Here are the most unforgettable Wikipedia vandalism trolls of all time

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It may seem counterintuitive, but it's possible for trolling to reach an art form — think subtle and even sublime — especially when it happens via Wikipedia, the internet's open-source encyclopedia.

In fact, Wikipedia vandalism has become so prevalent that the site's many editors are on constant notice for it, ready to erase these moments of altered history as quickly as they go up. 

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But thanks to Wikipedia's deep trove of version histories and the beauty of screenshots, many of these changes live on forever. They bring us joy and laughter when we need it most ... which, these days, is a lot.

Here are 7 examples of some of the best Wikipedia trolling we could find.

Spineless Paul Ryan

House Speaker Paul Ryan has faced heavy criticism for refusing to stand up to Trump. Ryan has proven to be a pretty wishy-washy character overall, as long as he gets his way. That's rubbed some folks wrong  — to the point that they didn't think simply calling him "spineless" was enough. 

They literally added him to the Wikipedia page for "invertebrates."

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Big-time bonus point for elevating the Wikipedia troll. 

The Sean Spicer extravaganza 

From delusional rants to stealing mini fridges, Sean Spicer was the gift that kept on giving during his time in the White House. But it was his rabid insistence on a bizarre statement the day after Trump's inauguration — in which he defended the large size of Trump's inauguration crowd despite photographic evidence to the contrary — that got the vandals out in force.

There were loads of tiny changes made to his entry, including:

• Adding the line, "And boy does he ever love to lie to daddy." 

• Adding the line, "what's a boy to do when D A D D Y L O V E S H I M S O."

• Adding the purposely misspelled meme-ish line, "got his frist boner today goog job." 

The best add was comparing Spicer to Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, aka "Baghdad Bob," the former Iraqi Information Minister who made hilariously inaccurate statements contrary to all presentable evidence during the second Iraq War. One vandal actually put a photo of "Baghdad Bob" on Spicer's page.

It may have been a troll, but it was a troll with more than a kernel of truth behind it.

Deleting Trump

In those early days of the 2016 presidential election cycle (2015, actually), some Wikipedia vandals had already had enough of Trump and deleted his page. Twice. On the same day. Brutal. Upon the second deletion of Trump's page, one of the vandals left a sentence claiming, "Let's be fair, nobody cares about him."

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If only that were true, maybe we would have been spared his ascendency to the White House. 

God complex

Speaking of Trump, remember that absolutely bizarre summit earlier in October when he held court with Kanye West? Though it wasn't discussed, these two have another fun fact in common. Both Kanye (who's as known for his egotistical boasts as his music; see having a song called "I am a God") and Trump have appeared in the "See Also" column of the Wikipedia entry for "God complex."

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I fail to see the lie, Wikipedia editors. 

@CongressEdits

The mystery surrounding the now-suspended @CongressEdits Twitter account had users abuzz for a few years as the account tweeted out Wikipedia edits made by IP addresses associated with someone on Capitol Hill. (For what it's worth, no action has been taken on the similar @WhiteHouseEdits account.)

Before the ban hammer came down on the account, though, someone in the House of Representatives, according to the account, got in some trolls on both Trump and Ryan in a sneaky way: by editing specific pages that then spelled out messages via the Twitter account.

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Given the way the bot worked, only the first word applied to the message, and you'd have to read them in reverse order because of Twitter's chronology. 

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Like I said: subtle and sublime. 

RIP Mariah Carey

Few could forget Mariah Carey's painful New Year's Rockin' Eve performance on December 31, 2016, when a cold and confused Carey stumbled through some lip-syncing and eventually just gave up in the middle of a performance. She later blamed the whole mess on the show's producers.

A week later, someone updated Carey's Wikipedia entry to declare her dead from embarrassment. Deceased. No more.

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On December 31, 2017, Carey got her redemption, delivering a perfectly fine performance on the same New Year's show, albeit without some desired tea. 

The "What Now?" State

If you really want to troll someone, hit them where they live. That seems to be the idea behind the ongoing vandalism of Wikipedia's state slogans page. Most of the changes are pretty meh, but a few stand out.

There was the time Alaska and Arizona were altered to be all about the memes.

Image: WIKIPEDIA

Or the time someone was brutally honest about what California has been through with wildfires.

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Or the time someone dropped a Star Wars reference into D.C.'s slogan, among other interesting edits.

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But I'm most impressed by the time someone inserted words that seem like gibberish when you read down the page — but when you explore a bit closer, you get a coded line from Fall Out Boy's "Favorite Record." 

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OK, so last that one's not a troll, but it still earned my respect.

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