#not in like cringe culture way of being cringe

[mrgaretcarter]

Honestly I think it would do us all well to go back to kinda cringy feminism again for a little bit idk cause I think maybe for some people the discourse somehow circled back around to supporting sexism just rebranded or whatever so its more aesthetic

#personal #instead of progressing the discourse into idk more inclusion of women of color and trans women #it went in the direction of like glorifying women being stupid and romanticizing beauty standarts #also weird centering of men all over again in feminism and in general for some reason #remember in the early 2010s when emma watson was like obliterated for that 'he for she' campaign #because it prioritized men in feminist discourse and then thats the exact direction where things went later on (and where it is currently) #people care more abt like 'haha this is my golden retriever bf he drinks respect women juice!' than about actual women speaking abt feminis #like being a feminist isnt about social change and women prioritizing each other its abt how dudes are hot when they do the bare minimum! #also have you noticed the rise in lesbophobia both in the sense of persecution of lesbians themselves #and of lesbians relationships and culture which other wlw are also part of (its giving lavender menace) #and also remember how we had the me too movement and then immediately after #everyone still fell for a smear campaing against a victim of domestic abuse? #anyway i would really love to get back to basics of like women should support each other! #and beauty standarts overwhelmingly negatively affect women and girls! #and we still need to incentivize girls to seek out intellectual pursuits especially in STEM and leadership roles! #because we continue to be underpresented in those fields and the only way to enact change is to bring our perspectives to those areas #instead of asking politely for guys to throw us a bone! #also stop acting like its cringe to openly and vocally center and prioritize women in every sphere of our lives possible! #and also maybe go back to actively trying to do that! and considering that a good thing!?? #because we're the ones who should have our backs most of all?? idk idk #also where are the teeth?? #why is everyone so afraid of being angry now??? #its like some people circled back to being afraid of being mistaken for man-hating or something #just for pointing out common sense aspects of oppression without adding an asterisk about how men suffer too! #i thought we all knew there is no such thing as reverse sexism!!! #idk!!! #and this isnt me condoning choice feminism many women are evil and actively work against their own interests #or antagonize other women to make themselves feel important such as terfs etc #but idk its like everyone internalized that 'well women can suck too' so hard that its become like #'*most* women suck and we dont even have to keep trying to empathize and prioritize each other and our issues anymore'

[girlcalledwhatsername]

Kinda really don't have patience for people who spread ao3 hate thinking it gives them some moral highground or makes them more "mature" somehow, so much of it is literally just cynicism and needless hostility for people under the garb of some flimsy activist excuse to feel a sense of superiority. And it's never just ao3 either, you check their blog and it's all making fun of people for harmless shit and signs of neurodivergence in the most hateful ways, slurs and all. Schoolyard bullying-core 👌🏼

#like wowww you're so cool for being so negative about things all the time 🙄 #oh I'm aall for freaks and outcasts but if you do it in a way I find cringe then I'm gonna do the Mature thing and tell you you're inferior #seriously if you feel some sense of superiority over not doing 'cringe shit' then just leave #bc when a difference of interest has to be made a huge deal and a big Difference between you and others #where you're the 'mature' one for being this hateful? yeah ik it's always devolving into ableism #that's literally where it's always headed #not that it's subtle #too mamy will just use the word 'degenerate' bc they don't see ableism as worthy of correcting oh no no #they are righteous leftists fighting the good fight and if that fight includes calling ppl r*tards and degerates #then that's a sacrifice they're willing to make #idk I'm pissed it's disability pride month and I'm seeing such rampant ableist language and microaggressions #in leftist spaces on here and it's like you really don't care about us if you can use that language for your petty cringe culture bs huh? #ao3 #ableism

[mintacle]

I generally hold that we should let teenagers just be melodramatic and I detest the word 'cringe' because teenagers are just discovering, just beginning, that experience of artistic expression. Being unexperienced in expressing the genuine does not mean that they are in fact ingenuine. But beyond the fact that teenagers should have the freedom to not be embarrassed out of sheer human dignity and respect, I also look back at my own younger self and think about how I used to be embarrassed for them, but now think that I should have been far, far more expressive.

