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An edgelord is a pretentious poseur on the Internet who tries to impress or shock by posting edgy opinions such as nihilism or extremist views. The term is a blend of "edgy" and "shitlord" – a person who "basks in the bitterness and misery of others". Merriam-Webster gave the following example: We decided to watch It's A Wonderful Life and my dad said, “Every year I wait for Jimmy Stewart to jump off that bridge but he never does it” - merry Xmas from the original edgelord. Edgelords were characterised by author Rachel Monroe in her account of criminal behaviour, Savage Appetites:

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  • An edgelord is a pretentious poseur on the Internet who tries to impress or shock by posting edgy opinions such as nihilism or extremist views. The term is a blend of "edgy" and "shitlord" – a person who "basks in the bitterness and misery of others". Merriam-Webster gave the following example: We decided to watch It's A Wonderful Life and my dad said, “Every year I wait for Jimmy Stewart to jump off that bridge but he never does it” - merry Xmas from the original edgelord. Edgelords were characterised by author Rachel Monroe in her account of criminal behaviour, Savage Appetites: (en)
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  • An edgelord is a pretentious poseur on the Internet who tries to impress or shock by posting edgy opinions such as nihilism or extremist views. The term is a blend of "edgy" and "shitlord" – a person who "basks in the bitterness and misery of others". Merriam-Webster gave the following example: We decided to watch It's A Wonderful Life and my dad said, “Every year I wait for Jimmy Stewart to jump off that bridge but he never does it” - merry Xmas from the original edgelord. Edgelords were characterised by author Rachel Monroe in her account of criminal behaviour, Savage Appetites: ...internet cynics lumped the online Nazis together with the serial killer fetishists and the dumbest goths and dismissed them all as edgelords: kids who tried to be scary online. I thought of most of these edgelords as basement-dwellers, pale faces lit by the glow of their computer screen, puffing themselves up with nihilism. An edgelord was a scrawny guy with a LARP-y vibe, possibly wearing a cloak, dreaming of omnipotence. Or a girl with excessive eyeliner and lots of Tumblr posts about self-harm. The disturbing content posted by edgelords was undermined by its predictability... It is frequently associated with the forum site 4Chan. (en)
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