Malefic Trolls

Special Types of Malefic Trolls

Tech Debunkers

• Overview: Trolls who aggressively target discussions that blend technology with spirituality or metaphysics, mocking the idea that technology could have metaphysical implications.
• Tactics: Overwhelm conversations with technical jargon and dismiss the metaphysical aspects as pseudo-science or fantasy.
• Factions: Technomancer Collectives, Digital Shamans

Spiritual Cynics

• Overview: Trolls who attack the use of technology in spiritual practices, accusing it of degrading or commodifying the sacred.
• Tactics: Post diatribes about how technology ruins spirituality, claiming tech-spiritual blends are inauthentic.
• Factions: Technomancer Collectives, Digital Shamans

Blockchain Skeptics

• Overview: Trolls who attack decentralized technologies like blockchain, dismissing them as overhyped, unstable, or useless.
• Tactics: Focus on failures or volatility in cryptocurrency to mock those invested in decentralization.
• Factions: Decentralized Web Enthusiasts, Cryptocurrency Privacy Advocates

Government Plant Trolls

• Overview: Trolls that pretend to support decentralization but subtly push narratives that centralization or government regulation is inevitable or safer.
• Tactics: Raise concerns about security risks in decentralized systems, promoting centralized control as more responsible.
• Factions: Decentralized Web Enthusiasts, Anonymous Hacktivist Cells

Fiat Loyalists

• Overview: Trolls who aggressively defend traditional financial systems, attacking cryptocurrency advocates as scammers or fools.
• Tactics: Post mocking comments about the failure of crypto, calling it a Ponzi scheme.
• Factions: Cryptocurrency Privacy Advocates

Utopia Skeptics

• Overview: Trolls who belittle utopian movements by calling them naïve, dangerous, or impossible to achieve.
• Tactics: Use historical failures of similar movements to mock future-oriented visions.
• Factions: The Venus Project, The Zeitgeist Movement

Anti-Tech Trolls

• Overview: Trolls who criticize movements reliant on technology, framing it as a negative force.
• Tactics: Accuse technologists of relying too much on machines to solve problems better solved by human means.
• Factions: The Venus Project, Off-Grid Tech Innovators

Economy Traditionalists

• Overview: Trolls who undermine alternative economic models by calling them impractical or socialist fantasies.
• Tactics: Assert that free markets are the only viable economic system, dismissing other approaches.
• Factions: The Zeitgeist Movement, Mutual Aid Networks

Survivalist Extremists

• Overview: Trolls who invade off-grid discussions, mocking sustainable practices for being too weak and promoting extreme survivalist methods.
• Tactics: Post hostile comments about how off-grid communities won’t survive unless they adopt violent tactics.
• Factions: Off-Grid Living Communities

Industry Shills

• Overview: Trolls who work to discredit environmental movements by promoting corporate interests, downplaying activism as anti-progress.
• Tactics: Post messages defending big industries and claim regulations will destroy the economy.
• Factions: Radical Environmentalist Movements

Climate Change Deniers

• Overview: Trolls who deny the existence or seriousness of climate change, targeting environmental groups.
• Tactics: Use discredited studies to argue that climate change is a hoax or a natural process.
• Factions: Radical Environmentalist Movements

New Age Scammers

• Overview: Trolls who accuse digital shamans or spiritual tech movements of being fraudsters out to scam naive followers for profit.
• Tactics: Post accusations of scams whenever digital spirituality services are mentioned.
• Factions: Digital Shamans

Armchair Hackers

• Overview: Trolls who pretend to have insider knowledge of hacktivist operations but mock real hacktivists for not being aggressive enough.
• Tactics: Belittle active hackers for only tackling small-scale issues while offering no real solutions.
• Factions: Anonymous Hacktivist Cells

Postmodern Nihilists

• Overview: Trolls who mock movements like metamodernism for trying to find meaning in a world they claim is inherently meaningless.
• Tactics: Use irony and sarcasm to dismiss any attempts at finding meaning or connection.
• Factions: Metamodernist Movement

Reductionist Trolls

• Overview: Trolls who dismiss philosophical or cultural movements as overcomplicated, belittling them as mental gymnastics.
• Tactics: Condense complicated ideas into oversimplified statements to mock intellectual discussions.
• Factions: Metamodernist Movement, Esoteric Factions