I appreciate some good trolling that doesn’t actually harm anyone. And in this case it also certainly generated discussion, so I’d say it’s more than trolling anyway.
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quindraco@lemm.ee 6 months agoYou’re applauding a troll for trolling successfully?
LwL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Intent matters. If all you just want is to piss off people, that’s trolling. I don’t see this being the point here.
quindraco@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That is the artist’s explicitly intended point.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
No, it is really not. There’s an intent behind the outrage.
quindraco@lemm.ee 6 months ago
“The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork,” she said.
The purpose is for men to suffer and be upset. That’s what this of art is, really - human suffering for its own sake. It’s quintessential trolling, which the artist has been quite open about.