> At the top the diagram contains, "inhabited by [...] trolls", and at the bottom "the only way into 8chan" Your comment seemed sensible to me, until I realize

> At the top the diagram contains, "inhabited by [...] trolls", and at the bottom "the only way into 8chan" Your comment seemed sensible to me, until I realized that it's likely because we are both old and think about trolls as being on 8chan. But if you look at pretty much any time since about 2015, the most notable trolls have been large public figures with an extremely wide reach, saying the same sort of things that get a rise out of people on 8chan and Reddit. To take the most recent example, Elon Musk's upending of Reddit can be seen at least partially as an instance of a large public trolling. On a more distributed plane, phrases like "own the libs" are common enough in the public consciousness to be used by angry 45-year old commenters on Facebook who have never been to 4/8chan. That is why trolls are at the top of the diagram, because it's a diagram as of 2023 -- whereas you're thinking of trolling from 2013 or maybe even 2003.