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I think all three are subtly different.

go away im baitin

In Britain they call it, "Havin' a little saucy tossy"

there used to be honor in the land, there used to be a little whimsy among the trolls

yeah I was going to say this. ragebaiting is targeted, trolling is for the love of the game

objective downgrade imo

hmm. should be a comma there. no edit button :(

people also don't say forsooth and verily anymore

The world we grew up in no longer exists

This post feels like trollbaiting.

"Trolling" gf "ragebating" gf problematic age gap relationship

It's just monetized trolling

people don't say "online harassment and disinformation campaign" anymore now they say "trolling"

Both can be true... However, if you're the #11 largest account on Bluesky... it's definitely rage-baiting.

"Ragebaiting" is so last Tuesday! 🙄 It's "engagementmaxxxing"! 🧐

the trolling industry is dying 😔

@jtp.bsky.social "troll" was kind of suffering some semantic drift anyway

It is shocking that cultivating an attitude of being an asshole to random strangers online would lead to fascism. (The internet, and perhaps the world, would be a different place if more people's pasttime was "be excellent to each other.")

No. I very much remember it being a diving force of fascism. It was just another right wing pipeline for kids to follow. Trolling videos was how myself and a lot of my friends discovered people like "leafyishere" and that is a nasty pit i wouldn't wish on anyone.

I remember quote cascading on Usenet. I remember going to troll in alt.cheese and discovering a community so earnestly excited and mutually supportive about cheese that I briefly made myself its defender instead.

somehow, Ragecomics returned

The future is an arrow in time that points to the word "progress"

People constantly accuse me of trolling when I'm not, how do I get people to start accusing me of rage baiting when I'm not so I can get money from it?

What up gamers? Boutta ragebait my mom by throwing the nuggies she made me on the floor and calling her a bitch. Watch this cortisol spike!

Different things. Trolling is about the love of the game, purely for amusing yourself or others, or to fill some hole in your dying soul. A ragebaiter is just a type of engagement whore, all about the metrics.

and we're worse off for it

I still say trolling. It still exists with me.

Trolling = trooning. Problematic, bad Ragebaiting = masturbating. Liberating, good.

^ W ragebait

Wait are you just anger-encouraging me rn

debatemaxxing

it's pretty interesting that they also arrived at a fishing metaphor from first principles

Shell shock -> Combat fatigue -> Post Traumatic Stress Disorder