The Evolution of Cringe [Content Made Simple]
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How Did We Get So ‘Cringe’?
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Platforms like TikTok or Twitter or YouTube, where anyone can stumble across anyone else, are hotbeds for cringe because cringe comes from context collapse: Here is a person standing up in public to say something that will be received in a way completely unlike what she had hoped or planned.
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