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Embrace the cringe (lemmy.world)
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[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 53 points 1 week ago

"Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something"

Jake the Dog, Adventure Time

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 43 points 1 week ago
[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

That's pretty cool of you!

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 18 points 1 week ago

😎

Fr tho, I'd rather be cringe and myself than surround myself with people who wouldn't like the real me :3

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago

I find it amusing that this is like the epitome of cool. This means that if a person's goal was to become cool, their surest path there would be to forsake their quest of coolness and learn how to be unabashedly themselves

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

I think it's only cringe though, when you try being something/someone you are not. Just "trying" something isn't cringe in itself.

If I went to a skate park and tried to learn the skateboard I would definitely suck but it wouldn't be cringe, imagine a middle aged man with knee protection falling on his ass.

It would be cringe if I went there all dressed up in the latest skate fashion trying to blend in with the cool kids, throwing some skate jargon around.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

In order to be cool you first have to be cringe.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago
[-] SpraynardKruger@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

His version looks more like this.

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

He's a void

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

First you get the ideas, then you get the cringe, then you get the cool vase.

-- me

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 9 points 1 week ago
[-] Comtief@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

cringe makes the vase gold?

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Give me 3 beers and I won't be cringe.

[-] RQG@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

No. Be cringe. Embrace the cringe. Become the cringe.

My kids all call me cringe.

I don’t care because their behaviour is all round awesome.

Means I’m getting parenting results baby!

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

If cool is gas and cringe is solid, what's liquid?

[-] dvoraqs@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Probably crime

[-] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Waking up before noon

[-] scbasteve7@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Being an asshole.

[-] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This implies that the result will also be cringe.

this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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