Now I realize that the pain my 12-year-old self was expressing was because I was being abused and neglected by my parents. And only now do I know that the abuse was real and not just an exageration on my part. Now I'm listening to songs I forgot I had listened to. I think about my early sleep disorders and remember being awake at 2AM listening to these horribly sad songs. I listen to them again as an adult who has long since moved out and I understand the pain my old self was going through clearer. This child I used to be was not being cringe or exagerating and if that wasn't such a popular narrative on teenage hurt, then maybe I would have actually gone to child protection services when I wanted to. Or been honest to my teachers when they asked me if everything was alright at home. Maybe I wouldn't have felt fucking embarrassed like it was my fault when my teacher came to me about my homework I handed in, in which I wrote something about destructive love and lack of love of parents for their children and how their children loved them still but they weren't being loved back. And I lied and said it was nothing, but that I had just seen a movie recently with something like that. And I laughed and said that I would just come up and say it if something bad was actually happening. And my teacher said that it can be very hard to do that. And I shrugged, feeling guilty for having made fun of those children who actually have it hard, because I didn't think I have the right to say that I was one of those kids.

Because, my god, is it jarring and gut-wrenching to be re-discovering the songs you used to listen to and remembering exactly how alone and how hurt and desperate you were. And then to realize you were right all along. To think that so much of this is being ignored and degraded to mere teenage-melodrama; both the internalized narrative some adults have of themselves and the things some teenagers are going through again, right now, because we can't think of emotion as anything other than immature (for teens and kids) or entertainment and art (for adults).

Art.

Artistic expression of my PTSD is something I revel in, but there is no need for people to learn first how to weave poetry or paint into their pain before we deem it valid. Being unexperienced in self-expression of the emotions deeply ingrained in the human condition, does not mean that teenagers feel these emotions any less intensely or truly.

#ramblings #personal #I can't believe how all of this was being swept and explained away back then #extremely anti cringe #Also now as an adult I am constantly drawn to topics of trauma and tragedy and I believe I am still trying to express something #and I am constantly surprisedby the fact that I am not being shot down or dismissed for these things #the only thing that changed was my age seriously #honestly the way we treat teenagers is kind of fucked up though #it's like they lose both the protection we give children and the respect we have for adults #I'm not saying stop critiquing the tiktok culture. because definitely do not stop critiquing that #but I am saying stop making teenagers feel like they can't talk to anyone about their problems #or something #anyway listening to 'the lonely' by christina perry and thinking how sad it was that I would feel so strongly connected #to such a song at 12 y/o

[cloudjumpervalka]

ive had hyperfixations over the years that i always thought were cool and shit but tsw*ft is the first hyperfixation ive gotten that im like. so embarrassed to admit. it wasnt intentional. idk what happened lmaooo. it just also feels like. 😬 bc every time i wanna gush about lyrics or whatever i also have to remember shes so cringe and no one else in my immediate circles likes her the way i do LMAO

#maybe its the while im transitioning its like a way to heal my inner girl child but eh #maybe im just posting to be like. yeah ill reblog these funny true statements about her #like she needs her jet taken away she needs to make a stance on palestine she needs to just be more charitable and worry less about vinyls #but also ill hear my tears ricochet and ill be crawling on the floor screaming the lyrics bc it hits to hard LMAO #its such a bizarre stance to have in sw*ft*e culture bc #real sw*ft*es will prob harrass me for being critical at all #but people that dont like her will think im cringe or basic or whatever #i need to find a bubble of wherever i fall lmao

[babyprime]

the thing about tswift is. quite a few of her songs ARE a vibe. but there is pretty much always one line thats like.... oh ok. someone let a grown woman put this in an otherwise good song. u know?

#for example i love the song willow! its pretty and reminds me of ocs #has a very pleasant White Girl Autumn vibe that i truly enjoy #but 'come back stronger than a 90s trend' delivered in such a confident way..... was a choice. #and this is just me being a little hater btw like cringe culture is dead #and tswift will never be harmed by my hatering but an amateur writer might! but the thing is ppl are paying her for this!!!!

