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* [[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 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.
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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.
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* [[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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