Encyclopedia Dramatica

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Encyclopedia Dramatica is a site that you. It's pretty much impossible not to be on one side of the fence. Its purpose is to parody and satirize the internet, and this is done in a format similar to. Its second purpose is to document the lulz (pretty much just laughing at stupid things people do on the internet) and internet memes. However, this site is often mistakenly taken seriously. The users on this site are mostly s; hence, it is made deliberately offensive. Almost nothing on the site should be taken seriously. They will write something you find offensive on, and then it will turn out that one of the sysops has the condition. They write something offensive about something you like, they say "just ignore it" and advise you to stop caring about what they think.

That said, if you are offended by anything at all, no matter how small, don't visit the site. You don't want to be there, and the users won't want you to be there, with the possible exception of the trolls who simply like watching someone be angry or offended. Also, don't register an account there purely for the purpose of complaining. You will be trolled, and if you don't like being trolled, or trolls in general, this is a site you will hate. Finally, since it's a humour wiki that anyone (with an account) can edit, you're going to get a lot of mixed results and a lot of things that aren't funny. There is a big project trying to fix the overuse of memes in articles and anything else unfunny, but it isn't done yet. Quality can't be guaranteed.

If you are offended by the site, just be thankful that all those trolls are hard at work tinkering with the wiki and not screwing things up elsewhere. Think of it like a playground for trolls. Do you like it when your kids are at the playground and not breaking vases in your own house, or the mean kids from down the street are breaking the swings there and not ripping up your flowerbeds? There you go.

There's another side to this, however. While 4chan's /b/ board, the trolls' other playground, is an where threads eventually get bumped off the site for good and the users themselves have legendarily short attention spans, Encyclopedia Dramatica keeps permanent archives of just about everything, providing budding young trolls with a convenient list of 4chan's  and, often, a cheat sheet on how to effectively harass them. Given the never ending supply of "budding young trolls", this ensures that anyone who's been documented on the site.

Shocking, as of April of 2011, Encyclopedia Dramatica is officially dead. Between giving people advice on how to evade the law after committing cyberterrorism, posting real life information on people who ruined their fun with DMC As, and a whole host of other controversies documented at this blog, probably lead to this.

Encyclopedia Dramatica provides examples of the following tropes:

