2023

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With 2020 and 2021 being the worst years ever thanks to the Chink-19, and 2022 being the most brain-dead year, we really, really, really hoped that 2023 would be a good year, but >we can only wait and see it still sucked hard. Um, anyways - Here's a recap of 2023 for our intrepid readers. So lettt's gettttt right into it!

And if you also need a recap of 2022, click here.

January

• Croatia fully enters the EU via €urozone and Schengen; A mass wave of scamming due to the currency switch begins instantly.
• The ED Twatter gets B&.

We'll be back on there, eventually...

• A Basketball-American nignog player collapses on the NFL field and Schizoposters blame the VAXX
• MediaFan2008 gets diagnosed with a deadly condition, which we believe "might be" cancer; Hey, if he does die, then we won't have to deal with him anymore.
• Retard Tate gets arrested by the Romanian police because of "money trafficking" and sex trafficking.
• Umkemesik gets ousted from ED after Discord logs featuring him lusting after underage feet are dropped.
• Brazilians invade their country's Congress over Jair Bolsonaro losing to Lula, similar to Donald Trump losing the election to Joe Biden.

"DIS IS LIKE ANUDDAH JANUARY SIXTH"

• Microsoft kills off support for Windows 8.1 and the Extended Security Updates for Windows 7, forcing their users to upgrade to Windows 10 or Windows 11, buy a new computer, or suffer the consequences of using old, shitty operating systems.
• Lisa Marie Presley dies at age 54 from cardiac arrest.

"Nothin' but a Hound Dog" anyways...

• Logan Paul tries to "expose" Coffeezilla and attempts to start a NFT business, but ends up being a major asshole as usual.
• Alec Baldwin is proven guilty in court but gets charged with manslaughter.
• Google Stadia finally shuts down their servers after 3 years of shitfests.
• A 6-year-old Basketball-American child shoots up their teacher in Virginia, USA.

It's probably some kinda world record!

• 7ols returns to Skype for only a few days until his mother took away his Windows laptop he got from college.
• Peacock makes people pay for a premium service to watch certain shows.
• Some 72-year-old Vietnamese blazn azn man named Huu Can Tran shoots up 10 people in California during a Lunar New Year festival.
• A Wario Land inspired game that is better than the former called Pizza Tower is released.
• A 26-year-old former YTP maker named Schaffrillas (Powerword: James Phyrillas), his brother Patrick, and his friend Chris get heavily injured via a car crash accident in Pennsylvania. His brother and friend die, but Schaffrillas is still alive and well as of this day.
• Former moderated .wil is elected to Faggot of the Year, and spergs out due to ego damages

February

• Tom Brady finally retires from the NFL.
• Adezero and Conrad Alan Rockenhaus get kaizen fired over a titty pic.
• Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and other Middle Eastern countries face a big 7.8 magnitude earthquake & approximately 1,500 people die.

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake was also reported in Buffalo, New York.

• A 31-year-old Basketball American celebrity from California named Berleezy (Powerword: Berlin Edmond) gets permabanned from YouTube, causing massive butthurt.
• A stupid Chinese Spy Balloon flies over America. South Carolina shoots it down.

Other words: Americans are stupid.

• 4.5 years after XXXTentacion's death in 2018, his lawyer still decides to put the blame on a Canadian rapper named Drake, who also made a message video to LeBron James at the NBA
• Peter Okoye gets butthurt over a Nigerian singer named Seun Kuti all because he called Peter Obi an opportunist, massive lulz were then sparked on social media.
• Disney lays off 7,000 employees while announcing three sequels to already shitty movies.
• Dhar Mann gets exposed for not properly paying his actors and employees.
• Twitter fucks their site up even more by adding tweeting limits and other bullshit.

Thank you Elon, Very Cool!

• Linkin Park releases a new album to mark the 20th year anniversary of Meteora. The internet goes berserk about it.
• A big ass train in East Palestine, Ohio carrying hazardous materials derails and explodes. Which caused the Ohio River to be contaminated.

