In today's Washington Post there is an article in the Style blog by Caitlin Dewey by the title of "'I will get the people to buy into my works just to rip their hearts out.' A Q&A with a professional Internet troll. In this article, the author recounts an email exchange with the subject, the purpose of which seemed to be to call him out on what he writes. But the result produced a double irony . . .
I haven't read any of his stuff, but apparently he has a House-like (as in Gregory) online persona and is not at all bashful about taking potshots at sacred cows. The great part is that he stays in character for the "interview" so he ends up trolling the author, who seems to be oblivious to what he's doing. Then comes the best part . . . all of the commentards who responded to the article got suckered in, too . . . That made my year . . . :-)