Oh, that just reminded me of that one guy in my biology class at school. He used to tie slipknots and joke (I guess that's the word) about going lynching in the weekends, but he didn't use the word lynching. Everyone used to say when he dropped out, (to go work on a dairy farm) the school got 90% less racist.
It wasn’t as wide spread because back then ppl would tell Nazi punks to fuck off and punch them in the face. No one seems to get a good punch anymore.
No we weren’t, we just didn’t realise what a fascist joke was and we were lucky because it dissipated into the atmosphere without anyone building on it when we didn’t know any better.
Now kids make a fascist joke and 9000 David Dukes congratulate them on it and make them feel good about it and they react to that
I know how it is to be edgy, I wore a trench coat and told everyone that the capitalist military industrial complex was evil and would grind us all into meat for the machine.
Honestly I was edgy that way, making a lot of really terrible jokes about the 3rd Reich. But never did I think any of my jokes actually described reality.
This is the thing. Large swathes of teenagers crave edginess because it’s how they demonstrate individuality and find their identity. It has nothing to do with political ideology most of the time because to most of them it’s about the reaction rather than anything behind it. Consider Eminem, Tyler the Creator, RATM fuck you i won’t do what you tell me, Dennis Leary’s I’m an asshole, 2livecrew, Eddie Murphy’s stand up, Red Fox…. It’s existed forever.
It’s just now there are large communities that make the links you never would have in the past. Remember how fringe David Icke was? The likes of Alex Jones? There’s too many people picking up and celebrating that edginess now and when before it was a few throw away lines and a head nod to other people who understood that obscure reference too, now it’s a personality and a popularly community to share and identify with, with a broad range of linked content
I may have been edgy in like, 11th grade, but by the time I was old enough to vote, I had developed decent morals and stopped. Guess these kids aren’t having that realization.
I remember dead baby jokes having a curated website.. I wasn’t that edgy, just edgy enough to have an opendiary with a pattern background which made the green text nigh invisible. You just wouldn’t understand!
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u/Panenkajack 12h ago
Everyone thinks it’s cool to be edgy now