I've known some pretty trolly trolls.
Angryskul had a leather jacket which had the troll face painted in the back with ABT (Always Be Trollin) we worked together. He's also been a FreeBSD committer, worked at Apple, Yahoo! and more.
Long ago in idlenet days, I would idle on #bantown and got to know many of its other regulars (e.g. weev) offline too.
AFAIK, they never drove anyone to suicide.
Many were just BOFHs.
Somehow, trolls got much worse and way less technical over the years.
Anyway, BOFHs aren't everyone's cup of tea. Such humor is lost on many.
I'd say the same is true of angruskul/zb, but he was definitely in it for the lulz, not really into personal attacks.
Same for most of the bantown sorts of trolls, I think?
I can't claim to know weev well, we last crossed paths before the AT&T debacle.
However, IIRC sangfroid wrote something to the effect of: "if there was ever any doubt about weev sympathizing with neo Nazis" (and I think for a time, there was such doubt) "spending time incarcerated eliminated any doubt" (IIRC he got a swastika tattooed?)
Now, tattoos aren't the be all end all.
e.g. Auschwitz, those tattoos weren't consensual.
Or ManWoman, who was trying to reclaim the swastika from Nazis.
However, I can't claim to have crossed paths with weev in an awfully long time. Over a decade and change.
It's hypothetically possible, he's Jewish and got such a tattoo to take trolling where no troll has gone before?
Seems doubtful based upon other accounts and such.
Not beyond the realms of possibility.
Just very unlikely.
Even then, I don't know of any suicide where weev played a part in goading the victim on.
Few people end up in documentaries about trolling, weev was such a person.
Which is to say, the toxicity of KiwiFarms trolls was really truly beyond reprehensible, objectively.
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