To pull the "Back in my day" card, trolling was just fucking with someone by way of childish or overtly obvious means. Things like parrotting, imitation and the like. It was high-school prank level shit just meant to give you and your buddies a quick giggle and be on your way. With the "rise" of lolcow culture the Zweens who're super addicted to the idea of e-Fame have made a point of heavily involving themselves in a lolcow's life and purposefully goading them toward ridiculous acts so they can claim credit, or doing stupid things which're incredibly illegal, like the imitation of lawyers or officials. Now I did mention "We used to troll by imitating" but it was usually not much worse than catfishing (Which is still pretty shitty) at at best was pretending to be the lolcow for the sake of causing them to tardrage. (Liquid Chris v Chris type shit). The new wave of weens are closer to people like BlueSpike who was universally hated for fucking with Chris the way he did, but these ipad-addicted faggots are so desperate to be involved and claim ownership for whatever they're doing it has to be retardedly grandiose. It has to be SWATTING and pizza-bombing some retard, rather than say, prank calling the dude and asking for I C Weiner.