The internet practice of mocking people, often teenagers, for embarrassing or awkward content they post, treated as its own recognizable entertainment genre and later criticized as a form of bullying.
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"That whole channel was built entirely on cringe culture, just mocking random teenagers' videos."
LORE & ORIGIN
Grew out of Tumblr and early YouTube reaction/compilation culture in the mid-2010s, where dedicated blogs and channels collected embarrassing user content specifically for mass mockery, later drawing significant backlash as "cringe culture is dead" discourse emerged.
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