OhInternet
Good News, Everyone! OhInternet.com is no more. No news at 11 because nobody cares. |
OhInternet (also known as OhI, OhShitternet, Know Your Meme 2: Electric Boogaloo, or old ED's purported killer) was the fetid afterbirth spilling from the diseased uterus of Encyclopedia Dramatica’s heartbreaking temporary downfall of April 2011. Created by morbidly obese traitor-hipster Sherrod Ellen DeGrippo and her sysop sheep, OhI was basically a carbon copy of Know Your Meme, except instead of cataloging memes with a pseudo-scientific flair, it depressingly and relentlessly tested the reader's tolerance for tepid, pretentious, and smarmy articles about HILARIOUS INTERNET CULTURE. It was among the Internet's most naked and obvious attempts to gain Jew gold at the expense of content, though this was vehemently denied by the grossly corpulent and badly-aging liar who orchestrated this unforgiveable, unabashed treachery. Going from an awesome wiki about drama to an almost offensively bland catalog of memes and milquetoast "columns," OhI was universally panned by the Internet during its thankfully brief existence.
History
Before this abortion, there was a mighty wiki known as Encyclopedia Dramatica, Sherrod’s offspring, which originally archived LiveJournal Drama. However, as ED began to cover other topics it attracted different users whom Sherrod despised and who didn’t think her as mighty as she perceived herself. From then on, she began to hate her own offspring more and more as each day passed by. For the longest time, she chose to keep it as it was her only cash cow in life as she was too lazy to get a real job. ED became plastered with ads, and EDF sold useless Internet add-ons for more than ten dollars, yet Sherrod was never satisfied.
In 2010, a blog dedicated to doxing ED sysops popped up and paranoia ensued across ED IRC. Shortly after that, DMCAs were being sent at an alarming rate. Sherrod, being a gargantuan pussy, refused to restore articles despite counter DMCAs being filed, as she wanted to stay on the “safe” and “legal” side. The two people who basically did all the logical thinking for her, OldDirtyBtard and weev, were gone from the Internet as well. Seeing the site that ED looked down upon get money, she decided to give in to pressure and do things the easy way: sell out.
Interestingly enough, Oh Internet was actually supposed to replace ED back in late January 2011. This was prevented when an infamous tweet popped up in ED’s official Twitter account saying “RIP.” This three-letter tweet broke the hearts of many Internet nerds and Gawker wrote an article about it including a link to the blog that contained sysop dox. Due to many complaints, Sherrod allowed ED to remain on life support another two months.
Statements from the sellouts
It all started with ED going down and Sherrod posting tweets about ED “going under maintenance and coming soon shortly.” Then the OhI blog was born. Surprisingly, it had an okay start. However, when it was revealed that ED was NOT being fixed and was getting replaced with the new OhI wiki, shit began to get real.
—Sherrod |
As the internet mourned the loss, Sherrod tried to ease the pain. However, her main mistake was her refusal to talk to ED’s fanbase. Instead, she did attentionwhoring interviews and alienated the users that did the majority of work on ED.
—Andrew Thornton, Sherrod's boyfriend and former owner of ED |
Unfortunately for Sherrod, her answers were far from satisfactory, which led the users to turn against her. Droning about how I Can Has Cheezburger? bought Know Your Meme and had $30 million only made her appear even greedier for money for money’s sake.
Like all sows on the internet, WhaleVinyl still has some misguided white knights. The loyalists are former ED sysops and users who weren’t funny enough to write articles on ED. The OhI sysops have gained a sense of elitism as they believe that they singlehandedly created ED and they have a say on what happens to it.
—Despite their claims of covering everything, linking correctly to Best ED is forbidden. |
As a stroke of genius, Oh Internet now tries to justify itself by attacking its old fanbase in a subtle and well calculated manner.
As well as becoming the very thing it sought to mock.
Content
Save yourself from browsing Oh Internet; this will summarize it just fine. To start off, the layout entirely resembled the page of a parked domain. What made one realize that it was an actual website was that the page used to be plastered with boring memes from two years ago that appeal to twelve-year-olds. The templates users utilized when making an article were worse than those of freewebs, and each article started off with a one line sentence and a giant image. Despite Sherrod stating that Oh Internet was meant to catalog anything Internet related, the only articles that users were allowed to write about were meme-centric.
