On the latest Decoder Ring: What trolling looked like in 1982.
, in its simplest terms, is being deliberately offensive in order to provoke people. The word in its contemporary sense didn’t exist until the beginning of the modern internet, but the practice goes back much further.
In this episode we look at a particularly pronounced example from the early days of the digital age:, an outrageously racist and misogynistic video game that inspired a frenzy of protests, lawsuits, and bans before it was even in stores. This is the story of how one of the worst games ever made came to be, the activists who responded to it, and the even stranger story of how the game maker sought to capitalize on that response.
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