cringe culture sux, everyone reblog and add a stereotypically ‘cringey’ thing that they’re not ashamed of enjoying. mine’s undertale
its 2017 and i love my chemical romance unashamedly
i miss nyancat
I like watching reaction videos
(pre-Act 6) Homestuck is actually really good.
Wait, (pre-Act 6) Homestuck being good is an unpopular opinion?
I think Homestuck is both widely liked and widely cringed at.
Aside from Homestuck and Undertale…hmm. It was definitely in vogue to cringe at everything to do with Penny Arcade for a while, and I’m fond of PA.
I genuinely like early 00s Sunglasses And Trenchcoat Matrix-ripoff aesthetic and think writing poetry with form and meter is still worthwhile.
I have a great fondness for Mall Ninja Shit. Boys with Tripp pants and stupid knives make me go all dopey.
I like antiquated affectations like “‘twas” and “m'lady” and “indeed”; they’re silly, but in a very sweet and wholesome way.
I love cheesy Renn Faire power music. Blackmore’s Night has some real bangers.
I’m an adult woman with a stuffed animal collection that takes up more than half my bedroom. Yes, they all have names and personalities; don’t yours?
Blink-182 fucking ruled then and it fucking rules now
It’s a tragedy that anime music videos aren’t a thing any more
The Mortal Kombat aesthetic is amazing. I’m honestly not sure how to describe it other than as “the Mortal Kombat aesthetic,” because I don’t know of anything else quite like it – it has elements of chop-socky late-20th-century kung fu flicks, and cosmic fantasy, and heavy metal album covers – but it is incredibly resonant somehow and there should be more of it.
[Preferably in contexts that focus a little less on straight-up over-the-top gore porn.]
are you already, like, into into Mortal Kombat? because if you are just fondly remembering something from yesteryear, you should know they’ve totally shaken off the awful shit of the PS2 era, and now MK9 and MKX are really good games with really fun story modes entirely about Mortal Kombat Stuff that’s played completely straight
I think Death Cargo was trying for a sci-fi version of the MK Aesthetic but it did NOT SUCCEED
I have in fact played MKX. It’s a good game qua game. I continue to find the gore porn kind of offputting and beside-the-point. (And, yes, I realize what it sounds like to say “gore porn is beside the point of Mortal Kombat,” but…I mean it.)
Anyway, I don’t think it was ever the gameplay that was deemed noteworthily cringey and low-status by the Arbiters of Taste. It was the aesthetic. You know, the hell-ninja-versus-four-armed-monster-man thing, the “our ancient culture trains its noblewomen to be stripper-assassins” thing.