[starlooove]

“Corecore” you are quite literally just feeling emotions. Thats what those vids are envoking. That’s that ‘not quite nostalgia’ u are reacting to ppls unfiltered human emotions. To art that’s not trying to be satire before it’s even finished. And to voice acting and animation that isn’t trying to say “we KNOW it’s a cliche guys!” Every 5 seconds. That’s why the compilations have happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, all of it it’s JUST that u feeling emotions!

#the comments being “’wow this gave me hope for humanity’ #THESE ARE EVERYDAY EMOTIONS U AND EVERYONE AROUND U ARE FEELING! #this culture of apathy and earnestness being ‘cringe’ is what makes this seem so foreign to u #those comps are all ppl literally just expressing their emotions to the fullest #TRY IT SOMETIME! #GENUINELY! #LIKE NOT SARCASTIC NOT JUDGING don’t hide ur love for someone behind soft bullying #don’t pretend ur not dissapointed smth didn’t go ur way #stop pretending that ur not trying and ur not hopeful I’m so serious #JOIE DE VIVRE #GUYS PLEASE

[kimbapisnotsushi]

i for real think bnha should be academically studied honestly

#bnha #ESSAY IN THE TAGS YOU GUYS SCROLL DOWN FOR TLDR #the way it went from being like . . . normal mainstream popular to like. ig still mainstream popular enough #but being bashed upon and jeered at and called cringe #among other things via fandom culture #i really do like it!! #it's fun and feel-good and makes me want to cheer for people #and it's SO creative #like my head would hurt if i had to come up with that many individual powers AND give them all distinct names #AND come up with that many superhero/villain names #AND design them based on aforementioned powers #i think this is one of the few rare cases where it being gimmicky and cheesy works bc that's part of the charm of a superhero story #superheroes ARE gimmicky and cheesy #you know they're about doing the right thing!! you know they're about being the good guys!! #yeah yeah i know it goes a lot deeper than that but. you get what i'm saying? #and like how could i possibly hate bakugo becoming better #how could i possibly hate hawks being a kickass mentor and being a hero who strives for something different #how could i hate aizawa defending his students so dearly and monoma and shinsou being underdogs who rise up to the challenge #how could i hate a group of kids who are so kind and good and are so keen on helping each other??? who are trying to protect each other??? #i simply can't!! #tldr i have a soft spot for bnha and this is my love letter for a series that quite frankly doesn't deserve half the vitriol it gets #sou says stuff

[ask-artsy-oncie]

On God I'm gonna start swinging a bat at a hornet's nest. If you say "oh I know all about the Once-ler fandom! I saw Sarah Z's video about it" no the fuck you don't know about the Once-ler fandom.

#Vent #The whole video is massively voyeuristic despite the fact that she claims to have been in the fandom #And the entire time she props it up as this insanely weird phenomenon despite it being a pretty clear logical conclusion of tumblr culture #Like at the time all its elements were common and normal within fandom tumblr #But it was a Seuss character and people had war flashbacks to the Jo-jo fandom so we were promptly bullied to all hell #If it really was because of the askblog/shipping culture then you'll have to explain why the immense bullying started BEFORE that took off. #But no let's gawk at how surface-level 'weird' these guys are. We're definitely good and nice people and cringe culture is dead #Like that's how yalls sound #If cringe culture is dead shut the fuck up #And like that isn't her only video to hold that mentality either tbh #She's very much a 'look at this WEIRD and UNFATHOMABLE side of the internet!' kind of essayist #As if that isn't a form of bullying by framing people that way and pretending you're above it.

