edgelard 

an internet troll who actually takes their edgy online opinions out into the real world.

A reformed edgelord, disillusioned by people who rant about politics on the internet but never back it up with real-world action.

"jenny's such an edgelard, she stalked that guy just because of a youtube comment"

"Luigi assassinated that guy, he's got major edgelard vibes"

"if you really wanna be an edgelard, you gotta go out and be the change you want in the world. no matter what the consequences"

edgelard by statarama April 4, 2025

Edgelord Personality Disorder 

A Cluster D personality disorder, stated in the DSM-5 as 'a Personality Disorder defined by bouts of attention seeking behavior, including attempts to be edgyand ostentatious-- Due to low self esteem.

Diagnostic criteria:
A) Individual must display pretentious behavior for at least a week or more.
B) They must possess inhumanly low self-esteem.
C) They incessantly spout phrases in an attempt to offend, shock, or appear 'cool' to others.
D) They claim to have antisocial attributes, yet they still confuse the terms antisocial with asocial.
E) They claim knowledge of psychology, when they get all their info from fictional television or Quora.
F) Blasts deathcore public areas, in an attempt for attention.
G) Makes claims that they 'understand slam lyrics'.
H) Claims of a terrible childhood, yet scores a flat '0 ACEs' on the 'ACE study ' test.
I) Claims that they are a master manipulator, when in doing so, does the exact opposite.
J) Obsessed with firearms.
K) Claims an absurdly high IQ, (and refers to it as 'Intelligence Quotient').
L) Despite their 'extreme perception', they seem unable to depict how others are really reacting to them.
M) Adopts a plethora of facts to sound intelligent, sometimes using their 'elaborate parlance' instead of speaking like a normal person in an attempt to impress.

These must be present in subject since age 9 and still be present by age 16+ in order to be diagnosed.

'Did you see Carl's posts on 4chan about how he is the ultimate sociopath, with his whole 'I don't feel a thing' rant?'
'Do you think he might have Antisocial PD?'
'Pfffft. More like EPD, or 'Edgelord Personality Disorder'

Edgelord Personality Disorder by d0uble0ught June 1, 2019

edgelord 

A poster on an Internet forum, (particularly 4chan) who expresses opinions which are either strongly nihilistic, ("life has no meaning," or Tyler Durden's special snowflake speech from the film Fight Club being probably the two main examples) or contain references to Hitler, Nazism, fascism, or other taboo topics which are deliberately intended to shock or offend readers.

The term "edgelord," is a noun, which came from the previous adjective, "edgy," which described the above behaviour.

Nietzsche was an edgelord before it was cool.

edgelord by petrus4 February 19, 2015

edgelord 

Someone, especially posting on the internet, who uses shocking and nihilistic speech and opinions that they themselves may or may not actually believe to gain attention and come across as a more dangerous and unique person. Most Edgelords are teenagers trying to seem overly cool and/or over-casually apathetic.

"The human race is a blight upon the world, what's wrong with all you people? Honestly I'm just waiting for the next plague to happen," -Johnny Edge

" Oh shut the hell up you whiny edgelord" -Johnny Everyone

edgelord by MontethePython7 February 25, 2017

edgelady 

Female version of an edgelord

That girl is really edgy and strange. She's really an edgelady

edgelady by Antosha9 January 17, 2021

Edgelord 

Goteph/FacemannMcHomme/HommeAuxVisages.

Tries (and fails) to randomly insert edgy shock value content (often in the forms of extreme nihilism, feigned sociopathy, and all-around pisspoor attempts to look cool and brooding when he wants attention) into conversations either edgy content or he himself has no part in, or otherwise does so randomly because he feels the conversation is dead and he wants attention to be focused on him for a change.

Talks a big game and tries very hard to one-up anyone who (rightly) gives him grief for acting like an idiot, but seems to fail at it every single time because he lacks the spine and stomach to uphold or otherwise back up any of the crap he spews.

Probably does all of this in an ongoing and vain attempt to make others miserable with shock value, so as to bring them down to whatever level of misery he likely deals with. If he can successfully do this, then someone's as equally miserable as he seems to be AND he'll have the "superiority" at having brought them down there all on his own. Ergo, it all looks to be an attempt to feed into his ego so that he can feel a bit better about himself.

Would probably be a swell dude if he wasn't trying way too hard to be a Nietzsche wannabe, but he doesn't seem willing or able to examine whatever personal flaws he has in his system and overcome them despite having the exact problems explained to him on multiple occasions. Really a shame, all things considered.

Goteph is a tryhard edgelord who really needs to get it through his head that nobody's impressed or shocked at his antics.

Edgelord by D9AC November 5, 2017

Utilitarian edgelord 

A person that has to come up with an extreme hypothetical to justify an action (that is commonly known as immoral) under utilitarianism. Often used to get away with edgy comments and not focus on the issues that those actions have in our current society.

Person 1: "Well, technically rape is morally neutral. If you could save all of humanity from an alien invasion by raping this one girl that would be a moral good"
Person 2: "Shut the fuck Steve, anything can be justified by incredibly stupid hypotheticals, you are just being a utilitarian edgelord"

Utilitarian edgelord by AbbyV June 20, 2021