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Kicktrolling... I'm just wondering how bored and frustrated a person must be to pull this kind of weird shit. Seriously, I can imagine it is kind of fun to tro

Kicktrolling... I'm just wondering how bored and frustrated a person must be to pull this kind of weird shit. Seriously, I can imagine it is kind of fun to troll some overly serious dudes in a specialized forum, while I would not even waste my precious time for that. But trolling people who actually try to achieve something? Why oh why?

PavlovsCat 13y ago
Some people (think they) can't create, and settle for the lower hanging fruit of destruction, to still feel some kind of agency and power, and distract themselves from jealousy and self-loathing. Kicking a dog, trolling forums or kickstarter... it's all the same? That's my theory anyway.
- tjic 13y ago
  Thank you for crisply explaining something I've realized for some time, but have never been able to boil down to a single sentence.
  - PavlovsCat 13y ago
    I was looking for a fitting quote by Erich Fromm (whom I kinda should give credit for "my theory", I'm pretty sure I pieced it together from stuff he said), couldn't find one - but it seems that his book "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" might be worth a read :)
- vertr07 13y ago
  That's what creators tell themselves anyway. More likely this individual had a more concrete and financial reason to do so.
  - PavlovsCat 13y ago
    This individual is not all individuals. Purely destructive trolling exists, even by intelligent and outwardly successful adults, a hundred times fold in Minecraft - and in some cases not even seeking attention applies because of anonymity. Which is no problem for sadism: seeing the reaction is enough. Creating can mean a lot of things.. it basically means doing something constructive, hey, even daydreaming or just curiosity. For me there is either progress (doesn't have to be anything big, it doesn't even have to be your own, as long as you have the ability to be happy for others), relaxation (ditto) or frustration and the compensation for it... but any talk of "creators" is entirely yours. You don't seriously think I was trying to claim I was never a dick in my life? Hah, I wish.
- raganwald 13y ago
  And of course, some people think they can create and engage in "disruption of old-line industries" for many of the same reasons.
  - PavlovsCat 13y ago
    See other reply.. I wasn't talking about creating products, sigh. Quit putting a dollar sign on every thing on the planet!
a3voices 13y ago
A personal theory I have is that some people deep down want to act like they're in Grand Theft Auto, running around causing mayhem and destruction.

PavlovsCat 13y ago

Some people (think they) can't create, and settle for the lower hanging fruit of destruction, to still feel some kind of agency and power, and distract themselves from jealousy and self-loathing. Kicking a dog, trolling forums or kickstarter... it's all the same? That's my theory anyway.

tjic 13y ago
Thank you for crisply explaining something I've realized for some time, but have never been able to boil down to a single sentence.
- PavlovsCat 13y ago
  I was looking for a fitting quote by Erich Fromm (whom I kinda should give credit for "my theory", I'm pretty sure I pieced it together from stuff he said), couldn't find one - but it seems that his book "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" might be worth a read :)
vertr07 13y ago
That's what creators tell themselves anyway. More likely this individual had a more concrete and financial reason to do so.
- PavlovsCat 13y ago
  This individual is not all individuals. Purely destructive trolling exists, even by intelligent and outwardly successful adults, a hundred times fold in Minecraft - and in some cases not even seeking attention applies because of anonymity. Which is no problem for sadism: seeing the reaction is enough. Creating can mean a lot of things.. it basically means doing something constructive, hey, even daydreaming or just curiosity. For me there is either progress (doesn't have to be anything big, it doesn't even have to be your own, as long as you have the ability to be happy for others), relaxation (ditto) or frustration and the compensation for it... but any talk of "creators" is entirely yours. You don't seriously think I was trying to claim I was never a dick in my life? Hah, I wish.
raganwald 13y ago
And of course, some people think they can create and engage in "disruption of old-line industries" for many of the same reasons.
- PavlovsCat 13y ago
  See other reply.. I wasn't talking about creating products, sigh. Quit putting a dollar sign on every thing on the planet!

a3voices 13y ago

A personal theory I have is that some people deep down want to act like they're in Grand Theft Auto, running around causing mayhem and destruction.