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“Taming Trolls” by Alexei Vella

Apr 20, 2017

Anyone who’s ever been on the Internet (congratulations, you’re one of them!) has at some point encountered what is commonly known as a “troll”, or a “cyber troll”. For those who don’t know the term, a “troll” is a person that purposefully wright spiteful things, commenting or tweeting negativity in order to either satisfy their pessimistic worldview or simply by means of self-amusement. For an article about how to deal with these kind of people, Ryerson Review of Journalism asked illustrator Alexei Vella to come up with an image would best portray the theme of their story, namely “Taming Trolls”.

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