Edgy

Edgyness refers to people trying to hard to make things tragic, grimdark or controversial in how they go about things. Generally used around these parts as a negative.

This is not to say that said elements are bad in of themselves, but rather that their sloppy execution is. Edgyness is in some ways like a cargo cult. During WWII in the Pacific the US military set up bases on remote, but inhabited islands bringing with them a lot of stuff like planes and cars and so forth that was quite amazing to the stone age natives to whom the world had been a few dozen square kilometers of land surrounded by ocean with hazy stories of other such islands. When they left, some of them took to making coconut and wooden radios and flight towers based of some hazy recollection of the military, unaware that making the shape does not get you the actual thing. Likewise someone of at best mediocre creative abilities sees some fiction which makes good use of melodrama, gritty dark humor and similar made by people who know what the hell their doing and figures "I can do that!" and as such haphazardly applies those elements. The results of such efforts are either tiresome, unintentionally funny or just painful.

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