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* [[Allegedly Free Game|Allegedly Free Site]]: TotalFark costs $5 a month; many such users look down upon "liters".
* [[Appeal to Worse Problems]]: [[Played for Laughs]]: Fark has many headlines that fall into this, mostly for local legislatures who, "having solved all other problems", get to work on something mostly innocuous. Also, whenever doctors come up with some silly technological innovation, you can be sure there'll be a Fark headline about it ending with, "Still no cure for cancer."
* [[Ascended Meme]]: The catch-quotes at the top of the page as of the 2011 redesign. Examples include "Pricipal caught sayof" and "You'll get over it."
* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]: TotalFark subscriptions enable viewers to peruse headlines not approved for posting on the main page... even though [[Sturgeon's Law|most of them]] aren't that great.
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* [[You Can Panic Now|EVERYBODY PANIC!]]
* [[Flame Bait]]: The administrators (who approve the headlines) are mostly conservative. The readers are mostly liberal. What happens is exactly what you'd suspect.
** As of the most recent{{when}} reset the admins and the readers are now both mostly liberal (except for Drew himself that is).
* [[Fun with Autocensors]]: The built-in filter replaces "first comment" with "weeners," and "first post" with "boobies" for instance.
* [[Here Comes the Science!]]: Ben Affleck did an ad in the UK that featured the line, "Here comes the SCIENCE!" Fark got hold of it and a meme was born and that meme grew up and became a <s>marine biologist</s> [[Trope Namer]].
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* [[Schmuck Bait]]: Lampshaded whenever a hot actress in very little clothing is featured. After that fact is stated, most headlines go off into [[Cloudcuckooland]], surmising that the Farker has already clicked the link. Sometimes, this backfires: "and let this be a lesson to you to read the entire headline before clicking!"
* [[Scunthorpe Problem|Scoonthorpe Problem]]: The fark filters have become in-jokes themselves.
* [[Shout-Out]]: At least one headline a day will be a not-so-hidden reference to
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: The site, its founder, and most of the clientele.
** A brilliant example, from an October 2011 political thread:
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