If only internet trolls were as sweet and cute as the trolls in the movie “Trolls”. However, they are not. Below is a…
Trolling as a mask is a common theme in Dr. Whitney Phillips’s book, This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture. In her book, Phillips describes how trolls operate in online spaces…
Phillips stated, “The issue, then, isn’t where the trolling behavior occurs, but what the behaviors signify. And what the behaviors signify is that…
Whitney Phillips describes trolling as a mask, in a sense that one does it for the sake of entertainment and for the “lulz” (Phillips 2016 27). As one puts on the “mask” they set rules that are different from real life experiences (excluding…