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[Strangelove77]

I can't tell if I was never edgy at all or if I'm being edgy right now because I've always been edgy this whole time.

 

[AzureSkies]

Papercut by Linkin Park used to be one of my favorite songs back when I was 12. The edge.

To be fair, during that time I also listened to a lot of great bands that have stuck with me, like Iron Maiden and The Offspring.

Spoiler

Hybrid Theory is also a secret guilty pleasure of mine.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

Ahh, those days listening to the national anthem of edginess

Its not a phase mum, this is who I am

Do you remember those days Gaf......do you

Man, went numb and almost faint with all that edge. Felt like papercuts

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Is Elliott Smith edgy?

 

[Crayons]

I'm still edgy.

 

[Farsi]

I still am The Edge.
I'm co-founder of The Edge Zone®

I've been telling my parents it wasn't a fad for 10 years now.

 

[Nydius]

Everyone listing Korn and Linkin Park and Evanescence

Spoiler

- Y NO DISTURBED? -

as "edgy" and I just thought of them as rock.

I don't even know what would have been edgy for me. I guess it would have been the thrash metal of the day because they were all "fuck that glam hair rock", which I suppose was edgy at the time.

Oh hell now I just feel old.

 

[Omega Kirby]

I still am The Edge.
I'm co-founder of The Edge Zone®

I've been telling my parents it wasn't a fad for 10 years now.

Don't push me cause im close to the edge

 

[Order]

Go ahead and try to see through me
Do it if you dare (dare!)
One step forward, two steps back
I'm here (One step forward, two steps back)
Do it... do it... do it... DO IT!

 

[SolVanderlyn]

I think my edgy days really just consisted of disliking everyone at school.

This for high school

Drinking a lot in college just because we could

I don't miss 'em

 

[-tetsuo-]

Did you run into the night like this too?

This is damaging me

 

[A Serious Man]

My "edgy" days were about 8 years ago, when I read The God Delusion and began to identify as an atheist. I was on-board with Hitchens' anti-theist rhetoric, and saw those who were religious as ignorant and needing to be reformed, or however you want to frame it. I was never "militant" and let people go about their own beliefs, but I internally (unfairly) judged a lot of people back then.

Essentially, I took in almost everything put out by these three:



Thankfully, I've grown since then and have a much greater understanding of the world than I did when I was so "free-thinking." I did learn a lot during the phase, but I am glad it was just that.

Oh, just remembered: I also liked (and still kinda enjoy) Coming Undone by Korn and Down with the Sickness by Disturbed. I'd attribute the latter to the Dawn of the Dead remake though.

I never had an edgy phase but I do remember thinking I was some sort of woke religious mythology expert after playing Xenogears. It's a miracle I had any friends at all in middle school.

 

[InfiniteBento]

...Fuck.

I still lowkey vibe to this shit sometimes

 

[Nickle]

I posted on Gaf

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

Go ahead and try to see through me
Do it if you dare (dare!)
One step forward, two steps back
I'm here (One step forward, two steps back)
Do it... do it... do it... DO IT!

HEAVEN CAN'T SAVE US
HELL IS A JOKE
NO PLACE LEFT TO GOOOOO

 

[ScottSullivan]

Not that this is that edgy, but back in the warcraft 3 online games my Online screen name was "X-Chaos" ugh, I still shudder thinking about what a lamo I was

 

[Pinko Marx]

I've gotten edgier as I get older so I'm going backwards.

 

[Rayis]

I don't think I ever had an edgy phase to be quite honest, though maybe my dismissal towards edgy things could be considered edgy in and of itself.

 

[BlackRainbowFT]

I've never been "edgy", I think. The closest I came to, was when I was 14-ish. I'd only listen to metal and dismissed every other genre (with the odd exception of 80s new wave).

The older I got the more my metal became extreme... but at the same time I broadened my horizon and started to listen to other genres (90s hip hop, psychobilly, swing, jazz manouche, psytrance, goth rock, synthwave and even some overproduced kpop). It took me a while to realize that variety is more stimulating... (with that said, metal still represents 75% of what I listen to... essentially black, death, thrash and doom).

Other than that, I always defended colorful games and always admitted I played with action figures up to the age of 15 (I stopped because my 11 years old brother thought it was childish... it's just role-playing, but whatever)... so yeah, not much of an edgelord...

edit: I've been using the username BlackRainbow for ages. People who are close to me agree that it suits my personality well. But yeah, kinda edgy (I used it since before Manson's holywood album)

 

[Myriadis]

I was never into edgy music but I used to be super contrarian in a way that, in retrospect, was so overwealmingly cringe.

Kinda like this, though I never was aggressive in that. Just kept the thoughts to myself.

i was all in on tool for a few years back in the day

But Tool is legit great to this day.

Is Elliott Smith edgy?

No but he's awesome.

I have no problems going back to emo music. It's some kind of fun guilty pleasure for me and there are quite a few good songs in there, especially the ones that have some math rock mixed in.
Also midwest emo exists to this day and has some excellent bands under its wing.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

I died my hair purple with koolaid once. I died it silver once too.

 

[Fat4all]

Never been a fan of the edgy username

 

[Sojgat]

I'm still edgy.

Join the club.

 

[ryseing]

...Fuck.

Album is legit great, yo. Also worth checking out are the Umbrella Academy comics Way wrote.

 

[Apt101]

I was heavy into Rage and any irreverent hip hop in high school, thought I knew everything about the world and what was wrong with it, and my lord was I insufferable.

