edgelordy
(originally, Internet slang, mildly, derogatory) Characteristic of or relating to an edgelord.
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If you're not familiar with the modern atheist movement, Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris were dubbed "The Four Horsemen", a name that is as edgelordy as it is pretentious. All of them tu…
Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher, Neil deGrasse Tyson… Who else lost their luster because we weren’t edgelordy teenagers anymore?
Something something 80's reference, something something edgelordy darkening of 80's reference.
Instead of (as I think Chris Person put it) "making you a specific kind of crazy" like Blue Prince, which is really disempowering, or (much older pull) doing a big "you were the bad guy all along" reveal like Braid, w…
The scene in Evil Town when he’s uncovered in the mine shaft (?) absolutely blew my mind the first time I saw it. The rest is a bit too, um, edgelordy for me now.
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(originally, Internet slang, mildly, derogatory) Characteristic of or relating to an edgelord.
“If you're not familiar with the modern atheist movement, Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris were dubbed "The Four Horsemen", a name that is as edgelordy as it is pretentious. All of them turned out to be shitty in the end.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher, Neil deGrasse Tyson… Who else lost their luster because we weren’t edgelordy teenagers anymore?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Something something 80's reference, something something edgelordy darkening of 80's reference.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Instead of (as I think Chris Person put it) "making you a specific kind of crazy" like Blue Prince, which is really disempowering, or (much older pull) doing a big "you were the bad guy all along" reveal like Braid, which fell flat and edgelordy...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The scene in Evil Town when he’s uncovered in the mine shaft (?) absolutely blew my mind the first time I saw it. The rest is a bit too, um, edgelordy for me now.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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