girl why was that a bit cringe

You're a total 50/50 on the votes it's kinda hilarious

As for cringiness (I theorise) it's probably to do with verbalising, I often find that a certain category of people melt at the explicit explanation of things into words while there is the other category that would muuuuuuuch more prefer glances as a way of communication
It could also be the amount of efforts the characters are putting on their tiny thing (accepting a hard request from a favourite author to get more books, going to school and dying your hair to meet a muse)
Or the page structure that gives the sense of window blowing with the blossoms in a shojo manga

All in all hard to explain, I need more people to fight over this to define what is and what is not cringe and how much of it is from personal development and taste

yeah I'd say it's the shoujo-esque dialogues and the directness of it all that's a bit too unhinged for my palate that is making me cringe, but I love your take!