The current fad for “edgy” memes that deal in explicit racism and misogyny, as well as touchy subjects like suicide, school shootings, and mental illness, has been incubating for years in ...

These student-driven meme groups have grown online since late 2016, when UC Berkeley’s Facebook group “UC Berkeley Memes for Edgy Teens” gained traction with thousands of college students ...

The chats show a crop of edgy memes and jokes. Pansino said she reported the chat logs to the FBI regarding images she believed crossed the line.

Posting "edgy" memes was a requirement to join the group. Emmett Chen-Ran, a co-founder of Yale's Yale Memes for Special Snowflake Teens, ...

The meme first began to catch on in late summer of 2022, ... The Democrats who started to run with “Dark Brandon” clearly hoped to ape the style of the edgy “Dark MAGA” memes, ...