History Main / InternetJerk

** Most of the album ''Kamikaze'' is dedicated to people who were making fun of him on Twitter. The skit, in particular, dramatises Eminem driving over to the house of "some Website/{{Yahoo}} motherfucker" who complained about him [[StockRhymes rhyming "rhymes" with "chimes"]][[note]] This was never a real comment on Yahoo! Answers, but was likely inspired by [[https://djbooth.net/features/2017-12-21-2017-eminem-revival-worst-lines a professional listicle]] which opens by mocking the rhymes/chimes line[[/note]]. Eminem is proud that he'd ''actually'' rhymed two entire lines via his typical word-warping pronunciation technique [[note]]Such a breeze when I pen rhymes / I just got that air about me like wind chimes[[/note]], and equally proud of himself for figuring out this guy's address.

* ''WesternAnimation/OurCartoonPresident'': Mark Zuckerberg's polite face-to-face, but once made [[Website/{{Facebook}} an entire website]] for cruelly judging people's looks.

* The ''Literature/NavySealsCopypasta'' is a parody of the Internet Jerk described below. The "story" essentially involves a loser on an internet forum getting mad at the person he's arguing with and then trying ''[[LargeHam way]]'' [[{{Narm}} too hard]] to make himself seem scary to get back at the guy.

* [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/navy-seal-copypasta The Navy Seal Copypasta]] is a parody of the Internet Jerk described below. The "story" essentially involves a loser on an internet forum getting mad at the person he's arguing with and then trying ''[[LargeHam way]]'' [[{{Narm}} too hard]] to make himself seem scary to get back at the guy.

Someone, under the cover of anonymity, acts like a {{jerk|ass}} on the Internet. Common techniques are insults and personal attacks,[[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube derogatory videos]], {{Catfishing}}, bigotry (like racism, sexism, or homophobia), doxxing, sexual or other harassment, and in the most extreme cases, death threats or [[WesternTerrorists plotting terrorist attacks]].

Someone, under the cover of anonymity, acts like a {{jerk|ass}} on the Internet. Common techniques are racism, sexism, queerphobia, [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube derogatory videos]], insults and personal attacks, {{Catfishing}}, doxxing, sexual or other harassment, and in the most extreme cases, death threats or [[WesternTerrorists plotting terrorist attacks]].

Someone, under the cover of anonymity, acts like a {{jerk|ass}} on the Internet. Common techniques are racism, sexism, homophobia, [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube derogatory videos]], insults and personal attacks, {{Catfishing}}, doxxing, sexual or other harassment, and in the most extreme cases, death threats or [[WesternTerrorists plotting terrorist attacks]].

Someone, under the cover of anonymity, acts like a {{jerk|ass}} on the Internet. Common techniques are [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube derogatory videos]], insults and personal attack, {{Catfishing}}, doxxing, sexual or other harassment, and in the most extreme cases, death threats or [[WesternTerrorists plotting terrorist attacks]].

The perception of jerks on the Internet has changed over time. Since people online cannot actually ''physically'' confront each other, "Internet Tough Guy" used to be a synonym for [[FeetOfClay people who talk a big game but cannot follow it up]]. However, during TheNewTens, an increased recognition of the emotional harm that verbal harassment can cause, instances of cyberbullying leading to suicides, and cases of terrorists announcing their intentions online before actually carrying them out in RealLife, have all reduced the implication that an Internet jerk's words are mere show.

* In ''Manga/{{Inuyashiki}}'' a bunch of these harass one of the two main characters´ mother until she commits suicide. Unfortunately for them, said main character is a cyborg able, among other things, to shoot people through computer and cellphone screens, no matter where they are, so he looks for them and then kills them all in a cathartic troll hunt.

* Femke Boot, the titular VillainProtagonist in ''Film/TheColumnist'', is a newspaper writer who hits her RageBreakingPoint due to these people, most of them right-wing reactionaries who hate her liberal politics and hurl misogynistic invective at her while [[MistakenForPedophile spreading rumors that she's a pedophile]] on the basis of an old article taken out of context. What's more, because her job in media requires her to maintain a social media presence, she can't disengage with it. It causes her to become a SerialKiller, using [[HoistByHisOwnPetard her harassers' own social media footprints]] to track down where they live and murder them.

* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': Sugou Nobuyuki may very well be one of the worst examples in all of fiction. While most examples of this trope merely have those online acting as massive jerks which they could not get away with in real-life. Sugou sees being in a virtual world as the perfect excuse to be a sadistic bastard, conducting inhumane experiments on players and making numerous attempts to sexually assault Asuna, before going for the full on AttemptedRape. And then Kirito finds out he's just as bad in the real world as he is online, when Sugou tries to kill him using a knife.

* [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/navy-seal-copypasta The Navy Seal Copypasta]] is a parody of the Internet Jerk described below. The "story" essentially involves a loser on an internet forum getting mad at the person he's arguing with and than trying ''[[LargeHam way]]'' [[{{Narm}} too hard]] to make himself seem scary to get back at the guy.

* ''WesternAnimation/OurCartoonPresident'': Mark Zuckerberg's polite face to face, but once made [[Website/{{Facebook}} an entire website]] for cruelly judging people's looks.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Gerald Broflovski is secretly the Internet troll, skankhunt42. When he's off the computer, he's such a DirtyCoward he'd throw his five-year-old son under the bus to avoid getting into trouble with his wife.

-->'''Peter:''' Boy, they just went ''right'' after Cleveland, didn't they?
-->'''Quagmire:''' [''disgusted''] Geez, that word looks even harsher when it's in all-caps.