are superior in my eyes. However. I would like to have FUN and not be SERIOUS so much so I am now throwing off my chains of only listening to deep, moving, emotionally-stirring music and I am crossing over to the dark side of Chill Vibes and Fun Music y'all seem like y'all are having fun over there

#i am coming into my own here #to be honest i avoided kpop like the plague for the longest time (aside from bts skz and le sserafim cause they go hard) #but yknow what it is pretty dang fun i gotta admit #and kpop fans are some of the nicest and funniest people i've ever talked to y'all get such a bad rap completely unnecessarily #y'all are chill i like y'all #so consider me a kpop fan now haha #can someone PLEASE give me a dumbed-down version of an nct guide #i can't be expected to tell 28 different people apart that's impossible #cringe culture is dead and stupid let's just have fun man #kpop #k pop #bts #stray kids #skz #le sserafim #ateez #nct #nct u #nct 127 #nct dream #exo #enhypen #tomorrow by together #tomorrow x together #txt #no seriously please tell me how to tell nct apart it's stressing me out #i feel so bad that people treat kpop fans like they're some sort of stupid neanderthals like #the vast majority of ones i've seen and interacted with were incredibly chill and super sweet and really funny #people are just allergic to having fun ig

[triplicatedrhymes]

with yesterday's events it seems like mcr-only fans hate fun tbh

#its white noise #y'all are so mean... #you say you're against cringe culture til someone does a silly cover that has some dumb lyrics 🙄 #and the people saying that all fall out boy lyrics are bad like that... there are definitely some bad mcr lyrics lol #idk! maybe im over reacting but im sick of people being assholes #ALSO. do y'all forget that they're all like. friends? #like the black parade mention was probably because they're. yk. friends. and it did have an impact

[nintendont2502]

Kinda fucking sucks when you feel like you have to preface your enjoyment of something by mentioning how cringe it is, or acting like you hate the fact you enjoy something to add a layer of distance between you and the thing you like :/

Like yeah I get it cringe culture is dead, I am cringe but I am free etc but outside of niche fandom spaces you're basically expected to distance yourself from your unironic enjoyment of something because it's 'cringe' and I hate it! Maybe I just want to talk about how I genuinely enjoyed reading Homestuck without people joking about how reading it was the worst decision they've ever made! Maybe I want to talk about my Skylanders collection or the Warriors series or Minecraft without the whole 'yeah I know this is a kids thing and it's stupid that I like it' disclaimer! Maybe I just want to be cringe and enjoy things with others without that layer of ironic self-deprecation! But I don't know how to stop!

#not having socially acceptable interests sucks ass #and i get that im not doing anything to help by doing the same thing but its just so deeply ingrained into me at this point #i mention something about homestuck and my friend jokingly says its cringe or dumb and i cant blame her because thats how i talk about it #but it just sucks that they can talk about their interests because they arent 'cringe' but i cant #literally the only reason i made this account was so i had somewhere to talk about my interests because i just felt like i couldnt #idk it just. sucks #vent ig? #me.txt #rant #homestuck #cringe culture is dead #warriors #skylanders #minecraft #autism moment

[technovillain]

guys testosterone is helping me get over my vocal dysphoria like a lot so i would love to start doing things with my voice online maybe. like making youtube videos where i ramble instead of giant walls of text, because i understand those are hard to read.

#if i can record myself talking and subsequently listen to it without feeling bad then i might just do this. #ive done a ton of theatre so i know how to speak pretty well so yeah its something ive wanted to do for a while #hrmmm i will consider it. #i moreso just have to remind myself that cringe culture is dead. and i am not dumb for analyzing silly little guys #and that is my favorite thing to watch therefore it is a good and just thing to do. #.txt

[ei-mugi]

i enjoyed getting heated over something silly for fun but im just now seeing some past distress ppl had over the poll on the blog & i feel a little bad haha i dont actually have any problem with ii or its fans like ive said i was one myself in the past

