edgy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɛdʒi/
edgy (comparative edgier, superlative edgiest)
- Nervous, apprehensive.
- (entertainment, advertising) Creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge.
- (entertainment, advertising) On the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; risqué.
- (dated) Irritable.
- an edgy temper
- (art) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
- A sculptor's ideas must, I should guess, be somewhat rigid and inflexible, like the materials in which he works. Besides, Nollekens's style was comparatively hard and edgy.
- (of a knife or blade) Sharp.
- (slang) Cool by virtue of being tough, dark, or badass.
- (Internet slang) Exhibiting behavior that is disconcerting or alarming, sometimes in an effort to impress or to troll others.
- 2012, David Brown (18 March 2012), Richard Bacon on the online abuse he’s suffered for two years ↗, Radio Times (retrieved 2017-11-09; [https://web.archive.org/web/20150321210423/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-03-18/richard-bacon-on-the-online-abuse-hes-suffered-for-two-years/ archived] from the original 2015-03-21):
- “These trolls think they’re being satirical and brave because they’re putting these dangerous, edgy so-called jokes on there, but in reality it’s cowardly. It’s the antithesis of bravery because they rarely identify themselves or give away personal information. That’s not courage.”
- 2015, Ellen Pao (16 July 2015), Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: The trolls are winning the battle for the Internet ↗, Washington Post (retrieved 2017-11-09; [https://web.archive.org/web/20171020151007/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-cannot-let-the-internet-trolls-win/2015/07/16/91b1a2d2-2b17-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html archived] from the original 2017-10-20):
- A large portion of the Internet audience enjoys edgy content and the behavior of the more extreme users; it wants to see the bad with the good, so it becomes harder to get rid of the ugly. But to attract more mainstream audiences and bring in the big-budget advertisers, you must hide or remove the ugly.
- 2017, Matthew Sheffield (27 April 2017), Trolling for a race war: neo-Nazis are trying to bait leftist “antifa” activists into violence—and radicalize white people ↗, Salon (retrieved 2017-11-09; [https://web.archive.org/web/20170904010622/https://www.salon.com/2017/04/27/trolling-for-a-race-war-neo-nazis-are-trying-to-bait-leftist-antifa-activists-into-violence-and-radicalize-white-people/ archived] from the original 2017-09-04):
- At first, trolling was simply an apolitical form of amusement — web posting as performance art. The image board 4chan soon became its mecca.
- Over time, however, the trolls began moving from joking about racism to advocating it in their desire to become ever more edgy. Andrew Anglin, creator of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer and a longtime troll before that, described the transformation process in a lengthy post on his blog:
- “The sentiments behind the jokes slowly became serious, as people realized they were based on fact," he wrote. "Non-ironic Nazism [began] masquerading as ironic Nazism.”
- 2017, Jay Hathaway (25 May 2017), Are fidget spinners white supremacist now? ↗, Daily Dot (retrieved 2017-11-09; [https://web.archive.org/web/20170929191127/https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/fidget-spinner-memes-racist/ archived] from the original 2017-09-29):
- Dank meme communities love making fun of fidget spinners, especially because spinners are associated with autistic kids, a favorite target for mockery in “edgy” online spaces like 4chan and Reddit. There, spinners are considered emblematic of everything that’s wrong with society, and they’re used as a metaphor for anything unlikeable.
- 2012, David Brown (18 March 2012), Richard Bacon on the online abuse he’s suffered for two years ↗, Radio Times (retrieved 2017-11-09; [https://web.archive.org/web/20150321210423/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-03-18/richard-bacon-on-the-online-abuse-hes-suffered-for-two-years/ archived] from the original 2015-03-21):
- French: nerveux, anxieux, à cran
- German: nervös, angespannt
- French: limite
- German: grenzwertig
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