“Cringe culture” emerged from informal social policing on social media, but it is also prevalent in real-life interactions. Behaviors that are tagged as awkward or overly eager are shared and mocked. ...

Leeron Walter is an award-winning VP Marketing at Teramind, a global cybersecurity leader and an international speaker on secure innovation. In an age of curated feeds and overly polished brand ...

Credit: Zain bin Awais/Mashable Composite; Holger Scheibe/Cimmerian/via Getty Images "That blue umbrella is still stashed under my bed," Carletta says, recalling the fateful evening that she was ...

It's Been a Minute's Brittany Luse on the rise of cringe culture: where it comes from, how it's hurting us, and how leaning into cringe is good for art. If you could choose viral fame, would you? If ...

Was it the acoustic guitar? The cell phone lights swaying in the background? Or was it the lyrics of the song itself? Whatever it was, the impact was immediate and brutal. According to the internet, ...

Raised online and under constant scrutiny, young adults are leaning into embarrassment as a necessary part of growing up. By Yola Mzizi Kate Glavan was in a rut. Ms. Glavan, 26, had moved to New York ...

There was a time when millennials ruled the internet with ironic Tumblr posts and the golden age of Instagram filters. But now, in the TikTok era, their once effortless cultural currency is being ...

Marshall and his friends Ashton, Chad, Noah and Lucas see cringe-worthy content on social media a lot. "I'd say it's pretty popular," says Marshall, 18, from Adelaide. "It's probably the fact that ...

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