Then, totally out of the blue, my ex messaged: “Hey, do you still have my guitar?” I told him I’d sold it, assuming that was fair since he’d said I could get rid of it. He seemed annoyed, said it had ...

“I was being facetious,” he says. “I don’t really care enough [about the trolls] to prove that I’m not fake. I think it’s the novelty of what I’m doing that makes people think I’m fake. But if no one ...