'Chagrinternet' intensifies ordinary chagrin by introducing the possibility of permanence, writes dtortorici
We updated Roger Hargreaves’s Little Miss and Mr. Men universe to include some of our new emotions. Illustration: Zohar Lazar This week, the Cut is exploring a scientific theory that suggests we have infinite emotions, so long as we can name them — and so we did, asking writers to identify new ways to feel.
Chagrinternet: The lingering feeling of minor humiliation endemic to participating in social life online. Much like how grief, dejection, and sorrow all belong to sadness, the feelings that attend getting ratioed, dropping the wrong link into your work Slack, and accidentally emailing the person you meant to talk shit about all belong to chagrinternet.
Chagrinternet intensifies ordinary chagrin by introducing the possibility of permanence. On sleepless nights, when your embarrassing-moments highlight reel is playing a double feature in your head, you can at least reassure yourself that the stupid things you’ve said out loud can’t live in others’ minds forever. It’s harder to talk yourself down when the offending record is there for all to see, in its original form or via the Wayback Machine.
Phase two of chagrinternet, following quickly on that hot, vertiginous feeling of having committed an undoable error, is often a kind of posting mania — an impulse to bury the concerning item with more rash utterances, effluvia, and potentially regrettable content. Push the cringeworthy item deeper down the well, and perhaps it will disappear.
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