...How did Trump become associated with bad behavior in online communities? There has been bad behavior online since the days of the first message board when people realized that you were anonymous and didn't have to put your real information to have some sort of online profile. Every online community has its own form of toxicity. As has been said before, JP and EU also have their own brand of toxicity, they just express it differently than NA does. To be honest, it's sort of expected at this point that toxicity will happen. That's like a rule these days.