Two Towers Troll
Friday, November 22nd, 2002 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinturnerI've been doing a lot of surfing around satirical sites recently, thank mainly to links posted in LJ or mailed by friends. The best part is watching the reactions of people who don't get that it's satire and feed the troll. Childish, I know, but fun.
However, as far as I can tell, there's still no consensus as to whether the petition to change the name of The Two Towers to something less offensive. An article in Spiked Culture thinks it's just possible that the site was genuine, and the petition it generated certainly made itself real, even if it was started as a troll. This means that over 3000 people actually believed that the title was deliberately intended to refer to the World Trade Centre attack.
Sometimes I yearn for the old days of the Internet, when getting online was difficult enough to require a minimum standard of literacy. In those days, you could be pretty sure that anyone you encountered online would at least know their Tolkien. Hell, they could probably reel off the names of all the dwarves in The Hobbit! Trolling was an art in those days.
On the subject of trolling, here are a few of my favourite spoof sites:
www.bonsaikitten.com
blackpeopleloveus.com (thanks,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pserv!)
Why Micorsoft Rules My Univrese
However, as far as I can tell, there's still no consensus as to whether the petition to change the name of The Two Towers to something less offensive. An article in Spiked Culture thinks it's just possible that the site was genuine, and the petition it generated certainly made itself real, even if it was started as a troll. This means that over 3000 people actually believed that the title was deliberately intended to refer to the World Trade Centre attack.
Sometimes I yearn for the old days of the Internet, when getting online was difficult enough to require a minimum standard of literacy. In those days, you could be pretty sure that anyone you encountered online would at least know their Tolkien. Hell, they could probably reel off the names of all the dwarves in The Hobbit! Trolling was an art in those days.
On the subject of trolling, here are a few of my favourite spoof sites:
www.bonsaikitten.com
blackpeopleloveus.com (thanks,
pserv!)Why Micorsoft Rules My Univrese
