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I'm not going to be the type of person who says ''I don't like it so it can't exist'' but I really don't like cringe compilations. If you enjoy them that's great but I can't.

For starters, some (by some I mean the majority of animation based ones) cringe compilations have very little ''cringe'' in them. An example would be putting perfectly fine Undertale animations (that are good animations and don't have anything too ridiculous) in the video because they don't like Undertale or putting something by Ginganinja in there because it was Steven Universe related.
If you really want to make cringe compilations then throw things that are cringey for how poorly they were made, not for the fandom the video belongs to. I seriously found a ''cringe compilation'' with a bunch of perfectly fine animations and his only reason for putting the videos there is that he mistakenly didn't know that there is a difference between ''animation memes'' and regular memes and thought that they were being stupid.

I may get a few comments about this point but I really hate how cringe compilations tend to target young artists. My art was awful when I was 14 years old, probably bad enough to get on one of these animation compilations and I think that if that had ever happened I would have never improved. I'm pretty sure most 14 year olds would be really upset and want to give up if they were mocked like that. It's kind of a shame to see these people who don't understand how much hard work and practice goes into animating turn and bully young beginners under the defence of ''Well, its cringey lmao''. Don't get me wrong, maybe it motivate them to improve but that doesn't make telling a 10-14 year old their animation is ''cancer'' and telling them to drink bleach over a bunch of drawings okay, they don't know any better.

And probably the worst thing about Cringe compilations are they are 100% stolen content, with little to no effort put into them. I've never understood why reaction channels are seen as thieves (they are) but Cringe compilations are completely fine because... cringe is in the title?

Literally, all you have to do make a cringe compilation is look up ''Undertale animations'' pick a few videos (usually the first few results), put them together and add Jontron memes... maybe an intro if you're feeling up to it. No need to ask permission (because who would say yes to all those dislikes on their videos and to all that harassment), no need to put any extra comments to the video of your own, no need to even credit the original users (and no, that's not prevent harassment, I've found a good 90% of videos featured in these videos just by a quick YouTube search and every video gets harassment on it, so that excuse doesn't work) or even Jontron for the clips and since you showed the animation in its entirety, you are basically stealing content and breaking YouTube rules. Well done. No joke, I've even seen cringe compilation YouTubers steal other cringe compilation YouTubers videos because they were that lazy. At least ''reactionists'' bother to make the video they're stealing smaller and add footage of them blank staring and saying a few words to the video.

A lot of people argue that ''they give criticism''. Yes but it's destructive criticism and 90% of it is either harassment or just useless to the artist. A Jontron meme is not constructive criticism and overlay saying ''stop using flippa clip, lol'' or ''this animation is bad lmao'' is not constructive criticism. It's not helpful to the artist and if the person stops the video for a few seconds to talk about what they can improve, then you're not watching a cringe compilation, you're watching a commentary or rant video.

I'm not really even sure why they exist, there are other ways to get your ''cringe''. Watch any of the critical three (Jackoon, Solarsands or TheFandomMenace), watch IdubbbzTV's kickstarter crap, watch H3H3 and if you want Jontron memes... watch Jontron. Heck, I'm pretty sure you'd get more fun out finding the videos yourself and laughing with your friends. These videos have no value, I don't understand why people love them so much.

It's time to stop.

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I'm not going to be the type of person who says ''I don't like it so it can't exist'' but I really don't like cringe compilations. If you enjoy them that's great but I can't.

For starters, some (by some I mean the majority of animation based ones) cringe compilations have very little ''cringe'' in them. An example would be putting perfectly fine Undertale animations (that are good animations and don't have anything too ridiculous) in the video because they don't like Undertale or putting something by Ginganinja in there because it was Steven Universe related.
If you really want to make cringe compilations then throw things that are cringey for how poorly they were made, not for the fandom the video belongs to. I seriously found a ''cringe compilation'' with a bunch of perfectly fine animations and his only reason for putting the videos there is that he mistakenly didn't know that there is a difference between ''animation memes'' and regular memes and thought that they were being stupid.

I may get a few comments about this point but I really hate how cringe compilations tend to target young artists. My art was awful when I was 14 years old, probably bad enough to get on one of these animation compilations and I think that if that had ever happened I would have never improved. I'm pretty sure most 14 year olds would be really upset and want to give up if they were mocked like that. It's kind of a shame to see these people who don't understand how much hard work and practice goes into animating turn and bully young beginners under the defence of ''Well, its cringey lmao''. Don't get me wrong, maybe it motivate them to improve but that doesn't make telling a 10-14 year old their animation is ''cancer'' and telling them to drink bleach over a bunch of drawings okay, they don't know any better.

And probably the worst thing about Cringe compilations are they are 100% stolen content, with little to no effort put into them. I've never understood why reaction channels are seen as thieves (they are) but Cringe compilations are completely fine because... cringe is in the title?

Literally, all you have to do make a cringe compilation is look up ''Undertale animations'' pick a few videos (usually the first few results), put them together and add Jontron memes... maybe an intro if you're feeling up to it. No need to ask permission (because who would say yes to all those dislikes on their videos and to all that harassment), no need to put any extra comments to the video of your own, no need to even credit the original users (and no, that's not prevent harassment, I've found a good 90% of videos featured in these videos just by a quick YouTube search and every video gets harassment on it, so that excuse doesn't work) or even Jontron for the clips and since you showed the animation in its entirety, you are basically stealing content and breaking YouTube rules. Well done. No joke, I've even seen cringe compilation YouTubers steal other cringe compilation YouTubers videos because they were that lazy. At least ''reactionists'' bother to make the video they're stealing smaller and add footage of them blank staring and saying a few words to the video.

A lot of people argue that ''they give criticism''. Yes but it's destructive criticism and 90% of it is either harassment or just useless to the artist. A Jontron meme is not constructive criticism and overlay saying ''stop using flippa clip, lol'' or ''this animation is bad lmao'' is not constructive criticism. It's not helpful to the artist and if the person stops the video for a few seconds to talk about what they can improve, then you're not watching a cringe compilation, you're watching a commentary or rant video.

I'm not really even sure why they exist, there are other ways to get your ''cringe''. Watch any of the critical three (Jackoon, Solarsands or TheFandomMenace), watch IdubbbzTV's kickstarter crap, watch H3H3 and if you want Jontron memes... watch Jontron. Heck, I'm pretty sure you'd get more fun out finding the videos yourself and laughing with your friends. These videos have no value, I don't understand why people love them so much.

It's time to stop.