Toward a unified theory of “millennial cringe”(vox.com)
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Toward a unified theory of “millennial cringe”
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23466389/millennials-cringe-epic-bacon
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I think that's true, but this article does go a little further than that by explaining how the internet and the never-ending stream of content affects culture into quicker and quicker loops. Trends live and die and are reborn in cringe within days now.
Every generation and phase is going to have its in jokes, speech patterns, cultural references. The medium and mechanism changes, and probably the velocity, but the fundamental pattern remains the same.
The Gen Z crowd lampooning millennials for lol speak are going to find themselves similarly lampooned when the next generation gets old enough to start calling “no cap fr fr” cringe. It’s like the cycle of life, but for humour.