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AnimalMuppet | on: A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions
It can make them feel better by giving them a chance to look down on someone else. (The "looking down" doesn't have to be the content of the post - the act of trolling is a form of looking down on someone.)
scns | parent
> It can make them feel better by giving them a chance to look down on someone else.

That's the idea but it does not work. Self esteem is still negative afterwards

MadnessASAP | root | parent
Whether or not it works isn't what matters. It's whether or not the perpetrator, consciously or not, believes it works.