Anatomy of an Edgelord

The trolls of the Internet serve an important function in our society

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“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

The word edgelord was first added to Urban Dictionary in 2015. An edgelord is “someone on an internet forum who deliberately talks about controversial…