Yes, but by actively admitting that they trolling, they are opening themselves up to WB just going to ICANN and filing a dispute to get the domain.

That's the point of the troll. Wasting either their braincells -or- their time/money. Sounds like a successful troll to me.

The amount of time they spent on designing this campaign, including shooting multiple videos, vastly exceeds the inconvenience this will cause WB.

This is like if as a "troll" I left a car blocking your driveway, not caring if it got towed because it was a fake car I specifically designed over the course of years to leave in your driveway.

But I filmed myself putting my big beautiful fake car in your driveway and put it on the internet to increase global mirth.

Yeah, it sounds like you may not understand internet trolling. People have gone and will go to great lengths and expenses to troll big corps just for the laughs, internet points, and/or to cause big corps even a little bit of pain.

There’s also a bit of art to trolling, too, which is again part of the fun.

Not sure why this is so surprising.

Trolling corporations is a form of asymmetrical warfare. The point is that the troll expands a few resources, to cause the corporation a disproportionate amount of inconvenience.

For example, calling in fake pizza orders. Very low-effort for the troll, yet high-yield rewards in trolling the pizza vendor.

On the other hand, expanding vastly more money and resources than will cost the corporation in question to neutralize the troll is not successful trolling, it is a failure.