LORE ARCHIVE

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Free and paid resources created by Psyche. The Troll Decoder is offered free via email signup; the Trollopedia is a more comprehensive illustrated book available for purchase with ongoing updates.

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A free ebook released by the 'Cult of Psyche' podcast to help listeners better understand and engage with online 'trolls' and negative commenters.

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An upcoming free ebook by Psyche, which will be available starting the next day

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The moral and practical challenges of defending friends from online harassment and trolling

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The concept that 'trolls make the world go round' - acknowledging their role in online culture while maintaining boundaries

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A recurring practice in which community members hex trolls, 'ring them like jingle bells,' and send curses back to the void. Presented as both protective magic and boundary enforcement.

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The show operates with a policy of documenting, naming, and routing out trolls and disruptive energy rather than feeding them attention. This is framed as spiritual/energetic hygiene.

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Chat participants identified as trolls (e.g., 'Stay Blessed') who are moderated in various channels and appear across multiple streams; treated as recurring disruptive presences in parasocial spaces.

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Psyche advocates for learning troll-handling skills by becoming a moderator on heavily-trolled channels, citing his own experience with channels like Benny's and Emma's as formative in developing resilience

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Trolls as attention-feeding entities that grow stronger with reaction and weaker with neglect, operating through repetitive patterns of insult, bait, and chaos

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The concept that online trolls operate with a primary goal of mental manipulation and energy drainage, succeeding only through forced interaction with their targets. Non-engagement is presented as the most effective defensive strategy.

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A song written by Psyche, exploring themes of internet culture and identity.

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The practice of withholding attention and energy from internet trolls as a form of spiritual protection and community building

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A comprehensive classification system of internet troll archetypes including the heckler, flutter, parasocial leaf, conspiracy theorist, sock puppet army, edgelord, sabotur mod, academic troll, personal sniper, and phantom donor

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Psyche's stated policy of identifying, naming, and expelling trolls, accusers, and those role-playing as protagonists. Rather than engaging or feeding such behavior, Psyche documents it and 'sends it back' to the comment section. Framed as energetic efficiency rather than cruelty.

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The show has a ritualistic approach to disruptive chat: document, name, and send back to the comment section. This suggests the show's space as a container where negative energy is named and expelled rather than fed.

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Psyche's book/guide about internet trolling tactics and how to combat them

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Psyche's $5 book about YouTube trolls, featuring illustrations and analysis of different troll types like 'drive by heckler' and 'edge lord,' available on psycheawakens.com

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Recurring challenge for Cult of Psyche - negative comments and trolling from other shows/personalities, which Psyche notes is part of the territory when doing consciousness and pattern-recognizing work.