Trolling the Stars

Karan Naik
9 min readMay 8, 2019

A digital ethnographic study on why people troll

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Trolling — is the deliberate act, (by a Troll), of making random unsolicited and/or controversial comments on internet forums with the intent to provoke a reaction from unsuspecting readers to engage in a fight or argument

The internet doesn’t hurt people. It never did. People hurt people. The new digital age we live in has witnessed the beginning of…

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Karan Naik

Indian kid born and raised in Dubai, studied in Bangalore, now in NYC because he loves the pizza here. Wannabe Stand-up Comedian.