30 of the Biggest Trolls Throughout History

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30 of the Biggest Trolls Throughout History
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Since the dawn of man, so has been the dawn of the urge to fuck with the fellow man. The story of humankind is one of a series of people being lil’ stinkers. You could go so far as to say that mischief is an identifying feature of higher intelligence.

Some have even been such prodigious pains in someone’s ass as to make it into the history books because of it. Absolute legends of annoyance, immortalized in the tales passed down from generation to generation. 

Redditors, well familiar with trolls in their own right, built a list of some of the best trolls in history, collected below.

jgpdvs . 5y ago April fools day 1974 when a man burned 70 rubber tires on a dormant volcano in Alaska! This has to be up there. Не waited 3 years to get a helicopter to fly the tires to the top to get a picture perfect condition. Не even got the coast guard called out too And heres the link to the story. http://hoaxes.org/af database/permalink/the e ruption of mount edgecumbe/
danielokane 5y ago Mozart didn't like this singer so much that he wrote a piece for her with high and low notes constantly because he noticed that when she hit low notes her chin went to her chest and when she hit high notes her head would fling back. So it was like she was bobbing like a chicken
E 5y ago There was a Prussian (I can't remeber his name) who managed to make a officer uniform out of scraps of clothing. Не used it to convince a few gaurds on patrol to follow him into a goverment building, ordered the arrest of the man in charge, confiscated all the money personally, sent the arrested man to Berlin calming it was all on order of the King. Не then ditch the uniformed, got on a train to Berlin him and managed to beat the guards there. Не than sat back and watched the absolute confusion happen.
Voicedtunic 5y ago In the 30s-40s BBC did an April fools broadcast where they told people how spaghetti was made... on trees. They literally showed fake spaghetti trees and since not many people in that time knew how spaghetti was made, lots of people believed it.
. 5y ago The old-timey NYC newspaper the Sun imo. In the 19th Century, they published some articles about the presence of life on the moon like unicorns, winged humans, and other creatures who built temples and lived peacefully. This caused a massive moon craze until it was later outed as fake.
. 5y ago de Edited 5y ago I was thinking more like the mortician who patented the automatic telephone switch 3 years after finding out his rivals wife worked as a telephone operator and would reroute calls asking for his funeral parlor to her husbands. The guy put a whole worldwide workforce out of work for one persons actions.
VictorBlimpmuscle 5y ago Edited 5y ago Theodore Hook - the perpetrator of the Berners Street hoax in London in 1810 in which Cook sent thousands of letters summoning all manners of various vendors and service people and physicians and dignitaries and others to all come to one random person's home, literally shutting down a large part of London as they all descended upon the same address throughout the day, all while Cook and a friend sat watching from a house across the street, presumably laughing their asses off the whole time.
Mr_Caterpillar 5y ago In China there was the war of the three kingdoms. The Wei, Shu, and Wu. Two of their armies met in battle and the smaller was out of arrows. They were separated by a river. One night, the leader of the smaller army stocked the front of their boats/rafts with straw bales and moved toward the opposing army over the river. They were immediately hailed with arrows. The men ducked behind the straw while the arrows stuck in the straw, undamaged. They then sailed away and yelled. We thank you for the arrows, we will return them
redsuslmao 5y ago Stephen Hawking was in an interview, when a cord was unplugged, and alarm went off (this was before he was completely immobile), and he slumped in his chair. The people interviewing him were scared out of their minds, until they realized that he was alright, and chuckling at his joke. The cord and alarm were for a computer.
GustavoAlex7789 . 5y ago Erik the Red. Не wanted people to come and live in his new found ice covered land so he named it Greenland.
. 5y ago The motherfucker who sold the eiffeltower - twice
Madhighlander1 . 5y ago I forget the name but that one guy from the 1800s who bought specific tickets to a play and then gave them away to bald men on the street so that when everyone took their seats and the bald men's heads reflected the light from the stage, they spelled out 'FUCK' as seen from the stage.
grubb_flowers 5y ago Edited 5y ago Marcel Duchamp who, among other fun things, submitted a urinal as an art piece to the Society of Independent artists under a pseudonym, and then was part of the board that was set to approve pieces. Не also spread rumors of another piece he was working on so people wouldn't suspect anything. Love that dude. Plus he sparked an interesting discussion in art.
