Us elder Millenials don't have the high ground to make fun of Zoomers and Gen Alpha for being cringe. We made Crazy Frog popular, we paid to have it as a ringtone, we got it in the pop charts.
I think all generations have their cringe. The viral TikTok is just this generation’s novelty song; the speed of adoption has changed and the accessibility has changed, but the impulses are all the same.
As a guy approaching his 40s, I just smile bemusedly. This humor doesn't work on me anymore, but we call dsicover something like that. Like in that Twilight Zone episode "Walking Distance", it's their peanut-butter-jelly-time now.
This is true to some extent, but the volume is incomparable. We had the hamster dance, and that was it. Now my son can watch videos like the potato chip spinning for a week straight and not repeat anything
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Case in point: the “What does NASA stand for?” tasteless joke was known by every kid mere days after the Challenger disaster.
Even pre-internet, our cringe was parents entering the kumite of the suburban mall to bloody each other over Cabbage Patch kids.