Encyclopedia Dramatica:ED in the News

Policy This article defines official ED Policy. Shortcut: ED:NEWS

Encyclopedia Dramatica (ED) is a major and very important Internets website that is considered a safe site by McAfee. Conservapedia had an article on us, and Uncyclopedia has several articles and a category about us too. ED is recognized as the "Best Place to find the Lulz". (archive)

Last Thursday, Wikipedia was soaked in its own tears when they finally followed their own fucking policies and allowed an article on Encyclopedia Dramatica. Formerly, the only place you could see the version deleted by tearful admins was at Wikitruth here.

ED is known for its biting humor, witty and critical commentary, and all-around greatness. It gets mentioned in the news a lot too:

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Even Google noticed it.

Some links may be dead because they are so old. It would be really awesome if you went to archive.org or archive.is and found them.

Please add {{newspaper|news article url}} at the beginning of the mentioned article(s) by the news

2005

June 2005

• The Guardian, a major United Kingdom news magazine, reported on ED's political commentary about the George W. Bush role in the TL;DR on ED. Archive 1 Archive 2

2006

January 2006

• Bantown claimed responsibility on ED for discovery of a critical LiveJournal hack, as reported by the Washington Post.

Archive

April 2006

• ED gets featured in Wikipedia's "Wikizine". See Wikizine. archive

May 2006

• The Transcript, a US Massachusetts newspaper, wrote an article criticising the MySpace article on ED, calling it an "long, blunt, vulgar essay"; see Google cache.

August 2006

• A German news article is one of the first to mention the craigslist experiment and links to the ED article on the same. archive
• The University of Amsterdam blogs about the SlimVirgin article on ED (link).

Further Reading

August 2006 The Craigslist Controversy

• BBC News only calls ED 'a publicly accessible website' Archive 1 Archive 2

September 2006

TV news coverage

• MSNBC TV - MSNBC, the major and leading cable news network, reported on ED and its role in the RFJason Craigslist Experiment, including screenshots of the website and the URL. Google Video mirror, and YouTube mirror.
• Global TV, a Canadian English language privately owned television network showed clips of the site on their broadcast. YouTube.

International news coverage

• The Ottawa Sun referenced ED, quoting the sites take on the evolution of the Emo scene.
• The Toronto Sun also reported on the coverage of that music scene, in a much more expanded article.
• Jason Fortuny
  • Der Spiegel, a major German news source, reported on ED andJason Fortuny.
  • La Presse Affaires, a leading Francophone news source, also covered ED and Fortuny.
  • The San Francisco Chronicle, a major newspaper in San Francisco describes the incident in detail.
• Maclean's, a Canadian national weekly current affairs magazine with over 2.5 million readers talks about a scammer whose personal details ended up on ED.
• NU.nl a popular Dutch news website

Blogosphere

• Boing Boing (post by Xeni Jardin) (link).
• Broowaha (link).
• Good Morning Silicon Valley (link).
• Ten Zen Monkeys - "Webzine" (link).
• Waxy (link).
• Wired Blogs - 27BStroke6: 1, 2

News websites

• Slashdot article.

2007

March 2007

• Alternet.org, an award-winning news magazine, links to the John Edwards article on ED in their blog.
• 10 Zen Monkeys "Webzine" - again, on John Edwards (link).

July 2007

• New York Times Magazine: The SlimVirgin article gets a mention in a paragraph about Wiki drama.

August 2007

• The Wall Street Journal links to the I am in your base killing your d00ds page in an article about memes.

November 2007

• A Serbian news source mentions ED whilst writing about the Craigslist controversy. (link).

December 2007

• MyCrimeSpace.com, a site that writes crime-related news about MySpace, talks about a hoax relating to the Megan Meier article in an article.
• Jules Crittenden, a Boston Herald editor and columnist, recommends the site on his blog.
• Chris Forcand the christian pedo was arrested, and showed his ED article as evidence on Canada's Global News, complete with shoops.

2008

January 2008

• Gawker link.
• Wired magazine (link).
• Lestercavestany.com (link).
• Riight, inc and riight.com. all rights reserved (link).
• MND, one of the top 75 most popular right-of-center websites for 2007 (link).
• Online Opinion is a professional Australian e-journal: "Articles are gathered from a variety of independent sources" (link).
• The Synthesis Magazine blogs about it (link).
• Wikipedos at wikinews (link)

TV News Coverage

• NBC shows a page of ED (Dead YouTube link).

