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[_] mental illness: Trolling. Anon 1719834 Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anon 1719876 Trolling is the psychological art form of using your target's own insecurities and schisms to make them ruin their own image. There is a difference between "being an asshole on the internet" and "being a troll", though most people have confused the two and now believe that anyone who goes around being an asshole is a troll. "Trolling" isn't derived from being a "troll" like the creature that hides under bridges, but is rather more closely derived from the fishing term "trolling", in that the target is unsuspecting of your motives and takes an initial "bait". Trolling, when done properly, involves the most subtle stimulus to evoke the harshest reaction. The lolcow target shouldn't even be aware that he or she is being trolled when the trolling is occuring, as proper trolling involves some form of knowledge used by the troll that the victim is unaware of.
>> [_] Anon 1719885 I just realized, these guys are trolling. Genius.
>> [_] Anon 1719886 >># Yep. Personally, I prefer a broader definition of trolling, but what you're describing is one of the highest forms of trolling there is, no question. Really, a good troll is someone who has excellent empathy, in that one who is able to read one's target accurately can determine precisely which trolling techniques would be most effective, as well as what the victim's weak spots may be. As they say, trolling is a art.
>> [_] Anon 1719898 >># Trying to make people into "victims" is bullying or which is why I associate the term cyberbullying as the internet word "trolling".
>> [_] Anon 1719936 >they don't realize how their trolling affects other people. That's total shit. Trolling is done BECAUSE they know how it affects other people, and they thrive on it.
>> [_] Anon 1719940 >Font used for their names is the one used for captions and memes not watching it
>> [_] Anon 1719963 I lol'd when he said dead children.
>> [_] Anon 1719978 I bet those guys troll.
>> [_] Anon 1720082 god dammit, someone give me a gun, i dont want to live on this planet anymore.
>> [_] Anon 1720108 trolling is not an illnes, its a art god damit
>> [_] Anon 1720122 >># And thus we have found the most autistic retard on the internet. Posting on the internet is not art you stupid shit.
>> [_] Anon 1720127 >># What gives the words I write into a box and then post onto the internet any less artistic merit than someone who writes a short poem that makes people feel good and is then sticky taped onto the wall of a office to motive employees and is followed with the word "- Anonymous". While trolls don't make people feel "good" they do at least make them feel a variety of emotions that range from; Angry, frustrated, suicidal, sad. So, what is art then? If that isn't art, I don't know what is.
>> [_] Anon 1720139 >># If I took a shit on your face, and called it art. It's art. Why, because art is what the artist says it is. All things can be classified as art because we can classify them as such.