Cringe content peaked in 2025 not because audiences lost discernment, but because the Internet learned how to monetise cringe ...

It's a term that has entered the global, English-speaking lexicon as the Zoomer generation began to gain prominence on the internet and on social media in particular. To be 'cringe' is not just to ...

“I hated that movie. The love scene was so cringe.” Suddenly, this use of “cringe” seems to be everywhere. And some quasi-scientific evidence shows it’s on the rise. According to Google’s Ngram Viewer ...

It’s time to leave your cringe word era behind. Period. Every year, Lake Superior State University releases its Banished Words List, a tradition that dates back to 1976, highlighting words and terms ...

Credit: Zain bin Awais/Mashable Composite; Holger Scheibe/Cimmerian/via Getty Images "That blue umbrella is still stashed under my bed," Carletta says, recalling the fateful evening that she was ...