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The concept of faith.
Not just for God.
The idea of glorifying believing something without evidence.
If you believe in someone based on prior actions, that isn't faith.
If you put your faith in someone you don't know, fucking cringe.
"Imma turn my brain off" shouldn't be inspirational.
Nothing makes me cringe quite as hard as just have faith.
The sound of people chewing. It induces such a visceral cringe but I can't even explain why it bothers me so much. I just find the sound disgusting for some reason.
I feel it. My gf sometimes chews with her mouth open.
Ah, a fellow misophonia 'enjoyer'!
Some of us grew up in ghetto circumstances. I have never said the N word, but at one point, I was up to no good.
Referring to someone as queer. When I grew up that was a major insult. You just didn't use that word, like the n word. You used others like homosexual and such. But now it is mainstream and ok to use in the right way. But it still feels offensive in my head.
There was a deliberate movement to reclaim that word. Similar to black people using the N word. It also rhymes with here. "We're here. We're queer. Get used to it" was a big rallying cry in the 90s.
Tik Tok brainrot
Like there are so many cool science videos or even gameplay content on youtube, so many movies and TV to watch on sites like netflix or any of the various media platforms, why are kids watching stupid dances and stupid "viral challenges"
tbh my grandma considered movies and TV brainrot and my parents don't understand why people watch someone playing a video game on Youtube rather than playing. I think there are legitimate criticisms of Tik Tok and other social media, but this just reads as that simpsons quote:
I used to be with βitβ, but then they changed what βitβ was. Now what Iβm with isnβt βitβ anymore and whatβs βitβ seems weird and scary. Itβll happen to you!
Ruling class/race making music about struggle.
Corporate speeches.
The worst is Quentin Tarantino shoehorning his characters saying that in all of his movies.
I think those are all appropriate for the movies they're in. You can argue whether a white director should do that.
A good cringe-inducing thing is gatekeepers. Of music genre, fanbases, video games, any niche really. Saying there is a set criteria for being a fan of something, or being a 'practitioner' of a skill or activity. They act like something is a club or a cult and give it a generalization.
I wear my dad's classic rock icon band tees: name three songs, they demand. I could probably give you a line from one. No I don't listen to them on a regular basis. I have listened to at least three songs but not enough to recite their names. If someone donated or gifts you their old shirts from concerts--you wear them out of respect.
Oh you claim to be a fan of the fediverse?
Name Every Instance. (or else you arent part of our Lemming club)
/s
Lol, only been here a week. Just heard that Lemmy existed in November. I am waiting for some subreddits that migrated to Lemmy to grow big enough so that my posts don't go unread for days and days.
People talking about their suicidal feelings on the internet. Not sure why you'd want the whole world to know you're feeling vulnerable, or what you think it can do to help. And people are so casual about saying it.
Counterpoint: if people feel like they can't talk about these things then they'll never talk about them and the condition often worsens.
I also feel pretty powerless to help in a meaningful way. But I'm not going to shun someone who's struggling either
Adding on to your feeling like they can't talk being bad, sometimes places like these are the only places someone feels like they have. They're fairly anonymous, it can be easily deleted, there's low risk of someone in your personal life finding out.
It's a chance to scream into the void, while still feeling seen.
American truck culture. It feels like parody or satire, except it's real.
These people are some of the most sensitive, selfish, proudly ignorant snowflakes Iβve ever met.
Not to mention the trend of larger cars in general as a daily driver is insane and completely unnecessary.
And then they complain about the cost of fuel.
And the cost of like everything else with the truck from payments to repairs.
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.
He grew up in the ghetto around that culture. He wasn't pretending. I didn't know he used the n word in any songs. He may have used it in conversation idk.
Repeating song lyrics don't count bc usually you are alone anyway. It's a 'tree falls in the woods and no one there to hear it' situation.
About your last point, I've been trying to make it a habit that I replace it with "brother" or something whenever I'm singing along.
But you gotta use it without the hard R. "Brotha"
I use 'glip glops' referencing Rick and Morty.
Rick: What's up my glipglops!?!?
And
Summer: Are some glip glops from the third dimension gonna come over and play cards or something?
And Rick eventually explains: Glip glop is like the n-word and the c-word had a baby and it was raised by all the bad words for [juice].
Apologetics and celebrity worshippers: people that defend politicians instead of being critical and forcing them to bend to the will of the working class.
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 βganstaβ.