#and ironically this isn’t even something I first saw in fnaf

[pixlokita]

Fic: -and the literal dead character who can’t even eat or sleep or feel anything and is in eternal agony knew his friend had it worse than them, sure the friend was alive and depressed but being dead meant they weren’t suffering like their alive friend was who btw was also the reason they died slowly and painfully in the first place -

Dead character: -also feels guilty for blaming their friend for literally killing them even though they legit DIED because of them-

Me:

Me: no I’m sure the dead character has it worse.

[its-just-hyper]

Man, today I want to rant about cringe culture. Im not gonna cover the points about children and neurodivergent people, those have been covered a million times already.

First of all, I want to preface this by saying I have always, ALWAYS been a very “cringey” person. My dynamic in all my relationships for as long as I can remember has been that I’m the “comic relief somewhat pathetic one” and that is self inflicted. My own mother told me that I was so obsessed with undertale that she “didn’t like talking to [me] and regrets not getting [me] tested for autism.”

I’ve been in countless cringe fandoms, including but not limited to mlp, fanfic/fandom culture, mha, animation memes, Henry stickmin, minecraft, Pokémon, the furry fandom, cosplay, sanders sides, dream smp, batim, Aphmau, and MANY others. Undertale has always been the really big thing for me, but recently fnaf has been the thing for me. Because of cringe culture, I hate myself for enjoying things. In order to talk about my interests, self deprecating ironic humor was super common from me.

This humor evolved from irony, to self deprivation, to despising myself for enjoying things considered “cringe” (example is Undertale, but many other things, too), all the way to feeling so much shame for liking anything at all that I distance myself from everything.

Genuinely, I had a meltdown because I like hollow knight. That isn’t even a “cringe” comunity!! It’s one of the chillest out there!!! And because I “like it too much” I made myself feel like shit preemptively.

This next section is a specific example, and this is a really difficult thing for me to admit candidly because of what I’ve already said.

I am in the gacha fnaf community. It’s something I enjoy, and I enjoy it separately from how i enjoy fnaf. SEPARATE FANDOMS, PEOPLE!! (Same with undertale and undertale aus, one is significantly less socially acceptable, and people leave it out of discussions in the other context, but not the other way around.)

I stumbled across a video by a large mainstream gachatuber focusing on and making fun of “gacha fnaf cringe”. All the clips shown were people self-insert shipping themselves with various aftons or animatronics. The only clip that wasn’t that formula, was a strange video about Ennard abusing Michael Afton. They didn’t even appear to be shipped together, it was just Mike getting beat up. Idk man.

After each clip, the YouTuber would say a snarky quip and move on, but the big thing that got to me was that they had never played fnaf, and had avoided it to the point that, on their entire time on the internet, never saw the purple guy sprite.

When someone made William a brunet man with glasses, the joke was about how “I did some research, and apparently William is just a purple blob. That’s not very close to the canon design, huh?”. When William was purple, the joke was about how “the designs are all so inconsistent in the whole community.”

This person but absolutely zero effort into research. At first that baffled me, but then I realized that it’s always true.

Have you ever met someone anti furry who’s given an accurate definition of what a furry even is? Probably not. Has anyone ever added any genuine commentary to a single cringe compilation, other than “wow that’s cringe, kys”??? Probably fucking not.

There are issues within the fnaf gacha community that (if any effort was used) they could have talked about, and had an insightful video. For example, plagiarism is rampant, and shipping in a fandom related to fnaf is inherently…. a very tricky subject, if you will.

Were either of those discussed? Nope. Just comments on how weird it is that William’s been called daddy in the fnaf games before. “Maybe that’s where they got these gross aus from” ((the alias is literally referring to William’s young daughter’s dialogue))

After seeing that bafflingly ignorant video, I went to their channel to see what other stuff they make. Many of the videos were along the lines of “reacting to [thing that is cringe] except I ROAST them!”.

It is truly so, so disgusting that cringe culture isn’t dead. Genuinely. I genuinely think it is the laziest form of content. It’s mean, and pathetic and honestly, what’s the point of it?

