Asklemmy

American truck culture. It feels like parody or satire, except it's real.

I agree on the n word part, but do you expect white guys raised in/by disadvantaged black communities to pretend to be a person they're not just because of the color of their skin?

A good cringe-inducing thing is gatekeepers. Of music genre, fanbases, video games, any niche really. Saying there is a set criteria for being a fan of something, or being a 'practitioner' of a skill or activity. They act like something is a club or a cult and give it a generalization.

I wear my dad's classic rock icon band tees: name three songs, they demand. I could probably give you a line from one. No I don't listen to them on a regular basis. I have listened to at least three songs but not enough to recite their names. If someone donated or gifts you their old shirts from concerts--you wear them out of respect.

Musicals. 😬

Tik Tok brainrot

Like there are so many cool science videos or even gameplay content on youtube, so many movies and TV to watch on sites like netflix or any of the various media platforms, why are kids watching stupid dances and stupid "viral challenges"

Why are you conflating "ghetto", "gangsta," and black? 95% of it is about where and how you grew up.

There's plenty of white guys who, although will never experience and understand what it's like to live in America while black, understand the struggle of growing up in the ghettos, being socioeconomically alienated, and being pressured to look to the "gangsta" lifestyle.

These three can often overlap, but are importantly separate things. A white guy in that situation won't know what it means to be black like I do, but I will never have a fraction of their knowledge and experience of what it means to grow up to the streets.

White guys saying the N word and being gangsta. There is nothing ever cool about a white guy pretending to be ghetto. Yes I'll include Eminem and I don't care if he's been given the pass.

He grew up in the ghetto around that culture. He wasn't pretending. I didn't know he used the n word in any songs. He may have used it in conversation idk.

Repeating song lyrics don't count bc usually you are alone anyway. It's a 'tree falls in the woods and no one there to hear it' situation.

Large office buildings have been cringe to me for a few years. And wearing suits to the office, which just look like personalised school uniforms to me.

People who call others cringe can be pretty cringe. Also people who generalize -- e.g. via "all people who call others cringe are cringe" -- is a cringe. Also people who stay noncommittal, avoiding vulnerability under layers of irony, can be pretty cringe too.

The concept of faith.

Not just for God.

The idea of glorifying believing something without evidence.

If you believe in someone based on prior actions, that isn't faith.

If you put your faith in someone you don't know, fucking cringe.

"Imma turn my brain off" shouldn't be inspirational.

Nothing makes me cringe quite as hard as just have faith.

YouTube videos having intros and "introductions" before the video starts.

The sound of people chewing. It induces such a visceral cringe but I can't even explain why it bothers me so much. I just find the sound disgusting for some reason.

Adults doing TikTok dances. It's cringe enough when kids do it but there's something about a fully grown adult chasing internet fame that's just gives me second-hand embarrassment.

Apologetics and celebrity worshippers: people that defend politicians instead of being critical and forcing them to bend to the will of the working class.

Some of us grew up in ghetto circumstances. I have never said the N word, but at one point, I was up to no good.

Ruling class/race making music about struggle.

Corporate speeches.

Entitled customers make me cringe hard, especially when its someone I am with.

Trustfunders and nepo babies who make no effort to try understand the working class and instead act like they are special or better than other people with different priorities and struggles due to circumstance.

Mistaking kindness for weakness.

Fashion policing, especially from religious clergy or judges.

Evopsych type dudes.

They made up a whole pseudoscience to "explain" their inability to form meaningful bonds with other humans. And in the process broadcast to everyone they are on the spectrum but refuse to accept it.

Like my dude, I too have trouble intuiting the rules of proper social interaction and wonder where the manual everyone but me got is. But it's not because of some made up bullshit about the pleistocene. It's because I'm autistic, and it's high time you got your ass checked.

The concept of taking fictionkin seriously

Referring to someone as queer. When I grew up that was a major insult. You just didn't use that word, like the n word. You used others like homosexual and such. But now it is mainstream and ok to use in the right way. But it still feels offensive in my head.

People trying to be attention-seeking in public. I used to see this a lot driving down Melrose in Hollywood a lot, and I’d have to look away because it was so disgusting.

OP putting their answer in the body instead of as the first comment.

Bootlicking of the 1%

Massively self-obsessed people (e.g people who constantly big themselves up) and Tumblr comedy.

Unfortunately, the venn diagram of self-obsessed theatre adults and people who talk like Tumblr posts is a circle, and it includes the two loudest people in my office.