Welcome to In Defense Of, a series focused on embracing cringe in today’s world. In this episode, we analyze the TikTok Rizz ...

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Emily Bernard is a Features Editor and Peer Mentor for Collider who studied History, Playwriting, and English at the University of Scranton. She’s a proud comedy nerd who loves getting into the nitty ...

It's Been a Minute's Brittany Luse on the rise of cringe culture: where it comes from, how it's hurting us, and how leaning into cringe is good for art. If you could choose viral fame, would you? If ...

Young people are constantly editing themselves online, trimming anything that might come off as embarrassing. It's shaping ...

In a recent piece on his YouTube channel, professor of philosophy Hans-Georg Moeller argues that we have seen a recent rise in the use of the word “cringe” to describe a new, online form of ...

Was it the acoustic guitar? The cell phone lights swaying in the background? Or was it the lyrics of the song itself? Whatever it was, the impact was immediate and brutal. According to the internet, ...

In an empty warehouse, Timothée Chalamet slouches on a swivel chair, wearing a hoodie and jeans. He is lit from behind by a screen — it must be at least forty feet tall — which displays slo-mo videos ...

When pragmatism and coalition-building are shoved to the side and aesthetics take center stage, the spotlight is harsh. The internet was still taking shape in 1999, and social media as we know it now ...