#cringe is dead and we killed it

[marshyoftheblobs]

So the anime mom curse struck but so did the Stampede curse which made things worse and the twins get taken and Vash ends up in a coma for 2 years. Don't worry the kids are totally fiiine and totally not experimented on like lab rats after taken to earth :)

Oh yeah if you know who these kids are then you've known me for far too long.

[ruinedmyblog]

I wasn’t aware that Menopause was even a name possibility.

[trraubensaft]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOO

I'M GONNA START PREPARING SOME STUFF RN

WELCOME TO CRINGETOBER!

I wanted to post the prompt list a month in advance so people have time to work on it :)

There are no hard rules; it's just a fun art exercise to draw things that are considered "cringe" by popular culture. Don't stress if you miss a day!!

Even if you don't participate, it would mean the world to me if you just shared the prompt list because it took me a while to make it lol.

I hope you have fun with it!!!

[crime-soncloud]

Glomps you and explodes you . :33333333

Nyaaa. Hugs you a lot and explodes you back. Nya.

:3333 nya nya

[prommytheus]

i am going to phrase this poorly but i need to say it anyway: cringing and upholding cringe culture is your knee-jerk feeling of disgust against things that are unfamiliar or odd to you. yes, yours. it’s not just a silly word that means “when other people make fun of things i like,” it’s something that you can and will do too, often without even really realising.

“fighting cringe culture” means when you’ve been made uncomfy by something you see online, actually, truly reflecting on that feeling and if it actually comes from a thought-through and informed opinion, or your uninformed (or misinformed) biases and unfounded assumptions.

put simply: you don’t get to opt out of thinking. ever.

(and even if it truly is the first option, the best action you can take is to keep scrolling. harassment is never justified.)

[purpleoffbeat]

theres something to be said about how the internet went from shaming others and their interests for being "cringy" to universally agreeing that sonic is cool, actually, and shadow is cool, actually, and edgy shadow stuff is MEGA cool, actually. edginess in sonic died around 2007 but is now back in 2024. WELCOME BACK COOLNESS.

really says something about how the public perception on the insane lore of the sonic franchise has improved in the last ten years when the new game has shadow getting the angsty demon wings from hell™️ and everyone thinks it's the coolest fucking thing they've ever seen

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

I did it i drew vore of masterson im gonna explode its getting popular on ny FA jesus christ - masterson fucker anon

ANON. ANON THATS BASED AS FUCK. ANON IM OBSESSED. IS MASTERSON PRED OR PREY?? HOLY FUCK

[butterflieswhisper]

hiiii ^^ beastlife fishie analysis. spoilers ahead. etc etc

okay so. the main point of this is simple. I don't think the salmon head cursed c!fishie. Explaining that is the harder part I think. also i'm going to refer to the salmon head thing in e5 as "the incident" from here on out because frankly i think it's funny

Let's start with the incident. The big day. etc. What happened? Why did it happen? Obligatory third questioning statement? Well. She was gifted the salmon head for her birthday by kiwi(or like. someone in the kiwibird system. -bird system. the birds). Immediately upon receiving it she relives parts of season one and fishie herself doesn't really acknowledge it. The other players definitely notice but im not caught up enough in any other pov yet to like have thoughts on that I'll come back to that point someday. Fishie seems shaken, sure, but she moves on so quickly, especially considering what happened just there. 37 seconds of standing frozen, unresponsive. she recovers in 5 seconds. And seeing how she reacts later on to realizing the memory situation--if she was aware that happened, she would probably be concerned by it. She puts it on for a brief second at the end of the party and takes it off immediately. She's otherwise normal -- well. as normal as she is otherwise up to that point. Because that is also how she acts with pretty much any salmon head, even just kiwi herself.

I raise: Episode one, about 8:20 in. The slow zoom on kiwi as the static overtakes every other noise. This is the *exact* same behavior displayed when fishie receives the salmon head, albeit without actual concrete old video footage style flashbacks. In episode two (28:55ish) the same thing happens when she looks at the salmon head in moch's house, but this time there is technically a flashback -- kiwis grave. Fishie moves on immediately and doesn't acknowledge her behavior at all, and, seeing as it is fishie, im inclined to believe that means she does not know she is doing it. Fishie (when alone) will discuss all of her problems in immense, and usually misguided detail (bestie i promise kiwi doesn't hate you???) to the audience and/or herself. I mean she's not alone in episode one, and it is technically presession, and i guess getting struck by lightning is a decent distraction from your problems, but in episode two? She is completely alone. There is nobody with her. She went looking for moch and moch is not there. She still doesn't acknowledge the fiveish seconds she is completely frozen. This happens again and again with kiwi and salmon heads.

And then that leads you to e5. The incident. She's. well. she's doing worse. 0:50. "This will distract me if i leave it up." This is the first mention from fishie herself about how fucking weird she's being, and even then she doesn't seem concerned. I think she does not realize she's being so so incredibly weird about it. If the static and freezing is what's referred to as "distraction" then keeping it in her inventory makes it worse actually so it wouldn't really make sense unless the way it is distracting her is NOT the. well. whatever the fuck is wrong with her (affectionate). After she puts the head on there's the static all the time but for a short brief amount of time she's like significantly more normal and i don't really know if that means anything i just think it's really funny.

