Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. Right around age 13, teenagers suddenly become disgusted ...

It's a term that has entered the global, English-speaking lexicon as the Zoomer generation began to gain prominence on the internet and on social media in particular. To be 'cringe' is not just to ...

She’s not the only artist embracing cringe. Los Angeles-based writer K. Allado-McDowell’s new novel, Amor Cringe, is a love letter to cringe maximalism. Allado-McDowell set out to write the cringiest ...

Early cringe culture was about empathy and secondhand embarrassment. Today, being “cringe” is a serious infraction. After spending years in that environment, our sense of cringe has been heightened to ...

The growing online cultural phenomenon of cringe may be changing the way young people behave personally and professionally. Teachers and employers have noticed generation Zers are less likely to speak ...

From digital snans to LinkedIn trauma dumps to the Coldplay-gate, Jatin Varma, founder of Comic Con India, jots down a list ...

Ah, cringe! That painful yet oddly fascinating emotion you feel when you watch someone make an absolute fool of themselves. There’s something illuminating - not to mention hilarious - about watching ...

There’s something comforting about a 30-minute comedy that can make your heart soar while you’re innocently smiling and giggling throughout. Well, these are not those shows. While the cringe comedies ...

In the race for eyeballs, some brands have found that there’s a surefire way to make their content impossible to look away from—infusing it with "cringe." A healthy dose of unsettling weirdness can ...