the based cringe dialectic is basically complete. i have determined that based and cringe experience a unity of opposites when a person embraces their own cringe. if you make other people cringe at you without cringing at yourself, that means they are seething, and that is based. but if you binge on your own cringe you come unhinged, and that makes you seething.
in short: to be authentically cringe is to be based
“Cringe” has become a comicalized slur
It used to mean actual faux pas actions but now it’s reduced to quirky funny moments