What Does This Mean?

Feeding the Troll

[ SOCIAL MEDIA ][ ATTENTION ECONOMY ]

FORCE: Attention EconomyUNIVERSE: Social MediaCLUSTER: Trolling & Conflict

Responding to a deliberate provocateur, even to argue back or correct them, giving them exactly the attention and reaction they were fishing for in the first place.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"You're just feeding the troll at this point, walk away."

LORE & ORIGIN

The direct behavioral counterpart to "don't feed the trolls," naming the specific mistake the advice warns against.

FIRST SEEN

1998

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

Not established

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Slang

Leer en español →Lire en français →日本語版を読む →한국어판 보기 →Ler em português →阅读中文版 →

EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESfeeding the troll →Français fr-FRfeeding the troll →日本語 ja-JPトロールに餌をやる →한국어 ko-KR트롤 먹이 주기 →Português pt-BRfeeding the troll →中文 zh-CN喂食巨魔 →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

→ STEADY

EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

[ SOCIAL MEDIA ][ ATTENTION ECONOMY ]

RELATED TERMS

MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

1998

NOW

Radar observation data not yet available for this term.

TOP PLATFORMS

Not enough Radar data yet to show a platform breakdown.

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