In essence, OhI was basically a watered-down version of WhatPort80, another censored version of ED which the sysops spent so much time building. However, OhI had a boring layout, different format, less article content and bigger text. The bulletin board, which was equivalent to ED's Thizzlehat Junction Center, used to be the center of complaints made by ED fanatics and the rare thumbs up.
Frankly, nobody gave a shit about this site, and the site is DEAD. Ogun be praised. There were typically fewer than 5 article edits per day, and the same 3 users seemed to be making 99% of the edits.
The vast majority of the internal links on each OhI article were red.
General response
Turning into the very thing it made fun of, OhI became the most reviled thing on the Internet. The very fanbase on which OhI sysops blamed the downfall teamed up into a great force which resurrected Encyclopedia Dramatica through a herculean labor of love and necromancy. They transformed the ED realm and annihilated the old regime of Sherrodocracy. To fuel their abject hatred of the land-manatee, they had to retrieve thumbnails of images through Google cache when Sherrod had a full archive of the images yet pigheadedly refused to give them out.
Others took to vandalizing the Oh Internet wiki, the only funny part of the site, sadly. Thanks to the "Daily Top Ten Contributors," vandals made it their goal to reach the list as they gain points by ruining articles (somehow) and boasting their fine skills. Below were the finest contributors of Oh Internet.
Cool users!
But not everyone preferred ED over Oh Internet - just ask Luka Magnotta, author of the Web's premierest snuff film, who allegedly maintained a profile on the site, according to the National Post, who don't know how to read an edit history, or tell the difference between article and userspace, even on Wikipedia.
Ways you could get banned from Oh Internet
- Sign up
- Attempt to remove uncivil and slanderous content
- "Treason"
- Proclaim your love for their website
- Be Zaiger
- fix redlinks [1]
<tamara> Ohello: hi <warhol> Oh i thought that said Othello <warhol> hahahaha <tamara> one can but dream * Ohello thrusts his big, throbbing, knotted dragon phallus into Tamara's ass so hard, that he uses the blood as lubricant. He closes his eyes and imagine Tamara is the dragon from Shrek, and that her blubber is the dragon's rump. Tamara becomes so butthurt that she disconnects him * Disconnected (Remote host closed socket).
The supposed reason for this faggotry
—A former ED sysop, EDF |
"Oh Internet is not Know Your Meme!!!"
Here is what happened when somebody pointed out the similarities between Oh Internet and Know Your Meme, even though Sherrod herself bought and typosquatted the domain http://knowyourmemeS.com and pointed it at WhatPort80 and later at Oh Internet hoping to get some of that sweet typo traffic. But they were totally different.
<tamara> Explodingpiglets: do you think you can restrain your overwhelming desire to 1:1 ohinternet and knowyourmeme to like <tamara> once a week * nocturneprime ([email protected]) has joined #ed <Explodingpiglets> Perhaps. <helldvr> we need an even ratio here pal. <helldvr> PAL <TheCowDestroyer> i would have preferred it if we had made a mirror of the old ED ourselves <tamara> will it be any easier for you if you get banned the next time you bring it up <tamara> because jesus christ <tamara> every fuckin day <tamara> same question <tamara> you just wait til difft people are around <Explodingpiglets> I only said it once. <tamara> gets old <Explodingpiglets> in here <tamara> 13:36 < Explodingpiglets> Ohinternet is slightly better than knowyourmeme. <tamara> 13:36 < Explodingpiglets> slightly <wit> Explodingpiglet have you done anything on ohi? no cause you say its like kym. why? cause you havent dont anything on ohi. <wit> i call this the whiney fucktard loop <tamara> if i had more backscroll i'd call even more bullshit <Explodingpiglets> Oh, I guess that is 2 times <tamara> fuckit <tamara> wit, do you mind if i ban him <tamara> no value added <wit> yes <tamara> ugh <helldvr> piglets * You have been killed by wit ((cause im killing him)) * Disconnected (Remote host closed socket). * Now talking on #ed * Topic for #ed is: Welcomt to #FriendsChat | The rules forbid Finney from dying anytime soon * Topic for #ed set by recon at Fri Jun 3 17:07:58 2011 <Explodingpiglets> To answer your original question <TheCowDestroyer> heh <tamara> {{{{{ WELCOME BACK, EXPLODINGPIGLETS }}}}} <TheCowDestroyer> wait no <Explodingpiglets> I do not need to do anything on Ohi to know it is almost EXACTLY like knowyourmeme. <tamara> oh god <Explodingpiglets> So asking me if I did anything on there is irrelevant. <tamara> do you jerk off to this <Explodingpiglets> and silly :) <tamara> you do, don't you <Explodingpiglets> You know it! <TheCowDestroyer> .ch faggot alert <TheCowDestroyer> .ch faggot alert <TheCowDestroyer> .ch faggot alert <TheCowDestroyer> .ch faggot alert <TheCowDestroyer> .ch faggot alert <Explodingpiglets> Do you have something against bisexuals mister cow destroyer? <wit> its not irrelevant <wit> my point was that its a wiki that users fill up <helldvr> know your meme just fucking sucks. <tamara> wit: easier to bitch repetitively than do anything potentially useful <helldvr> i think thats good enough. <wit> if youre not filling it up with stuff you like within the boundries set, you suck <wit> and cant really whine <Explodingpiglets> <tamara> wit: easier to bitch repetitively than do anything potentially useful <Explodingpiglets> ;) * tamara sets ban on *!*piggies@*.274B511B.4758033F.IP * You have been kicked from #ed by tamara ( K TO THIS STUFF LIKE A BITCHPUNX TO ASSNUGGETS) * Disconnected (Remote host closed socket).
