Shit was wild how it was all George Bu$h and McDonald’s in Iraq with Ronald McDonald shitting on a kid and everyone was like yeah “ugh” or “I mean yeah, but cringe”

    • HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      In the late 2000s there was sort of a proto-meme factoid going around the internet that German has a word, Fremdschämen, that refers to second-hand embarrassment and commenters would say how useful that word was and would speculate what the English equivalent would be. The term cringe appeared a few years later.