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Created by Drew Curtis in 1999, [http://www.fark.com Fark.com] is a community news aggregator with irreverant humor. Fark was inspired by Curtis' love for bizarre, unusual, or just plain stupid news stories. Before user-driven content was really the "in" thing, Fark was already allowing website viewers to nominate such articles for consideration.
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Typically, a motivated "farker" will find an odd story somewhere online, think of a witty "headline" to list beside the link, and add one of a list of predefined "tags" that tell the reader what to expect. Only the best postings make it to the main page, while lists of ''all'' submissions can be viewed by subscribing to the $5-per-month TotalFark. Consequently, having one's headline "greenlit" is a sign of [[Bragging Rights Reward|prestige]] among the farking community. Once a headline is posted, comments can be viewed and made, blog-style, by clicking on the number to the right of the posted headline.
Like everything else [[Long Runners|that's lasted this long]], it's undergone a number of changes and evolutions, including the addition of daily (or semi-daily, or bi-daily) Photoshop contests, an "[[Defictionalization|UltraFark]]" e-mail address, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|(of course)]] [[Wil Wheaton]]. It's a hotbed of [[Memetic Mutation]], and quite a few of the Internet's most memorable memes were, if not born, proliferated there. It is one of the top 100 most
If you're considering farking for yourself, there are a few things you should remember: Fark is one of the more intelligent and wittier communities online, but it's not nearly as ''[[Good Is Not Nice|nice]]'' as
Or, you know, you can just make [[Gag Penis|oblique references]] to things like [[Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?|"extensible markup language"]].
[[Don't Explain the Joke|Penis.]]
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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 [[
* [[Berserk Button]]: Whatever you do, do NOT submit multiple newsflashes for a [[Don't Explain the Joke|story about Phil Spector]].
** Farkers do not approve of Alternative Medicine or Anti-vaccination. They have a special hatred for Jenny McCarthy, even though they drool over her tits.
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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).
* [[
* [[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]].
* [[Human Interest Story]]: Usually accompanied by a "Sappy" tag and a headline mentioning [[Sand in My Eyes|how dusty it is in here]].
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Comment threads often turn into one o' these.
* [[
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: In addition to memes harvested from the web as a whole, the on-site Photoshop contests allow viewers to watch memes mutate visually from day to day.
** '''NIXON, YOU DOLT!'''
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* [[Not Safe for Work]]: Links posted by some users are [[Brown Note|damaging to sanity]].
* [[Only in Florida]]: See [[Acceptable Targets]].
* [[Phony Article]]: A subject of Drew's ire, and in fact one of the topics discussed in his 2008 book ''It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News''.
* [[Ruined FOREVER]]: The reaction to a major site redesign in 2007, prompting an irritated admin to declare "You'll get over it."
** Turns into a [[Brick Joke]] as of the 2011 redesign, where users were allowed to preview the new site. This preview included a link back to the old style, titled "I'll get over it later."
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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
* [[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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* [[Spell My Name
** On the other hand, the [[Grammar Nazi|Grammar Nazis]] will hammer poorly spelled headlines.
* [[Troll]]: Notable for its collection of very bizarre trolls. One speaks in barely-understandable [[Engrish]] while yelling "LAUGHTER O EL", another makes over-the-top conservative rants filled with hidden references pertaining to a random theme (girl bands, [[
▲* [[Toilet Humor]]: The built-in filter replaces "first comment" with "weeners," and "first post" with "boobies" for instance.
** And then, of course, there's Bevets, who goes into every thread tangentially related to evolution, posts a ton of pro-creationism quotes, and leaves. Though, thanks to [[
▲* [[Troll]]: Notable for its collection of very bizarre trolls. One speaks in barely-understandable [[Engrish]] while yelling "LAUGHTER O EL", another makes over-the-top conservative rants filled with hidden references pertaining to a random theme (girl bands, [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]] episodes, etc.), yet another posts nothing but the word "APPROVES", followed by a link to a [[Shock Site]] that would make the Goatse guy blush. One more spends an entire day every few weeks writing a topic-specific limerick in every comments thread slated for the main front page. Another goes into every gun thread and tells the thread exactly how he plans to troll the thread and still gets bites.
▲** And then, of course, there's Bevets, who goes into every thread tangentially related to evolution, posts a ton of pro-creationism quotes, and leaves. Though, thanks to [[Poes Law]], it's not known whether he's a troll or an actual proponent of what he espouses. Some even question whether he's a human or just a [[Turing Test|quote mine-spewing bot]].
** Several Trolls have become memetic with some of their defenses..."I need to be at the gym in 26 minutes", "I'm traveling", "I've got a GED in law", etc.
*** And one Troll became a [[Phrase Catcher]]: '''"NIXON, YOU DOLT!!!"'''<ref>Context: A headline submitted quotes Michael Savage as saying he didn't know of any American President who had resigned the Presidency. Cue epic facepalm...then the Phrase Catching troll replies, "Fail? You guys better have another example than LBJ or Washington." Cue new meme.</ref>
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