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What Does 'Don't Feed the Trolls' Mean?

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FORCE: Attention EconomyUNIVERSE: Social MediaCLUSTER: Trolling & Conflict

Standard community advice urging people to ignore deliberate provocateurs entirely, since engaging with a troll — even to argue back — gives them exactly the reaction they wanted.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Don't feed the trolls, that's exactly the reaction they're fishing for."

LORE & ORIGIN

A community-defense catchphrase that spread once trolling became common enough to need a widely shared, easily repeated countermeasure.

FIRST SEEN

1995

PEAK POPULARITY

2026 (Social Media)

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Slang

Related To:Troll Feeding the Troll

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

中文 zh-CN别喂食巨魔 →日本語 ja-JPトロールに餌を与えるな →한국어 ko-KR트롤에게 먹이 주지 마 →Español es-ESdon't feed the trolls →Português pt-BRdon't feed the trolls →Français fr-FRdon't feed the trolls →

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