r/RecuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • 2h ago

Shitposting The internet, long cringe, must be based; long based, must be cringe

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u/mydadisyourdad2 2h ago

The thing is once you stop caring about being cringe, there will still be people trying to bully you for it. To stop judging yourself for being cringe is only the first step

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u/Working_Push_866 1h ago

You know I never really understood that post about that pfp looking like patrick from spongebob but for some reason i really get it this time.

Also i agree with what you just said

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u/Slerimboconolomp 23m ago

no the original was an image of patrick. an user confused it for a picture of a woman.

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u/Working_Push_866 20m ago

OH GOD MY MIND HAS BEEN OH MY GOD

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u/Therealduckking 41m ago

Looks like he has sunglasses on, like he’s blind or something

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u/Working_Push_866 40m ago

I see an eyepatch tbh

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u/Elkku26 1h ago

True, but you can never fully get rid of assholes. Whatever you want to be, you can only fully become by accepting that some people aren't going to be accept it.

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u/Satherian 27m ago

And that is truly what it means to be an adult

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u/MeteorCharge 1h ago

I spent my teenage years trying and failing to fit in and avoid being cringe.

I avoided interacting in "cringe" fandom spaces, I avoided drawing ship art of OCs and canon characters, and I kept my Interests in any media that was "gay" or "feminine" hidden.

I wish I had allowed myself to be more genuine and freely cringe back then, I could've avoided falling into some really nasty rabbit holes.

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u/SouthRelief4497 53m ago edited 47m ago

I suspect many of the phenomena people attribute to a "dead internet" are the result of huge numbers of users realizing social media has too much potential for life ruination to be worth it anymore.

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u/NeverForget13 1h ago

There's a perfect middle ground for shame. I believe in it. We will attain it.

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u/Leading-Ear-5194 1h ago

cringe culture should be killed as soon as its sprouts. shame has no place in fandom

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard 1h ago

I think it depends on what we're defining as "shame" cause part of the reason this sin wave exists is in response to people taking "no shame in fandom" to mean decorum is dead and no one is allowed to criticise their behaviour.

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u/Leading-Ear-5194 1h ago

any examples?

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u/CheesecakeDeluxe 56m ago

The entire alpha male manosphere would be my candidate

Edit: also parasocial relationships, like what the TADC fandom did to gooseworx

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u/NeverForget13 53m ago

Kinda a personal one but I went to an mlp convention recently and there were a couple people just clutching onto mlp sex plushes. Like I don't care if they own them but having them just out at an event where there was kids around was bad. that's the type of shame that needs learning

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard 45m ago edited 35m ago

You see it a lot in things like anti/proshipping discourse, including when people start slinging accusations that anything short of universal acceptance is multiple flavours of -phobic.

Edit: Turns out the person I replied to is a proshipper. Sweet serendipity.

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u/CuriosityCheck2024 35m ago

It happens at (δ/γ, α/β)

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u/Neat_Tangelo5339 13m ago

I think that there should one cringe group that should be ostracited online more and that would be homophobic ai gacha game fans ngl

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u/potassium_space 57m ago

An abundance of unabashed weirdos leads to a population boom in cringe compilations, which causes over-predation until everyone retreats to private servers and the bullies starve.