Anom8675309 5y ago Diogenese Не became notorious for his philosophical stunts, such as carrying a lamp during the day, claiming to be looking for an honest man. Не criticized Plato, disputed his interpretation of Socrates, and sabotaged his lectures, sometimes distracting listeners by bringing food and eating during the discussions. Diogenes was also noted for having mocked Alexander the Great, both in public and to his face when he visited Corinth in 336 BC.
Blitzilla . 5y ago This Chinese general whose city was besieged by a much larger army, so he opened the main gate and sat atop it playing his flute. The enemy thought it was a trap so they packed their stuff and left.
frachris87 e 5y ago Gilles Corey. A farmer caught up in the Salem witch trials, he was sentenced to pressing (being slowly crushed by stones) to force him to make a plea. Every time he was questioned, he simply said More weight. Не died without making a plea.
mexploder89 5y ago . Edited 5y ago The dude who somehow got a network news program to say that a plane that crashed was piloted by 4 men with the names: Ноо Lee Fuk Sum Ting Wong Wee Tu Lo Bang Ding Ow
Nag-A-Ram-Gear-Toner . 5y ago Edited 5y ago Basil Zaharoff A Greek arms dealer, he once donated a submarine to the Greek government. Не then told the Turks that the Greeks had a submarine and sold them 2 submarines. Lastly, he went to the Russians and told them the Turks had 2 submarines so he sold them 2 as well. None of the submarines actually worked.
FIBAgentNorton 5y ago The guy that sent the first spam email. On May 3, 1978, Gary Thuerk sent the first spam email on ARPANET, marketing the Decisystem-20 family of office computers. Не succeeded in annoying many people, and the governing authorities even started a crackdown, stating: Nobody should be allowed to send a message with a header that long, no matter what it is about. Thuerk didn't know it at the time, but he created a new type of email
Nuclear-Cosby. 5y ago Michelangelo without a doubt. This man was hired to paint a chapel and put more dicks and asses on it than you ever did see.
DeificAtom93993 . 5y ago Russians, and how they continuously retreated when Napoleon tried to attack them, resulting him giving up due to the situations his army was facing, like disease
doowgad1 . 5y ago Orson Welles did a radio play that told people the Martians were invading. The next day he told everyone that his play had freaked out millions of people, when it was a few dozen at most.
skydriver_78 . 5y ago France Building a Fake Paris in WWI to confuse german bomber pilots...
ChickenBoatMemerTime a 5y ago Don't know if this has been said, but Stalin. Не convicted his closest friends of treason, then had them sentenced to death. Later on, they were blindfolded and awaiting the firing squad's bullets. The squad fired- blanks. Stalin pulled the blindfolds off and said gotcha.
Pepperspray24 . 5y ago George Psalmanazar- a blond-haired, blue- eyed Frenchman who pretended he a royal from the island of Formosa (now modern-day Taiwan). Came up with his own fake religion, diet, and language (with fucking syntax) that he taught in universities across Europe. This was in the 17th century.
JustAnotherAviatrix 5y ago This will be buried, but Sergei Korolev. The dude was getting frustrated with the Soviet government because they weren't interested in funding his space exploration projects, so he got his propaganda group to publish articles about how Russia was getting close to sending something into space. As expected, the US took the bait and started working on their satellite program, and the Soviet government freaked out when they saw the US doing that, so they funded Korolev's projects. Не and his group played them good.
sebre87 . 5y ago The employee at the Four Seasons landscape that took the reservation for the Trump campaign without asking questions. Clearly they knew it was a mistake... not like their company is a well known place for Presidential speeches.
im_dead_sirius 5y ago e Edited 5y ago Herostratus. Не burned the temple of Artemis around 400 BC. Just for the luls and the notoriety apparently. They killed him for it, painfully, and enacted a law forbidding his name from ever been mentioned. Yet here we are more than 2000 years later, and Herostratus and his stunt is not forgotten.
VixTheBitch 5y ago Silvia Night performing for Iceland in Eurovision 2006. I swear legit no one apart from Iceland knew what the fuck was going on and why she acted the way she did. Being a complete bitch during interviews and then her ridiculous song plus the stage presence. Silvia Night was an over the top character from a fake Icelandic reality tv show. So iconic.
ArthurBonesly 5y ago Caligula. Almost everything that's crazy about him is because he trolled the Senate so hard they dragged his legacy through the mud. The man is one of the only emperors to actually invest in Roman infrastructure with Roman money (read he taxed the Senate class to rebuild public waterways). Не was in a mutually contemptuous relationship as emperor. Не knew how much power he had and was paranoid enough to not get killed for wielding it. Historians are still untangling what was just Caligula trolls recontextualized for a smear campaign.

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