Let’s say there’s a troll who has been banned from many different websites. This troll has participated in many malicious actions and is known to impersonate the people who got him banned by stealing their exact aliases to sign up on other sites, with dozens of examples of this.
Troll sends himself anonymous asks to his Tumblr to feign engagement, with the anonymous asker pretending to be a concerned person, saying “I personally know [random person who just happens to have the same username] and [person who exposed Troll] is impersonating [random person]”.
The random person is always a blank account with no activity and is not even following Troll’s account. What Troll is doing is searching for blank accounts, some are over a decade old, that just coincidentally happen to have the same username as one of his exposers, as a type of “ha, see, you impersonate people too you hypocrite, your credibility is bust” gotcha. Which completely ignores the context that Troll only steals the aliases of people who exposed him, a very consistent pattern and nothing at all like two people coincidentally sharing the same username.
Would what Troll is doing be considered a form of concern-trolling? Or is this another type of manipulation/trolling that I’m not aware of?