[AnimalMuppet]

It can make them feel better by giving them a chance to look down on someone else. (The "looking down" doesn't have to be the content of the post - the act of trolling is a form of looking down on someone.)

[scns]

> It can make them feel better by giving them a chance to look down on someone else.

That's the idea but it does not work. Self esteem is still negative afterwards

[MadnessASAP]

Whether or not it works isn't what matters. It's whether or not the perpetrator, consciously or not, believes it works.