Awkward

These pictures are possessed by the power of max level cringe. Consider yourself properly warned of what's to come...

Jeff Wysaski of Obvious Plant makes weird and hilarious absurdist parody products. There's a good chance you've seen some images of them floating around the internet. Here are some that made us quake with laughter.

They really kicked the hornet's nest on this one. 

Ugh seriously not cool MAAAM and DAAAD. These two parents had to go and set the tone of an otherwise nice check-up convo between loving family members, to instead a paralyzing level of awkwardness. But hey, I'll be the first to suggest that group chats inherently suck -- no matter who is involved. This is the rock-bottom of terrible group chats though, that much is for sure. Though, I might take the quick and deadly stab of cringe in this conversation, over the 98 notifications that last Friday's group chat bitchslapped my deeply irritated phone with. 

We're always afraid that people are talking about us behind our backs. It's not fun to find out someone doesn't like your personality or thinks you're weird. But when it's your boss, one of the only people in your life that it really makes a difference how much they like you, that's a bit of a nightmare. By the way, the world has no shortage of crazy stories about their bosses.

A fine collection of pics to make you feel bad for humanity

Sometimes we'll find ourselves wondering what really happened in these situations, but then we decide that's enough internet for the day. Shoutout to mrbananabeans for putting this troubling collection of cringe pictures together. We're low-key only a little bit traumatized. 

We have here a finely assembled lot of cringelords who fancy themselves modern gents, with deep pockets filled with unnecessarily long words; and beneath all that, wild insecurities and genuine rudeness. Just cause you write something out in a way that sounds pretty, doesn't mean you're off the hook, for lashing out seconds later with a fiery round of profanity-laced verbal assault. Of this lot, I think that Phil's the MVP. "Is that clear?" 

We're cringing just imagining some of these situations. 

There's nothing like accidentally making contact with a total stranger. 

Ah Tinder (see here for another ridiculous batch), a true beacon to the shamelessly flirty and perverse souls that have an uncanny knack for making things supremely awkward right off the bat. 

Some individuals are actually adept at coming up with original pickup lines that actually work! Who would've thought. But they do not make up for the endless reams of attempts that are just embarrassingly bad flirting attempts

These uncomfortable confessions center on women who didn't say "yes" to their partners proposals. From there, we catch glimpses of the fallouts, and emotional implosions, that seem to loyally follow such tough rejections. 

"It wasn't my fart, I swear." One man took to Craigslist in hopes to discover some truth to why his Tinder date bailed, and blocked him for no apparent reason. He explains in his story that he smelt it but wasn't the one who dealt it. Promising that it wasn't his lingering farts that refused to drift off... and he was right, it wasn't him. His date responds with a hilarious and unexpected tell-all, titled "shart and come clean."

Some of us just revel in the awkward and the cringey. Why? Do we just like feeling uncomfortable? Who knows. These posts are awkward, but not too awkward that they'll make you physically cringe. So let the cringe consume you and click here to view even more. You won't be disappointed.

Life hack: DON'T gift pepper spray in the first place, and if you do, keep that sh*t out of the stocking. 

Be sure to add some of these awkward tomes to your reading list for the holidays.

Or, you know, don't.