>>13321125I don't exactly regard it as cringy, but I painstakingly drew intricate artworks combining poems and original visuals with expensive paper and fountain pen... for guys I met for the first time on dating apps. For one of them I even recited to him a poem reading it in the original German, having practiced beforehand, and then in the Italian translation. All because I was convinced and wanted that they were my soulmate every time, despite only chatting online before that.
Also when I was much younger as a kid at a scout summer camp, back when I wasn't sure I was gay and I convinced myself I liked girls, I had a "crush" on a girl I didn't even knew. There was a box where you could put anonymous messages on pieces of paper and they would be read out loud in public at the night campfire. So I wrote a really cheesy, and to be fair pretty self-aware funny poem-like thing expressing my feelings (I can only remember it opened with a pun comparing her name, Samantha, to "manta ray". I then found out that my best friend at the camp, who I had told about it, had removed the message because it was too embarrassing, like doing it for my sake. I was livid and it temporarily ended our friendship.
