GamerTrolls.com: Record of a 2010 Blog

The Term 'Gamer Troll'

In gaming culture, a 'troll' is a player or commenter who provokes, disrupts, or mocks others for amusement — in forum threads, in voice chat, or through in-game behavior such as deliberate team-killing or feigned incompetence. The term predates the 2010 blog and was already standard vocabulary in gaming communities by the late 2000s.

The blog at this domain treated trolling as a spectator subject: its signature post quoted a commenter's remarks and framed them as a contender for an all-time title. That framing — documenting trolls rather than celebrating them — is what the surviving snapshot preserves, and it matches the dismissive tone of the tagline 'Whatever Fanboy, That Game Sucks.'

The Term 'Gamer Troll'