pseudo-cringe

When someone acts in a cringy manner, knowingly, in order to instigate laughter among a group of people who understand the deliberate cringiness.

The way Teddy texts is pseudo-cringy, as all his friends know that he's intentionally writing that way.

The teacher acts in a pseudo-cringy manner which makes the Z-GEN kids laugh. ( Pseudo-cringe-ception: pseudo cringe within pseudo-cringe example. )