There really is such a direct correlation between cringey title and cringey posts.

Before LinkedIn...to me, the king of professional cringey was Shingy. Do you guys remember him? He was aol's overpaid "digital prophet" and got paid to visit companies at lunchtime and babble the same kind of nonsense we now call "LinkedIn cringe".

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Never heard of this guy, but he’s still chugging along! Surprised he hasn’t gone LinkedIn viral yet

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He babbled about "THE INTERNET" and "DIGITAL" to big companies and agencies, using Wikipedia buzzwords & peddling fear of the unknown, before CEOs/CCOs/CSO's knew anything about ANY of that stuff. And he had a "cool smart guy" (to dumb Americans) accent, "creative" Elton John glasses & wild wardrobe, and dreads, which completed the fraudster starter kit straight off the mannequin. Prob made a a$$load of money outright fooling people, but the world has caught up to him.

His shark-jumping moment was on the wrecking ball a la Miley. Google "Shingy wrecking ball" Pure unintentional hilarity.

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cringe trophy!

Didn't last too long at Verizon I see.

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Additional Posts in LinkedIn Cringe

I bet someone will try to post this seriously some day

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Any day is a good day to pat yourself on the back. In public. 🤦‍♂️

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Like, I dunno man, you okay...?

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This is so cute! I almost forgot I was on LinkedIn and not Facebook..

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Not every person in the comments saying how great of a parent they are

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Because empathy makes you the ✨️ star✨️ amongst your team!

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Does anyone else feel that the more content someone puts in their LinkedIn headline, the more full of it they are? I say this as someone with a bunch of stuff lol but at least it’s all at one company and accurate.

I’m talking mostly about two kinds of people. 1. The influencer who is actually unemployed, but lists 25 BS things they do
2. The brand collector, who writes “ex-“ for every former company they worked at and school they went to. Maybe less full of it but still insufferable.

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Thought I was on LinkedIn when I saw this one

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Biggest cringe for me has got to be when people include “ex-<company name>” in their title… see it for loads of the big 4 firms and I’m thinking wow you must love slave drivers that underappreciate you 🤣

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Definitely not bragging or showing off …

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Not Cringey at all but interested to see where this goes…

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I don’t think this was hyperbolic. but I’m having a hard time believing it’s not satire 🥲. Is this cringey??

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Might be reading a bit too deep into things, my guy

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Eugene Mirman is very funny.

(15) Eugene Mirman | LinkedIn

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This is the very definition of privilege

Able to post something so absurdly wrong (Google PMs in the comments explaining that she transferred ladders when she switched jobs internally, hence pay change)

Able to become a product manager at Google and STILL not comprehend how misleading the race aggregation stat is “Black women make 58 cents to every $1 a white man makes!” not taking into account job choice and individual opportunity.

..all while the comments are filled with blind support

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And now.. let me take a selfie!

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A little bit of motivation for us all.

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Cringe for today!
Two things,
1. Why can't you say this as a "Text" post.
2. What's your point?

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Full disclosure, I didn’t read past the first sentence.

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