I Finally Understand Edgelords.
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Edited by @NeedlessNick
Why so Serious 00:00
Part 1 – What is an Edgelord – 06:58
Part 2 – Me and the Boys 19:23
Part 3 – Genocyde but make it look Seggsy 27:40
Part 4 – Don’t make me laugh 36:32
Part 5 – Twist ending – 53:33
Original Edgelord video – https://youtu.be/_–JOjsTHjo
Masculinity/Anti manosphere playlist – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCloiJ2glw55nFdhlvB0ojBYIWKzROjbv
Other videos regarding Attack on Titan –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T8JX5b2IMo&t=1871s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq21XsNLosk&t=1626s
Westside Tyler on Starship Troopers – https://youtu.be/nit3cqmCYfE?si=pERnrkZjyfckBm9c
Man of many cats video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsM9vz3FsM&t=1025s
Jessie Gender on Star Trek – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUNOmlS73sA&list=PLgH0AbtWXcMyDp0G9rS7l6oL6ZAU8RuVo&pp=iAQB
@FDSignifire
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
Yall Hank Green is NOT problematic lol i love Hank thats what makes it funny. I wouldn't be here without him. Please don't read to much into the list if you know you know
@rockbiter-gf2sx
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
4:55 – 5:18 ima recite this to people i hate <3
@littlemxcryptid
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
very good video! also when you mentioned crash i got a flashback to a film class in highschool where they made us watch it. i did not enjoy it.
@Graveyardigan-OG
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
You want counter- indoctrination? One Piece shows us one way to do it. Progressive Gen Z protesters fly it for good reasons. Luffy claims he's no hero, but he's all about liberating his downtrodden friends from rich and powerful oppressors.
@OldManArmStrength
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
The problem with edgelords is they cannot come up with anything new or original. It's like they're going down the road of the boomer, which ironically a lot of them are. Edgelords are the new age "dad joke" that everyone groans at
@11negative1
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
I think one way of putting your final point is, "You cannot subvert by obversion." The tighter your control over the message, the less power it has. This is related to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's notion of the subaltern. If you want people to listen at all, you need to signaljack. Sometimes that means burying your point beneath a layer of irony, or exploding gorefests.
What you are talking about for most of the video is epistemic *responsibility*, which is in direct conflict with epistemic *reality*. I must have watched The Matrix a million times as a parable about being The Chosen One. But it still planted the seeds of how I understand the kyriarchy today. I sometimes wonder if the era of instant gratification has afflicted leftism to the point where we no longer understand that people do not change overnight.
@evanshapiro8829
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
Better Call Saul is my favorite sad white-boy media. If you read through Reddit threads in r/BCS, you see the same misinterpretation of Jimmy/Saul that you mentioned in this vid, with people identifying too closely with Jimmy as a character and justifying his actions. As an example, people will justify the way Jimmy treated Chuck, because Chuck doubted Jimmy and his character. Anyway, as a current/former matza-cell, sad white-boy, I enjoyed your video.
@enemycap9163
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
I didn’t like Joker because it was basically just a reboot of Taxi Driver
@Blue_Grass_Girl
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
Hang on, hang on Equilibrium is supposed to be edgy?
@deadpixelxox
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
You can have the message be as clear as a neon sign and some edgelords still don’t understand. We are in 2026 and I saw some conservative dudes still thinking Fortunate Son is some patriotic U.S military song… like they straight up just don’t even listen to the lyrics.
@KyraClark-n5g
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
I don’t comment very often, but I really wish Mr. Signifier and I could have a conversation about the second Joker movie. I have so many opinions about that movie and I loved watching it.
@sickening1019
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
Too real
@Lazerfish
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
Wasn’t a fan of that onision jump scare but a big fan of the rest of the video ❤
@theCosmicFooI
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
You know how I got these scars?
Sharp Hamburger.
@jazmineallen3379
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
I’m commenting within the first 15 mins to thank you for explaining what an edgelord is because I never heard of that before. I’m 33 but I feel so out of the loop sometimes 😅
@sergio_jose
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
4:51 "…respectfully."
@cattysis7067
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
great video! however I am giggling at FD’s honest mistake of calling heath’s award for joker a “grammy”
@BigMujK
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
How is American history X not mentioned, you know racists wee just cheering at certain scenes
@SealOfMetatron
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
As a female, it's nice seeing a male creator that can talk about these issues and is not insufferable to watch. There needs to be more "voice of reason" out here.
@ultramadscientist
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
I think you're right on the drifter/outlaw archetype as one of the precursors. I think it's also the idea of the great man of history that one person can change the world (which isn't precisely false but ignores the web of interconnections we all live in. See: Tolstoy and his critique of Napoleon lol).
But I also think it's this Leopold and Loeb-esque attempt at being the ubermensch. "I'm above your conception of morality". But the hilarious (and tragic) thing they do is end up conforming to a hollow group identity. They wear this role like a wrestler's kayfabe to hide how alone, scared, and broken they are. It makes them feel strong and powerful in a world where they feel like they can't affect any change whatsoever.
If we're gonna wear roles that are above your sense of morality I want more Straw Hats. Luffy doesn't let laws or morality dictate what he does, but he just brings joy everywhere he goes and helps others become their best self.
