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troll_(mythology)
📅 Updated:2024-03-01
🕒 Created:2024-03-01
🆔 ID:57741
Description
This tag should only be used for the fantasy species known as a troll. Trolls are generally depicted as humanoids with regenerative abilities, often seen as allies to Orcs and enemies to Humans.
Not to be confused with
- shitpost - Images or animations deliberately intended to harass or annoy a person or group of people on the Internet, taken from the term 'trolling', a form of fishing in which a wide net is cast and dragged behind a fishing boat, in the hopes of catching as many fish as possible. Similarly, troll images tend to be incredibly generalized, so as to offend the maximum number of victims.
- trolling - A troll may refer to a character trolling another. Likewise, such images may also contain the trollface.
Examples of troll tags on e621 include the_truth, and uncanny_valley.
See also
- troll_(homestuck) - The gray-skinned race from the webcomic homestuck.
