Sarah’s definition of cringe as failed sacredness is true of regular cringe, but comic effect happens when the sacred is everyday, not necessarily sacred ritualhttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/11/cringe-and-the-design-of-sacred-experiences/ …
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Trying to connect cringe to domestic cozy and great weirding systematically. When everyday functioning turns into Mount Everest level challenges and you overprep and fumble simple shit because you’ve retreated to escape trauma creep of environment, but aren’t really succeeding
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do you consider seinfeld to be proto-cringe
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It planted some seeds esp with George, but I think curb your enthusiasm really inaugurated the genre. It was a decade ahead of its time. And it was basically “the real George”
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Didn't reality TV start out like this and then gravitate towards extreme absurdity?
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Uh isn’t this The Office, man
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Yeah the office was definitely cringe, and ahead of its time. Current crop is all Michael Scotts though.
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