@Koneko_mrsp
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
As a gen z adult, 24. You did a thing for the gen alpha. You gotta take it back to the vine days, whip and nea nea, "what are thoooseeee", 69 420 etc etc. You aint lumping me with that skidi pee toilet stuff.
@Roberta_Trevino
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
When it comes to media, the best way to make people dislike a certain behavior or group is not my interpreting them as the villains. The way it has to be done is through ridicule and mockery.
Neo-nzis LOVE The Green Room because it depicts them as badass, strong, and as people to be feared. They didn't like Jojo Rabbit because it made the Nzi Party look like silly little bumbling beaurocrats who are silly and dumb. Both those moves are great within their own right.
In this way, I belive that the best way to work against this incel messaging in mock it. The best example I know of this is in the movie Megamind. Hal, who is depicted as a pathetic simp, gains superpowers and when he doesn't get the girl and throws a fit by destroying the city, he gets to remain a simp, but in prison. In Sponge Bob, the villain is a pathetic kittle cucumber with delusions of grandeur that marries a computer and never gets his way. These characters are not idolized by the people who are like them, and sinceboth are depictions in kid's shows, they're supposed to teach children how not to act once they're grown.
@Roberta_Trevino
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
As my sister and me came out of ths movie theater after having watched Joker, we discussed the problematic messaging, which is that the actions of Arthur are justified within the narrative.
We had argued that maybe if, at the TV interview, instead of mocking Arthur, the host had just questioned him. If the host was reasonable and empathetic with Arthur, then Arthur would seem unreasonable when, faced with the fact that he couldn't answer for what he did, he kills the host.
@crazybusyweekbutillbethere7242
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
The aba n preach line was way too accurate
@newnamesameperson397
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
I'm just saying. Grow up. When you do that you see bullshit for what it is
@thesoundofthesilence-dr9yl
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
I feel the same way about Sabrina Carpenter's Lolita and "man's best friend" antiques
@theodorelove321
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
This is such a good analysis! In terms of counter-propaganda, unironically: One Piece is such a good example of an battle manga that continually hits you over the head with leftist politics. The way the black characters are drawn leaves a loooot to be desired, unfortunately, but seeing the One Piece boom gives me some hope.
@Kris-lj7lq
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
4:55 This is what women mean when they say they hate men. Eloquently put Unc F.D
@Petronio39
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
Rather than a piece of edgelord media, I want to recommend a really wholesome anime I watched named, "The invisible man and his soon to be wife." It presents a very progressive society filled with mixed fantasy races living together with still a little friction and prejudice, but in the process of healing.
@janedoe3043
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
Am I rhe only one who loved Fight Club because I knew it was satire? Was i the only one who saw toxic masculinity as a cancer destroying bob and the narrator and America from the inside out?
I feel like people are missing the whole part about destroying your own body and living in a shit hole for no reason so you can just be in a different conformist hell scape for… No reason but a different kind of vanity.
@GibaPSP
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
22:25 You know waht the funny part is? In latin america "liberal" is just a shor for neoliberal, that we do belive is the "more to the left" thing US politics can produce, but that still is very right. I think it´s funny the dicourse of left X right in US politics cause is just ultraright X Right. Not even center-Right, that we have in Brazil. Somewhat ok internal wellfaire X really shitty racist gov, both could not give a shit about the other countries, Trump just removes the international veil and etiquet.
@edgrimm5862
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
I think a big thing all media is missing is anything showing how one could be more effective at what edgelords want to accomplish than the edgelords. What have we had since Knight Rider, MacGyver, and Quantum Leap that actually showed characters solving problems without violence? Have we ever had a movie with an edgelord character with a healthy external concern that had a non-edgelord character that did something about that issue?
I don't see media portraying solvers of real world problems without violence. Now, maybe I'm missing it, I do live in a rock. But I don't hear people talking about anything like that. I think a lot of these people with no solutions to their problems are going down the path they're taking because their options, as far as they see it, are do nothing or act out. They have no workable plan. I think the people making most of our media are probably intentionally not giving them workable plans.
@nitewigger
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
I comment before I watch.
Would you really waste 70 minutes of your life just to answer with 1 sentence that nobody reads?
Btw I hate edgelords
@witabif
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
im officially mad at how many times this video made me see the onion man…
@duckboyguru6164
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
why so queerious?
@originalmanfish
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
Hell divers 2 is not an rpg, and people don't play it to pretend to be soldiers they play it because it's fun
@goober4502
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
4:58 yesss get em!
@dawsonmaloney9910
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
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@jamesizzo17
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
you nailed it in .4 seconds GD brother well done lmfao
@HOLDENPOPE
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
I love edgelord villains
@johnathanblackwell759
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
Heinleins work is not fascist, it's actually very much advocating for Liberty to be directly tied to responsibility, and that voting and holding political office should be earned privileges that carry the weight of responsibility rather than the default state of affairs we have where politics is downstream of corporate capture and legalized corruption.
@yonatanalyagon5065
June 3, 2026 at 9:50 am
Great work man I don't really see a lot of people on the internet who do this stuff on the regular
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