Draft definition of cringe comedy, since I don’t like what I’ve found so far: based on empathy towards mediocre people trying and failing to meet ordinary expectations of functional adult behavior. It’s not extreme or absurd situations. Fingernails-on-chalkboard.
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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 ritual
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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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