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My personal fav was the guy on craigslist that pretended to be an attractive young woman looking for sex w randos. All 'she' needed was a photo of their drivers
by toiletaccount 5y ago
My personal fav was the guy on craigslist that pretended to be an attractive young woman looking for sex w randos. All 'she' needed was a photo of their drivers license to make sure they weren't creeps/as insurance.
This guy tracked down every man's spouse and told them what was up. He was sued (and lost, iirc, after about 100 men were divorced), and ended up being interviewed by the nyt. BUT he picks up the interviewer in a limo with his gf near an abandoned mall or something. he thought trolling was going to change the world, his gf thought he was jesus, there was champagne and it was an all around weird experience for the reporter. They honestly sounded like real live discordians.
This is probably getting close to being 15 or 20 years old now, but it was pioneering.
Yeah I had a few what of it.
- moron4hire 5y agoThat sounds like weev
- toiletaccount 5y agoThank you, I'm pretty sure this was it. Pure gold.
- moron4hire 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev Just your regular, garden variety rapscallion, right there. Not at all a perfect example of the title thread's point.
- smt88 5y agoIt's interesting that, on a thread about how trolling used to be good-natured, you brought up a literal neo-Nazi[1]. So it seems like this study's findings are probably not far from the truth. 1. https://www.newsweek.com/neo-nazi-andrew-weev-auernheimer-daily-stormer-jewish-descent-768805 https://www.newsweek.com/neo-nazi-andrew-weev-auernheimer-da...
- toiletaccount 5y agoYeah I also think we should disband NASA for their ties to von Braun. Honestly, who gives a fuck. It was funny, and not a racist deed. He fucked with scumbags here. E: been on craigslist lately?
- smt88 5y agoOP is about how trolls seem to be jerks in real life. Then someone says they miss the non-malicious strain of trolling, where the person wasn't a jerk. Then you bring up an example of that, and he happens to be a jerk. Seems relevant to the article. I didn't say anything about disbanding NASA, that came out of nowhere. And I have no idea what the rest of your comment (craigslist?) means.
- toiletaccount 5y agoI'm still drunk what are you doing?
- spfzero 5y agoThis just seems like someone out to wreck lives. There must have been at least a few victims that didn’t deserve that, even if some did.