“While the 2008 presidential election was going on and the financial crisis hit the U.S. and then the world, the Rickroll took over the internet. It was first a craze on the pages of 4chan, then just about everywhere.”— Brian VanHooker, melmagazine.com
“My greatest design tool personally is to look at what that genre is doing and make it 3–5% different. It’s in a way, trolling.”— Virgil Abloh, 2x4.org
“Instead of embracing a massive extension of our social circles online, we seem to be reverting to tribalism and conflict, and belief in the potential of the internet to bring humanity together in a glorious collaborating network now begins to seem naive.”— Gaia Vince, mosaicscience.com
“In the past, ironic misandry has been a popular way for women to deal with living in a world where they’re exposed to frequent abuse at the hands of powerful men. Yet, if a woman takes to Facebook to vent about how she “wants to imprison men and milk them for their male tears,” she could quickly los…”— Taylor Lorenz, thedailybeast.com
““Comedian and writer Rae Sanni has been targeted by nazi trolls who hurled dozens of threatening and violent messages and comments at her for days,” a recent post reads. “Rae Sanni was banned by Facebook while her abusers are free to say sh*t like this without being in violation of community standar…”— Taylor Lorenz, thedailybeast.com
“The hatred is also a bit exaggerated, because they have these troll factories. It’s a factory product, too, you know? So it exaggerates the extent.”— Arundhati Roy, democracynow.org