I'll never understand trolls. I can understand presenting your opinion in an intelligent and sensible way, and perhaps having a little half-serious debate with someone (c'mon, it's the Internet, how serious can anything be?). But telling someone they're a piece of human trash and then laughing at them, or saying something "sucks" without giving reason, or just insulting something because it's either too popular or not popular enough (I'll never understand that)...It just boggles my mind.

Just looking at comments on YouTube, or GameFAQs, even deviantART...It's truly discouraging. Is the Internet where all the homophobic, semi-retarded, scum of the earth assholes gather? Am I just part of a minority that is at least civil toward my fellow human beings, regardless of race, sexuality, or beliefs? Even if I don't agree with someone, I'll let them know in a nice way or just not say anything at all.

Just because the Internet is anonymous doesn't mean you can be a complete ass to everyone. If there's something you believe is wrong, surely you can think of a better way to express your views than, "animes gay u suck go kill urself lololol wat a loser"

Of course, a majority of those comments are made by 11-year-olds. In that case, I seriously worry about the future.

Hell, today I had to endure a real-life case of this. I was looking at Wii games and a kid, maybe 13 or 14 years old, called me a "gay Nintendo fan-girl". Though I was annoyed, I ignored him. Soon his little friends joined him in looking at the big, manly M-rated PS3 games. I moved over to check out the PS2 games (Yay for price drops!), and they started on me again. "Dude, look it's a girl." "Dude, you wouldn't have a chance she's probably into girls." I still ignored them, bought Okami for the Wii because my PS2 version broke ages ago, and left GameStop. And the little butt-wipes followed me, making comments the whole way out to the parking lot. Uhg...