With every passing year I realize "Don't Feed The Trolls" is the worst decision the internet ever came up with. We let something disgusting fester thinking it was just someone trying to get a rise out of us. It wasn't a joke. It was never a joke. It was only pure seething hatred.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
It's just my opinion, but my theory is that it was possible in the earlier days of the internet to tell the difference between a sincere bigoted hateful cyber-harasser and a bored kid/twenty-something playing the role of an edgy sophistic prankster (what were "trolls") (1/2)
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What does it matter the intent if it has the same effect. That's the point. That was ALWAYS the point.
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I completely agree. It's just before, it wasn't always the same effect. Before, trolling could be playing devil's advocate on a forum or spamming stupid memes/in-jokes on an online game. Now, it's just making a specific target suffer and only that. Lolcows, they call them...
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Before, there was a whole distinct range between being a "playful pain in the neck" and a fully grown monster. But it became gradually popular for the latter to masquerade as the former, like i tried to tell on the second part of my tweet :https://twitter.com/ErmiteModerne/status/1003934867724349441 …
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Ermite Moderne @ErmiteModerneReplying to @ErmiteModerne @FilmCritHULK(2/2) But time passed and "troll culture" being appealing to anyone who wanted to unerve and torment certain targets for any reasons with any method, trolling and cyber-bullying became the same thing. https://youtu.be/670if6Etx0o Now it's all about thriving on the misery of others.1 reply 1 retweet 21 likes -
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There was NEVER a range. The latter is the former. It was was always that way. People just grow up and realize it. There was NEVER a more innocent time. People just thought there was because they were insensitive to it.
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That last part is hilarious.
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Oh look, an old white man being a gatekeeper of The Internet. This definitely isn’t ironic on a level so deep that it has my balls aching...
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