Why isn't media edgy anymore?

Companies are more afraid than ever about offending people, do anything outside the norm and there will be some group of people ready to get mad at you

a lot of pussys with money around there

corporations want to appeal to as many people as possible to make as much money as possible, and edginess doesn't sell when there's a mob of pearl-clutchers ready to spam their emails and phones screaming about how "unchristian" movies or books or whatever will kill their children

Dude, this is probably the most respectable opinion on this site. The only stuff that gets any attention nowadays is rich people making coworker music and "indie media" that looks like it belongs on Nickelodeon. Man, it's so rare to find a sensible person on here, since there's too many obnoxious 13 year olds on here with profiles that make your eyes bleed, overshadowing actual cool people.

Tl;dr, I agree 100% with your point, and I am sending over a friend request ASAP. I tip my beanie towards you.

 everything’s trying to be marketable, safe, and inoffensive

I do agree that companies and media are trying to pander towards people and play it safe.

I also think that when it comes to individuals in particular that they only know ONE WAY to be edgy: To just be hateful towards others.
The "edginess" of back then was out of spite and discontent for the system. Nowadays "edginess" used as a tool for hating against the VERY PEOPLE that old edginess was trying to protect like the disabled, women, lower-class, minorities, maybe even lgbt+ if you squinted hard enough.

When companies saw that and decided to switch it up (but not too much as to actually give up their original value all together) you get a pandering mess which constantly baits-and-switches people into supporting them. Disney straight up canceling the Tiana show but will probably continue to interject black people random spot in pre-established stories (Which does no good because black people will continue to get no MEANGINFUL rep and the right will continue to blame us as if we're the one calling all the shot)
They give people enough to be intrigued and watch the show but by time the viewer realized that they were baited the company has already gained their money and interaction count. 

Not to mention that social media has made people EXTREMLY COMFORTABLE in willingly being stupid. I still can't believe the sheer number of women online who are so willing to dumb themselves when it just feels like were on the right track. Conservatism and Nazism has risen so high but because the only ones loudly objected to it are covered in rainbows and bright colours people don't take them seriously. It seriously sucks.

People in this thread have made great points so far, and i also think one of the factors in this media shift is the 2010's hipster "irony" wave, where pop culture became so obsessed with seeming cool and aloof that society in a way became afraid of expressing any sincerity. You can see it with stuff like Marvel movies where any tense or emotional scene has to be broken up with lame jokes and one-liners, as
if to say, "it's okay, guys! Don't think too deep about this stuff, we're not even taking it seriously! We're not making high art or anything here! No need to get emotional!". In comparison, while the DC superhero movies weren't particularly good, they at the very least started out attempting to be subversive before eventually succumbing to the demands for ironic marvel-like humor with later films.

In fact, since you brought up Shadow the Hedgehog, we can even look at the Sonic series itself as an example. The "dark age" of the Sonic series in the mid 2000's was known for it's over-the-top, sometimes overly self-serious storytelling. This lead to the major shift in tone starting with Sonic
Colors in 2010, along with the shift to American writers. Instead of the cool, shonen anime-like games we had starting with Sonic Adventure, the games became heavily simplified: the plot was only Sonic vs Eggman, only Sonic was playable, no serious moments, everyone's making corny one liners in every scene. Even the official Sonic twitter seemed to lean into an "ironic", self-deprecating sense of humor.

While obviously story is not the most important part of any Sonic game, and of course you don't want a kid's game to be overly "edgy", it felt like in their attempt to defend itself from mockery from older millenial nerds who had long outgrown the series, the Sonic series stripped itself of the unique elements that made it special to kids like me at the time. I think that sums up the wider 2010's era of media. Insecurity prevents people from earnestly expressing genuine emotions and meaningful themes in their art. It seems that pop culture has yet to fully recover from this fear of "edge", but in every era the pendulum always swings from one extreme to the other. Ironic humor seemed fresh and witty when it was new, now it's overplayed and tiresome. I expect to see a lot more edgier content in the near future. Going back to the Sonic example, newer installments are starting to embrace the same elements the series tried to shun in the 2010's, much to audience acclaim. So it feels like a lot of people's tastes are changing.

^ Totally agree with the above comment!

We're currently living in an age of unseriousness, it's uncomfortable and discouraged to be truly sincere about your feelings and express yourself in a non-joking way, especially when it comes to negative emotions.

tldr to a novel I would write - too much puritanism. People just play safe. Ugh