I hate when ppl say shit like “cringe culture isn’t real~~ sksksksks” because what you are basically doing there is saying if I don’t see or hear it, it doesn’t exist. You are literally covering your eyes. Running around. Yelling “lallalalalalalallllalaaalala” besides. Cringe culture is important online and always will be. It’s a way to manage communities and people. It’s a way to get people to learn. Not only about how to deal with hate but also how to act when reviving hate or even sending hate. Not that sending hate is a good thing or something I condone. But someone has to do it. Or cringe culture might really die. It keeps people on their toes teaches them how to survive on the internet. And in our world, where the internet and normal life are linked so much closer as a result it’s important to have that teacher. It also pushes people to improve. To improvise. To adapt. And not to turn this into a joke but also to overcome. We shouldn’t celebrate cringe culture. It’s not that it wants to be celebrated. But we should recognize it. And it’s importantance in an online community and to take it further. An online world. If we fail to do this. Everything we know and love on the internet will change. All groups and fanbases will become like homestuck and undertale. With the exception of 4chan. 4chan will always stay contrary to that. But there will be some pushback for certain. It would be anarchy. We have all seen how the kinnie community and shit alike to it has gone. Fucking stannies. Undertale homestuck. I could go on. is that the internet you want? If you genuinely think it is you are lying to yourself. We all know how toxic they can be. And it’s not “cringe culture” that’s causing it. It’s the internal conflicts because nobody has set a norm or a standard in these almost anarchist communities. There are no guidelines and nobody to create guidelines and everyone fights over guidelines and rules and ways to act that aren’t even there. Someone or something needs to step in. And that thing. Just the thing for the job would be cringe culture. Declaring and flagging x practice as unacceptable or wrong within each community.