lolcow

plural lolcows

1. InternetderogatoryA person whose eccentric or foolish behaviour can be exploited to entertain onlookers, causing them amusement, revulsion, or other emotions manipulated and harvested by engagement farmers.

   > ...he wrote after he /finally/ realized that he needed to clip rpch+b > from the xpost in order to whine "DYOFDW" without making a lolcow of > himself. (Took you long enough, Sherlock. But you're still a lolcow.)

   2007 December 13, spooge, “Re: Party in RPCH+B, everyone! w00t!!”, in alt.fan.karl-malden.nose (Usenet)

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   Chandler is far from the only “lolcow” to be targeted by KF. If anything, Kiwi Farms has been a victim of its own terrifying “success,” and attracted way more would-be trolls than its Ur-victim could possibly respond to.

   2016 July 19, Margaret Pless, “Kiwi Farms, the Web’s Biggest Stalker Community”, in New York Magazine, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2018