Just another average day in le epic swag state I guess.

• David Jude Jolicoeur dies at age 54.
• It's that time of year where you will never be laid, Valentines' Day.
• A British 16 year old Transgender teen named Brianna Ghey gets stabbed to death in a park in Cheshire, United Kingdom.
• 3 students get mass-murdered and 5 other get wounded at the Michigan State University.
• Susan Wojcicki finally retires as the CEO of JewTube.

Sadly, Neal Mohan, a well known NFT aficionado, becomes the new CEO of JewTube.

• Our Discord Server got baleeted. We will be back on there eventually. Any "ED Discord" you see from now on is unofficial!!
• Nemao, a French animator who obsesses over Happy Tree Friends gets outed as a pedophile.
• Japan finally raises their country's Age Of Consent from 13 to 16.
• Teletoon finally shuts down, it'll become the Canadian version of Cartoon Network eventually.
• Dilbert's creator Scott Adams reveals himself to be a homophobic, transphobic, Trumper, resulting in his comic being discontinued on newspapers.

Leave it to the creator of Dilbert to find a way to get fired on his Sunday off.

• A 24-year-old Twitch streamer named Kwite (Powerword: Tyler Gadner Wirkz) gets outed for sexual assault. Never mind, yet another false allegation from an attention whore, this time from a tranny!
• A fanbase for a shitty K-Pop band named BLACKPINK from the Philippines drops a Thai member of the group named Lisa over a fucking cake, potentially ruining her birthday and causing massive butthurt on Twitter.
• Genshin Impact voice actor Elliot Gindi gets outed as a pedophile, causing his short-lived career to be terminated.

March

• Hershey's (Canada) decides to put a transgender woman in their recent ad campaign (for International Women's Day), causing massive butthurt; Whichs starts #BoycottHersheys to be trending on Twitter.
• Joe Biden finds himself in hot water after footage surfaced of him laughing to a mother who had her 2 sons die due to fentanyl poisoning.

HOW WAS HE EVEN ELECTED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

• Vtuber nobody Pikamee "graduates" because she got trolled by her chat for streaming Hogwarts Legacy.
• The drug store Walgreen's stops selling abortion pills, causing a lot of butthurt women to rage, and take to the only place of social media to start a boycott.
• Tucker Carlson of Faux News releases more footage of the January 6 2021 incident; This causes it to trend yet again 2 years later.
• A documentary of Jared Fogle from Subway is made and released, which causes Jared to trend on social media yet again.
• The Silicon Valley Bank, the 2nd largest bank of all of America, collapses.

OH NOES, WHERES ALL THE MONEY!!1!

• It's Saint Patty's Day again, time to get drunk as usual.
• Chris-Chan gets released from jail.
• Another attempt of a high score goes on at a school in Tennessee by some 29-year-old tranny "male" who goes by Audrey Hale (Aiden). Six people get killed.
• The Nintendo eShop finally shuts down on the 3DS and Wii U consoles respectively.

"End of an Error"

• dropdatwat's article gets flushed from the Encyclopedia Dramatica database.

One may be able to still find the article elsewhere but who knows....

• Donald Trump gets arrested. Good riddance.

April

• Andrew Tate gets released from prison and is now on house arrest.
• A 4.2 magnitude earthquake is spotted in Oklahoma.
• A movie for a shitty decade-old kid-targeted vidya game named FNAF is announced.

We're sooo doomed.

• A huge ass fire breaks out at a recycling plant in Richmond, Indiana, which is almost near the state's border with Ohio.
• Television cartoon show The Owl House finally ends.

Thank God.

• Some 21-year-old dumbass from the Massachusetts Air National Guard gets v& for leaking shit from the Pentagon and posting the contents on Discord.

LOL. good try tho!

• Chris Tyson, a friend of MrBeast, comes out as transgender, causing massive butthurt.
• SuperMarioLogan gets busted for falling in love with his best friend's cousin, despite the fact that he has a fucking wife and child. He even sent porn to a minor.

We got another potential EDP445 in our hands.

