“Positive Trolling(R)” Trademarked — Feb 11, 2021
“It’s a folktale for our era.” Positive Trolling(R) was trademarked on February 11, 2021 — in a Medium post titled “Big Lies: How Positive Trolling(R) Can Help Save Us From Them.” This predates the Twitter usage by THREE MONTHS and is the earliest documented use of both “Positive Trolling” and “Code of Positive Trolls” as named concepts.
Source: Proto-Disinfolklore · Medium (2021-02-11)
The LANDMARK discovery: the exact date the method was first formally named. February 11, 2021 — two years before “Disinfolklore” was coined.