Cringe Culture

Cringe Culture is an online culture that encourages or accepts mocking content produced online that is considered cringe, resharing "cringe" content on multiple platforms as Cringeposting, or creating entirely new content such as video essays that serve to emphasize the original cringe content, benefiting the new creator in the process while mocking the original.
Urban Dictionary's top definition for cringe culture states "The culture started on the Internet of making fun of people and/or insulting them by calling them "cringy" or "cringe" for doing something which doesn't harm or somehow insult anyone nor anything." 
Fanlore defends cringe culture on its page as:
Cringe content is any content that someone sees as embarrassing or worthy of being mocked, and "cringe culture" is the practice as a whole of mocking that content... It has also been described as simply a form of bullying, particularly the bullying of children or childlike things.
Cringe culture is especially prevalent and popular on Tiktok, which has attracted mainstream coverage.
The fandom meme Sup Jew is an example of cringe culture, as it was originally started to mock the original image, with many users resharing it to mock the Kyman ship or the art itself; however, because the art was reshared thousands of times and spawned several further memes, it has instead become iconic within the fandom and attracted far more attention and popularity than it previously did.
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