#internet trolls

I’ve been mulling over this message for a bit since there are so many problematic aspects of it and I can’t decide which is the most upsetting:

- that someone thinks a fifteen year old girl deserved to be murdered for being female, Jewish, or both.
- that someone thinks a strange woman on the internet deserves to be murdered for voicing opinions on feminism.
- that someone created a tumblr blog for the sole purpose of sending vitriolic message(s?) to strangers.
- that someone felt strongly enough to voice this hate, but not strongly enough to be held accountable for it.
- that someone might not actually feel this way, but thinks it’s a funny joke or an effective way to shut down people they don’t like.
- that someone thinks this is an acceptable way to behave because they’ve seen it happen repeatedly all over the internet and don’t think there are any consequences.
- that someone equated themselves with Ahab, often considered a devil-worshipping man on a doomed quest to destroy greatness out of spite and impotent rage, and probably was not considering it ironically.
- that someone thinks captain is spelled captian.

Another mappa-mundi inspired mind map, this time focusing on the Troll Authors of Chris Chan’s life during her “Classic,” era. I have tried to categorise the internet trolls that inserted themselves into Chris’s world via a means of role-play storytelling. This meant the construction of fictional countries (Molvania) the utilisation of real-life personas (Shigeru Miyamoto) and, of course, an onslaught of adoring “sweethearts.” I’m planning in future to produce an annotated version of these maps, so as to clearly detail each and every figure illustrated.