Green’s Dictionary of Slang

edgelord n.

[SE edgy, pushing the limits of the acceptable]

(orig. US) a young man, usu. of the far right/neo-Nazi community or posing as such, who deliberately speaks or posts nihilist or racially extremist attitudes for the sake, allegedly, of the shock created.

Urban Dict. 19 Feb. 🌐 A poster on an Internet forum, (particularly 4chan) who expresses opinions which are either strongly nihilistic [...] or contain references to Hitler, Nazism, fascism, or other taboo topics which are deliberately intended to shock or offend readers.