February 2008

• NewsReview.com publishes their take on the site.
• ED is mentioned in a five page article in a German magazine; see DAS TROLLPARADIES.

March 2008

• LAist, a news website about Los Angeles, talks about a person who uses the site in a Scientology related article (link).
• Gawker links to the Rickroll in an article about Rickrolling link.

April 2008

• Newteevee cites ED in a blog entry about Rickrolling (link).
• Citypaper.com writes an article about Anonymous/Scientology which refers to ED as: "A humor wiki, Encyclopedia Dramatica, chronicles various internet pranks, raids, and drama" (link).
• The University Register of the University of Minnesota cites ED in reference to Chanology (link).

May 2008

Ninemsn's article.

• Ninemsn does an article explicitly about ED itself (link).
• Ninemsn links to the Chin-chan page in another article - "'Chin-Chan', a girl with an unfortunately sunken chin)." (link).

June 2008

• The NEWSTATESMAN quotes the lolcats article and links to ED (link).
• Butthurt ex-Wikipedo David Shankbone gets interviewed, where he mentions the Wikicide article on ED; appropriate, as he has committed it over 9000 times (link).
• The Bostonist mentions ED in an Anonymous related article.
• The Torontoist quotes and links to the Anonymous page. (link).
• The London Times talks about the relationship between Anonymous and ED (link).

August 2008

• Article in the New York Times Magazine about internet trolls with quite a lot about ED, also printed in the International Herald Tribune.
  • Someone at scienceblogs.com suffered serious butthurt over the publicity of ED in the New York Times mag and published a blog whining about it here.
  • Another person at Reason.com also suffered major butthurt (link).
  • Also, MetaFilter and the Wall Street Journal's computer blog (link).
  • And someone from The Guardian (link).
  • And The Atlantic (link).
• YouTube View Fraud got some media attention after being Article of the Now (link).
• Jason Fortuny is getting attention again: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
• A short article from The Standard about how ED needed monies (link).
• San Francisco Weekly (see page 5)
• The American Chronicle mentions ED and Nazism. (link).
• G4TV does some faggy spot about internet trolling mentioning ED and Jason Fortuny.

September 2008

• YouTube View Fraud gets attention again (link).
• Oprah Winfrey's 9000 penises incident (link).
  • Even the Wikipedos decided to mention ED (link).

November 2008

• ED page about a hacker gets linked to by The Register (link).

December 2008

• ED wins a web award (covered at mashable.com).

2009

January 2009

• ED gets linked to in an Israeli article about Anonymous (link; translation).
• ED mentioned in a Wikinews article about Anonymous (link).

February 2009

• ED gets linked to in an LA Weekly Column (link).

March 2009

• The Chattanooga Pulse magazine does an article on memes and links to the X? In My Y? page (link).

April 2009

• ED is mentioned in a leaked government document "2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment" (on Slashdot).
• ED is mentioned along with other sites which are used to cyberstalk internet denizens (link).

May 2009

• Article about how the craigslist troll was sued. (link).
• Part of the Jessica Valenti article is quoted in an interview with the subject (in The Guardian and on u.tv).
• Cracked article cites and quotes multiple ED articles as part of a review of of five wikis other than TOW. link.
• The Consumerist has an article about car warranty robo-callers which bizarrely mentions ED
• Wired article cites and quotes Creepy Chan entry on the wiki. Full details located here.

“	The waifish, wide-eyed blonde’s self-portraits — which she’d posted on the web — circulated in that community in 2005, according to Encyclopedia Dramatica, the canonical record of all things channish.	„
—From the article.

September 2009

• In wired.com's coverage of Project Chanology they cite ED.

“	Study the pages of the Encyclopedia Dramatica wiki, where the vast parallel universe of Anonymous in-jokes, catchphrases, and obsessions is lovingly annotated, and you will discover an elaborate trolling culture.	„
—Wired.com

October 2009

• The Moonspeak News site SKY.it mentions Encyclopedia Dramatica in their report of Sveltopedia. (translation)
• Marc Randazza, a First Amendment attorney mentions Encyclopedia Dramatica in the Heide Iravani LAW ’09 Brittan Heller defamation case on the Yale Daily News site.

