I think there has pretty much always been trolls on the internet. Back in the 90s it felt like no one took the happenings on the internet all that seriously, it

I think there has pretty much always been trolls on the internet. Back in the 90s it felt like no one took the happenings on the internet all that seriously, it was a bit of a lark. Now that it's much more mainstream, it's embedded in our everyday lives and companies make a lot of money from it. So it would make sense that everyone takes it a lot more seriously and it's easier to troll people if they take you seriously. Although not all haters are trolls of course, but it's really hard(impossible?) to tell over the internet (Poe's law), especially when you have haters, fanatics and trolls all playing each other and the only person who wins is the troll in that scenario.