Refers to speech or behavior characterized by a banal, affectless disregard for the violation of proper taste and/or societal norms, generally driven by a belief that the traditional social order has been irreparably disrupted and thus certain actions that were once considered cringeworthy have become commonplace.
Derived from the literary genre pioneered by Chandler Morrison, which often involves characters who partake in reprehensible actions that are described with a flat tone of nonchalance, and that furthermore fail to elicit appropriate reactions from other characters present in the scene being depicted.
How was the dinner party?
Ugh, it was so post-cringe. There was this guy who was wearing white after Labor Day and talking about all of the people he's killed with a hatchet, but no one even batted an eye.
The idea that cringe cannot exist in a vacuum, and once it is observed it changes to either cringe or based instantly and irreversibly
For example, two friends doing furry role play alone together but since no one else is there to see it they cannot be cringe nor based
Drew :“Lilli and Myah in 8th grade were a total example of Schrodinger’s cringe.”
Isaac: “yeah they had no idea how annoying they were”