It’s not funny, it’s not insightful, it’s not kind, it’s just mean and quick.

Who do you think you’re helping?

[heartz4mujin]

WHAT THE KARASUNO MEMBERS ARE AFRAID OF

hi everybody! i’m back again with some headcanons of what i think our karasuno members are afraid of! i’ve had these in the back of my mind for a while so i’m finally sharing them lol- hope you enjoy! also sorry- there might be spelling errors i didn’t do a thorough check.

TSUKISHIMA KEI

i feel like he’s is afraid if rollercoasters, ones with large drops specifically

Like if you ask him if he wants to get on the drop tower with you, he would refuse. it’s an automatic “no.”

He CAN be peer pressured onto getting on a coaster though

but if you do manage to get him on one he’ll be sick for the rest of the day so proceed with caution

YAMAGUCHI TADASHI

yamaguchi is 100% TERRIFIED of spiders

when he were to see something like a wolf spider he’ll would scream and probably run

If he ever saw a tarantula he might just pass out

He would even be freaked out by a rubber spider AFTER he knew it was fake 😭

Saw a HUGE one on the wall when he was home alone and the first thing he did was call tsukishima and ask him how he should get rid of it

of course he teased him but he did actually end up helping him

HINATA SHOYO

clowns lol

When he was small his mom took him to the circus and that’s where the fear originated-

Watched IT because he thought he could handle it and hasn’t been the same since

When killer clowns were trending best believe he was on edge at all times

saw a clown during halloween and FROZE in terror

KAGEYAMA TOBIO

JUMPSCARES (same dude)

Yeah he seems tough n all but all you gotta do is show this guy a jump scare compilation and he’ll be flinching and yelping at every single one

you’d think he would expect it after a while but nO

Tried to play FNAF but you can imagine how that turned out

lasted five minutes

YACHI HITOKA

poor girl is afraid of literally everything but if i had to narrow it down i would say the dark and creepy noises

she’s always the last one to fall asleep at a sleepover because the room is pitch black and she keeps “hearing” things

she’ll be on edge for most of the night

once she does try and fall asleep she keeps imagining things

TANAKA RYUUNOSUKE

GHOSTS AHAHA

okay YES he does realize that they aren’t real and they can’t hurt him

but saeko used to tell him scary stories as a child to freak him out and those have stuck with him to this day

if someone even mentions the word around him he’s already walking the other way trying to get out of this conversation

NISHINOYA YUU

Dolls.

this man has seen WAY to many movies to be dumb enough to be near an antique doll of any sort

thinks they’re the creepiest thing to like ever exist

don’t even try to get him to watch annabelle, because it ain’t gonna happen

again like tanaka, if he sees one he’s sprinting the other way

SUGAWARA KOUSHI

(this one is based off of me and all of the info here is true)

Heights

really strange because he’ll get on literally the tallest roller coaster and be like “oh that? yeah no problem let’s do it” but he can’t even stand on the ledge of some stairs without stumbling back

you know those ladders that only have like three steps? he cant even get on those without trembling

don’t even think about having him change a lightbulb because if he has to get on an actual ladder he is OUTT

Like tsukishima, would rather die than get on a drop tower

DAICHI SAWAMURA

The ocean

idk it just doesn’t sit right w him that it’s just a large body of water that he can’t see through

like who knows that type of creatures are lurking below the surface

If he goes to the beach he’ll swim sure but don’t expect him to go super far out

Doesn’t help that he watched a documentary about it

ASAHI AZUMANE

Like yachi, he fears a lot but one of his biggest ones are bears, which is kinda ironic to me considering he reminds me of a big bear

The fact that they can become so big when standing on their hind legs freaks him out

also doesn’t like that despite how big they are they’re still super fast

KIYOKO SHIMIZU

Nothing. She fears NOTHING.

nah i’m jk she hates centipedes

if she sees a huge centipede she’s definitely slowly backing up trying not to scream

but honestly who isn’t afraid of those things they have wayyyy too many legs

heyyyy hope you enjoyed! tried to get these as accurate as possible, or at least from my thinking. but i’m very tired as it is 12:15am so i’m gonna hop off. see you next time!