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boundaries are good. I wouldn't literally get rid of cringe. but cringe seems way less accurate an enforcer than other boundaries do. If I am really loving, I can still have fear and impatience, but I don't know how to be loving and feel cringe.

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when this sort of thing happens to me, it's usually cause I am associated with the person and am afraid they are reflecting poorly on me. this includes but feels different from like... telling someone online their art is cringe

4:32 PM · Jan 4, 2022

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It's hard to be earnest/be open to criticism and do things sincerely without risking being 'cringe inducing' (i.e., cringe), sure. But without the risk of social disapproval there's nothing interesting creatively. This is partly why so much art and music isn't even provocative.

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The crazier end of this argument is that the *principal* reason for taboos is to ensure we have kink, or something, because transgression is good in itself, but imho the more sober side of creativity requiring boundary (or more accurately, excellence needing constraint) is real.

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Is cringe artwork is usually poorly selected topics/self-inserts; something in the concept phase? I can’t imagine how you execute a concept could be concept unless you copy or do something that’s maybe over done?

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This Cringe is another word ruined by online arguing: people use it as a takedown and it loses its meaning

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I feel like one of the good things about maintaining "cringe" as a boundary is that you can then risk being cringe, flirt with the edge. Someone used Thom Yorke dancing as an example of this. There's some sort of creative spark that comes out of that.