Dimensional Vortex said:
And I bet you're one of those stupid internet trolls who will tease a crying girl over the internet about the death of her kitten and her grandmother?
I can understand that it can be fun to antagonize people for an angry reaction, I have little sister so I can say I've done it before. But if you go and antagonize someone about something very emotional that you are likely to make the person cry, then you are more then an internet troll, you are a low life scum that plagues the internet and you should be very lucky that the people you pick on don't find you in real life because you are likely to be savagely attacked.
Here's the thing about internet trolling, which I believe most people (You can include yourself, if your post has anything to go by) think that a consequence free, image free, free speech environment is the perfect place to establish rules of morality.
If we use your example of the girl, crying over her dead grandmother (Which is worse than a dead cat, so fuck it, we'll stick with that), in real life we would be universally ass-kicked if we made fun of her, she didn't choose to have a dead elderly relative and its not like most people can stop from crying in those situations.
But on the other hand, we take the same girl, then she video's herself crying and then posts it on the web. The fact people view it is not incidential (At school/in public), its a diliberate attempt to get sympathy from others and as a result garners very little sympathy but quite alot of trolls. Advertising your misery is the quickest way to getting inter-spanked by the buttpirates of the web.
That said, trolling on the internet only ever works on the lowest common denominator, because everyone else has figured out why the 'block user' button exists. Or even the sense not to post about their Japanese RealDoll collection's 'personalities'.
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R/Edit: Essentially, the internet allows you to project whatever image you want onto it, so the mocking you get is due to the image you CHOSE to project. Like choosing to be a fat, ugly girl in a generic movie Highschool.