[demonstars]

jason derulo minds his business and sings his catchy lil songs everyone leave that man alone 😭

I would check out his music if I wasnt so invested on this fic but like. Yeah

#don't think og anon meant anything bad nor do I want to imply that people can't just like. not like him whatvs #my reaction was largely because of the way the tweet was clearly viral in a neg way and I was forced to confront how cruel online #spaces are with people in general. I know we talk a lot about dream being The internet punchbag —and #he is right now—but the culture of cringe irony and softcore bullying is one that has been built #over the years with different victims and it's sad to witness unprepared #star anons

[saspitite]

some people could really learn a thing or two from the art of Not Giving A Fuck

#sas says #like what happened to the philosophy of “if it isn't hurting anyone why should you care” #answer: it was never accepted into society in the first place #because people are very uptight about other people being different in a way they don't like. as if that even matters. #cringe culture is like a huge example of this #oh maybe i should rant abt cringe culture sometime i have plenty of things to say on that

[ibuprofenlesbian]

shiori and nerrissa joking about strap ons. Hello

#sorry for vtuber posting #as much as i am anti cringe culture i feel very ‘cringe’ talking about it #especially after being into calli from holomyth and realizing The Horrors #like there is no way to check that they are decent people bc it’s anonymous under their characters and that scares me #i really like shiori a lot though nerrissa is cool too #also like soooo many people are just gross about vtubers especially hololive creators #i do Not want to be associated with that i just think they’re silly and like listening to their streams #ive been falling asleep to either them or clownhouse streams for a while now every night

[carcinized]

i have srsly had irl queer people make fun of me for being queer + liking sports and tell me that is like, not gay or something. like ok just say youre chronically online. womens soccer is the queerest thing i have ever been a part of hands down. also youre an awful person

#tobin talks #ITS ABSURD. HOW CAN YOU BE THAT MEAN #this was when i was 15 so maybe thats why. but like..... its so awful. like 15 yo's always gonna act like that #but come on. lots of us online are older than that. we could be better and NOT teach this behavior to 15 yo's #because you know they learned this shit online. the specific person who did this to me was most active on tumblr. #not even tiktok or twitter this was a tumblr gay. begging you guys to change the culture 😭😭 #this goes for more than just sports obvs its about general pushing stereotypes #which is how you get queer people sacrificing parts of their identity in order to be accepted into the community #as opposed to sacrificing the queer parts of their identity to be accepted into queerphobic communities? #like tell me how thats morally sound. accept ppl as they are and not just for things theyre systemically discriminated for?? #be a nice fucking human being?? #the queer community can tear each other apart lately i wish we would go back to the pure love of it all #bc like for me it is not worth it to be close with most queer people anymore. my friends are mostly all cishet #because guess what even though they dont understand my queer identity at least theyre not assholes about my entire personality otherwise #its so awful Like. can we all agree to not be cliquey #you dont have to be a paletable aesthetic gay. you dont have to be chonrically online and never go outside. you dont have to not drive #you dont have to be bad at math. what other fucking stereotypes are there man #its so fucking stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!! like 'let people enjoy things' goes for all things not just online stuff like this is a two way street #yes non online/gay/neurodivergent people should be kinder about 'cringe' interests. but hey that doesnt mean we get to be dicks to people #with more common interests or like... idk man im talking in circles here. but god when did the lgbtq+ community turn into a clique #do this do that if you dont we'll ignore that part of you or actively make fun of you for it. #STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 #non rebloggable im just ranting here this is not one to rb. but like. ITS SO AWFUL AND MEAN. STOP

[bednbunfast]

just...just one more task...and i am free from school..!! then i can go back to doodling the silly little characters from twst (and perhaps even rio ranger? he has been in my mind for quite a while now...please leave silly doll boy!!!)

or not...i've been very preoccupied with another oc that's not twst related,, she has no name but they will very much be cemented in your head if you meet them!!

here's a very quick doodle of her!! i've just been calling her Dummy atm,, to lose your name...how stupid of you!! i guess she just lies about that,, she does know their own name...just,, refuses to tell people!! even i don't know it...! yet..!

#☕️ | chatter #🍰 | shortcakes #i will finish this one floyd and yuuli art the moment i'm truly free and it will be shaded and colored AAA!!! #it has yuuli lore!! or lore implications!!! not like her lore was complex to begin with... #i like making my character/self-inserts as normal to the world as possible!! #the effects of cringe culture is still prevalent within me...my old ocs...oh how they stood out so wonderfully!! #if only i was able to feel that way again!! nowadays they can be reduced to being a background character #in their own little world...only able to watch as the scenes of the story unfold...

