DC Comics weathered the '90s well, but they still managed to create some of the most cringe characters of the decade.

“Cringe” has been used in The Times to describe feelings of embarrassment, discomfort and a style of comedy that makes use of both. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or ...

“Cringe culture” emerged from informal social policing on social media, but it is also prevalent in real-life interactions. Behaviors that are tagged as awkward or overly eager are shared and mocked. ...

It's Been a Minute's Brittany Luse on the rise of cringe culture: where it comes from, how it's hurting us, and how leaning into cringe is good for art. If you could choose viral fame, would you? If ...

“I thought I was going to be a political satirist and activist, changing the world in a really crazy, cringe way,” comedian Stephanie D’Agostini — who goes by Stef Dag — tells me on a Saturday morning ...

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It’s time to leave your cringe word era behind. Period. Every year, Lake Superior State University releases its Banished Words List, a tradition that dates back to 1976, highlighting words and terms ...

Cringe culture originally emerged as a phenomenon in digital spaces, but it’s now quietly reshaping how Gen Z engages in the professional world. The unspoken rules for Gen Z at work are invisible ...

When pragmatism and coalition-building are shoved to the side and aesthetics take center stage, the spotlight is harsh. The internet was still taking shape in 1999, and social media as we know it now ...