Cringe is having a moment. Millions of posts with the hashtag are shared online, and entire forums on Reddit are dedicated to discussing what makes us cringe. We’re all just too familiar with this ...

She’s not the only artist embracing cringe. Los Angeles-based writer K. Allado-McDowell’s new novel, Amor Cringe, is a love letter to cringe maximalism. Allado-McDowell set out to write the cringiest ...

“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. ...

It’s hard to pinpoint when the “embrace your cringe” discourse sidled its way into popular culture. It could have been last spring, when Taylor Swift told NYU graduates to “learn to live alongside ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Is the 'Fanum tax' song Gen Alpha's first viral internet trend? • The “Fanum tax” song or “Sticking Out Your Gyat for the Rizzler” is a mash-up of Gen Alpha’s favorite slang terms sung to a ...

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 ...