In Internet parlance, a troll is defined as somebody who deliberately does or says something in order to provoke a response and create a disrupt.
Octomom
In January, Nadya Suleman made news by giving birth to a set of living octuplets (only the 2nd to have ever been born in the United States) despite being divorced, unemployed, and already having 6 young children. Controversy arose when the media began to question Suleman's mental stability and ability or provide her children with a secure future financially. It was suspected she was exploiting the octuplets for fame.
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Kanye West
At the VMA music awards in September, while accepting the award for “Best Female Video”, Taylor Swift was interrupted by an inebriated Kanye West who insisted that Beyonce's “Single Ladies” was the best video of the year.
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The Heene Family
In this case, the true trolls are Richard and Mayumi Heene, who claimed that their six-year-old son Falcon had climbed into a homemade balloon that spent the better part of a day floating across Colorado before coming down with no boy inside. The Heene family had created the hoax in order to promote themselves for reality TV fame.
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Teabaggers
When President Obama outlined his plan for the national recovery stimulus package, it wasn't long before the ignorant masses assembled sporting offensive signs and misinformed ideals.
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Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck is - hands down - the hardest working troll alive.
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Jon Gosselin
When Jon and Kate Gosselin began having troubles in May, everyone's first instinct was to side with Jon Gosselin against his mean-spirited and over-bearing wife, Kate. However, over time Jon Gosselin proved himself to be the half worth hating when he began dating the daughter of his wife's surgeon, dressing like a douche bag, and acting out in pubic.
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Carrie Prejean
While being crowned Miss California 2009, Carrie Prejean spoke out against gay marriage. She then lost her crown due to a breach of contract, but sued because she though her religious views had cost her the crown. Later it was revealed that a sex tape and nude photos of the model had surfaced, which lead to her being dethroned.
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4Chan
It was a good year for the Internet underbelly known as 4Chan. The site's users rigged the “Time's Most Influential People” list to put the site's founder, Moot, in the number one spot, then proceeded to create an acrostic out of the rest of the list that read “marble cake also the game”.
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Rep. Joe Wilson
South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson raised the level of discourse in the country by yelling out “you lie” at President Obama as he gave a speech on health care reform.
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David Thorne
As proprietor of 27b/6, David Thorne makes a living of being a troll. His latest exploit pitted him against business tycoon Simon Edhouse, who had a great idea for a site that's like Twitter, except with pie charts and you have to pay for it.
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Lady Gaga
She wears insane outfits, makes bizarre music videos, and when rumors started that she had a penis, she made it a point to not deny them.
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The Salahis
When Tareq and Michaele Salahi's charity was going under, they did the only thing that could get the attention they needed to save themselves from poverty, they trolled the white house. The Salahis crashed an official White House event, showing up uninvited in hopes of gaining some notoriety and saving their charity (as well as helping their reality TV fame.)
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Sen. Joseph Lieberman
As the US Senate attempted to pass a health care reform bill that would help insure millions of Americans, Joe Lieberman (who previously supported the Democratically backed bill) changed his mind, and supported a block of the bill lead by Republican members of Senate.
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Oscar the Grouch
Sesame Street trolled Fox News when Oscar the Grouch's news channel wasn't trashy enough for his audience, and they decided to switch to Pox News to watch Spill O'Reilly instead.
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Also see
Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009! Slideshow...
Some more Epic Trolls of 2009 ;)
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