Memes are just comedy plus digital multimedia. I think the rise of cringe and its encompassing genre of incidental humour is not due to the Internet / meme cul

Memes are just comedy plus digital multimedia. I think the rise of cringe and its encompassing genre of incidental humour is not due to the Internet / meme culture, but of recording generally. TV shows like "America's funniest home videos" and "You've been framed" feature a lot of cringe humour (much of it physical); film outtakes are cringe. Its existence depends on incidental recording. Social media produces so much cringe because it's always recording.