I think the fact that it's an easy accusation led people to get confused as to what it means.
If your youtube video wasn't made with the purpose of pissing off the person you did, then that's a side effect, not trolling. How much you enjoyed it is irrelevant; that's like saying, "i was cleaning the murk out of the pond with a net, and a trout jumped in! I'm a fisherman!"
Also, it doesn't always mean antagonizing. It just means manipulating people into entertaining you. If you logged onto a fisherman's forum and convinced them to hunt for a nonexistent whale, you successfully trolled.
Most importantly though: who gives a shit. Is trolling really a word we should care in the least about?
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I think the fact that it's an easy accusation led people to get confused as to what it means.
If your youtube video wasn't made with the purpose of pissing off the person you did, then that's a side effect, not trolling. How much you enjoyed it is irrelevant; that's like saying, "i was cleaning the murk out of the pond with a net, and a trout jumped in! I'm a fisherman!"
Also, it doesn't always mean antagonizing. It just means manipulating people into entertaining you. If you logged onto a fisherman's forum and convinced them to hunt for a nonexistent whale, you successfully trolled.
Most importantly though: who gives a shit. Is trolling really a word we should care in the least about?