Laugh at people's cringey social media posts, but remember you're just like them

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, complete with tortillas masquerading as a stack of pancakes?

Knowing that someone has put effort into the way they’re trying to present themselves deepens the cringe – they’ve tried so hard and it’s gone so wrong, and it’s unbearable to watch… but also hilarious. There are two ways to react to someone doing something embarrassing. Either you can laugh, point, and ridicule, or it resonates. As Melissa puts it: ‘you can shut them out and be like, “I am not that idiot on Tinder on this big projection screen” or you can say, “that’s me, too. I’m feeling this way because I have been a version of that idiot”.’When we point and laugh, we’re often trying to distance ourselves from the unsettling knowledge that we’re guilty of the same crimes.

 

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