Imagine that there’s a paving slab that sticks out right outside of your house, often causing you to fall. If that’s the 50th time you fall over due to this thing, you probably will curse at it, no matter how emotionally mature you are.
Now exchange falling over to being trolled.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
More like an intense study of how best to exploit human nature for financial gain.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I was doing the thing you were talking about…
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
…being fed a manipulative stream of content to piss you off?
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yes!
Ultimately it becomes troll v troll until either trolls out leaving each troll believing they’ve out-trolled the troll.