Almost everything a teenager does is cringey and awkward. People are all imperfect creatures that learn from their mistakes through feedback loops.

The digital age is scarey in that it tends to preserve the past in a way that allows a mistake from five years ago seem like it happened just today.

For example, Mel Gibson. Two damaging recordings got leaked of him a decade or more ago and those cringe moments of his life will be preserved forever.

It wasn't like that before and this is not a cool feature of the modern age.