What's your edgy teen phase?

[DANDAN_THE_DANDAN]

My edgy teen phase was how I though I didn't have an edgy teen phase and how special I must be to not have it. That, along with "humanity is gonna die out in less than a century at this pace" thoughts every now and again, granted, if TeamTrees is unsuccessful I can see myself thinking this thought again. I passed it after entering college, probably the mature environment helped me mature too and now I cringe since I can recognize my edginess.

What's yours?

 

[Jordan_Weeberson]

Welcome into your edgy young adult phase.
It is the phase where you think that you finally became mature, but you are not. Not at all.

_{Climate change is a scam btw.}

 

[DANDAN_THE_DANDAN]

Wait what

 

[unkogr0l]

I used to have a notebook... it's a cringe inducing twenty pages of self aware adult nightmare where I would write poems bout how I loathe humanity or how I have no real friends. Linkin park was my favorite band because I thought the lyrics understood me. My wardrobe was 50% grey colored clothes. It had to be grey cause iM nOt aN eMo. I drink bobba tea cause iced coffee was for basic bitches.

I was so deep. I was so unique. I wore chokers. I'm not like the oThEr GirLs.

It's shameful.

Thank you OP for providing us a closure to that dreaded phase.

 

[DANDAN_THE_DANDAN]

^{@unkogr0l plz show us your poems}

 

[IrrelevantGirl]

My edgy teen phase was the reason I had the username, I felt like no one really cares about me but when I take a look back I think I was just being so edgy that I thought everyone was out to get me and that they are all the same boring people and that I was special cause I didn't belong.

I used to write cringey poems and lyrics to songs that was so bad I burned it all when I got out of my phase. I wore black and long sleeves all the time even though it hot and only drank black coffee even though I didn't like it at that time because I thought it was cool.

The one thing I'm thankful for in that phase is that I was so self conscious that I didn't have the guts to post anything on any social media therefore there is no digital evidence of me being edgy.

 

[EOTFOFYL]

Not sure if this counts,
Intense StarCraft addiction,
lived and breathed that game.

 

[axelTHEGREAT]

Aye. as @Jordan_Weeberson said:

Welcome into your edgy young adult phase.
It is the phase where you think that you finally became mature, but you are not. Not at all.

Those who call themselves mature are immature, imo, that's the rule of thumb of maturity.

_{Edit: Climate change is real, but I'm not a hardliner, not at all.}

 

[AfterMidnightMoon]

I learned to smoke and drink alcohol in middle school because I thought it was the mature thing to do.
I saw college people do it, and I was meeting people who were in college, so I thought, "Why not?"

Spoiler

...which is something that I regret.

 

[421cookies]

Instant Bullet pretty much was my teenage spirit animal (even now tbh).
Also, I was so happy for that 2012 apocalypse rumor and then so fucking disappointed that nothing happens.

 

[Pika]

The edgy teen phase will never end for me, I'm still waiting for my first pokemon and practising kamehameha. One day I'll get my superpowers and I'll conquer this world and the whole galaxy!

 

[red_incubus]

It's gotta be making a shit ton of edgy OC's and thinking I had depression when I was just actually really sad for a while, also thinking cursing alot was cool tbh i think im still in that phase smh. I still make a bunch of edgy characters I dropped cursing too much and thinking I have depression tho.

 

[unkogr0l]

@DANDAN_THE_DANDAN

Nuuuuuuuuuuu. It's too embarrassing. It's super cringe.

 

[Pika]

@unkogr0l
Come on! You must have tried practising a spell or searched for a genuine grimoire too!

 

[Teddy]

TBH there's nothing wrong with being edgy sure you might be avoided like a plague by everyone you meet and give your parents one more headache but if you start writing books and/or painting; after you're dead some rich guy might appreciate your individuality and make you famous

 

[SEAX]

My edgy teen phase was masturbating to abortion hentai

 

[DANDAN_THE_DANDAN]

@SEAX Never in my years of being a weeb have I ever considered that a possible fetish... I should've known.

 

[SEAX]

@DANDAN_THE_DANDAN Just like Kevin Garnett said, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEEEE!!!!

 

[Haikaka]

I thought I was a literary genius, wrote novels, disdained poems because I said they were "emo shit", liked to describe miserable people inspired from my classmates (even plainly using their real names).

I stopped when I came to think that people generally weren't prejudiced against me, just indifferent. That's still edgy but at least I was less bothered by my persecution complex.

 

[Nick_Asano]

Mine was dressing in all black, watching and reading edgy anime and manga, writing poems and listening to lots of emo and math rock. 6 years later and my "phase" has yet to be lifted. I don't think that any of that is "cringy" in itself, though. It's your attitude that matters. Aka no fake deep stuff and learn enough charisma and sociology and humor to communicate effectively with others. It's not the phases themselves, but the people going through those phases that are usually cringy. It's sad that many people equate maturity with becoming like everyone else around them.