Everyone has seen something that caused them to cringe at some point in their lives. Usually, this is something that they see online like a bad meme. Cringing at something is a guttural feeling that makes someone feel yucky. There is also sad cringe though. Sad cringe is the kind of cringeworthy content that is so bad you can't help but feel a little sorry for the person in the image. A lot of it is still really bad and the people featured are to blame and probably deserve the ridicule, but man, they definitely need some serious help. Sometimes you just gotta wonder what went so wrong in these people's lives that they are doing some of these terrible things.

For an experience that will have you swimming in a mix of emotions, with feelings ranging from laughter to sorrow to uncomfortableness and even horror, here are 23 images from one of the most unfortunate places on the internet, Reddit's /r/sadcringe.