#being familiar with both ships though i still do prefer wataei #my 'complaints' were in the context of knowing about both of them and the shock of these 2 interests ever intersecting #i dooooooooo have a lot of opinions on ii as a show but none of them are like. 'you shouldnt like object shows cuz theyre dumb' #i got enough of that said 2 me by other people at the time #fan still sucks tho. worst character. microphone best character she deserved the win #when they go back to finishing season 2 in a decade's time they BETTER make the pickle/taco reunion happen in the next episode #the poll prompted me to watch like an episode of season 3 just to see what was up w it #and it was like fine. i watched episode 9. but i cant say it still holds my interest like it used to #especially not since s3 is an au and none of the plotlines are continued there #lol i remember when s2e12 p2 came out there was so much controversy #cuz paintbrush was eliminated that episode but it was also when they came out as nonbinary #i hope they make transgirl lightbulb canon still. that would be cool #paintbulb may not be my otp but they are t4t #all in all the thing about the osc (object show community) is that honestly its just a really sweet place over all #like its really lovely for so many kids to have a community where theyre encouraged to be creative and stuff #duh a lot of the shows arent gonna be good theyre being made by kids. but thats whats great about it #i like laughing over some stuff but i always feel the need to like say stuff like this cuz i think it sucks that people make fun of #stuff kids like to do so much esp as an autistic kid who was always made fun of for everything i liked #cringe culture definitely seeped into my bones a bit but i try to combat it

[blockofbones]

Nothing tells me someone’s age range and twitter usage faster than seeing ‘OOMF’ being used.

#and i cringe with my whole body every time #you can call me a boomer if you fucking want #i think all twitter lingo is dumb as fucking hell #but i also think all of the twitter culture that has bled into reality is fucking nauseating #the way that people unironically intentionally cant write a complete sentence anymore #but 'just because youre old and thats how you say the rule is doesnt mean its right' #no but it DOES mean no one outside your little posse knows what the fuck youre saying half the time #if you unironically write your texts and an actual fictional story the same #i will back out so damn fast #and worry about your future job prospects #as someone who has already had someone in the workforce attempt to write in that manner #and quickly realize it wont fly if you want to retain a real job

[robotwhoscreams]

There are two wolves inside you. One says “Cringe culture is dead, so long as you are having fun and not hurting anyone, your passion is valid. Fan fiction is just as legitimate as any other art form and can be a good way to show your love of a piece of media in a unique way.” and the other is writhing and screaming and foaming at the mouth on the floor in terror at the mere idea of being perceived as anything but nerdy/geeky but in the cool socially-acceptable, mainstream way because fanfic doesn’t fit into that ideal.

Worst part is that both seem to be making valid arguments to you, even though one is literally just incomprehensibly screaming.

#don’t mind me just vocalizing some of my own anxieties into the void #I would love to start writing fanfic but I am getting caught up on my own dumb brain #which is ironic considering I could reblog the most ‘cringy’ fan art onto this blog and it’s fine #but actually writing fanfic is a step to far in my brain #it’s all illogical and I wanna write fun stuff for my hyperfixations #but alas #my anxiety makes it feel like I’d be suddenly dogpiled on by ppl who don’t even matter to me in the grand scheme #sorry about the brain dump lol #anyone reading this who feels the same #know that your art is valid and so many people can find such joy in it <3 #cringe culture #fanfiction #fanfic #cringe culture is dead

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

Bestie who are you talking about with the polls?

Lol absolutely no one in any fandom I've been in, that's for sure.

