Joanna Robinson, a cultural critic at The Ringer, examines what made this year's most talked about flops so bad.

Some people say that “cringe” or corny songs don’t age well. While that might be true to music fans who take their taste slightly too seriously, it isn’t the case for us, as even songs that the ...

CNA Digital's Nurjannah Suhaimi at her exhibition, That Time I Cringed So Hard I Ended Up on These Walls, displayed along the Funan Underground Pedestrian Link on Nov 10, 2025. (Photo: CNA/Ooi Boon ...

Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to ...

They’re saying “nil” to dollar bills. Money makes the world go round. But when it comes to Gen Zers, the cold-hard stuff just makes them frown, according to new data, which reveals that tech-obsessed ...

"Why do you want me to be sitting here numb?" the singer said. "Been there." By Hannah Dailey Ariana Grande isn’t going to let haters stop her from being her true, authentic self. While speaking to ...

"You guys need to find problematic people to hate on, because I am just existing," the singer said. By Hannah Dailey Sombr is weighing in after a TikToker went viral for her harsh criticism of his ...

Sombr has responded to criticism he received from a concertgoer who apparently “hated” his show at Anthem in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 13, so much so that she recorded a nearly nine-minute TikTok ...

Organizers are now expecting an even bigger turnout. “We have a goal for No Kings to be the largest peaceful protest in modern American history,” says Ezra Levin, a co-founder of the progressive ...

Raised online and under constant scrutiny, young adults are leaning into embarrassment as a necessary part of growing up. By Yola Mzizi Kate Glavan was in a rut. Ms. Glavan, 26, had moved to New York ...

It's Been a Minute's Brittany Luse on the rise of cringe culture: where it comes from, how it's hurting us, and how leaning into cringe is good for art. If you could choose viral fame, would you? If ...