The Late Show with Stephen Colbert shared a TikTok video on Sunday of all of their top guests last week from the Democratic National Convention, and the video is being criticized as “cringe.” “What ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In 2016, while an editor at Time magazine’s student edition, Time for Kids, I took a thirteen-year-old to the ...

It's Been a Minute's Brittany Luse on the rise of cringe culture: where it comes from, how it's hurting us, and how leaning into cringe is good for art. If you could choose viral fame, would you? If ...

“Cringe” has been used in The Times to describe feelings of embarrassment, discomfort and a style of comedy that makes use of both. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or ...

“Cringe culture” emerged from informal social policing on social media, but it is also prevalent in real-life interactions. Behaviors that are tagged as awkward or overly eager are shared and mocked. ...