Feb 202019
Subject: Trolling tweets are born out of a passionate anger one feels
- Point of significance: This swell of emotion is then projected on to someone else on twitter that usually won’t respond hurtfully
Subject: Attention the harshness their tweets is yearned for by trolls.
- point of significance: To make sure that the intended person sees the insult a troll performs many strategies to grab one’s attention, such as spamming.
Subject: The trolling tweets stop if a lot of people notice and respond cruelly.
- Point of significance: Though trolling tweets are intended to be noticed and hurt someone, it is not usually expected by the troll for an overwhelming amount of people to attack them back, like if a famous person responds publicly and the blowback from that is massive.
Overarching point: Trolls, especially ones that use profile pictures of themselves, want the content of what they say to be noticed, but they themselves don’t want to be noticed.
Prompt: What are the motives that make a person take part in trolling, and when to stop trolling?