And then we all know what goes on during the incident i'm not analyzing this video frame by frame. um. i could. but i am not going to right now. And then she has the conversation on the table with kiwi where she like is normal for 5 minutes. Like genuinely the most. i guess stable? fishie's thought process is is like in the moments directly after the incident. She is immediately understanding with the antikiwi situation, they come to an agreement that they're like. okay now. "thank you for everything and im so sorry i couldnt do more" / "it was short, but it was nice" "i knew what i was getting into when i married you" etc etc and then they kind of rush it at the end because people won't stop dying. But then fishie is fishie and takes it in the complete opposite extreme (from. um. whatever was wrong up until now. to "oh kiwibird must secretly hate me because" and then there's no real good reason she's just like that) and it's also an issue. And i think the season two memory thing is also a part of that but this is so long already and so i'm not going to get into it rn. So bringing all of this back to my original point: the salmon head was not the cause of the curse(?) because she's been so weird all the time forever and the salmon head thing was just like. an effect. of whatever went Wrong(tm) in the season transition. like the head was a vessel to Be Worse about it but i feel like it would have worked with any salmon head she got her hands on and that it happened to be kiwico was a coincidence and also that the head wasn't cursed at all there's just something deeply wrong with fishie s3 in general and uh yeah 👍

I'm so sorry this is so disjointed i had a thesis statement and everything. alas

[lavampira]

I saw you in a dream, then it came to an end I wonder if you’ll come and visit me again

[spagetthiandfish]

why in every cosplay cringe compilation or just cringe compilations in general its just a plus size person breathing and living their life doing something that every other person is doing.. and for some reason its cringe??? its literally not that hard to be a nice person

[magpie-black-and-white]

Hot take: Hater culture is just cringe culture in a different trench coat.

“I love being a hater u3u” No you love being a pedantic little shit who takes the enjoyment out of everything and makes people feel bad for liking anything.

What makes “being a hater” so fucking annoying isn’t even the negativity, it’s that it makes everything fucking boring. What, something has to be flawless to be good? Get fucked. I hate that kind of mindset, that just because something has its issues that it’s fine to dismiss everything it does right. Chronic “Hating” strips everything of its individuality and demands conformity, because how dare this thing be something I don’t enjoy! How dare there be flaws!

And don’t even get me started on how half of the “flaws” they point out aren’t even fucking flaws, and are just not conventional.

It’s also fucking annoying how this kind of mindset crawled into fandom spaces. That’s also why, in my opinion, it got this rebrand, because “cringe” in itself is kind of a fandom-esque term. It’s just a bunch of bitter idiots getting lost and finding themselves in fandom spaces somehow, only to point at everything and going “Oh my GOD, do you UNIRONICALLY like that??”

It’s the same shit over again, where something is only “allowed” to be enjoyed through like, seven layers of irony. It’s pathetic. Fuckos, it’s fine to acknowledge that something has flaws and still like it. At least fucking stand for it.

I didn’t want to acknowledge how fandom in general has deteriorated because of these insecure, bitter idiots invading spaces made for enjoying something unconventional safely, but fuck, I miss the old times. They weren’t fucking perfect, but at least there wasn’t some whiny rat around every corner screeching about how liking something is bad unless you do it at a mental and emotional distance.

Fuck haters. Fuck cringe culture. Fuck all the people who say shit like “love being a hater uwu” and “being bullying back”. Sort out your own fucking issues. Grow up.

[wfuckshit42]

here's my hot take

[pbeltarts]

I found your blog recently, and I really like your art. (I'll probably you send another ask specifically about your art later.) So, I scrolled through your blog and found out that swagger bishie is the dandash ship. I agree. It's really weird. So I tried coming up with another ship name, which is really hard since it's difficult to find something that works both of their names. (To be continued)

The best I have is Spectre of the Jock(s), mostly because of each word's meanings. Spectre is obviously a reference to Danny, but it's also French for spectrum. Jock has its well-known meaning, but apparently (according to Google), it also means astronaut(?). I have no clue why. But since it has that meaning anyways, it can be connected to Danny since he likes the stars. So the ship name could be a reference to Danny being a ghost, him being with Dash, or to the multiple sides of each character.

You put so much effort into that and I applaud you.

[livvyofthelake]

and it’s finally bedtime yayyyy. got home from work genuinely 30 minutes ago which is evil especially due to the fact i just showered and now i have to go to sleep with wet hair which is my nightmare. having to go to sleep with wet hair is what made me insane and suicidal my first semester of college and i’m not even kidding. ok it was one factor but it truly was that serious you had to be there oh my god

[sonicchaoscontrol]

AIKAJWJSKSJDIWKA HELLO YOU’RE BACK! IVE BEEN WAITING. FOR TWO YEARS. How have you been doing since then? I’m glad to see you’re on a role once again!

//squats menacingly

[HELLO HELLO I am doing FABULOUSLY, and I hope you & everyone else reading this is doing the same!! I've been heckin' BUSY trying to play catch-up on this silly AU & gnawing through the bars of the containment zone trying not to ramble about future plans - you know, just normal things! It's been goin' alright though, and not a day went by on that hiatus that I didn't think about coming back to this when the time was right. Why the blazes did I avoid this series/niche for so long? Beats me, but I'm glad to be back.]

[electrificata]

the cringe wars are strange to me. people are corny sometimes and i think it should be ok to acknowledge that. BUT perhaps they should not be doxxed and harassed off their socials for the crime of "being kind of corny." a middle road is possible (having a little nervous laugh and then moving on)