If they think this guy is the greatest internet troll

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May 10 2016, 11:24 am


Kid doesn't even come close to what I've accomplished. I've started 20 page shitstorms on both League and Dota 2 forums just by typing simple sentences such as "kids in esports aren't real athletes" or "[insert hero here] doesn't need to be nerfed, you just need to l2p". I've left comments on Taylor Swift videos that make her fan base go completely ballistic - it gets to the point where I have to start marking the response emails as spam because I get tired of my phone vibrating every few seconds ( for some reason my phone alerts me whenever someone responds to a YouTube comment I made ) .

I'm pretty appalled that someone like this "Ken M." guy is being called the greatest just because he gets 1 or 2 responses on Yahoo of all places. I can go make a Reddit account and have 300 people ready to burn me at the stake in 15 minutes.

I will admit though, I lol'd at this:
May 10 2016, 12:00 pm
KenM is great because he's funny, not because of the responses gained. When he gets shit thrown at him, it's shit from a gourmand who recently had a meal at The Fat Duck and a dessert crafted by the finest French chefs. When you get shit thrown at you, it was from a bunch of Dota nerds who just finished eating their third meal of the day at McDonald's and followed it down with a bag of Doritos.

When it comes to trolling, KenM has returned the craft to an art.
May 10 2016, 1:11 pm
The magazines in the oven got me giggling like a little girl.
May 10 2016, 1:13 pm
In response to Lummox JR
Yeah, he's amazing. Another favorite of mine is,

May 13 2016, 4:51 am
ZIDDY99 wrote:
I want to know what you left on the Taylor Swift video lol.

It was around the time her "Shake It Off" video dropped. I can't remember what I typed but it pissed over 100 people off. It was fun for the first day or two but then I opened up my email again a week later and "Response to your comment on Taylor Swift - Shake It Off" was sitting at the top of my inbox and I couldn't believe people were still furious.

I also got banned from doing an experiment on Facebook where I made a fake account with this as my profile pic:



added a crap ton of people, waited a year, and then logged back into the account to start leaving ridiculous comments on people's pages. It was the most fun I've ever had on Facebook. The best one was where some chick who had just graduated high school posted a picture of a dress she had wore to prom I guess, and she had some of the largest knockers I've ever seen. Her Dad left a comment saying "You're very beautiful baby, so proud of you." and I replied after him saying "I agree, I wish I could bury my face in them tiddys." Not even 5 minutes later, her Dad comes back saying "Who the fuck is this fat ass cracker?", and then her uncle sent me a private message saying "Look here, faggot. You leave another comment on my niece's page and I'm going to find your punk ass, obese honkey." I just rinse and repeated this process with the ton of random people, getting threats, people saying "I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW HE GOT ON MY FRIENDS LIST" ( maybe it's because you accepted my friend request, retard ) and blocked from people's pages until finally I was banned for "pornography" which is weird because I never posted porn on anyone's page unless they consider my "tiddys" comment as "pornographic".

Anyway, the entire reason why it's funny is because all the people I made angry could've avoided the entire situation by doing one thing: not adding some random chubby guy in a fedora that they obviously did not know to their "friends" list. That's why I'm not on Facebook, because it doesn't make the slightest bit of sense to me. All they do is collect your personal information and 99% of the people on any given user's friends list are complete strangers. Should change the name to Idiotbook.
May 13 2016, 8:06 am
In response to EmpirezTeam
Er, yeah they shouldn't have added Random Fedora Guy to their friends list, but you missed the mark by a mile on that one. That wasn't even funny in an esoteric Andy Kaufman sort of way that nobody gets.
May 13 2016, 2:19 pm
In response to Lummox JR
Lummox JR wrote:
Er, yeah they shouldn't have added Random Fedora Guy to their friends list, but you missed the mark by a mile on that one. That wasn't even funny in an esoteric Andy Kaufman sort of way that nobody gets.

Lol, the comment I wrote on her page wasn't intended to make me laugh. The parts I intended to derive laughs from were the responses. That's what trolling is - you throw the bait out and you wait for someone who doesn't understand how the internet works to take you seriously and reply out of frustration. That's why I don't particularly consider Ken M. a good troll because he's not really trolling, he's just being funny. The things he writes make you laugh, but he's not getting massive amounts of angry replies and it's probably because he doesn't really intend to as he describes himself as "good willed".

