Comment on PC Master Race

• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Aren’t they the same thing?

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, but everyone says “rage bait” nowadays

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    • bless@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Problem?

      Troll face

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, I guess they do. It just the nature of language for different terms for the same thing to come into more popular use over time. I guess he should be renamed to “Ragebaitface.”

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• underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think trolling and troll logic is absurdist and humorous where as rage bait is all about engagement farming by inducing negative emotions

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s trolling when you are friendly to the perpetrator, and rage baiting when you are friendly to the victim.

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