The essence of trolling is to, in anger, control them. This is done by publishing deliberately provocative statements. As a rule, this is done with the expectation that those who read will lose self-control and begin to produce not the best phrases on emotions that compromise them themselves. Often, according to reviews, trolling causes large-scale discussions, accompanied by vivid negative reactions of participants. Anyone who engages in this kind of provocation seeks to get the lulz, material gain or self-affirmation. In other words, trolling in real life is “hurt by the living”, “pour salt into the wound”.
Varieties
Users of the worldwide network divide it into varieties - very thick, thin, "nanotrolling". The latter is the situation when a person provoked others to troll for him. The thick variety is manifested in the evidence of provocation, when the victim actively blames the troll, yet losing self-control. The subtle variety is characterized by an even greater loss of self-control when the victim agrees with the arguments of the provocateur. On English-speaking resources, fatness is estimated on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is the maximum fatness.
When figuring out what trolling is on the Internet, it is worth bearing in mind that when a provocation is successful, it is believed that "food is found."
Origin
It is noteworthy that for a long time already the phrase “don't trawl" was actively used on Western resources, which meant - "do not poison". Users wrote this way when they started to poison writers who published their works. There are probably links between the Russian word "bullying" and the English "trawl".
Indeed, the example of trolling, if it is thick, resembles this very bullying. But the difference is in the presence of common sense. The provocateur pursues the goal - to have fun, bring the victim to emotions, and not to humiliate her. At the same time, one does not exclude the other.
The psychological phenomenon, due to which funny trolling appeared, lovers of the latter phenomenon explain it this way. In the early years of his life, a person instinctively asks a lot of questions, believing every answer. Subsequently, when the picture of the world has already been formed, he adjusts the obtained facts to his vision. Sometimes they are embedded in it in a very bizarre way. And when a fact is not embedded, it is simply discarded. And man will not believe any evidence to the contrary. And even arguing with someone, the individual only clarifies the already taken position. Just like his opponent. In order to get to the truth through a dispute, it takes work on oneself, a rejection of all established knowledge, habits.
For the most part, disputes are used only for self-affirmation for the same reason. And the provocateurs, taking into account this human feature, specifically act according to the trolling rule: they occupy the opposite position. And then the victim begins to violently give a negative reaction.
Styles
One of the easiest ways to achieve this is to impersonate an idiot. A typical example of trolling - a provocateur creates an account, starting to write frankly stupid things by clicking on “Kapslok”. Users of the forum, resource, social network begin a polemic: it annoys someone, and, succumbing to emotions, gives out not the best things, after which he is banned. The rest, at times, enter into battle with each other for the most witty commentary on what is happening.
The second example of trolling is dropping dirt, rumors about something. In sophisticated cases, the provocateurs came to the Harry Potter fan forum, where there were many children, and began to dump pornography and obscenities on a massive scale until there were so many bans that the resource was generally out of order for a while - it was turned off.
There are cases when the troll came to a pirate resource where the series were laid out, and in the commentary in response to the question: “when is the next series?” threw off a link to the allegedly next series. But in reality it was a link to the first site, and the provocateur enjoyed recursion. As an option, a link to a similar site was dropped.
The next example of trolling is impersonating a girl. Romance on the Internet or incredulous men become victims. In this case, two victims are often poisoned, with whom the troll flirts. Girls of this kind of trolling will succeed much easier.
The variant of provocation on feminist resources or in the “male movement”, in which the audience is most aggressive, is also widespread.
From this follows a typical pattern for trolling - to insult an individual with an unstable psyche or emotional. As a rule, he has several like-minded people who will rush to his defense. Sometimes, in this case, the public on the resource joins the provocateur.
It is very simple to provoke a debate about tastes by choosing an unpopular position. As an option - stubbornly disagree with the author of the publication, after which he begins to give as many arguments as possible in defense of his position. It is noteworthy that special phrases for trolling in this case will not be needed: many people already disagree with their position as an insult and react to it very violently. If the troll chooses a topic that it understands, there is a good chance that he will forget why he started and join the debate along with his opponent.
If an individual has minimal knowledge of IT, it will not be difficult for him to follow the following pattern for trolling. You need to ask for advice, and after listening to recommendations, write that these tips are harmful. It will be best if the provocateur understands the topic of discussion.
It is very simple to provoke a violent reaction in political publics and resources. One has only to illuminate the current situation, follow the public reaction under the article, and then call the public "zombie cattle."
The next option is "1984 at home." First of all, you need a forum in which all participants fill in a large amount of information about themselves. After that, the most active users are selected among users, their troll provokes insults. Then the provocateur who issued a negative reaction writes: “Your name is Ivan Ivanovich, right?”, “You live there, and your number is like that.” As a result, the victim often becomes ill. She begins to change her behavior. This method requires some effort.
Posing as a celebrity is another way of trolling. For the most part, users start a dispute, refuting what is happening. But there are those who seriously believe in it.
In this photo of the trolling, the actor Vladimir Epifantsev gives himself out to netizens as an actor kidnapped in captivity, and when they believe him, he “catches the lulz”.
And here is what he gives evidence of his abduction.
There is also known a method of “deliberate logical flaws”. In such a situation, a false chain of logical actions is issued in which the flaw is initially hidden. Otherwise, it is called sophisms, which they so loved to solve in ancient Greece. It is easy to provoke the reaction of others by issuing the phrase: "I have trolled you, the solution is here!". Then, in violent emotions, they begin to refute what was said.
