I understand that sometimes, "Don't feed the trolls" is easier said than done, that it can genuinely hurt your feelings when people are shit-talking you and spreading rumors. But once you get over the hump, things start to improve dramatically. When the people fucking with you get starved of content they slowly give up and disappear. Eventually, it feels like they never even existed in the first place -- because, obviously, they never did. It was just some retarded words on the internet.
If people keep trying to troll you and fail, a glorious thing can happen: people get so fucking sick of hearing them talk about you that they start fucking with them instead, and it becomes trolling blowback. That shit is fucking hilarious, and extremely satisfying. A pleasure Patrick will never know, because his personality disorder and narcissistic tendencies will never, ever let him take an L in the moment to get a W in the end.
You think anybody would be cheering on and laughing with this thread and the ONA forums if Patrick just disappeared and we were still talking about him years later? No, they'd call us obsessive weens and start making memes about how retarded we are.