001 Trolling is possibly the craziest movie ever made about the Internet

It’s incomprehensible. It’s full of people with strange tongues and Wikipedia fixations. It contains underground troll gangs, inappropriate sexual material, and crazed bloggers. I’m going to go out on a limb and declare 001 Trolling the first great cult movie of 2017. It won’t be out until May 4, but for now you can watch this trailer and let your eyeballs explode.

Here’s the official plot summary of 001 Trolling:

Odyn, an unfulfilled aspiring rapper languishes as a security guard in Oakland Ca. By night he adopts the catfish proxy of a famous rapper in chat rooms to seduce girls as his girlfriend sleeps. Little does he know that his activity is being monitored by Richard Nullman of the world-renowned Internet trolling organization The Grid Gang (consisting of Richard and his two agoraphobic polyamourous lovers). Odyn is scouted, the planet is trolled, relationships explode, and the secret which unites them… could destroy them.

It’s the latest low-budget movie from Collage Fossil Films, based in Oakland, California. Collage Fossil’s previous flick, the hilariously bizarro Cosplay Fetish Battle Drones, was a naughty parody of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers that got the company in some trouble with overreaching IP lawyers in 2014. After YouTube took trailers of the movie down for infringement, the group fought back (with some help from the EFF) and now the trailer is back on YouTube because parody is fair use. I’ve been following the group’s work since that time, and I’m glad to see they’ve turned their powers of mania to an exploration of online troll heroes.

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