When it comes to online dating, Giovanni Wolfram, a 25-year-old living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, isn’t all too worried about whether his fellow dating app users will find him attractive. Rather, his biggest fear is that he might come off as “cringey.”“You can get away with being ugly,” Wolfram says. Much of what Gen Z considers “cringe” might strike others simply as directness and honesty, but one generation’s authenticity is another’s red flag. Be Not CringeWhen Wolfram is messaging potential matches in the dating apps, it’s humor or nothing. I kind of like guys who are a little dorky and maybe a little bit cringe,” she says.