concern troll
(Internet slang) Someone who posts to an Internet forum or newsgroup, claiming to share its goals while deliberately working against those goals, typically, by claiming "concern" about group plans to
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Yeah, this is the attack line. Der Sturmer style crap to get the headline, then do the 'concern troll' thing. Pretend the Green party has a serious AS problem that it's not dealing with. Express nostalgia for no…
If I have to hear another UwU no pawlitics furry concern troll about redemption I'm going to delete my fucking account because none of you spineless cowards are worth it in the end
Concern troll harder, stop playing ignorant.
first search result for "stancil clean house," the first reason everyone is calling you a concern troll because of how easy it is to confirm this for yourself
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(Internet slang) Someone who posts to an Internet forum or newsgroup, claiming to share its goals while deliberately working against those goals, typically, by claiming "concern" about group plans to engage in productive activity, urging members instead to attempt some activity that would damage the group's credibility, or alternatively to abandon group projects entirely.
“Yeah, this is the attack line. Der Sturmer style crap to get the headline, then do the 'concern troll' thing. Pretend the Green party has a serious AS problem that it's not dealing with. Express nostalgia for nonthreatening Greens under Caroline Lucas.”
Contrarians aren't "champions of the scientific method," as Pearce posits. They might more accurately be described as ‘concern trolls’, feigning concern at every little climate uncertainty or issue they can use to manufacture doubt and d…
“Yeah, this is the attack line. Der Sturmer style crap to get the headline, then do the 'concern troll' thing. Pretend the Green party has a serious AS problem that it's not dealing with. Express nostalgia for nonthreatening Greens under Caroline Lucas.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“If I have to hear another UwU no pawlitics furry concern troll about redemption I'm going to delete my fucking account because none of you spineless cowards are worth it in the end”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Concern troll harder, stop playing ignorant.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“first search result for "stancil clean house," the first reason everyone is calling you a concern troll because of how easy it is to confirm this for yourself”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(ambitransitive) To troll as a concern troll would.
I think I agree with just about all the substance of David Brooks' concern trolling about the GOP (see, e.g., my final American Prospect column which made some similar points), but this minor aside strikes me as wrongheaded in an interes…
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