Cringe may refer to:
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Cringe culture, an online culture of mocking "cringeworthy" content
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The Cringe
The Cringe is an independent rock band based in New York City. It features John Cusimano, James Rotondi, Jonny Blaze, and Shawn Pelton. The Cringe played at the SXSW music festival in 2008 and 2009. As of late November 2014, the Cringe had releas ...
, a U.S. rock band
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Cringe comedy
Cringe comedy is a subgenre of comedy that derives humor from social awkwardness, guilty pleasure, self-deprecation, idiosyncratic humor, and personal distress. A type of a cringe comedy are pseudo-reality TV shows, sometimes with an air of a mo ...
, a comedy genre
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Cringe pop, a genre of pop music
See also
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Cultural cringe
In the fields of cultural studies and social anthropology, cultural cringe is an expression used to refer to an internalized inferiority complex where people dismiss their own culture as inferior (''cringe-inducing)'' when compared to the culture ...
, the feeling of inferiority about one's own culture
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The ick
In Generation Z slang, the ick is used to describe a feeling of disgust that arises towards a love interest, usually after a specific, often trivial, behavior. The phrase was popularized by '' Love Island'' in 2017 and attracted further attention ...
, a slang term of the youth used with the definite article
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