--- title: "Google’s Top Autocomplete Suggestion for “How to Edge” Is Wild" description: "If you search the words \"how to edge\" on Google, the words \"in class\" are recommended as the top autocomplete suggestion." date: "2024-05-19" modified: "2024-05-19" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/google-autocomplete-how-to-edge" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Developments" - "Google" - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "Google" - "memes" - "sex" - "tiktok" --- # Google’s Top Autocomplete Suggestion for “How to Edge” Is Wild ![If you search the words "how to edge" on Google, the words "in class" are recommended as the top autocomplete suggestion.]() *\Image: Google\* It is our somber duty to report, dear reader, that if you search the words "how to edge" on Google, the top autocomplete suggestion isn't how to edge a beard, or a lawn, or a snowboard. Instead, Google suggests that its users are looking for how to edge "in class." For those blessedly innocent enough to not know what the colloquial term "edging" means, let us elucidate you: as [*WebMD* explains](), edging occurs when a person — often a cisgender man, [though not exclusively]() — gets aroused just to the brink or edge of an orgasm, but then backs off stimulation so as not to achieve one too quickly. It's a way to prevent premature ejaculation, essentially, and to lengthen the experience of pleasure. While that's all fine and good, it's obviously unacceptable to edge oneself in public, much less a classroom. Nevertheless, not only does Google Search pull it up as a top query, but the company's generative AI-assisted search option returns both a [YouTube video]() and a [Change.org petition]() about it. What gives? ![]() Per our not-so-scientific research — eg, just Googling around a bit — it appears that "how to edge in class and not get caught" is something of a TikTok meme. As such, people looking for [explainers on the video streaming platform]() could, theoretically speaking, be using Google to make those searches happen. As one might expect, the hopefully facetious videos are seemingly [filmed by horny boys]() advising viewers to watch a bunch of porn — they often describe [Pornhub]() as "the black and yellow site" or "yellow YouTube" to circumvent TikTok's censorship algorithms — wear bulky jackets, and sit in the back of the classroom. Despite there not being all that many videos on the topic, edging in class seems to have [become a meme in 2023](), coinciding with the uptick in jokes about "[gooning]()," a form of prolonged masturbation in which one gets into the ecstatic arousal state before orgasm for hours on end. Tantra, [eat your heart out](). As with other [Manosphere]()-adjacent memes like [looksmaxxing]() and [bone-smashing](), any "edging in class" content should be taken with a heaping of salt, as the people behind these joke hoaxes traffic in convincing those without context into thinking they're legit. That said, Google may want to take a look at why its search engine and AI are surfacing info about this dumbass viral trend. **More on memes:** [*GameStop Stock Is Crashing Catastrophically After Meme Hype*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()