Ken: Trolls-- even when you can ignore them, they still hurt.

It's a well known fact that as soon as the first forums were formed on the internet, that the first person who decided to post their view of something on a blog...there was the birth of trolling. Whether this being just for complete lulz or for far weirder reasons, trolling on the internet has been as common as other forms of hate and rage in the world (I PROMISE I'm not a pacifist -_-;;).

Well, just this past evening I went to a complete community in a wiki site dedicated to the hate of others on the internet. It WAS a spicific page but, just for the sake of avoiding any form of being involved in it, wont name the page ( a wiki page..of course). This ENTIRE sites premise was a horribly but yet "official" looking put together page and ensued for several SEVERAL long paragraphs talking about how -x- people sold out, are unfunny, "fags" and even dropping several fat jokes and racial slurs to sound "cool" (even in one of the posts saying that one of the people affiliated with said post was 'trying to sound cool by making fun of something else'...oh the irony).

Normally, this is where any one of us on the internet that's been around the block would go "Hey Ken just forget about that page, Trolls will be trolls...cant change it dude!". Well...this somehow got to me. I know this is EXACTLY what trolling is supposed to do--get you worked up about something that should be clearly shrugged off and just an anecdote of your day-- but...it seemed more than just random trolls.

No, really. I actually felt like they were internet terrorists, which is a quite BOLD statement ...I know.... but this site had 2 thousand or so followers in its community, and basically night and day watch -x- site that they target for hatred 24/7 and ANY personal information they can get on to post, they post. That's downright near a level of ignorance and stalking that makes me feel iffy about just thinking about it, and it feels like a somehow more threatening version of the tabloids.

What happened to the old days or casual trolls who would tell you "you have a tiny wiener and you live in your parents basement WoWfag!" ? Or comments on youtube that say "fuck -x- band, they sold out theyre pussies!" just to get that fan base worked up. No, it had to get to a point where it'd down right feel illegal. I realize this was most likely around and I wasnt seeing it before, doesn't stop me from getting bothered by it.

I kinda realize that this entire post is most likely useless, but I can't help but think that other people who might have interests that they'd want to post on the web would be marauded by these up and coming next gen trolls who will do absolutely anything to make themselves feel good, even if it means telling someone their idea's are worthless and that they're so un wanted that they'll do anything short of camping by your site just to keep track of what a "failure" you are.

I suppose about the only remedy is to act like this is your every day life, and ignore the people that tell you differently, cause in the end I suppose...no matter how many people tell you that you're worthless, what really do they know? I didn't really mean to go all after school special on you, but really....what is this world really coming to? I hardly see how any hate of that level is even worth it , especially when its over something so petty (just trust me on this one..). Welp, I'm about done on this one.

I have more blogs on the way being written, until then...don't be a douche bag and keep trolling to the bare minimum, and GG.