{"id":551,"date":"2021-02-24T04:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T04:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2021-02-24T04:43:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T04:43:33","slug":"they-might-be-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/24\/they-might-be-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"They Might Be Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I enjoy torturing innocent people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my former students follows me on Twitter. They have a tendency to find music acts they love and absorb every little fact about them. I get that; I used to do the same thing with comic books (I still know more than I should about kryptonite). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past obsessions include Simon & Garfunkel, The Monkees and Elton John. Their current primary focus seems to be They Might Be Giants (a favorite of mine as well).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The torture: posting fake TMBG albums on Twitter. Source albums and torture tools below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonus irritation: right font, wrong word order.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Bonus Irritation: Changing the Band to The Monkees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bonus Irritation: That’s the name of Taylor Swift’s album.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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NO IRRITATION REGISTERED. Even the “John Legend” thing didn’t bug them. Lesson: no more jazz albums!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I usually stuck these into real environments to make them more confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I enjoy torturing innocent people. One of my former students follows me on Twitter. They have a tendency to find music acts they love and absorb every little fact about them. I get that; I used to do the same thing with comic books (I still know more than I should about kryptonite). Past obsessions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}