I was worse in my first few years of college because I went to a few university classes and thought I was educated. I've gone back and revisited things I posted on the Internet when I was 19-20 and ugh. Someone should have revoked my Internet privileges. My username on one forum was God Isn't Real. Sigh.

 

[| Praxis |]

Used to wear a spiked dog collar and thought Linkin Park was for cunts that knew nothing.

I don't wear the dog collar anymore.

 

[Master Of Illusion]

I'll admit I never completely grew out of my edgelord phase, but Jesus fuck I was terrible (I actually wrote a song when I was 14 that had the line "I try to slit my wrists, but I can't").

However, Hybrid Theory is still a masterpiece, early Trivium is incredible, Sasuke is the man, and no one can convince me otherwise.

 

[Fat4all]

I don't wear the dog collar anymore.

 

[CrimzonSamurai]

I used to be active on /b/ when it was good.

Spoiler

/b/ was never good

Glad I grew out of that before it just became the launching point of the fourth reich

 

[Media]

My edge years were in my teens during the rise of grunge, and y all are making me feel old.

I also wore a long black leather trench coat to school everyday. In the desert. With a flannel and ripped jeans. I was the crazy girl.

Columbine made it awkward

 

[Erv]

My edge years were in my teens during the rise of grunge, and y all are making me feel old.

I also wore a long black leather trench coat to school everyday. In the desert. With a flannel and ripped jeans. I was the crazy girl.

Columbine made it awkward

Columbine should have made you stop wearing it

 

[CrimzonSamurai]

My edge years were in my teens during the rise of grunge, and y all are making me feel old.

I also wore a long black leather trench coat to school everyday. In the desert. With a flannel and ripped jeans. I was the crazy girl.

Columbine made it awkward

Eh it made playing video games awkward, too. We probably all felt some weird heat from that one.

 

[sleverfunk]

Oh god. I remember not listening to any pop music and hiphop because rock music is what real men listens.

 

[Toparaman]

Papercut by Linkin Park used to be one of my favorite songs back when I was 12. The edge.

To be fair, during that time I also listened to a lot of great bands that have stuck with me, like Iron Maiden and The Offspring.

Spoiler

Hybrid Theory is also a secret guilty pleasure of mine.

Everyone likes Hybrid Theory. There's just some good tunes on there. It's catchy angst, not dudes whining.

 

[Media]

Columbine should have made you stop wearing it

Like I said, edgy. They didn't ban them and I was in a very small school

Eh it made playing video games awkward, too. We probably all felt some weird heat from that one.

Yeah, I was a gamer at the time as well, and knew all the secrets in Doom >.<

 

[CrimzonSamurai]

This has reminded me that my best friend went out of her way in high school to cultivate the rumor that she was a witch. Wore all black, neck choker, etc.

She hissed at the popular girls once.

 

[Amalthea]

I usually just walked into the edges of heavy furniture at the time.

 

[SRG01]

Edgy was me being a l33t h4xx0r or something during grade school.

Oh God, I cringed when I typed that.

 

[ffdgh]

I can't. Never actually had one looking back.

 

[TissueBox]

...Fuck.

MCR is still one of my fav bands. +_+ I'mma show you, world, I'MMA SHOOW YERR..!!

Also Teenagers and Mama are still fine, edgy wine.

Album is legit great, yo. Also worth checking out are the Umbrella Academy comics Way wrote.

YES..!

 

[Always-honest]

Dear lord that music.
I probably heard worse but i can't come up with anything right now.

What does "edgy" mean in this context?


Edit: Oh, edgy means you were a normal teenager? And now we're all grown up, right? Laughing about our former self?

 

[RM8]

I was never an angsty teenager, but I indeed went through a "the fact that I'm an atheist is relevant" phase. I quickly outgrew that because atheist online communities are pure crap. I was never really upfront about atheism, though.

 

[Forerunner]

...Fuck.

I like this song. It's still on my playlist.

 

[Turin]

Had Kurt Cobain hair and listened to a lot of nu-metal as a teenager.

 

[Pyccko]

I painted my nails a few times and I bought a shirt from Hot Topic once. I think that's it.

I spent most of my teenage years skateboarding and drinking blue pepsi. No time for edginess when you're hopped up on that sweet azure ambrosia.

 

[retroman]

I thought I was cool with my ponytail and my long black trenchcoat. Thanks Highlander: The Series!

 

[magnetic]

(My avatar is from Scared Stiff, a super fun and lighthearted pinball, just for context. I'm just now realizing it looks pretty goth too.)

I drew goth angels that all looked liked Christina Ricci,who I had a crush on because she was dark and mysterious and not like the others, you know, Tim Burton stuff. A dark lone wolf like me. If only I could meet her we would be joined in darkness forever!

Oh, and the phase where I thought that being into black metal meant I couldn't listen to anything else, because everything else is just generic mindwashing commercial crap for sheeple. TRVE NORWEGIAN METAL - NO FUN ALLOWED

 

[Sblargh]

Korn and Linkin Park are for posers kid posers who just follow the trends MTV ordered them to, the sheep. Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd is the real rock n roll

 

[magnetic]

... And man, Disturbed was bad. UUH WA - A - A - A! OH OH! Alex Navarro imitated them beautifully in a recent Beastcast.

 

[Always-honest]

Korn and Linkin Park are for posers kid posers who just follow the trends MTV ordered them to, the sheep. Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd is the real rock n roll

Led Zeppelin is just Linkin Park for old people.

Pink Floyd is the real deal though.