>>12That is because of mainstream media. They also use the term "troll" referring to paid shills/bots (i.e. Kremlin trolls), who do subversion, like inciting social strife. Yet that is not trolling, but propaganda. It is like referring to that spam as trolling.
Original trolling was was just a method of open criticism. When you take some subject and make fun of it, like passing Bible through Markov chains to make religious people mad.