Earlier today, a 90-second clip of yelling by people who totally deserve each other was removed from YouTube on grounds it was a “depiction of harmful activities”. That would be a 17-year-old getting into it with an irate mum, evidently after he had a dispute with her minor son during a match in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
See, they’re trolls, and they are female, get it? No? Just check out the second and final BlizzCon 2010 cosplay gallery, packed with the three W’s: Wizards, warriors, and Waldo.
Since the costume contest is on Friday, most folks use that day for costumes, reverting to street clothes for day two. That’s why we’ve only got a little over 30 pictures today, as opposed to yesterday’s 50. Don’t worry; what we’ve sacrificed in quantity we’ve made up for with sheer Waldo.
Media professor David Myers, from Loyola University, has been studying how people interact in online games. Of interest to us is his account of what happened when he started trolling people.
Maybe the Internet really is serious business – being banned from Electronic Arts’ support forums may carry more serious consequences than previously thought.