• April 20th, is always a very important day. Weed Day, Adolf Hitler's birthday, the 24th anniversary of Columbine, the 17th anniversary of Mitchell Henderson committing an hero over losing his iPod, etc. Also YouTuber iilluminaughtii ruining her career within the span of the day!!

Overall, a lot of great things have happened on this day.

• Tucker Carlson finally "leaves" Faux News.
• Jerry Springer dies from pancreatic cancer at the age of 79.

Shine on you crazy media troll.

May

• May Dayand notthing happens as usual.

COMMIES: SEETHE!

• A video of a cat being blended alive surfaces OTI and causes massive butthurt, it was later revealed to be a Chinese person responsible for blending that poor cat.
• Dindudogs by the name of Marshall and Millions get snuffed in London, Pithags BAWWWWWW'D from all over the world.

NEDM makes a sudden comeback?

• A 24-year-old named Deion Patterson goes on a mass shooting at a medical center in Atlanta, Georgia. 1 die and 4 others get wounded.

June

• A Russian gets eaten by a shark and a video of it is posted online.
• A Syrian stabbed a bunch of kids in a French playground.

Being the cucks those Europeans are - they whimpered, moaned and cried trying to block him with backpacks, as he gleefully continued his spree with no guns or cops to be found.

• Ted Kaczynski dies.

The Industrial Revolution and its' disastrous consequences strike again...

• Treat Williams dies on a motorcycle after "doing a Gary Busey" into a Honda SUV
• A piece-of-junk submarine dives to visit the Titanic with 5 people and implodes.
• Cyraxx gets arrested for attempting to beat a troll with a baseball bat.

As they say, a soul for a soul.

• On June 26th - Ariana Grande turned 30.

Hey, We'd still tap it.

July

• 3rd - Reality hits make-believe when Robert DeNiro's grandson overdoses on Fentanyl-laced pills
• 7th - The El Paso shooter is finally sentenced to prison
• 11th - Microsoft wins against the FTC lawsuit in it's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, causing massive butthurt from Sony fanboys.
• 11th - Leslie Van Houten was released on parole after 53 years in prison.
• 23rd - Elon Musk completely shits up Twitter after buyin' it and changes the site-name to X.

A lot of users got confused (probably thinking Musk changed it into a porn site) and got pissed off about it.

• 25th - Everyone's favorite Irish baldie, Sinead O'Connor dies from An Hero'ing.
• 30th - Paul Reubens, better known as Pee-wee Herman, dies. The wearing of The Rose-Colored Glasses of Nostalgia has people focusing only on his wacky comedy antics and conveniently forgetting that he was arrested for masturbating in a private booth at an "adult theater" , and was also later charged in 2003 on obscenity charges.

He at least made it big in Hollywood, and still managed to keep his hands to himself.

• Also on the 30th - Yet another Islamic suicide bombing kills 63 people with over 200 injured.

Fox News reported from Hell that Mohammed was "يسر، ولكن يمكن أن نفعل ما هو أفضل."

August

• 8th - On the island of Maui, Hawaii a wildfire destroys a small time town, killing 55 93 115 people, and leaving more than a thousand missing (probably dead.)
• 9th - Lil Tay, Internet influencer dies at 14.Pedophilic necrophiles are grabbing their shovels.

Turned out to be a hoax

• 17th - IShowSpeed accidentally flashes his over Chica from Five Nights at Freddy's during a live stream.

It is said that many 12-year-olds were scarred for life that day.

• 23rd - Yevgeny Prigozhin is killed in a plane crash, either bombed or shot down. The videos are posted online for everyone's personal entertainment.
• 24th - Japan dumps a good piece of radioactive waste into the Pacific.

Godzilla to appear IRL soon, from this incident?

• 25th - Donald Trump surrenders, becoming the first US president ever to be arrested. kek.
• 26th - Bob Barker of "The Price Is Right" fame and supplier of gaol-ware dies, aged 99.

Bob Barker: Spayed and Neutered for the last time.

