Most people that use the internet, if not all, have come across a troll at least once. In stories, trolls ranges from small to large and sometimes hide in dark places or under bridges, but they all usually have one thing in common : they, in some method or trick, try to trick and "eat" you. That isn't very different from how trolls of today operate. Internet trolls first lure you in with some kind of bait that takes the form of a comment that is either about whatever it is your reading/watching or just a completely random topic. At this point, the choices you have are to either ignore whatever it is that they said or to confront them. If you chose the second option, the troll will move on to try and get you involved in an argument. They will keep you around to the best of their ability just for the sake of wasting everyone's time. Once they have you, they will proceed to "eat" you, or anger/annoy you, and this is where they have the most fun. Whether or not you are actually irritated matters little to them as they will say you are no matter what. This is the point where I think that the troll has won. However, if you chose the first option from earlier and just ignored them, then you just crossed the bridge and saved everyone a lot of time. With that being said, not all trolls are necessarily bad. It all depends on what one considers crossing the line or too far. Everyone has a different limit that they think is still funny.
-Brendan Stilwell
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