Trolling as the First Metaphor

I feel quite lucky that I chose to focus on this. I thought after the 2020 election that, you know, that was it. You know, I’d done quite interesting work. Now that was all dead and gone. Here we are the same phenomenon - trolling and trolls - is back into impacting our whole lives. The trolling element was the first metaphor which I used. So my definition of trolling is emotion-moving activity of body, speech and mind. So this can be Donald trying to troll NATO countries now into spending European money on arms. So it’s about trolling us with the hope that this is going to happen.

Source: Coercive Control techniques being used to descend a global MAGARussia-esque Disinfolklore Galaxy

The author’s first-person account of arriving at the definition, showing the moment he recognised that trolling was not a passing 2016-2020 phenomenon but a permanent structural feature of modern communication.

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