 * : A trademark of the site.
 * : Averted. Having acceptable targets implies that some are unacceptable.
 * : by the  on "Anarchy", which would not be out of place on.
 * : Parodied with their main page's featured articles section, "THE MOAR YOU KNOW."
 * : The last offensive picture in the "Offended" page is.
 * : You better have this on hand before clicking a link to ED. On the offchance you decide to actually take a complete there (holy crap what are you thinking?!), bring a -gallon tanker of.
 * : Some of the "ads" that pop up offer, Long|Cat plushies, links to fake dating sites, and some other things... Yes, even.
 * : Several of the people documented — including some almost-literal examples from people who.
 * : They dedicate an entire page to this and a caption of a harlequin baby is "fried to perfection."
 * Deviant ART: A very common target for the site is Deviant ART and its members. In fact, a noticeable amount of the people shown on ED that could be considered examples of are members of Deviant ART, as are members of the Furry Fandom.
 * : They have a page for it.
 * : Despite its content, people from various different backgrounds, races, religions, and sexualities read and edit the site
 * : Harm a cat, and you will suffer the consequences of the Internet Hate Machine.
 * : Cruelly parodied. "Kitten" redirects to "Cat", which, ironically, is (mostly) safe for work. "Kittens",
 * : Arguably one of the reasons why it has so much traffic.
 * : As noted about the "accuracy" below, sometimes ED is the only place to get the real scoop on the shenanigans of the rest of the scum and villainy of the internet. Mostly because screencaps are highly valued evidence, documenting exactly why a certain target deserves it (and hosting it in a location said target can't just delete the offending entry). If ED is good for nothing else, it's the screencaps. Especially noteworthy is their entry for.
 * : They may be serious about the racism, or they may be joking. You just can't tell with this site. However, users who are suspected of being real racists are branded as such, and are sneered upon by most of the community. There's even a template that says: "THIS USER MAY ACTUALLY BE RACIST". Their pages for Stormfront and the KKK show that they think racists are just as retarded as those who try so hard to be politically correct.
 * : Dramatica has no qualms with poking fun at the strange fetishes people may have. Furries tend to be a popular target.
 * : Partial.
 * : The article on "CP" (child pornography, specifically the posting thereof on 4chan). Other things that are referred to as "CP" (such as control points in ) also link to this article, just for the hell of it.
 * : Debatably their favorite targets; however, ED as a whole actually doesn't hate furries, and will welcome them as long as they don't fools of themselves; a prominent early admin, Jameth, is a furry.
 * : Why you have to be careful when the pictures start loading.
 * : It thrives here. The website is basically a combination of every hatedom in existence. Good luck finding a website that can match it in terms of over the top hatred of everything. Well, except.
 * : The part of "Offended" that isn't.
 * : On the principle of Anonymous.
 * : Pretty much the whole point of the site.
 * : Some people who are attacked really do have personality and mental disorders that haven't been taken care of well. Encyclopedia Dramatica holds nothing back for those people.
 * - Whatport80 is a SFW version.
 * And now Oh Internet.
 * : AE-tan.
 * : The only thing they seem to like. Just be careful though... you might get grossed out.
 * Oh, exploitable!
 * : With AE-tan.
 * : Making fun of drama queens and posting dirt on the is one thing. Posting the personal information (that includes real life name, adddress, etc.) of someone who  by getting an article removed thanks to a DMCA notice
 * And if Joseph Evers really is just a fictional character created to protect the real owners of Encyclopedia Dramatica, it's disgustingly hypocritical.
 * Then again, ED is as much a as any Imageboards. One member posting stuff doesn't implicate any "owners". That and the former owners seem to have gotten tired of all the shit most NSWF stuff caused.
 * : If you're reading an article there, odds are there's some y porn or a.
 * : You would not automatically assume it was this kind of thing from the title, unless you were so net-bound you immediately thought "controversy" when you read "drama".
 * Allegedly, it used to be a legit wiki for a dead LJ community, until and  found it. The original articles themselves haven't been touched, oddly enough.
 * : The entire site, due to the ads if not the content. The content that is NSFW is.
 * : They seem to love this one. Its ubiquity is derided on some pages. On one of the new Improvement Drive pages, it pretty much says "No more. Alright? Stop."
 * : Possibly the for using pot holes as a form of humor or commentary (some articles, such as "SHIT NOBODY CARES ABOUT", exist pretty much solely for this reason).
 * : Most of the time.
 * : Lots. And not just the regular kind. There's some really creepy shit over there. ED even had Rule 34 of AE-tan.
 * : Also the entire point of the site!
 * : Speaking of which, NEVER, EVER, EVER go to the article titled "Offended", Your faith in humanity will automatically drop to zero. Let's put it this way: at one point, it manages to turn Pokémon furry porn into a breath of fresh air.
 * : Just look at the "Girlvynil" page (owner of the .com site) on .ch. And at the Oh Internet page.
 * : One of ED's favorite activities is, when writing an article, to say something along the lines of, say, "Elderly people are totally awesome", and have 'awesome' hyperlinked, leading to a page entitled "Lies" or "Bullshit".
 * : It says DO NOT ENTER on the entry page. So what do you do??
 * : Another reason to be careful and avoid looking up Goatse. You will learn too much about the man behind the anus.
 * : If it's an article about a someone on the net, they're going to show lots of images and footnotes about that person's drama.
 * Even (perhaps especially) if there are embarrassing forum posts that the subject attempted to delete. ED contributors make sure to get screencaps so the lulz is forever preserved.
 * Generally, when they're not being hideously offensive (or perhaps because of it), ED is very accurate. Whereas things must be toned down or excluded from even if (or sometimes seemingly because they) are factual in the name of neutrality, ED has no such illusions, and will gladly parade all the facts (and speculation and fiction, but it's easy enough to tell because these usually aren't sourced) that rules lawyering can get removed from.
 * : and.
 * : In danger of falling off the Cynical end.
 * : Goes by the name of "Unwarranted self-importance" there.
 * : When the .com domain was both redirected, and redirected to something they didn't like, Anons grouped together and made the .ch domain, rallying most of the former members and plummeting the former site in the Alexa rank.
 * : See above.
 * : A few articles like the one on men or heterosexuals are obviously joking.
 * The whole damn site is this. Generally. However, much of the humour is so that often you can't tell whether it's a stealth parody or an excuse to.
 * Keep in mind - it's a wiki. Even within a single article, some of the contributors may be tongue in cheek and others just using the excuse.
 * It depends on the whole article. If it's attacking a particular group, they're usually serious. If it's stuff like "", "", "", "," and "", it's just.
 * The "JEWS DID WTC" meme for example mocks those who believe in massive Jewish conspiracies to control everything. Their articles on pretty much every race (including white people) are clearly satirical. They simply don't make any effort to make it clear to people who are easily offended.
 * : Politicians of all stripes get savaged fairly equally, and it's probably one of the only sites out there to give anything close to the same savaging as.
 * : You ("You Suck" redirects to "Fail")
 * : Used for their Wiki Fur® article.
 * : The main goal of the wiki is to be so offensive that it will inevitably provoke people to write angry complaints, which means more material for the articles the complaints are related to.
 * : This trope is played around with on their Vincent Li article.
 * : Unfortunately, ED is this on the original TV Tropes simply because Fast Eddie does not like the fact that ED served as a muckraker to his site.
 * : For now at least, almost complete aversion. The "greater good" of recovering internet history comes first. Let's see in a few months...
 * : An entry can go from mocking its target, to mocking ED, to mocking who are against the target (for example: Nazis, which has an entry for trolling Nazis, trolling by pretending to be a Nazi, links blaming Jews, and links mocking Nazis for blaming Jews). This may be deliberate.
 * : The article "It was a social experiment" mocks people's attempts at claiming to have set up one of these.
 * : In a very big way.
 * : A perennial favorite.
 * : Unfortunately, ED is this on the original TV Tropes simply because Fast Eddie does not like the fact that ED served as a muckraker to his site.
 * : For now at least, almost complete aversion. The "greater good" of recovering internet history comes first. Let's see in a few months...
 * : An entry can go from mocking its target, to mocking ED, to mocking who are against the target (for example: Nazis, which has an entry for trolling Nazis, trolling by pretending to be a Nazi, links blaming Jews, and links mocking Nazis for blaming Jews). This may be deliberate.
 * : The article "It was a social experiment" mocks people's attempts at claiming to have set up one of these.
 * : In a very big way.
 * : A perennial favorite.

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