Sometimes, Internet Trolls used to be part of the community. Like yeah you never knew when they were spewing bullshit and you were in fact safe to assume they were doing so the vast majority of the time but they were also people who like. Picked communities of no more than a few hundred people on some forum and made a regular hobby of acting like a buffoon on there to trick them via a known persona. Like it was something they did to unwind from work. Relax after school. Kill time on the weekends. And it was a sort of performance art. Something genuine in the bullshit. Now it’s all people who want desperately to be the next Dril making capital p Posts. Or it’s bigots just flaming people they hate. There was plenty of the latter in ye olden days too. But the weeds have choked out the wildflowers.
There was this dude on gamefaqs’ social boards who was a notorious tryhard loser (and I hope the superlativity of an exceptionally loserish user of a gamefaqs social board isn’t lost on you) who would post the lamest shit ever acting like a hardcore party guy. With his real face. He’d talk about doing shots of light beer like he was on a binge. And his threads would hit post limit without fail. He used his real face to draw the outrage out of people. He did it constantly. People knew who he was. It’s a lost art












