In response to recent twitter queries from @BenFordham & @jonkudelka, plus a seeming holiday uptick in general trollery on a few sites I follow, just felt it was time to give this classic @Lileks tweet from 2010 a re-run:
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In response to recent twitter queries from @BenFordham & @jonkudelka, plus a seeming holiday uptick in general trollery on a few sites I follow, just felt it was time to give this classic @Lileks tweet from 2010 a re-run:
What did comment trolls do before the internet? Strip down, paint themselves red, and yell at the parakeet?
— James Lileks (@Lileks) November 9, 2010
January 10, 2012, 11:19 am at 11:19 am
They lived under rocks. What else would they have done? Duh!
January 10, 2012, 2:58 pm at 2:58 pm
“What did comment trolls do before the internet”
Street theatre, really bad street theatre. The sort with puppets, clowns and dialogue that doesn’t make sense unless S8 drugs are involved.
January 10, 2012, 8:07 pm at 8:07 pm
Poison pen letters. One form of communication which the internet has profoundly facilitated.
Damn those unintended consequences.
January 10, 2012, 8:12 pm at 8:12 pm
This probably has it about right.
sometimes they come from people who don’t know you at all but randomly go around collecting names and addresses to practice the art.
January 13, 2012, 1:57 pm at 1:57 pm
Masturbation, in the basement, with a Hustler magazine, whispering the words ‘joy hole’, ‘cock pit’ and ‘hot and sticky slut wants me’. ‘Labia’, ‘vagina’, ‘fellatio’ were just fancy Latin words in the dictionary (oh look, he said ‘dick’).
Cheers