Trust me, cringe is addictive. Once you cringe over [insert a wish-wash subject of debate] or the anti-vaxxers and get that sweet aftertaste from the sheer absurdity, you want a second hit. ‘Cause cringe is real and everyone loves it, from me, you, to 1.2 million members of the “Cringetopia” subreddit.
And there’s an infinite source of things to recoil from in laughter and embarrassment because the world, like the people in it, and like the subreddit itself, is colorful. As the community’s description says: “In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because I am enlightened by my intelligence.” You may even get a philosophical drift on your way to the cringe journey.
So get ready to swim in the ocean of biased opinions, naive beliefs, less than logical statements, and anything in between. Be sure to upvote the cringiest posts down below and check out part 1 of this post.
#1 Dude Probably Begins Posts With “Females Of Reddit…”
#2 Gatekeeping… A Language?
To find out more about this insanely popular community, We reached out to the “Cringetopia” subreddit’s moderator Fjallmadur, who was happy to share some insights.
“We started this subreddit to break away from the politics and hate that CringeAnarchy was becoming saturated with. /u/IAmMrPositive founded this subreddit and brought along me and a few other CringeAnarchy moderators who were tired of the mess that place had become,” the moderator recalled.
Fjallmadur added: “He basically made it a full-time job promoting this place in relevant subreddits and building this community from the ground up while telling people that this subreddit was going to be a place for everyone to come together, put politics aside, and just cringe at the people doing really weird and awkward stuff that they post online.” Today, it has turned into the one of the most regularly active subreddits on the entire site.
#3 W H I T E P E O P L E A M I R I G H T!!!
#4 Face Of Unemployment
When asked what the term “Cringetopia” refers to, the moderator explained that it’s exactly what it looks like, “an amalgamation of the words ‘cringe’ and ‘utopia.’” Moreover, “It’s a place where any cringe that doesn’t break our relatively lax community rules or Reddit sitewide rules is allowed.”
The moderator of the community sees cringe as inherently subjective. “What makes one person cringe, another person may think is entirely normal,” he said and continued that “My take on it is that we’ve all done stupid stuff that we look back on and cringe about, and looking at these people is a good way to relive that feeling, even if it’s not the exact situation that we’ve been in ourselves.”
#5 The Youth Baseball Team Had To Put These Signs Up Because Of The Amount Of Karens Acting Like Karens
#6 Magnetic Vaccine
#7 Shakuhachi Master Piled On By Sjws For Being White
#8 Bruh
#9 News Channel Body Shaming, She Doesn’t Even Look Bad
Fjallmadur also added that “we laugh at those folks, feel second-hand embarrassment over what we see, and share it with others, but I think that it’s ultimately a way for us to empathize with the people who are being featured on this subreddit.”
And although there are “some bad apples in the bunch,” according to the moderator, “we’re not about bullying or spreading hate at all; it’s all just for entertainment and understanding other people at the end of the day.”
Turns out, the subreddit has a bit of a bad rep from other communities because “they feel like we’re bullying people,” but Fjallmadur stressed the fact that their community is exactly the opposite. “Our community is all-inclusive, as you can see from our wonderful mod team, and I feel like we do a pretty good job as a whole to enjoy the light-hearted picking while avoiding actually hurting anyone,” they concluded.
#10 Those Damn Scorpios
#11 A Divorcing Couple Dividing Up Their Beanie Baby Collection In Court, 1999
#12 Rip Ronnie……
#13 This Is A Classic “Ooof” Moment
#14 Offended King
#15 Stole This From A Discord Server I’m In. Other Kin On Tumblr
#16 Notice At An Anime Convention
#17 This Made Me Cringe
#18 The Meme Itself Isn’t Cringe. I Mean The Article Part
#19 Nihari And Pulao Are Both Names Of Dishes In Pakistan
#20 Lisa Still Hasn’t Enightened Them
#21 A [friggin] Child
#22 Fellas Is It Gay To Change Your Underwear Everyday?
#23 Airsoft
#24 Alternative Medicine At It’s Best
#25 Female Dating Strategy Man… They’re Calling This Fragile Masculinity, Not Knowing That He Was Knowingly Doing That To Make Fun Of His Own Height
#26 Probably Refers To Him As “He’s 173 Months Old”
#27 Gen Z Army For Ever
#28 The Virus Only Affects Women, Obviously
#29 What Legs???
#30 God I Hate These
#31 The Duality Of Man
#32 I Mean, I Understand Being Protective Of Your Daughter To A Point, But Come On…
#33 Boomers, Am I Right?
#34 What A Waste Of $100,000
#35 Huh
#36 Wth
#37 If I Had To See This, So Do You
#38 More Of A Sad One
#39 Why… Just Why…
#40 Losing Weight Is Fatphobic
#41 Why?
#42 Yikes
#43 I Wonder If This Has Ever Worked
#44 He Looks So Depressed
#45 How Dumb Do You Have To Be?
#46 This Feels Really Smug
#47 Yeah, This Is Cringe
#48 The Baby Would Rather Be Deaf
#49 Bruh
#50 Restore A Saved Game To Restore The Weave Of Fate, Or Persist In The Doomed World You Have Created
#51 Why Tho
#52 Omg Your Soooo Cool And Edgy
#53 Ew
#54 I Have A Never-Ending Amount Of Xbox Cringe To Share
#55 Ohhhhh Boy, This Is A Good One…
#56 Found On Facebook. Just, Ew
#57 Gorilla Glue Girl
#58 Meme Lord?
#59 Friendzoned By A 3D Model
#60 Riiiiight
#61 Ugh, I Cringed At This
#62 Pain
#63 This
#64 M-E-T-A
#65 Chad Got Competition
#66 These Stupid Kpop Fans
#67 I Have Many Questions
#68 True
#69 Cringe
#70 I Was Not A Popular Child (2006)
#71 Hehe Haha Glip Glops Get It ?!?! Rick And Morty Funny
#72 Never Seen One Of These Myself Before
#73 Corporate Art Be Like
#74 He’s Pretty Much Another Jaystation, But Even Worse
#75 Children Bad Must Beat Wife
