I don't believe at all in the notion of "cringe". "Cringe" is a verb. Cringe is what 4chan neo-Nazis do at anything sweet or sincere or (especially) queer, and the whole concept is their loud insistence that their reaction is an objective problem with you. Cringe can fuck off.
I do, however, occasionally find myself comparing and contrasting the reaction "recoil in revulsion", a thing I just did when I accidentally discovered in passing that a Beloved Indie Darling TTRPG (read: someone loudly queer but nonetheless with sufficient access to capital to Win At Kickstarter) refers to its section on tools for players' safety as "Cooties and oopsies".
I do not give a flying fuck if it's intended for literal children (though I've never heard anything to suggest it is, as opposed to being for Disney adults' nostalgia-cocoon cod-childhoods); fucking about with the real and serious message that you don't deserve to be hurt while playing a game, and you don't have to accept it or shut up and take it if it happens because Ugh It's Just A Game and We're All Friends is not something I welcome in any gaming text. If you can't handle writing that message for kids without veering off into...whatever you call that, don't fucking write for kids. And if you're writing that framing of safety for your Disney adult brunch pals, fuck, remind me never to play anything with any of you.
"Recoil in revulsion" is also a verb phrase, but I do find it a useful one.