It means to intentionally mislead or delude the audience about where the story's going (whether in-text or via interviews), just to rile them up and for no other reason. Like throwing a handful of red herrings into episodes for no valid story-based reason, and solely for the purpose of seeing the fandom break apart either in shipping wars or in fury at how the original material's been bastardized or some other antagonistic purpose that pleases only the troll.
So, like the usual trolling, but this time by someone in power and directed at the audience.
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Date: 28 May 2014 11:27 pm (UTC)So, like the usual trolling, but this time by someone in power and directed at the audience.