You need that pointed out to you? The video game references. The video game references are what make it cringe. So delectably cringe that I saved the video on my computer into what is called a cringe compilation.

Sure! What she’s saying induces a form of second-hand embarrassment colloquailly known as “cringe”. She also keeps saying it over and over again as the listener recoils deeper into their seating and gradually turns into a raisin.

I agree with her point but that does not mean that it isn’t unbelievably cringe. I also shared the video with many of my friends from a variety of backgrounds and they all agreed that it was indeed a level of cringe they had rarely witnessed.

Not providing software updates isn’t the same thing as remotely disabling the software. Of course it is a major issue for smartphones, because it’s a massive security issue to not have an up-to-date OS, but it’s not the same issue SKG is campaigning on.

Ow, ouch, right in the cringe

It’s mostly games that do this. Regular software by and large either uses a subscription model (think Adobe Creative Cloud) or an up-front payment model that won’t stop working when the vendor’s servers say so.