The Psychology of Trolling
As denizens of the internet, most of us are familiar with the trolls. In this episode of SciShow, learn a little about how social scientists think trolls came to be, and how online communities are figuring it all out.
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#Psychology #Trolling
I wonder why we can't go back to old trolling.
Somehow the time has forced to go into a little dark trolling.
Trolling the media has got us into grey area. It all started there.
Of course I know the troll
He's me!
Making sarcastic critical replies to contributing comments is considered Trolling!
My trolling 😄
lol just read the comments
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Tbh all trolls are assholes looking for attention and are scared of any real life interactions lmao smh….
WHY ISN'T HE BLINKING
One time I said I didn’t care about politics and some trumpers called me a troll
Bruh i trolld the hazbin hotel community
Trolling has become a hobby, if not a passion for me.
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trolled
What goes through mind of a troll?
We wonder what it would take to make a victim consider making things go through their mind such as "Oh GOD NO!"
This video is raycist against trolls!
Looks like 1.4K trolls didn't like this video. Nice work man. Loved the energy, back drop colour and fly in text. What software are you using?
That's all good, but the REAL research on trolls is done in forests! Casuals…
What makes a troll? Probably a cowardly person with no character whatsoever, who likes saying insulting things because they don't fear getting punched in the face anymore…
I used to troll the StackExchange, by asking questions like "What's 1 plus 1," and as a result my account is temporarily suspended network-wide. The suspension period ends on May 27 '30 at 23:27.
omg ahahhah so funny and original 😂🤣😂🤣😂
I like trolls just because of how easy it is to take advantage of them XD
when make a survey targetting trolls, you're just bound to get trolled, so I don't think the data can be very accurate.
I cannot understand why someone feels so negative that they try to anger people they don't even know!
I’m just a troll tryna have fun in da sun
Wow You had me at Troll. Been on the Internet since before the 90's. Have heard about Trolling. You give a perfect definition right from the start, and I'm even going to post the link to this video on my FB page as your video is in depth and super informative. Here I was just looking for a quick example, but you give many and explain how tolling affects us all. Thank you. 🙂 [You learn more about trolling link goes to a Rick Astley video, are you sure you want to use that? Also a PDF summary of your video would be extremely useful to us paper people. Thanks again}
troll because troll
Don’t ever care about the trolls. They are nothing more than just people who were rejected by their friends and the respect of others for a good reason. They are trying to substitute this by attacking others online.
I hate internet trolls because they need to get their asses of the internet and go get a job and find something to do. I do not have time for trolls. No internet trolls need to have access to the internet.
I am the master troll on internet and irl. I get hard when I make people rage.
I think the first trolls sucked, too.
What's so funny in what the presenter said they did back then?
There's only one way it'd make sense, but it's not for any lulz: Military style confidence wrecking(regardless of the personality of the noob), a show of dominance, establishing hierarchy, scaring away those who're not willing to sit and take it until they are "allowed" to become "one of them", also serves as self importance and flattery, obviously.
Puke. The only trolls I like are those that disclose things. Like professor Alan Sokal.
People's true feelings come out in their internet comments
This guy is the textbook definition of a troll.
Thank you for an insightful look at personality disorders pertaining to trolls. I have wondered why there seems to be an excess of mean spirited commenters . I still cant
figure out their gain. It’s difficult to have a frame of reference for ASPD behavior when burdened by empathy.
Its pretty easy to troll when a lot of people don't know how to respond to it and since theres so much bad advice out there. So from somebody who does troll from time to time I will give you some ways to stop trolls:
(Boring but effective ways)
1. quietly get the troll blocked/muted/ignored by as many people as possible (If you announce it the troll will feel like they're winning because they made you mad enough to mute them)
2. get an admin to remove the troll from whatever platform they're on if possible (They might come back but if you keep doing it for long enough most will get bored and move on)
(Fun ways)
3. Repeatedly spam the word "edgy" or something similar and try to get more people to do the same (Throwing random insults makes the troll feel like you're frustrated and don't know what to do about it, and by just spamming the same thing over and over gives the troll nothing new to look at which can bore them.)
4. Spam the troll's dms (If the troll is low level enough to be bothered by dm spamming they will probably start to lose interest pretty quick but this doesn't work with a lot of trolls)
5. Find if you and the troll have any servers for forums in common and try to get them punished on there (This is pretty rare to be able to do this but if you're lucky enough to share another server and the admins of that server are willing to go monitor what hes doing and get him punished on their server it can make the troll feel that there are consequences for trolling and will stop them pretty quick. This can also demoralize the troll quite a bit and might prevent future trolling from them for a while.)
l came here because somebody is bullying someone
but other people says she is trolling not bullying
and they even like the vid bullying someone
and hate the vid disliking the bully
they even say she is a QUEEN!
lm going to make a video about her,
but lm sure lm gonna get alot of hates
am l just being sensitive or are those people mean?
You have to pull your cheeks apart as you sit on the pooper, it's good for the environment because you end up using much less toilet paper as less poo comes in contact with your butt. Also if you are prone to constipation, it helps the big ones slide out because of the lowered resistance since there is less friction. It's a win win win win! You're welcome, now please pass on this wisdom
Troll is the gatekeeper to wisdom.