Thread by @sarahmei

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Good use of all lowercase to emphasize your connection to the common man.

Areas for growth: content is, er, light. And you’ll have to work harder on composing an insult that really upsets people. “Bitch” is pretty boring.

Overall score: D- you’re bad at this

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Good use of a diminutive to lend yourself unearned superiority.

Areas for growth: gif game ineffective, and your dig doesn’t logically follow from the post you’re responding to.

Overall score: C- below average troll

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Good attempt to appeal to my own privilege.

Areas for growth: Visual game is weak, hyperbole saps the effectiveness of the overall approach, and telling someone who’s never spoken to you to “Fuck off” is...irrational, at best.

Overall score: D+ almost average

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Good use of gendered language to reinforce your perceived authority.

Areas for growth: random kitchen sink approach to topics is confusing & reduces the overall insult level. You might also try sentences with verbs.

Overall score: C- average & boring

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Good use of pseudoscience to simulate good-faith debate.

Areas for growth: the diminutive reduces effectiveness of your good faith debate position. Grammar distracts from overall message. Weak visuals.

Overall score: C+ troll has potential but this one failed

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Good: picture & text go together.

Areas for growth: meme is dated. The target (me) enjoyed the meme, which saps effectiveness of the insult. You also haven’t established I do those things, so it’s too left-field to hurt.

Overall score: F, ineffective & dated