It easily provokes self-confidence on negative emotions. It is enough for the provocateur to intervene in any discussion, lay out the evidence, backing it up with links, thereby showing the incompetence of the participants.
Sometimes trolls create two accounts on their own and start discussions with themselves, sparking a desire in others to join her. This is reminiscent of the conversations of the hero of The Lord of the Rings Gollum.
The next option is to pretend to be a psychologist, making diagnoses in absentia to those who participate in the conversation. The troll himself enjoys laughing at his “clinic” and seeing the reaction of others to diagnoses. It is best to do this, using information about cognitive psychology and coming into already emotional debate.
Sometimes a special account of a “successful person” is used. Such an approach will play on human envy. It is necessary to create the image of a person who has achieved success in any field. Often, only one competent phrase is enough to identify those who want to "besiege" the insolent. Then the audience will fall into several categories. Someone will assure that the account is fake, that this is a lie. Someone will begin to prove that this person is not so good. And the third category will begin to produce a lot of negative emotions from one realization that they themselves have not achieved anything.
Sometimes the troll makes up a certain stream of delirium or modifies the posted post. The main thing is that the message is ambiguous, and there is room for creating interpretations. In this case, a lot of conflicting comments appear in the discussion, because everyone will see something written in their writing. As a rule, people see their "sore subject" in everything.
Phone trolling is also widespread - it is necessary to use several already recorded phrases, preferably aggressive or obviously provocative ones. You can use anything you want and observe the negative reaction of the interlocutor who is talking with the answering machine.
A sharp change in behavior is another way to easily evoke emotions in anyone. First of all, the victim is brought to an extreme degree of emotionality by rude behavior, and when she begins to tear and throw, she suddenly begins to communicate culturally, reproaching the person for being rude. In this case, the victim suffers from a break in the template, the reaction is bright, often it falls into a stupor.
Trolling Examples
First of all, it is necessary to find a platform where enthusiastic users gather. So, having come to the Metallica fan community, you can write that "the group is no longer the same." Particularly violent reaction will cause a statement that since the death of Cliff Burton, there is no group. Statements in the style of: “Rob Trujillo is the best bass player in the world.”
Emotions will come if a group of trolls enter the community of classical music connoisseurs and begin to find out why they are negative about hip-hop.
Anti-examples
It is worth considering that trolling is not considered the case when the provocateur exposes himself in the end. This is considered an unsuccessful attempt to make excuses. The propaganda of political views in essence is not considered him either. For unknown reasons, some categories of people call trolls ordinary categories of citizens. At the same time, messages written solely for the purpose of provocation are trolling.
For now
Knowledge of such tools penetrated the network quite quickly. This gave rise to many attempts by people of school age to apply them. As a result, many users learned not to pay attention to vivid provocative statements, but someone still continues to respond to this.
At the same time, among those with a particularly fierce political position, trolls began to be called "enemy secret agents." And in any person who wrote about a negative phenomenon, users of political resources began to see provocateurs.
Protection
The best defense against provocation is to ignore "do not feed the troll." Sometimes the phrase helps: "thick." If the provocateur is thin, this is unlikely to work. But if it is thick, the effect will be similar to the expulsion of the devil.
If you are going to trolling, you should remember the covenant from the covenants: it should not be dull, it must bring maximum pleasure or indignation. The most important rule is that the provocateur does not feed, but feeds. The troll feels a lot of power over people around him, because he chooses himself what emotions they will experience, while they obey his command.
For this reason, you should never react yourself to the events of life predictably, betraying an emotion to which the world is pushing. By gaining control over emotions, a person gains power over himself. Otherwise, it is controlled by surrounding people and phenomena.
Opinion experienced
Successful trolling brings a lot of positive emotions, this contributes to the intensive production of hormones of happiness. And since the human psyche gets used to everything that he does, the troll becomes dependent on provoking others. As a result, his psyche still requires recharge, and for this reason the number of provocateurs is increasing. It is quite simple to get involved in trolling, while changing such a habit is difficult. There is a high probability that a person who is accustomed to behaving this way will break down when he sees a seductive goal.
Typical cases
At the moment, some varieties of provocations are most prevalent. They are easy to find on the resources of rock music lovers, in particular, domestic. Negative statements addressed to Viktor Tsoi provoke a lot of negative comments, here the trolls feed on this.
Trolling of girls is also widespread, in particular those in a difficult situation, as the most vulnerable category. Communities of mothers on maternity leave, resources devoted to female hobbies, problems or rights are often attacked by provocateurs. The thing is that a woman who is often in a temporary dependent position or who finds herself in a difficult situation is mentally exhausted, and therefore she becomes defenseless against troll attacks.
Religious and anti-religious communities are another quite emotional sphere in which provocations provoke a violent reaction. It is enough to indicate in the atheist community that it is necessary to introduce religious education in educational institutions, as there is “food for the troll”. Controversial scripture passages will suffice in religious communities.
Additional Information
It is noteworthy that the art of trolling is quite ancient. And his descriptions are available in classical literature. Some heroes of Leo Tolstoy were engaged in pitting opponents in order to get emotions for themselves on the pages of his novels. The reactions of A.S. Pushkin to provocative statements about his creations are also known.