It's Troll Week on Mashable. Join us as we explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of internet trolling.
It may seem counterintuitive, but it's possible for trolling to reach an art form — think subtle and even sublime — especially when it happens via Wikipedia, the internet's open-source encyclopedia.
In fact, Wikipedia vandalism has become so prevalent that the site's many editors are on constant notice for it, ready to erase these moments of altered history as quickly as they go up.
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But thanks to Wikipedia's deep trove of version histories and the beauty of screenshots, many of these changes live on forever. They bring us joy and laughter when we need it most ... which, these days, is a lot. Read more...
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