[laceratedlamiaceae]

I'm not super into blackhands compared to other Izzy ships (for fics with a happy ending, at least) because I genuinely feel like Izzy is too good for Ed. Ed is erratic, impulsive, melodramatic, egotistical, short-tempered, and overemotional, but he's also a huge dick and incredibly fucking annoying. All that makes him perfect for Stede, who's tied with him for being the most insufferable person to ever exist, but not for Izzy, whose only real flaw is being kind of a dick sometimes. I prefer shipping Izzy with someone better than Ed, like Calico Jack.

#i know this reads like a joke (because it is) but like i am also being serious at the same time #the same goes for stizzy but at least there you have their fun bitch4bitch dynamic to play with #sorry for being such an ed hater lately but i'm rewatching the show and he's the fucking worst once you look past how hot he is #as someone from a culture where you Do Not talk about things or show your feelings to anyone except your spouse/therapist #i can't handle the way ed is so expressive #it makes me cringe more than the office #this feels too mean to put in the tags lol #shitpost #hot take

[the-official-account]

Decided to do with my anxiety what I did with my body dysmorphia ages ago which is to beat it with the affirmation stick until it eventually becomes a central part of my belief system. This round is "I am strange and I am loved. I may be misunderstood and that does not make me alone. I am surrounded by people who accept me"

#theres reasoning for this #like 'i am cringe but i am free' despite being incredibly memeable doesnt work for me #first of all saying it outloud can sound self depricating. and accidentally sounding self depricating #(something i rarely actually do) #makes me want to shrivel up into freeze fried weasel and hibernate for seveal hears #also the presence of the word 'but' presents these things as contradicory ideas. and i need them to go hand in hand #hense this sey of affirmations #the rule of three is good and memorable #the first statement says something about myself. something it is good and realistic for me to believe is inherent about myself #the second accounts for situations when that first one may feel threatened such as when i am misunderstood #using an AND here for those ideas that are NOT conteadictory is reslly important cor the syntax of my brain #being misunderstood does not say anything about me. it is a nuetral statement and i reminder of important truths #and these truths are easy to affirm if i get REAL spooked by touching base with a friend! #and lastly is something i want to believe about the world #.....i am a strange sort of person. i exist outside of a lot of cultural norms in a way i cant change if i wanted to. i dont want to #but having a hard heart or expecting harm and judgement from other people isnt good for me #and doesnt lend to good conversation #i want to enter spaces with the expectation that i will be accepted because i deserve to be accepted. that is the norm. #i want to believe that is normal. therefore i am making a statement about other people #both friends and strangers #they WILL accept me. and it will be easier for them to do so if i dont come in afraid of harm and instead open to conversation #anyways thats my logic! i wanted to externalize it and dont mind doing so publicly #i hope this may have helped someone <3 #lush chats #anyways memorize and repeat these all the damn time. thats what i do. good mantras for grounding yourself. #i especially like to do affirmations when i look in the mirror. Spell of anti dissociation

[idkwhatimdoingbutpersonal]

Why are K-pop stans being so weird about all the K-pop in xo, kitty.

It takes place…. in korea ????

#I see criticisms about how a lot of songs don’t fit the situation which is understandable #but other people are saying ‘yeah they put so many Korean songs then cut them in random places’ that’s how soundtracks work ??? #you’re not gonna play the whole song ??? #‘the show was cringe’ THATS TBE POINT ??? #YALL DONT LIKE HAVING FUN OMD #‘it’s so koreaboo coded’ #idk about this one #it has Korean characters in it……… #idk if the entire cast was white would we feel the same way? #are Korean people a monolith who act the same way ??? #obviously there are commonalities with culture but people are different everywhere #idk #xo kitty #I’m not Korean so it isn’t my place to speak #but some of a lot of these stans are even Korean themselves …… #ALSO #AUDIENCES STOP BEING MAD WHEN TEENAGERS ARE WRITTEN AS IMPERFECT AND WEIRD CHALLENGE IMPOSSIBLE DIFFICULTY