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  • KiaKaha [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Trolling was a phenomenon reliant on irreverent apathy towards the world. Camus asked, ‘should I get a cup of coffee or should I kill myself’. Trolls replied, ‘do a flip’.

    Say what you like about the current state of things, but apathy is no longer on the menu. Groups that would formerly be trolls now have strong political views.

  • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Where's u/neeratanden from the old sub? That was a great troll, so effective they were constantly downvoted to oblivion even by chapos

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      4 years ago

      is that trolling or is that just a bit? is there any difference between trolling and a bit?

      • SleepyMarxist [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Trolling can be funny a bit can be anger-inducing, but the purpose of a bit is to elicit laughs, while trolling seeks to elicit anger.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    4 years ago

    The right can't troll. Trolling in 2020 looks like flooding racist hashtags with kpop fancams and posting unattributed Lenin quotes in libertarian hangouts

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Trolling stopped as soon as all social media became gameified. It still exists on fringe forums and communities where posting doesn't have any points to win but it has been trained out of popularity by points based social media so even on those sites that don't have it people barely troll on account of having been behaviourally trained on every other site they use.

    It was a phenomenon strictly limited to the pre-gameification time period of online community spaces.

  • JuanGuaido [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    trolling is still allowed for our fishermen in Venezuala. The fishery industry is worth over 537 millions / year for our economy, pero trolling is only one way to fish. Is this knowledge lost in the United States of America? You have not many jobs for workers of this kind, I know.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Thought you'd have more negative feelings about fishermen, what with them catching your boys and all.

      • JuanGuaido [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Those individuals do not represent all fishermen. I am well liked by many in that industry, particularly those who own large fishing fleets.

  • disco [any]
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    4 years ago

    /u/DennisMiller2024 on Reddit still knows how to troll. They’re still out there but it’s always been a bit of a fringe activity.

  • wenox [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    trolling was just a ruse to spew out their actual hatred, and now they dont even need their masks anymore

  • wtf [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    someone in rnba was trolling by repeating Malcolm gladwell takes a while ago, it was pretty funny

  • vorenza [any]
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    4 years ago

    Why would you actually spend time to troll people when you can elicit 100 angry tweets with a slightly edgy take?

    I'm being a lib today, but i really don't like that people are ready to go at each others throats. I don't mean it in the usual lib way of "it'd be all fine if we got along", but in the sense that, just call them a dumbass and move on. Right-wingers are addicted to outrage news in the form of some minority group allegedly doing something bad, libs are addicted to it in the form of trump bad, and left wingers are addicted to it in form of finding a random dumbass and berating them. (HORSESHOE THEORY BTFO, BLACK HOLE THEORY HERE WE GO)

    For exemple, this https://hexbear.net/post/8502/comment/57538 It's a random instagram account, who cares, move on

    Why would i spend my time to troll when i can easily get you riled up with 3 sentences