Like Ken M., I started all this after realizing discussions over the internet amounted to nothing. Nobody changes their stance on anything. I've been debating a wide range of topics with tons of people ( some even twice my age ) since I was 13. In games, debate forums, articles, anywhere. I would argue adamantly and state my position and all I'd get in response was:

- "I don't like you, therefore you're wrong."
- "My hair is a bird, your argument is invalid."
- "I'm [enter age here] years old, so I know what I'm talking about."
- "I know it's true because my pastor said it."
- "A ton of people disagree with you, therefore you must be wrong."

After a while I started asking myself what the point of all of it was. I wasn't getting anywhere. I wasn't learning anything from these people, they weren't learning from me, it was just a passive aggressive name-calling popularity contest. A circus, essentially. But the thing with circuses is that they're supposed to be fun, and I figured if I'm going to be forced to interact with idiots whenever I log onto the internet, I may as well get a laugh out of it as opposed to a headache. So I just stopped being serious.

The Facebook thing was just me confirming a theory I had prior to using Facebook. Before doing any of that I set out to prove Facebook is just a site where people randomly add strangers because that's the only way users could end up with "friend" counts in the thousands, so I made the account, sent friend requests left and right, and I pretty much confirmed the assumption I had about the site. I even had people telling me "happy birthday" on that account, like they knew me personally and were ready to celebrate. Just ridiculous. The trolling part of the experiment was because I wanted to laugh, and because I dislike stupid people so I don't feel bad when I entertain myself at their expense.
May 13 2016, 9:01 pm
Yeah, but you didn't really troll people who don't understand how the Internet works; you simply picked a personal moment and stuck in a shiv. Yes it was stupid of them to add Fedora Guy to their friends without knowing who he was, but you picked a really bad deservedness/intimacy ratio.
May 14 2016, 3:57 am
In response to Lummox JR
Lummox JR wrote:
but you picked a really bad deservedness/intimacy ratio.



May 14 2016, 5:18 am
In response to Lummox JR
I think we simply have different definitions of trolling. You consider trolling to be making a mildly comical statement for a laugh. I consider trolling saying something ridiculous to get whatever your desired reaction is out of the person/people. What Ken M. does is funny but on a "trolling scale" it ranks pretty low.

"Stuck in a shiv" is exactly the point of trolling. The end goal is for the other person to be agitated. Ken M. didn't agitate Chef Boyardee, he just made them think he was a retard. This is trolling:



Now you can say the same thing about this video - that the callers are just exploiting something they take personally and "sticking in a shiv". Most of what the callers are saying isn't funny ( saying "how do magnets work" over and over isn't comedy , but that's not the point). The funny part is how the hosts react. Granted, the Jesus Chatline is a much better target of trolling than some random girl with her boobs falling out her dress, but Jesus Chatline didn't accept my friend request.
May 14 2016, 6:36 am
A good troll gets a reaction from their target and is funny while doing it, in my opinion. Low effort trolling like you do is simply boring and obvious, while things like what KenM does and what /b/ did to Steven Universe fans on tumblr are both highly-entertaining, funny, and require more effort than kicking the side of a barrel of fish and giggling at how they get agitated.
May 14 2016, 6:44 am
In response to Popisfizzy
That is brilliantly evil :}
May 14 2016, 7:59 am
Nice fedora @ et.
May 14 2016, 9:20 am
In response to Ghost of ET
Ghost of ET wrote:
Nice fedora @ et.

See, this guy understands.

Trolling is not about funny. It's all about the tipping of the fedora. By the way, skip to 23:30 in that video, lmao.
May 17 2016, 4:21 pm
In response to EmpirezTeam
I know the Jesus Chatline guys, they split up and had some fights, "Steven Chilton" has a new show he does on Vaugh called "Haulin' Ass with T. Rucker". However, the comedy level on it is low, since, everyone involved knows its staged and whatnot. Every caller is a lame character...

Oh well.
May 17 2016, 5:13 pm
In response to EnigmaticGallivanter
EnigmaticGallivanter wrote:
I know the Jesus Chatline guys, they split up and had some fights, "Steven Chilton" has a new show he does on Vaugh called "Haulin' Ass with T. Rucker". However, the comedy level on it is low, since, everyone involved knows its staged and whatnot. Every caller is a lame character...

Oh well.

May 18 2016, 3:55 pm
Rumbled Feathers was a step down from JCL, but way better than what they have now.
May 28 2016, 2:54 am
That is brilliantly evil :}