I'm an older guy, so when I listened to Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge I heard a lot of Queen and Iron Maiden in it. I thought it was great, some of their songs are top tier. But I can see how if you were in high school at the time and didn't embrace their style, you might not like it. I mean, even Queen and Iron Maiden had their detractors back in the day...
Basically, it's a reaction to people on social media calling anybody showing any amount of enjoyment from something "cringe."
Cringe is dead, let people enjoy things, embrace the cringe, etc.
I think I've seen it largely in Millennials who have reached a point where they just don't care what the current trend is or what people think of them. They're at the point where they're just like, "I'm in my 30s/40s, fuck it. I'm gonna blast Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance like it's the early 2000s and enjoy the things I like because I can't be bothered to care what people think."
Good for them. My neice just picked up a copy of Welcome to The Black Parade on vinyl. I'll be getting her Danger Days for her birthday.
And I say this as someone who used to hate MCR when I was younger. Then I got older and learned to stop reflexively sneering at things I perceived as mainstream, and realized I'd been missing out on one of the greatest bands of all time.
I love Chris Jericho, like he's in my top 5 all time favourite wrestlers, but this gimmick, this one was stupid AF, that was a hard time to take him seriously.
He used to be my favorite. Now he's just pathetic. He's so garbage in the ring and a cringe old man out of it, these days. Not to mention he's a Maga moron who donated like $50k to Trump, and his wife was at the insurrection.
To be fair, the gimmick was supposed to be stupid. Like, it's very obviously a bit.
And I really, really want to love Jericho, especially after his early AEW stuff (Le Champion was peak wrestling), but between the Trump mania and the stuff with Kylie Rae I just can't stomach seeing him on screen any more.