edgelord
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Is Bill Burr’s comedy meant to be taken at face value or is he doing a high-wire self-parody of the type of edgelord comedy that drew ire after a Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2024
The thing about being an edgelord, though, is that outside the context of whatever internet subcommunity in which the person resides, the content is off-putting.
From Slate • May 28, 2024
That's a quintessential edgelord trick: Make a heinous comment and then cry victim over something much less egregious, laughing all the way.
From Salon • Aug. 28, 2023
“If you’re mean, you have to be super edgelord mean, or else you have to be super earnest.”
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2021
Although this isn’t the first brush our armed and streaming forces have had with edgelord humor on Twitch.
From The Verge • Sep. 16, 2020
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