Online Personas

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Crafting an online persona is becoming an art form. As with all other art forms, they incorporate at least a little fiction. It is possible to identify genres and — you guessed it — tropes.

• Personality Types
• Purposes and Roles
• Theory
• Other

• Emo
• Garbage Post Kid
• Griefer
• Hair-Trigger Temper
• Internet Cold Reader
• Internet Detective
• Internet Mimic
• Internet Tough Guy
• Left Fielder
• Lurker
• Me Too
• Mediator
• Ninja Editor
• Orwellian Editor
• Single-Issue Wonk
• The Shepherd
• Spammer
• Suffers Newbies Poorly
• Thread Necromancer
• Troll
• YouTube War Expert

A Darker Me

Cam Whore

Derailing

GIRL

Hit-and-Run Poster

Resident Freak

Shameless Self Promoter

Sock Puppet

The Shill

White Knighting

GIFT (Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory)

GIRL (Guy In Real Life)

Misplaced Nationalism

There Are No Girls on the Internet

Digital Avatar

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