the.com/hoaxer
Someone who lies for sport, then feigns shock that you believed them.
means A person who deliberately deceives others, usually to create a stir, mislead the public, or amuse themselves at others' expense.
from Hoax surfaces in the 1700s as a probable contraction of 'hocus,' the conjuror's syllable from 'hocus pocus' — the nonsense-Latin patter stage magicians used to misdirect an audience while the real trick happened elsewhere. Shrink 'hocus' down, and you get 'hoax': the trick itself, stripped of its magic-show glamour and let loose into ordinary deception. Add '-er' and you get its practitioner — someone still performing misdirection, just without the wand.
- motive
- attention beats money most of the time
- best friend
- the retweet button
- legal line
- fraud starts where the laugh stops
- tell
- always too eager to explain the joke