4chan, Ted Frank, and alt.fan.warlord can all hang up your hats. The greatest troll of all time.

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A troll does inflammatory things specifically to piss off as many people as possible. It's usually a specifically Internet thing, but the Westboro Baptist Church has been doing this in real life. Fred Phelps has carefully designed a worldview so infuriating that he can upset absolutely everybody, everywhere. The WBC is especially interesting in that they've developed a way to monetize trolling: their whole purpose is to piss people off so much that people will attack them in some way -- at which point, the WBC will sue them. These lawsuits are the funding mechanism for the church.

Which is why Phelps is so damn good at what he does. No matter WHO you are, he's got SOMETHING that will piss you off, enough to make you want to take a swing at you -- and, if you do succumb to the temptation, he'll sue you, and win, and that's how he and his family make their living.

But just how good at this IS he? Can he really manage to get EVERYBODY to hate him? I mean, really. EVERYBODY?

Nobody could be THAT skilled a troll, could they?



Read 'em and weep, guys. It's over. 4chan, just give up. Nobody can top that.

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Epic. Beyond epic. Whoa.