In Internet slang, a troll is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting quarrels or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community with the intent of provoking readers into an emotional response, or often for the troll's amusement. There has been many cases of anonymous trolling on the internet, and in social media.
There is this Youtuber called Em Ford, but goes by the name My Pale Skin. You may recognize her on the video that went viral (YOU LOOK DISGUSTING), where she posted on her channel, and all the horrible comments went towards her on social media. The reason why I bring this up is because, she had multiple trolls, anonymous, and public. It all started with her having enough confidence in herself to post pictures of her on instagram without makeup, all natural. She then scrolled down to the comments, and found over 100,000 comments judging, bullying, and trolling her. Some of the comments were, "Eww! Her Face is so ugly", "Seriously...has she ever washed her face". She received hate for being confident in not wearing makeup, until that went away all in an instant. So to please her audience she let them take over her by putting makeup on again. Yes she did receive nice comments and all, but she received even more trolling comments than ever. Such as, "I love your makeup", "This is amazing...but so gross", "You're so ugly, that's why you wear makeup", "Imagine waking up next to her in the morning."
There is people out there who just say things without thinking, but there is trolls out there who say things with a feeling, of making others feel down. There is many people out there who can handle these types of attacks, but others can't. Some people have suicidal thoughts, and think that ending it only means to end their life. But most of the time that doesn't work sometimes people just forget about you but don't feel sorrow. Anonymous trolling has been taken to far. I feel that there should be boundaries, that sites should prevent rude attacking comments, to make the internet and social media a safer place.
This is the link to the video if you would like to better understand my post :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWTRwj9t-vU&t=11s
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