I've seen more than one tiresome cringe culture poll so far, but one in particular was made by someone who loathes BBC Sherlock, Hamilton, and Steven Universe, and it's amusingly pathetic to me to let a website dictate your opinion that much, because those three things have absolutely nothing in common except that they won awards in the real world, were very popular on tumblr for years, were decried by the Online as the most problematique, evil things humanity ever created, and people on here were told to hate them lol

#but for real whenever people hate almost everything #on tumblr's cringe culture hit list #it's just like lol okay so you let a website dictate your opinions on media #obviously I dislike some things that are disliked on here too #but my point is that there's so little in common with these^ #that you probably only LOAHTE all of them because of cringe culture #and that's dumb #anti cringe culture #replies #Anonymous

[caruliaa]

see the thing about the adults enjoying bluey thing is that part of me really enjoys it seeing both a show meant for very little kids but isnt talking down to them and also seeing an acknowledgment that the even if something is meant for a much younger audience that doesnt mean it lacks quality (and btw part of it is having a seven year old sister but i. am infact onr of those adults who enjoy bluey) but also as someone who was in the target audience (young child) for my little pony when i enjoyed it i am shaking like a wet dog a bit begging you people to please just be normal about this and not ruin it for the target audience okay thank you.

#LIKE I HAVNET SEEN ANYTHING WEIRD. BUT IM AFRAID #like its weird bc like. part of me feels like parents shld be somewhat responsible for their kids seeing inappropriate content online #like if a vid discussing an animated show or movie is clearly labelled as for regular youtube not youtube kids and it has a swear word #if ur kid sees it thats on you for your not making sure they use youtube kids not regular youtube yk #but also like. lets not do thing were you cant google images a kids show without seeing inappropriate content again okay people #again im not saying this has happened. im just saying im afraid. #also barely related but i feel kinda embarrassed for some reason admiting that i am an adult that enjoys bluey even though its fully #A Thing rn and also like one of my main interests isnt also an animated show mostly aimed at kids (tho not 4 yr olds like bluey is 😭) #like its fully so dumb cringe culture is dead anyway. why do i care. why do i still feel like the person recommending peppa pig post. #SAD! anyway im going to watch a video about bluey now. (-_-) (<- they feel the need to be ironic enjoying this bc Society) #flappy rambles

[bijoumikhawal]

"Most copts are arabs" opinion immediately chucked into the dumpster bye

#Arabness #Cipher talk #The relationship between copts and and wether or not a Copt will allow themselves to be called #Arab may be weird but it's absolutely not something an Arab should be saying in the context of Nasser who literally like. Nationalized #Coptic schools in a way that had impacted cultural knowledge #Honestly it's not something an Arab should be so arrogant as to give themselves airtime on at all #But hey this guy was offended that I said I'd throw my lot in with Pan Africanists before Pan Arabists easily #And I absolutely will not be fucking around with people that go 'sources plz' with disaffected cringe airs regarding the internment and #Imprisonment of Jewish men under Nasser #Wait the idiot is 17 #Yeah no wonder you're dumb

[yappacadaver]

i log on, i see the dumbest takes posted by gaijin, i leave

#naruto becoming popular in the west is such a double edged sword xD #like yes it's awesome i get to see nart streetwear in my city #but westerners posting analysis or crit or jokes that are so dumb i cringe i cringgggeeeee #pls remember that nart is a modern japanese manga that is heavily steeped in japanese culture both old and modern #we got references to noh kabuki feudal lordship 90's fashion (in japan) festivals religion/spirituality traditional fashion and more #not sayng im an expert on any of these just that 90% of the western fandom positions themselves as experts of the franchise and like #are you really a naruto expert with only the best opinions on your blorbos if you don't even understand their cultural background a little? #consider it....... perhaps

[thefangirl-16-blog]

I love yukichi so much as a character but everytime I try to write something about him it very quickly turns too blorbo-y and it's very annoying

#like i wanna write character analysis but all that comes out is hehehaha the little bunny so cute so dumb my beloved #i want to talk about him properly and i just cant fffffggggghhhhhh #i want to articulate why i like him so much in a comprehensive way but my brain wont work with me #also im scared of getting too overly serious about a random side character in the rabbit with sword comic #not that theres nothing to dive into with uy theres A LOT actually but im just so used to sincerity - especially over little fansom things- #being seen as too cringe or whatever so i just go straight into making fun myself instead #thanks internet culture cera 2016 #that got too deep #i shouldnt be posting at like 3am #especially when ive got work at half 7 in the morning #yayyy insomnia #betty's usagi rambles