White guys saying the N word and being gangsta. There is nothing ever cool about a white guy pretending to be ghetto. Yes I’ll include Eminem and I don’t care if he’s been given the pass.
society
Bootlicking of the 1%
Trustfunders and nepo babies who make no effort to try understand the working class and instead act like they are special or better than other people with different priorities and struggles due to circumstance.
Mistaking kindness for weakness.
Fashion policing, especially from religious clergy or judges.
Diva covers of songs that don’t fit the emotional tone of the song because they’re too busy showing off their vocal cords.
And people who love these songs.I can’t currently think of any particular women responsible for this,
or particular songs, but I’m quite sure it must have been Christmas song covers,
turning “Jingle Bells” into Aretha Franklin’s “Dr. Feelgood”.
The only particular song I can come up with, is Michael Bublé’s “cry me a river”
and whoever plays the instruments during his version,
so this is not just a mostly female phenomena.[edit] I’m pretty sure it’s Ariane Grande now.
Great singer but not very adaptable.
And probably missing the point of Mariah Carey’s christmas song popularity,
the original one as I’ve just seen newer Hallmark music video
where the video theme no longer matches the song.Evopsych type dudes.
They made up a whole pseudoscience to “explain” their inability to form meaningful bonds with other humans. And in the process broadcast to everyone they are on the spectrum but refuse to accept it.
Like my dude, I too have trouble intuiting the rules of proper social interaction and wonder where the manual everyone but me got is. But it’s not because of some made up bullshit about the pleistocene. It’s because I’m autistic, and it’s high time you got your ass checked.
Adults doing TikTok dances. It’s cringe enough when kids do it but there’s something about a fully grown adult chasing internet fame that’s just gives me second-hand embarrassment.
OP putting their answer in the body instead of as the first comment.
It’s set as an example. To you know, help people get an idea?
Who the fuck bothers putting their answer as the first comment? What do you think this is, Reddit? Where they don’t even allow you to put anything in the body after asking a question, like on AskReddit, so they want you to waste your time putting it as the first comment.
Go back to Reddit.
By leaving your answer as the first comment it still sets an example for people who find the thread. It also prevents top level comments from being responses to your opinion instead of answers to your question. As it stands, many of the top level comments here are about what qualifies as gangsta instead of what makes them cringe.
Go back to Reddit.
This made me cringe.
Pants that hang so low that all of your ass is above the waistline. Nobody can ever convince me it can be even remotely cool
Massively self-obsessed people (e.g people who constantly big themselves up) and Tumblr comedy.
Unfortunately, the venn diagram of self-obsessed theatre adults and people who talk like Tumblr posts is a circle, and it includes the two loudest people in my office.
Or those who make appeals to the self-obsessed. There’s a youtube channel (that keep appearing in my home despite me telling youtube repeatedly that I’m not interested), that starts off every short with “Heey Smart People”.
It’s just the idea of “us” (the smart) vs “them” (the implied dumb) that grinds me because in my experience the difference between these two groups isn’t very big, but people (mostly young adults) really lean into it for reasons of exclusion, fashion, and just general hatred of a strawman.
Why are you conflating “ghetto”, “gangsta,” and black? 95% of it is about where and how you grew up.
There’s plenty of white guys who, although will never experience and understand what it’s like to live in America while black, understand the struggle of growing up in the ghettos, being socioeconomically alienated, and being pressured to look to the “gangsta” lifestyle.
These three can often overlap, but are importantly separate things. A white guy in that situation won’t know what it means to be black like I do, but I will never have a fraction of their knowledge and experience of what it means to grow up to the streets.
Adults saying “poop”
Am British where it’s what kids call it. For adults it’s poo or shit.
I change my answer – being British will always be cringe to me.
You’ve been sold a lie. There’s no “Bri’ish” or “Caw blimey guvna”. These are people from the UK who go abroad, suddenly get way more attention for their (slight) accent than they ever did back at home, and play to the popularity by Flanderizing themselves to appeal more to their foreign audience.
Any english/irish/scottish accent you hear on a mainstream TV show is not representative of the general population. Example: the BBC news accent is about as representative of the UK population as the 1950s MidWestern Radio accent was representative of the US population. It’s a caricature that everyone but a foreign audience just mentally tunes out
American truck culture. It feels like parody or satire, except it’s real.
And then they complain about the cost of fuel.
And the cost of like everything else with the truck from payments to repairs.
These people are some of the most sensitive, selfish, proudly ignorant snowflakes I’ve ever met.
Not to mention the trend of larger cars in general as a daily driver is insane and completely unnecessary.
Large office buildings have been cringe to me for a few years. And wearing suits to the office, which just look like personalised school uniforms to me.
If I’m forced to wear an uniform to work, the employer should provide me with one.
Yip, or at least be heavily discounted.
I agree on the n word part, but do you expect white guys raised in/by disadvantaged black communities to pretend to be a person they’re not just because of the color of their skin?
OP must be joking. Living one of the largest cities in the US/World for two decades, skin color has nothing to do with being “gansta”.
People who call others cringe can be pretty cringe. Also people who generalize – e.g. via “all people who call others cringe are cringe” – is a cringe. Also people who stay noncommittal, avoiding vulnerability under layers of irony, can be pretty cringe too.
I agree with some of these things.
