To me, a troll is someone who has fun at someone elses expense.
They don‘t hear or see a ‘no’ or believe that the person/people they re targetting deserve a choice to be part of their joke or not, for whatever reason they justify in their head.
Often, it seems to be ‘this person needs to be tauggt a lesson’ thing, when their ‘teaching methods’ are pisspoor, guaranteed to fail and clearly meant to get applause fron the crowd, which then leads to the repeated trolling of that person since ‘they never learn and are too stupid to see the truth’. = infinite pay out for the crowd loving the drama and the troll trying to platform.
It’s often the quintessential laughing at someone instead of with them.
Im all for it if the person/people are in on the joke and gladly part of it. Too often though, they’re not.
Doesnt matter how genius or clever the supposed joke is, if its done at someone elses expense, it becomes a crude, cheap way to hurt others and entertain the crowd, and all that supposed genius a smoke screen to hide said cruelty, imho.
Somehow trolls seem to believe that if they entertain you enough, they can unleash all their frustrations on their victim right there, and you wont only bat an eye, but you ll even validate and taken pleasure in joining them in the tornenting of others and building their own popularity.
Mob mentality 101.