10/29/2012 NEVAR FORGET
On October 29th, 2012, one day before the second anniversary of OldDirtyBtard's death, Oh Internet went down. Credit was claimed by the Gay Nigger Association of America. The internet has a little less cancer, at least for the time being. O_Internet, Oh Internet's official Twitter later tweeted the familiar words:
— O_Internet, misquoting Mark Twain |
The same tweet that was given just before Encyclopedia Dramatica was tragically replaced with the site that would go on to become the butt of every Internet joke for at least the next two years.
— ED_Official, Original ED.com Twitter account, lying. |
Even further, this new Twain quote was used to obfuscate the real reason for their downtime, as there were not any actual technical issues. Oh Internet was vandalized to death by the GNAA and the only way they could stop it was to shut the server down. Hope they have a backup!
Closure
Around October of 2013, almost two years after the chthonic abomination that was OhI emerged from Sherrod's wallet, the Oh Internet servers started "refusing connections" to visitors. In other words, the site went offline. Oh Internet users/readers didn't seem to notice, or care. (HINT: There are none!)
Whether or not the site is closed for good, and whether or not Sherrod and the rest of the OhI staff will try a new site remains to be seen. However, for the time being, the enemies of the lulz who created OhI are defeated. NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET!
JewTube shit
Gallery
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Well I suppose this was inevitable.
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OhLook
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And by "exciting," they mean "to anyone that's new to the internet"
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Beware of whale!
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The efficiency of OhI.
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OhHypocrite!
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Oh Butthurt!
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Amazing. Factual accuracy, compromised for advertisers!
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OhI bulletin board with its daily sperg fest.
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IRC fun time
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Things don't look better on Android either.
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Surprised that these are the people who enjoy OhI?
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Even Google thinks Oh Internet is shit. No wait, everyone thinks they are shit.
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Colonel Quaritch doesn't give a fuck.
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The admin.
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IT HUNGERS
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Et tu, Garrett?
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Things are looking good for Oh Internet!
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They do not take criticism too well.
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OhI staff would have you think that our Ae-tan left us.
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That she shed her locks and became their OhI-tan.
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But we know the truth, she never left us.
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Or if she did, her imouto lolae-tan will become the new ae-tan for ed.se
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and fight the power
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Oh Internet's very enthusiastic userbase, in a nutshell.
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Nevar forget
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Signing up is all that you need to do to get banned
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The opinion of their closing.
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An artistic rendition
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They even stoop down to selling ED shirts to stay relevant.
See also
- Encyclopedia Dramatica
- Fail
- Girlvinly
- Girlvinyl/Emails
- How To Wash Your Hands
- Know Your Meme
- Meme
- Ruining the Internet
- Shit no one cares about
- Unfunny
- WhatPort80, OhInternet's predecessor
External links
- OhInternet - Site is dead.
- OhInternet's YouTube channel
- Their FB page
- Don't forget to check Oh Internet endless downfall!
- Even Uncyclopedia hates them!
- The first ones to gloat when ED turned into OhI and only ones to interview DeHippo were TheMarySue.
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