Were you ever an archetypical Edgy Teenager?

Not in my teenage years (I'm still a teenager) but I tried to imitate edgy teens when I was 10-12.

Oh boi my old accounts in this thread didn't age well.

In hindsight, kind of. I had a couple edgy stages between 12-13 and 17-18 but those passed quickly once I adjusted.

I didn't have enough money to be edgy. Unless being obsessed with villains make you edgy.

I used to be part of this community called Super Paint Brawl. They were an "offshoot" of Newgrounds back in the day when we had a thread called "MS Paint Brawl." The mods got sick of the low-effort content so the group moved to their own Proboards site.

We used to do comic book-style adventures, fights, you name it. I used to have a character called "Ghost" and another called "Fab" and they were all random, goofy, psychotic twits. Ghost was a discount Scott Summers who'd make anime references and completely apathetic. Fab was a monstrous, pink-colored twin who had "fab energy" and, while not being stereotypically gay, was a hyper-violent Kid Buu expy. A lot of the fights I would participate in had my characters fighting to Linkin Park songs.

I had a sort of whimsy but I think that was the edgiest, cringiest phase of my adolescence.

Edited by Soble on Oct 2nd 2019 at 6:25:17 AM

I was never all that edgy as a teenager but I was once I became a young adult, I had a cynical and even dark thoughts about life and it reflected in my posts here. I still have some thoughts but I realize that a lot of them come from my sleeping habits,procrastination,laziness,cowardice,self loathing or other things that I wasn't aware of until recently. I guess I am still somewhat edgy but only in the 'ironic' sense. I am neither cynical or idealistic but I am more of a realist and existentialist now.

Edited by GAP on Oct 2nd 2019 at 5:42:42 AM

I don't think about myself that I was an archetypal, edgy teenager.

But I thought and done some stuff like this, yeah.

Honestly i’m probably edgier now than I was as a teenager.

I was a distinctly 2010s breed of edgy teen. I wasn't angsty, suicidal, cynical, or anything like that, but I was, well...

I was this guy:

I was more on mild side of it but I had my moments. Mainly in mid - late 2015.

I mostly just listened to a lot of metal.

I definitely was one of those, still kind of am but more moderately. Nowadays, I'm really more of a typical boomer, despite being born in the Gen Z time period. I'll have my own type of edge for life.

Edited by Piterpicher on May 19th 2022 at 11:08:32 AM

I didn't angst much as a teenager. Much more as a young adult, when I knew I needed to set my own path in life, and found I had no motivation or direction.

If being crazy counts as edgy, then I'm still in my edgy phase

I wouldn't say so. It's possible to be crazy and yet totally soft, at least IMO.

Edited by Piterpicher on May 19th 2022 at 1:28:28 PM

I still have some of that to this day though a more jolly type (similar to a perky goth ) but mostly relates to some of my music tastes and love for spooky/dark areas in works.

I thought of angst-filled Fan Fic and roleplaying ideas, I listened to Linkin Park and a few other bands like them, and I wore black a lot. But no eyeliner because it was too much effort.

I sorta grew out of it. But some of my emo thoughts came back to me as intrusive and/or Anxiety Thoughts.

So I ... upgraded?

Edited by Misuki on May 20th 2022 at 1:20:41 PM

I wanted to be emo when I was around 13, even though it was basically dead by that point. I guess you could consider me an edgy teenager in my late teens, since it was when I was 18 that I really began to get into goth rock and the goth subculture in general. I'm still like that, though. I consider myself in between Perky Goth and stereotypically gloomy Goth.

Edited by TheWhiteWolf on May 20th 2022 at 7:02:26 AM

I never was. Hell, I didn't even have a rebellious teen phase.

Nope. I was a grumpy old man by the time I was 14.

I certainly had a "moody ungrateful teenager" phase, and it caused some sad irony that I still ponder about to this day. At the junior high school my friend Max and I went to, starting in the sixth grade, a lot of the time my teachers would reprimand me for not being positive enough. Now I'm an adult, and sometimes I feel like I get reprimanded for being positive at all.

less edgy and more cynical and snarky

i still am honestly

Same and people hate me for it.

I still have some edgy thoughts even if I am no longer a teenager. I think I was edgy but not as edgy as I am right now.

x13

We sound pretty similar. I still like edgy jokes (as long as they're jokes and not just edge) today. Kind of funny you said you're like a boomer since my family tells me I act like an old man despite my age.

I don't remember when I followed this thread but it was definitely because I wanted to answer the question.

Short answer: probably yes.

I say probably likely because I'm still partially in denial about the "archetypical" part. Past me figured that exploring darker mentalities on my own volition would be what made it unique. What's certain about now is that I'm not putting myself through that mess again. Old habits die hard, however, but I'm happy to have grown past the worst of it.

Some weeks ago I watched this video of a goth reacting to goth memes and this image is an awfully accurate description of 15-year-old me (full meme at 7:36).

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Mar 5th 2023 at 2:36:43 AM