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LBonne24
2 years agoSeasoned Ace
"LeucosiaX;c-18324247" wrote:
cringe is usually used to describe someone who invokes cringe feelings like a gen zer would say This person is cringe or being cringe or a cringelord.
I know I'm in the wrong group if I have to consult with the urban dictionary to follow, (my mind always notes):
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cringe
Cringe
When someone acts/ or is so embarrassing or awkward , it makes you feel extemely ashamed and/or embarrassed.
"Hey that guy over there is cringy"
"Are you kidding Francis is the definition of cringe!"
This isn't like a huge deal but Millienials came up with the term cringe. Like not the original word, which would be the physical action from evoking an emotion of fear, shame, embarrassment, etc. But the colloquial term that came out in the 2010s, yeah that was us. I'm what would be called a zennial, Millienial still born in the generation with memories of said generation, but at the end, and my younger siblings are Gen Z. It's not people their age who were going around calling everything cringe. They're doing it now, with variations. And calling Millienial's it too.
But like before that wasn't "cringey" what they called things in movies in the 90s are stuff. Like you can't blame Gen Z for this. This is the most Millineal thing in this pack. Especially using the dab as the example.