5 Clever (But Evil) Gaming Trolls Who Caused Mass Chaos

Turns out modders always had access to an admin tool used to kick unwanted players out of online lobbies, and that it could also be used to kick players out of their own story mode. The only obstacle was that it was impossible to find another player's ID if they weren't connected to you. That all changed when a fall 2018 update allowed people to find other players' Rockstar Social ID numbers, opening the doors for digital heart attacks galore. And because we now live in the "always online" stage of invasive internet, that meant assholes could even creep into single-player games to silently snip your virtual strings.

In late October 2018, Soulcalibur VI's lobbies were invaded by a custom character that looked like a giant multicolored cube. This funky box was created by streamer Abbock (aka Cryin' Brian), who managed this abomination by employing a minor cheat which allowed him to increase the size of small aesthetic character apparel. Underneath the weird blocky exterior was still a regular Soul Calibur man/woman/freaky skeleton warrior with a regular moveset.

Nonetheless, the Cube utterly destroyed its opponents. That's because, unless you adhere to the sacred martial arts school called the Way of the Random Button Mash, fighting games are all about strategy and predicting your opponent's moves. And obviously, that's pretty hard to do when you're fighting a solid chunk of bright colors and don't know if your enemy's coming at you with a sword slash or skittering around on the ground like an S&M spider.

Abbock only made the character as a bit of fun, but The Cube did raise eyebrows in the pro Soulcalibur community, which saw it as clear evidence that custom characters shouldn't be allowed in ranked competition. And that makes sense. While it's not illegal to fight using a lizard man who wields a giant dong, it can be considered ... distracting.

See, No Man's Sky only supports a certain amount of bases claimed per planet. So the imperial troll travels around looking for planets with unguarded human bases, and then spends hours of his fleeting, limited life claiming enough bases to "erase" the previous ones, like some weird beach bully who ruins sand castles by chucking his own, worse sand castles at them.

SeriousGamerX finally became the game's most hated troll when a prominent community leader reached out to him to engage in some friendly diplomacy. He replied by betraying her, destroying her base, and then mocking her for being a woman. He then cemented his true villain status by being kicked out of the known universe.

But how do you top that kind of wanton aggression and senseless bullying? Well, ED trolls figured that the one thing worse than doing evil is undoing good. So SDC and other dedicated human monsters started ruining charity streams -- nice couch potatoes from all over the world performing in-game challenges to collect donations and raise awareness for good causes. But not even the notoriously hands-off devs at Frontier were going to let that kind of thing slide, so they announced they would start taking action against people who disrupted charity streams without invitation.

In response, SDC did something unexpected: They hosted a charity stream of their own called "Arseholes for Arseholes," during which they donated money to charity every time they griefed another player. That way, Frontier couldn't ban them for assholish behavior, since that assholish behavior was doing real-world good. Only a troll brain could think that doing community service means you've outsmarted everyone calling for you to be punished.

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