• 27th - In Jacksonville, Florida, another white Nazi supremacist ,Ryan Christopher Palmeter starts a shooting killing 3 before an hero-ing.
• Maddox releases a video “exposing” Justin Whang, and asterios kokkinos.
• 28th - Joe The Plumber is dead.

Old Meme is Old Dead.

September

• 1st - Jimmy Buffett, self proclaimed leader of the dope smoking, alcoholic beach bum lifestyle is finally dead.
• 5th
  • Gary Wright, known for the pretty cool 1970s song Dream Weaver gets to find out if Nihilism or God is the right answer.
  • Mother Nature is pissed and spawns storm Daniel in Greece, pwning at least 4.
• 10th - Daniel storm continues to pwn at least 5100 19,000 NPCs in Lybia. There are also 10,100+ missing probably dead NPCs. The Daniel Storm passed by on the 12th.
• 12th - Apple unveils the iPhone X v5.0, which finally gets rid of their crappy cables and starts using completely revolutionary USB-C.
• 13th - A 100-trillion-year-old paper-mache alien "mummy" is revealed to the surprised spic public, despite it being made by the same faggots that fabricated another debunked alien stunt.
• 23rd - A car bomb (probably from Al-Shabab) explodes at a checkpoint in Beledweyne, Somalia, killing at least 30 people.
• 25th - In Iraq, after glowing up the fireworks in a wedding, somebody starts a mass fire and kills about 114 people including the newlywed husband and wife.
• 27th - A new challenger appears!!!!, shot 3 people in a bar in Sweden.
• 28th
  • Again, Pakistan experiences another bombing, this time killing 57 ppl.
  • Some troublemaker teen cuts the Sycamore Gap and got V& for being a massive idiot.
• 29th
  • In Ausfailia, a whale strikes a boat killing 1 NPC and injuring critically another
  • Ethan Crumbley, the Oxford high school shooter, is sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Hey, Ethan - We hope you share your bunk with Bubba!!!.

October

• 3rd - Famous idiot IShowSpeed almost an heroes on livestream from attempting a science experiment
• 4th
  • The host of the 2030 World Cup is officially confirmed: Spain, Portugal and Morocco with Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay playing their ceremonial matches in their home countries with Chile being left out
  • Mother Nature destroys the world again (this time in India) and pwns 74 NPCs with flash floods
• 5th - Israel (for the 1000th time!) declares "War" on Gaza/Palestine
• 7th - Hamas, went amok at a kike music festival and IRL-bans more than 260 ppl.
• 9th - Tatmadaw launches a bomb in an IDP camp and kills 29 people.
• 11th - A 19-year-old spanish girl is killed by Hamas. Also, the Hamas faggots leaked their naked corpse for teh lulz
• 14th - An internet sissy fight between SSSniperWolf and Jacksfilms escalates up to a new level after she shows up to his house and reveals his dox to all of the public, causing insurmountable amounts of e-drama and lulz
• 16th - Tunisian played high score and killed 2 swedes and injured a taxi driver during a Euro 2024 qualifying match between Sweden and Belgium. He later made a video about hating on swedish coran burning. Hours later, police raped him with bullets and died several hours later.
• 17th
  • A missile is launched in a Gaza hospital and 600 ppl got BANNED.
  • Some mudslims in different countries went amok proceed shit and fuck up several embassies. Also, Lebanon ppl shitted up the US embassy.
• 23rd - A train crash in the city of Bangladesh leaves 17 dead
• 25th - A man (Robert Card) went amok in a city in Maine, killing 18 and injuring about 13. It is currently the new high score of the year.
• 27th - Robert Card, the man behind the previously-mentioned Lewiston shootings, is found an heroed in the nearby woods of Lisbon.
• 29th -2023 Halloween shooting, After Robbie's Lulzfest, another lUser, with the name of Tyrell Stephen Phillips, pwns 2 ppl and wounds 18 others in a fight.
• 31st - IT IS HALLOWEEN, MY DUDES!!!

