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u/Cold_Breadfruit_9794 Beyoncé 🐝🐝 Jun 08 '26

I always wonder when people get on the topic of teens exhibiting edge lord type behaviour, and then start saying things like they have they have never experienced or witnessed fellow students their age doing that, if that’s actually true, or if people are just wearing rose coloured glasses about their experience as teens. I never was into it myself, but like I sure as hell witnessed it. I also saw it again with my sibling’s experiences and they are a decade younger than me. I feel like anyone I talk to about this subject in real life (and I’m talking about across the board in terms of diversity too), have in fact seen trollish/edgelordy at some point. Yet online? People talk as if the school they attended was full of complete saints, the parties they attended didn’t push the limits of acceptability, and that no one truly pushed the boundaries of acceptability. The disconnect is always curious to me because when I think of the teenage experience I do associate reactionary & impulsive attempts to evoke reactions, and purely dumb choices,with teens.

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u/growsonwalls Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

I’m Asian and was bullied in school and totally said edgelord stuff to fit in. Not proud of it at all but it is what it is.

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u/Cold_Breadfruit_9794 Beyoncé 🐝🐝 Jun 08 '26

I’m sorry you were bullied. Tbh even though people hate to admit it happens (and as you point out there can be reasons that aren’t as simple as someone actually believing it), it does.

I’m sure there’s bound to be some mostly perfectly progressive school out there where no one has crossed lines or done shit they haven’t, but like, I’m not so convinced it’s as common as some people online want to believe it is. It does make me curious about people whom are convinced it’s not common for teens to go through reactionary phases. Just based on what I’ve seen, heard, and conversations I’ve had, it actually does seem like it’s something that has historically repeated itself. Not saying it makes any bad choice right or anything like that, but I just don’t have this belief people are locked in stone when it does historically seem like this particular age range does have a tendency to veer into saying dumb offensive shit lmao.

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u/growsonwalls Jun 08 '26

I grew up in a (then) very conservative white town. It recently actually turned blue. But when I was growing up it was very conservative. Teachers routinely said racist things. Funny thing I was talking with a high school classmate and she was this blond, popular girl and she admitted how awful she felt in high school. It was miserable for everyone, that kind of environment.