1) Rather than living genuinely as your true self, letting the internet's notion of "cringe" rule both your every action and affect your judgment of others.
2) To have a highly, highly overtuned cringe-detector, to such a degree it makes you not just judgemental but, most crucially, insecure. In every action you take, you worry of coming off in a way that is "cringe" and this insecurity you too project onto others, in effect being judgemental of anything you would have yourself avoided doing in fear of its "cringe."
2) To have a highly, highly overtuned cringe-detector, to such a degree it makes you not just judgemental but, most crucially, insecure. In every action you take, you worry of coming off in a way that is "cringe" and this insecurity you too project onto others, in effect being judgemental of anything you would have yourself avoided doing in fear of its "cringe."
A cringe man will always think he's based, but a based man is truthful to his cringe self. To live otherwise is to have succumbed to cringe derangement syndrome and became the most cringe of all.
CDS Sufferer: Hey did you see that cringe ass poem Ronald wrote? Was it meant to be deep or something? Lol??
Lao Tzu: Tell me, oh judgmental one. Would your life not be better, were you to also allow such art to burst forth from yourself, both shameless of its quality, and fearless of the perceptions of others? This standard you hold yourself to, this arbitrary delineation between "cringe" and "based," this self-limitation and negativity that infects your heart, yes, I find it to be the most cringe thing of all.
CDS Sufferer: You're right... I wrote a bunch of poems too, but I shredded them up for fear of people thinking they were bad or faux-deep. I will now be truly based: I will be cringe without shame!
CDS Sufferer: Hey did you see that cringe ass poem Ronald wrote? Was it meant to be deep or something? Lol??
Lao Tzu: Tell me, oh judgmental one. Would your life not be better, were you to also allow such art to burst forth from yourself, both shameless of its quality, and fearless of the perceptions of others? This standard you hold yourself to, this arbitrary delineation between "cringe" and "based," this self-limitation and negativity that infects your heart, yes, I find it to be the most cringe thing of all.
CDS Sufferer: You're right... I wrote a bunch of poems too, but I shredded them up for fear of people thinking they were bad or faux-deep. I will now be truly based: I will be cringe without shame!
by Melogale September 23, 2023

by Linkmaster811 November 1, 2021

Boy 1 : Yo do you see that kid Pawel.
Boy 2: yeah!
Boy 1: that guy is so pc Pawel cringe.
Boy 2: Pc Pawel cringe.
Boy 1: Nice.
Boy 2: Nice.
Boy 2: yeah!
Boy 1: that guy is so pc Pawel cringe.
Boy 2: Pc Pawel cringe.
Boy 1: Nice.
Boy 2: Nice.
by ssoott May 3, 2022

So, my dad was at the grocery store, and when the cashier asked him whether he wanted a paper or plastic bag, he said: "I don't care, I'm bisacktual." Insert cringe here
by Lumby_Jack April 20, 2017

The opposite of Based and Red Pilled
by Rhyttiahh July 18, 2021

When you go from being cringe, to having somewhat of a redemption arc, to being cringe again. It can be in any given amount of time but usually around a year between each.
person a: “damn i remember u being super cringe in middle school but for some reason u were kinda chill in 7th grade”
person b: “yea i went thru the quadratic cringe formula in middle school”
person b: “yea i went thru the quadratic cringe formula in middle school”
by juna_is_cringe September 6, 2022