November

• 3rd - In Nepal, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake pwns 157 and destroys many mountain houses.
• 9th
  • Omegle is taken out back and shot by its very own site admins. Motive: Fear of incoming Internet Censorship Laws, combined with lawsuits brought against the site because of fucking pedos mis-using the site.
  • Somehow, someway, Boogie2988 drags his name down the mud even further with his own pity-party documentary.
• 11th - Spic police arrests over 121 ppl for illegal possession of 500 Terabytes of cp. Good luck with Bubba's prison-raep pranks!!!
• 13th - Yet another internet sissy fight occurs involving SomeOrdinaryGamers and Karl Jobst going after gaming YouTuber The Completionist over his charity.
• 23rd - Some random Brazilian in Ireland decides to shank 4 people with a knife. Ireland's people responded to the stabbing with "vandalism", the same kind of vandalism as seen in the USA's riotous response to the 2020 death of George Floyd.
• 28th - Some game developer who created the indie game The Coffin of Andy and Leyley got doxed by some teens from Soyjak.party. :Of course, weebs and coomers alike got butthurt.
• 29th
  • Henry Kissinger dies at the age of 100.
  • Encyclopedia Dramatica goes down for 5 days because kaizen forgot to pay for the domain. When encyclopediadramatica.online became a parked domain, a bunch of autists forked the forum at dramatica.lol; however it was short-lived as 1 or 2 days later encyclopediadramatica.online returned and the admin of dramatica.lol shut down his forum.

December

• 1st - Soyjak.party would strike again, this time pwning anime YouTuber and lolicon advocate Rev Says Desu on the day of his wedding.
• 3rd
  • Feeling the fade of irrelevancy, Hbomberguy would drop a three-hour long drivel over plagiarism, brewing up more lulz with many other YouTubers.
  • on the Sane day, Maddox also finally rekeases his take down of the Mexican Jew Dick Masterson.
  • A new war is likely to begin between Venezuela and Guyana over pieces of jungle that include Jonestown.
• 4th - Grand Theft Auto 6 is finally officially revealed after at least 100 years
• 7th - It is the Aztec school shooting's 6th anniversary. Hopefully our faggot ex-sysop/jannie AlGore is rolling in his grave now.
• 10th
  • Fearing the negative press from Jobst' and Mutahar's audiences, The Completionist would upload an official response, cementing his admittedly uneventful career.
  • Javier Milei officially becomes President of Argentina following his election.
  • Hunter Avallone almost gets shot at by an ex-boyfriend of his now ex-girlfriend.
• 11th - Shane Dawson outs himself as a pedophile by claiming that he thinks CP is sexy.
• 14th - Fat redneck Hannah Payne is found guilty of killing a 62-year-old man who was a nigger. Got v&.
• 19th - YouTuber Dream uploads a spiritual successor to Kwite's video a few months back of dismantling and pointing out the fallacies found in the allegations made against him. Of course, mass butthurt ensued from chronically online 16-year-old girls.
• 21st - A 24-year-old man named David Kozák goes amok at a university in the Czech Republic, killing 15 people(+two alleged forest kills six days prior). He is currently the second person this year to make it into the Top 50.
• 22nd
  • Israel is estimated to have pwn'd around 20,000 Palestinians, nearly 1% of the entire population of the Gaza Strip.
  • The 2023 FIFA Club World Cup finally concludes with Manchester City winning their fourth title against Fluminense.

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Gallery of 2023 About missing Pics

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  Pee Wee Herman passed away of teh cancers in 2023
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  Dracula Flow, an YouTube sensation in 2023...
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  Omegle also closed themselves down in 2023. RIP Omegle Trolling
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  Jerry Springer, iconic trash TV host bit the dust. "Final Thoughts" indeed.

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  Uncle Ted checked out...
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  Boomer band The Beatles released their final song in 2023. Crazy inn'it?
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  Ken was the unsung hero of The Barbie Movie
• 
  ED turned 19!!

See Also

• Need a recap of the previous year? That's ok, we have you covered anyway: 2022
• The "Years" category here on ED

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