It started in real life with... pranks, I guess you could call them? When I first got a computer and printer, knowing that my mom was always worried about money, I typed our address on one piece of paper and a letter on another that was about collecting a substantial debt. I folded up the address paper to look like an envelope, slipped the letter in and placed in in the mailbox after the mail had run. My mom opened it later and began cursing. I was actually surprised it went so well, and thoroughly amused, although I felt bad about fooling her.
As for the internet, it began during my Harry Potter stage. I was obsessed with Daniel Radcliffe and there were all these people on forums pretending to be him or know him, talking about how he used the same toothpaste as them. I figured, "I can fool people". On one particular forum... I don't even remember what I said or who I pretended to be (repressed memory I suppose), but I pissed some people off so bad that they created an exclusive forum of only 6 people, including my regular self, where they vented about Snape and my alter ego. We remained active on there for a year or two and when the activity dwindled I told them the truth. After that, I think we all moved on.
how did you become a troll?
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It started in real life with... pranks, I guess you could call them? When I first got a computer and printer, knowing that my mom was always worried about money, I typed our address on one piece of paper and a letter on another that was about collecting a substantial debt. I folded up the address paper to look like an envelope, slipped the letter in and placed in in the mailbox after the mail had run. My mom opened it later and began cursing. I was actually surprised it went so well, and thoroughly amused, although I felt bad about fooling her.
As for the internet, it began during my Harry Potter stage. I was obsessed with Daniel Radcliffe and there were all these people on forums pretending to be him or know him, talking about how he used the same toothpaste as them. I figured, "I can fool people". On one particular forum... I don't even remember what I said or who I pretended to be (repressed memory I suppose), but I pissed some people off so bad that they created an exclusive forum of only 6 people, including my regular self, where they vented about Snape and my alter ego. We remained active on there for a year or two and when the activity dwindled I told them the truth. After that, I think we all moved on.