Comment on Anon's grandfather has been jerkin' some chains

• ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a pretty common style of humor among older people IRL, I feel like? The problem isn’t that he isn’t thinking of them as people, the problem is that since they can’t see him laugh at their reaction they never get let in on the joke, which is an important part of the difference between joking and trolling.

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• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Eh, sounds like he is just doing some harmless trolling, I dont think that’s disrespectful. Basically the internet equivalent of a prank

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  • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, this sounds like Ken M style pranking. Just playing the fool for some laughs. No one gets hurt, and some people might get a fun story out of it. This is what pranks are supposed to be.

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thank you! I don’t think I’d seen all of those. This one has always been my fave:

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    • refalo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No one gets hurt

      Depending on what was said, misinformation can indeed cause harm, either directly or indirectly.

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      • beardown@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hall monitors are the most unlikable people on earth

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• Clent@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah. Being an asshole is easy.

  The first troll didn’t know the term troll. It’s not a unique idea.

  Trolling to get a rise out of upsetting people has been linked to mental illness.

  Some trolls are just shit communicators and are too stupid to recognize the wake of their discourse. Gramps doesn’t appear to be one of those.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The internet could be so much nicer if we all just treated people the way we wanted to be treated.

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    • refalo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      except I like being trolled too. not everyone thinks the same

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Some people like having their nuts stepped on but I’m not doing that to everyone I meet.

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  • Yummers@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you assuming my emotional reaction to any of this?

      Sounds like you’ve got a case of the stupids.

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• Skepticpunk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks, /u/SatansMaggotyCumFart.

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