White guys saying the N word and being gangsta. There is nothing ever cool about a white guy pretending to be ghetto. Yes I’ll include Eminem and I don’t care if he’s been given the pass.
Trustfunders and nepo babies who make no effort to try understand the working class and instead act like they are special or better than other people with different priorities and struggles due to circumstance.
Mistaking kindness for weakness.
Fashion policing, especially from religious clergy or judges.
Bootlicking of the 1%
society
Diva covers of songs that don’t fit the emotional tone of the song because they’re too busy showing off their vocal cords.
And people who love these songs.I can’t currently think of any particular women responsible for this,
or particular songs, but I’m quite sure it must have been Christmas song covers,
turning “Jingle Bells” into Aretha Franklin’s “Dr. Feelgood”.
The only particular song I can come up with, is Michael Bublé’s “cry me a river”
and whoever plays the instruments during his version,
so this is not just a mostly female phenomena.[edit] I’m pretty sure it’s Ariane Grande now.
Great singer but not very adaptable.
And probably missing the point of Mariah Carey’s christmas song popularity,
the original one as I’ve just seen newer Hallmark music video
where the video theme no longer matches the song.Pants that hang so low that all of your ass is above the waistline. Nobody can ever convince me it can be even remotely cool
American truck culture. It feels like parody or satire, except it’s real.
And then they complain about the cost of fuel.
And the cost of like everything else with the truck from payments to repairs.
These people are some of the most sensitive, selfish, proudly ignorant snowflakes I’ve ever met.
Not to mention the trend of larger cars in general as a daily driver is insane and completely unnecessary.
I agree on the n word part, but do you expect white guys raised in/by disadvantaged black communities to pretend to be a person they’re not just because of the color of their skin?
OP must be joking. Living one of the largest cities in the US/World for two decades, skin color has nothing to do with being “gansta”.
A good cringe-inducing thing is gatekeepers. Of music genre, fanbases, video games, any niche really. Saying there is a set criteria for being a fan of something, or being a ‘practitioner’ of a skill or activity. They act like something is a club or a cult and give it a generalization.
I wear my dad’s classic rock icon band tees: name three songs, they demand. I could probably give you a line from one. No I don’t listen to them on a regular basis. I have listened to at least three songs but not enough to recite their names. If someone donated or gifts you their old shirts from concerts–you wear them out of respect.
Oh you claim to be a fan of the fediverse?
Name Every Instance. (or else you arent part of our Lemming club)
/s
Lol, only been here a week. Just heard that Lemmy existed in November. I am waiting for some subreddits that migrated to Lemmy to grow big enough so that my posts don’t go unread for days and days.
Musicals. 😬
Other than Hamilton, I agree. When there’s a special musical episode on a show, I hate it
Tik Tok brainrot
Like there are so many cool science videos or even gameplay content on youtube, so many movies and TV to watch on sites like netflix or any of the various media platforms, why are kids watching stupid dances and stupid “viral challenges”
tbh my grandma considered movies and TV brainrot and my parents don’t understand why people watch someone playing a video game on Youtube rather than playing. I think there are legitimate criticisms of Tik Tok and other social media, but this just reads as that simpsons quote:
I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!
I don’t understand why people watch others play video games, but I also don’t understand why people watch people playing sports.
Because playing games costs money
Energy too
life is too exhausting
Sometimes you wannna experience a game but are too tired (or in my case, too depressed) to play it.
As for sports, idk. I don’t understand that at all, its been the same sport for such a long time, I’d be bored af, even if I ever had a desire to watch sports. I never understand those people.
There’s a lot of cool science stuff on tik tok too.
Yeah I don’t think i can call it brain rot but I will also say i don’t get it and that’s okay. But I will say there is something about it that reaks of addiction. The way you don’t pick the content the content picks you. Like with YouTube proper or Netflix you pick the content then it starts playing.
Where with TikTok and Reels and Shorts, it’s just scrolling the media is just blaring at you. Your mind has to do the extra work to filter out the messages. It’s like cat video , kids dancing, buy this garbage , puppy video. That’s the only part that bothers me.
But as for the dances and challenges that style of content is the online equivalent of friends standing around in a circle showing off. Add a touch of narcissism that’s encouraged by the platforms and it starts to make sense to me. But what makes it gross is in that group of friends someone is secretly paid by InsertBrand to make that brand look cool.
Parasocial relationships are the real problem. With a TV show or movie it’s there to entertain there is an understanding they don’t know me. They are not my friends.
Whats sad to me is you have lots of kids and young adults that are basically in the same relationship dynamic as a CamGirl and her viewers minus the sex.
The kids are in a headspace of if I just buy what they like they will like me. If I give them money they will acknowledge me.
I fear because they are in that cycle they won’t be pushed to make friends. As making friends is hard and takes some work to maintain them. When you can get the dopamine hit you need for your loneliness and further isolate yourself with your tik tok friends.
Why are you conflating “ghetto”, “gangsta,” and black? 95% of it is about where and how you grew up.
There’s plenty of white guys who, although will never experience and understand what it’s like to live in America while black, understand the struggle of growing up in the ghettos, being socioeconomically alienated, and being pressured to look to the “gangsta” lifestyle.
These three can often overlap, but are importantly separate things. A white guy in that situation won’t know what it means to be black like I do, but I will never have a fraction of their knowledge and experience of what it means to grow up to the streets.
Large office buildings have been cringe to me for a few years. And wearing suits to the office, which just look like personalised school uniforms to me.
If I’m forced to wear an uniform to work, the employer should provide me with one.
Yip, or at least be heavily discounted.
White guys saying the N word and being gangsta. There is nothing ever cool about a white guy pretending to be ghetto. Yes I’ll include Eminem and I don’t care if he’s been given the pass.
He grew up in the ghetto around that culture. He wasn’t pretending. I didn’t know he used the n word in any songs. He may have used it in conversation idk.
Repeating song lyrics don’t count bc usually you are alone anyway. It’s a ‘tree falls in the woods and no one there to hear it’ situation.
About your last point, I’ve been trying to make it a habit that I replace it with “brother” or something whenever I’m singing along.
But you gotta use it without the hard R. “Brotha”
I use ‘glip glops’ referencing Rick and Morty.
Rick: What’s up my glipglops!?!?
And
Summer: Are some glip glops from the third dimension gonna come over and play cards or something?
And Rick eventually explains: Glip glop is like the n-word and the c-word had a baby and it was raised by all the bad words for [juice].
People who call others cringe can be pretty cringe. Also people who generalize – e.g. via “all people who call others cringe are cringe” – is a cringe. Also people who stay noncommittal, avoiding vulnerability under layers of irony, can be pretty cringe too.
I agree with some of these things.
The concept of faith.
Not just for God.
The idea of glorifying believing something without evidence.
If you believe in someone based on prior actions, that isn’t faith.
If you put your faith in someone you don’t know, fucking cringe.
“Imma turn my brain off” shouldn’t be inspirational.
Nothing makes me cringe quite as hard as just have faith.
