The Art of Youtube Trolling
Trolling on the internet can be a very fun thing to do when there's next to nothing else going on. Especially, of course, for the troll. Not so much for the "trollees", who range from individuals who made a particular remark, to every single fan who reads a particular page or website. Any site, blog, Facebook page or group is susceptible to this art of cyber s*** stirring, especially if they are centered around controversial subjects and individuals, notably Justin Bieber, the poor sod. He's had enough eggs thrown at him in real life, let alone of the homo sapiens sapiens f-wit variety.
There's no better site to troll on than YouTube. The land of opportunity as far as being a smartass is concerned, bullies, generic f-wits, and people with inferiority complexes can all spout their obnoxious, fightin' words without fear of reprisal. Hyperactive nerds who still wear pajamas at the age of 19 can give cheek to people twice their size and rest assured they will never be left bruised, beat, and left dangling by their Y-fronts from primary school basketball hoops. Bored computer geeks can also indulge in invoking Toll Booth Willie like responses amongst their own kind by simply saying that Star Trek sucks and that Stargate has all of the hottest chicks, which is strange, because these are something none of these people will never likely get without handing over either money or, at best, completed homework.
But there has been for a while an inverse phenomenon which is rather unique to Youtube. You may call it inverse trolling, or trolling turned back to front. A better way of describing this is called the dislike joke. It works by looking at the number of people who have clicked the dislike button and then concocting a witty response to it. An example I created involved a Billy T James sketch. Now, to those who don't live in New Zealand, Billy T was a very funny Kiwi comedian who sadly died in 1991 and remains to this day our greatest entertainer ever. Anyway, the sketch involved a parody of an early 80s series of television commercials for a now defunct firm called Lands for Bags. The original ads were centered around catchphrases like, "where did I get my bag? Lands for Bags of course." Billy T, being Maori, parodied this by playing on the Maori stereotype that Maoris are thieves. Hence, his response was, "where did I get my bag? I pinched it!" Three people didn't find the ad funny. The muppets. So I responded, "3 people had their bags pinched."
It is interesting how trolling, the art of giving cybercheek, can be molded into a entirely unique comedic style. Rather than setting out to have some middle-aged bloke from New Plymouth jumping up and down like an epileptic monkey doing a haka because you made an inflammatory comment involving ovine-hominid relations, one can also elevate themselves to "top commenter" status with some witty commentary about why some douche-bags from who knows where disliked the video. My, how the tables can turn.
There's no better site to troll on than YouTube. The land of opportunity as far as being a smartass is concerned, bullies, generic f-wits, and people with inferiority complexes can all spout their obnoxious, fightin' words without fear of reprisal. Hyperactive nerds who still wear pajamas at the age of 19 can give cheek to people twice their size and rest assured they will never be left bruised, beat, and left dangling by their Y-fronts from primary school basketball hoops. Bored computer geeks can also indulge in invoking Toll Booth Willie like responses amongst their own kind by simply saying that Star Trek sucks and that Stargate has all of the hottest chicks, which is strange, because these are something none of these people will never likely get without handing over either money or, at best, completed homework.
But there has been for a while an inverse phenomenon which is rather unique to Youtube. You may call it inverse trolling, or trolling turned back to front. A better way of describing this is called the dislike joke. It works by looking at the number of people who have clicked the dislike button and then concocting a witty response to it. An example I created involved a Billy T James sketch. Now, to those who don't live in New Zealand, Billy T was a very funny Kiwi comedian who sadly died in 1991 and remains to this day our greatest entertainer ever. Anyway, the sketch involved a parody of an early 80s series of television commercials for a now defunct firm called Lands for Bags. The original ads were centered around catchphrases like, "where did I get my bag? Lands for Bags of course." Billy T, being Maori, parodied this by playing on the Maori stereotype that Maoris are thieves. Hence, his response was, "where did I get my bag? I pinched it!" Three people didn't find the ad funny. The muppets. So I responded, "3 people had their bags pinched."
It is interesting how trolling, the art of giving cybercheek, can be molded into a entirely unique comedic style. Rather than setting out to have some middle-aged bloke from New Plymouth jumping up and down like an epileptic monkey doing a haka because you made an inflammatory comment involving ovine-hominid relations, one can also elevate themselves to "top commenter" status with some witty commentary about why some douche-bags from who knows where disliked the video. My, how the tables can turn.
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