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It sounds like you’re romanticizing a “golden age” of trolling that probably never existed in the way you remember it. Most old-school trolling wasn’t actually sophisticated the internet was just smaller, easier to disrupt, and you were less experienced, so the bait felt sharper. Blaming today’s low-effort posts on “non-anons” or outside groups is a kind of gatekeeping that defines skepticism as an identity rather than a behavior, which makes your argument circular: anyone who falls for something is, by your definition, not a real anon. A more grounded explanation is that platforms now amplify the lowest-effort content because that’s what drives engagement, not because the user base suddenly became gullible. And as you got more experienced, the obvious bait became more visible, which doesn’t prove the old bait was better just that you changed. The decline you’re noticing isn’t a shift from elite trolling to “jeet-tier” antics; it’s the natural result of a massively expanded, noisier internet where incompetence is far more common than coordinated ops.