You be the judge: should my boyfriend stop trolling rightwing social media accounts?
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Nelly thinks Gabriel has become fixated on sticking it to people online. He thinks they’re fair game. You decide who is getting all atwitter. Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror. Gabriel may well be targeting the right people, but that doesn’t justify his obsessive online antics.
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Gabriel, my boyfriend of seven years, is an internet troll and I don’t find it cute. When we met he was already chronically online, as he worked in social media and made content for YouTube and TikTok on the side. I didn’t have a problem with it as he was focused on making sports content, but now he trolls all kinds of people. At first I liked dating someone who could communicate in memes and discuss the latest podcast drama, but now it’s getting out of hand.
It’s not that I necessarily have a problem with who he trolls – it’s often horrible politicians or anonymous racist accounts – but I don’t think it’s good for him. He trolls a lot of people and I think it consumes him. One night during lockdown he stayed up late arguing with conspiracy theorists on Twitter. I told him to go to bed, but he couldn’t stop.
Another time he went viral for trolling a sexist footballer. He loves the attention. I think he’s usually on the right side of history and I’ve never seen him write anything that I don’t agree with, but I also think it’s quite weird. Who wants their boyfriend to be a top troller? It doesn’t impact the world in any positive way. If Gabriel “wins” a fight online, what difference does it make to anyone’s life? He gets a kick out of being blocked, or getting a reaction.
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