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AnimalMuppet
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A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of t...
It can make them feel better by giving them a chance to look down on someone else. (The "looking down" doesn't have to be the
content
of the post - the
act of trolling
is a form of looking down on someone.)
scns
59 days ago
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> It can make them feel better by giving them a chance to look down on someone else.
That's the idea but it does not work. Self esteem is still negative afterwards
MadnessASAP
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Whether or not it works isn't what matters. It's whether or not the perpetrator, consciously or not, believes it works.
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