I mean yeah to the first part, but I was using cringe in like, the early 2010s.
Not based though, I think that came about later?
IIRC, ‘cringe’ started as ‘cringeworthy’, I think it might have originally gotten more widely used in tumblr/deviantart/fanfic/shipping type circles, and then it broke containment in the early 2010s?
https://www.wikihow.com/Millennial-Slang
Hey don’t count us out completely.
But also, yeah, a lot of them are extremely cringe.
… Also, why isn’t ‘cringe’ on this list?
Half of them aren’t really millennial, we stole those from the Black community millennials.
I think Cringe/based are also Gen z.
… Huh.
I mean yeah to the first part, but I was using cringe in like, the early 2010s.
Not based though, I think that came about later?
IIRC, ‘cringe’ started as ‘cringeworthy’, I think it might have originally gotten more widely used in tumblr/deviantart/fanfic/shipping type circles, and then it broke containment in the early 2010s?
Maybe, it’s all nebulous in between generations.