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I saw an article in VICE on Elon Musk and Grimes' breakup calling them an "iconically cringe couple" and it got me wondering why they were described so, what was cringe about them? I don't understand that perception at all, but then I didn't know much about them as a couple, so what's that about?
They DO mention the bit I quote below in the article, but is that the only reason?
The two met via a characteristically cringe Twitter DM slide: Musk tweeted the bad pun "Rococo’s Basilisk" (a play on "Roko’s Basilisk," a thought experiment about killer AI), and realized that Grimes had tweeted the same dad joke three years earlier.
They DO mention the bit I quote below in the article, but is that the only reason?
The two met via a characteristically cringe Twitter DM slide: Musk tweeted the bad pun "Rococo’s Basilisk" (a play on "Roko’s Basilisk," a thought experiment about killer AI), and realized that Grimes had tweeted the same dad joke three years earlier.