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VOL. IX · ISSUE 41 · OCT 2024

The internet's most cringeworthy stories.

Anonymous confessions. Brisk votes. Universal, slightly uncomfortable laughter — every Monday morning, without mercy.

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THIS WEEK'S LEADERBOARD

This Week's Top 10

Ranked by 31,408 readers this week. Voting closes Sunday at midnight ET.

  1. 01

    Workplace · 6 days ago

    I replied-all "I love you" to the entire 4,000-person company Slack.

    HR called. My mom called. The CFO liked it.

    94 Cringe Score 8,412 votes
  2. 02

    Family · 3 days ago

    My grandma's eulogy was actually a 14-minute roast. Nobody knew.

    Half the church was crying. The other half was crying laughing.

    91 Cringe Score 6,940 votes
  3. 03

    Dating · yesterday

    I matched with my boss on a dating app — and the algorithm showed her first.

    I swiped right twice. She saw both.

    88 Cringe Score 5,217 votes
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READ · RATED · SYNDICATED

The press, the partners, and the proof.

  • 2023 Webby Honoree

    Humor, Community category — for a publication that "treats mortification as a civic service."

  • The New York Times

    Featured in "Tech We're Obsessed With," March 2021 — for making shame quietly addictive.

  • NPR · All Things Considered

    A 9-minute segment on why anonymous confession still saves us, in 2023.

  • #1 on Google · 7 years

    Top-ranked "Embarrassment Confessions" site, 2018–2024 per Similarweb category data.

  • Calm.com

    "Shame to Serenity" crossover series (2022) — embarrassment, reframed as medicine.

  • BuzzFeed · The Guardian

    Cited as the cultural-reference site for cringe storytelling since 2019.

Syndicated weekly to 38 partner newsletters including The Onion and McSweeney's Internet Tendency — reaching 4.2 million inboxes.

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Why we tell the stories we never tell.

Every one of us has a room inside our head we keep locked — the place where the worst thing we ever did on a Zoom call, at a wedding, in front of our mother-in-law, lives rent-free and reruns on demand. Most of us never speak of it. We carry it alone. We carry it for years.

This publication exists because that room is full of people. Forty-one thousand rooms, and counting. When you submit a story here, you are not broadcasting shame — you are handing it to a room that already has its own version of the same story, and that room will laugh warmly, vote honestly, and move on. That is a small, weird, modern miracle. It is also, modestly, the whole point. We are deeply grateful you walked in.

— Devon Albright, founder & editor-in-chief · Brooklyn, NY

YOUR TURN

Your worst moment deserves a room that laughs with you, not at you.

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