I come to you with a warning: Right here in Texas, there are trolls among us. And they are everywhere.They are your local business owners. They are CEOs. They are your spouses, your grandparents, and your children’s teachers. But online, they wear different masks. They adopt new identities. They risk everything—and for what, exactly? Go ahead. Check your loved ones’ internet search histories. You’ll find a pattern that some might consider troubling.Longhorn fans on Aggie message boards.Aggies on a website called Orangebloods.“I’m not going to lie,” one Texas A&M alum told me. “During the peak of the season, it could be fourteen hours a week that I spend on those sites.” (This source, along with many of the other fanatics interviewed for this story, asked…
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