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1) Rather than living genuinely as your true self, letting the internet's notion of "cringe" rule both your every action and affect your judgment of others. 2) To have a highly, highly overtuned cringe-detector, to such a degree it makes you not just judgemental but, most crucially, insecure. In every action you take, you worry of coming off in a way that is "cringe" and this insecurity you too project onto others, in effect being judgemental of anything you would have yourself avoided doing in fear of its "cringe."
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