Hey guys, i've just spent my weekend drooling over fanfiction. Honestly this wouldn't be a problem
I blame those that got me into fanfiction.
I also blame those that write freaking amazing pieces of work.
Unlike you guys and your...well... promiscuous mothers I have a fairly decent amount of experience when it comes to the amazing phenonema known as flaming. Actually I have a few pretty awesome tips for those that are looking forward to flaming people with terrible writing skills.
1. insult their grammar
2. insult their way of writing
3. insult their intelligence.
You do those three magical things, and you have a flame. Of course, its a amateur flame. It wouldn't have the depth and the cynical factor behind what I like to call "Sagacity Flame".
However, I doubt any amateur flamer would ever be able to pull that off, as it takes years of slowly degenerating from an upstanding citizen into what we like to call... Internet Trolls. Yes, Internet Trolls.
Commonly referred to as just "trolls" we like to console ourselves with the thought that Internet Trolls are nothing more than basement-dwelling college drop-outs with nothing more interesting to do, than to troll.
But! Trolling is an Art. It is so subtle that many confuse it with "bullying." However, we all know thats bullshit. We ALL love a good troll. Even when we're the ones being trolled.
So much so that people troll others and put it up on DeviantArt. Claiming that it is art. Yes, I agree.
Trolling is an art that some of us can't handle.
This person [oddman-exe] shows their version of internet trolling.
Watch the reaction of the victim.
Did you see that? That troll was successful. However theres alot of other trolls out there that are too obvious to be successful.
In a game called "World of Warcraft" there is a particularly obvious way of trolling individuals. However, it has become so well known that the response to all trolls is "Obvious Troll is Obvious."
No one likes an obvious troll. No matter what people say.
We like to put a stamp on things like this. Its a pretty basic stamp, it just tells people that the troll failed.
[artist: SaturnFinger]
Back to my talk about games. Trolling is rather amusing as it can happen in games. Its a little more subtle, but its still their as demonstrated in this work by [JessKat83]
See, this is shown with the famous "troll face".
Well, thanks for reading, and i'll be back soon with another update for section "Internet Trolling/fanfiction/light hearted". I'm filling in the spot for Illuminya with this post, so I might not be able to again till next week ;D.
-Your Mom
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