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?
… 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.