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Bootlicking of the 1%
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 Bublรฉ'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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
Entitled customers make me cringe hard, especially when its someone I am with.
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 Iโm forced to wear an uniform to work, the employer should provide me with one.
Yip, or at least be heavily discounted.
YouTube videos having intros and "introductions" before the video starts.
This is even worse in TikTok, where the expected content length is 2-3 minutes.
"Heeey Smart People!" -- fuck off with that red vs blue bullshit
Also: "Welcome, or welcome back to my channel"
that just sounds like a normal greeting
I'm ok with this.
Hey guys, gals, and Jofans! It's ya boy, Jofa, and we're here with another video about how to use the ping
command!
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So, today we'll be teaching you about ping
. But first, I want to apologize for my upload schedule. I've been having a lot of trouble lately, my bicycle broke down, I got a papercut, and my wife's dad's brother's dog-walker-in-law crashed my divorce, but that's a story for another time. Anyway, it's time to start our... can you believe it? #500 Skill Videos. sips water That's like a 500th anniversary of skills. Speaking of skills,
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Alright, enough rambling. Here's how to use the ping
command. Ping
was invented by bucket makers when they realized dropping a coin in a bucket made a sound. ping
... let's see. Oops, typo. Anyway, that's what it looks like!
Random shit until 10:00
Thanks for watching my video! Be sure to like, subscribe, hit the bell, hit up my Patreon, send ETH, and become a channel member! My Discord is in the description. Jofout!
Mine is "sorry about the quality of the video today because my camera broke and I'm using my iphone to record the video".
Dude you're talking about TikTok drama, nobody cares if they can count the hairs sticking out of your nose on 4K.
It is also important that the intro is 50-60 percent louder than the video.
People trying to be attention-seeking in public. I used to see this a lot driving down Melrose in Hollywood a lot, and Iโd have to look away because it was so disgusting.
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.