2010

January 2010

• Steve Hodder-Watt, finds the Aboriginal article and takes legal action to get it removed from Google.com.au search results. The story blows up in the Australian media, but News Corp, Fairfax and news.com.au all get the story wrong.
• Philippines news site Spot.ph covers the Philippines ED article, causing model/actress and most recognized celebrity of a nation of 90 million Angel Locsin to flip out on her Twitter. Drama ensues.
• In the home stretch of January, Firefox XPS IRC Attack coverage starts off with an article in The Register followed by coverage in Softpedia.
• A Bulgarian newssite blitz.bg reports on the drama-fest that was the Australian Govt banning ED (Translation)
• The Sydney Morning Herald has a piece on Google's takedown of ED over the Aboriginal article
• ABC News reports on the Aboriginal firestorm and again
• Morning Pilgrim and Top News put their 2 pennies in.

February 2010

• A variety of foreign language sources cover Firefox XPS IRC Attack.
• Vdare.com has a piece all about ED's very own epic beard man

March 2010

• Ninemsn publishes an interview with our classiest of moderators. It makes excellent arguments on the merits of free speech!

“	Largely the problem with the younger generation is that they've grown up in a bubble of Fisher Price rounded corners and bright colors where costumed animals never tell them anything that could hurt anyone's feelings. It is no wonder that they've grown up stunted and are unable to survive in the workplace. Preventing children from viewing political speech is doing them a massive disservice. .... If Christ were here again today he'd probably start a website and people would be crying for its censorship.	„
—Ninemsn, Interview with Encyclopedia Dramatica Moderator.

• Our hero Joseph Evers publishes a scathing essay in response to receiving complaints from the Australia Human Rights Commission. A veritable shitstorm of coverage ensues.

“	Love or hate ED, actions like this continue to make the Australian Government, and its statutory bodies an international laughing stock.	„
—The Inquisitr, Australian Government Body Goes After Encyclopedia Dramatica In Epic Waste Of Taxpayer Dollars.

“	a US website accused of breaking Australian law by the Australian Human Rights Commission has told them to rack right off ... rather brilliant ...	„
—The Register, Irate Aussies go after US website.

“	Evers stressed in his latest blog post that he would not be removing the article.	„
—Ninemsn, Dramatica owner could face charges

the MX article (for what its worth section).

• Dramatica drama down under, Boingboing.
• Encyclopedia Dramatica vs. the Commonwealth of Australia, Metafilter.
• Encyclopedia Dramatica author faces possibility of criminal charges because an article on his site offended an Aborigine, Fark.
• Encyclopedia Dramatica Drama: Website Targeted by Australian Government, CBS News.
• Australia should sink its great barrier plan, Irish Times.
• Dramatica owner refuses to remove 'racist' content, Australian Broadcasting Corp.
• Triple J, an ABC radio property, mentions Joseph Evers in an interview with Steve Hodder-Watt.
• Encyclopedia Dramatica Owner May Face Charges Down Under... Despite Not Being In Australia, Techdirt.
• Sickipedia: bid to shut offensive 'encyclopedia dramatica', Sydney Morning Herald.
• Encyclopedia Dramatica Might Face Charges, Comedy Central's Tosh.0.
• Encyclopedia Dramatica row gets dramatic, ITwire.
• Dramatica owner refuses to budge on 'racist' content about Aboriginals, IB Times.
• Ann Coulter, Hate Speech and Human Rights Commissions, A mention in the John Birch Society newsletter.
• B-list blogs and forums: Dvorak.org, Skepticlawyer, TG Daily, Why We Protest, Kiwiblog, Overlawyered.
• An article about internet censorship is published in MX, a major Australian free newspaper.
• ED's Aborigine situation and China are mentioned in an excellent Italian article on Google's censorship hypocrisy in Giornalettismo.
• IDG.se informs Swedes of the situation.

• An article about Memes in Brazil's Popnews.
• The Independent Film Channel links to our article on Guro in a discussion on Serbian film and pornography of violence.
• Our Human Rights Commission problem was mentioned in a larger Sydney Morning Herald opinion piece about the negative social effects of censorship titled A mollycoddling internet policy is just feeding the trolls.
• Australian Government Body Goes After Encyclopedia Dramatica In Epic Waste Of Taxpayer Dollars The Inquisitor
• Sickipedia: bid to shut offensive 'encyclopedia dramatica'The Age
• Dramatica owner refuses to remove 'racist' content ABC News

April 2010

• Mentioned in Ninemsn in an article about internet trolling.
• IDG Norway mentions the Aboriginal debacle in a greater article about hackers teaching the elderly to avoid censorship and filtering to learn information about euthanasia.

May 2010

• The Irish Examiner posts an article titled Call for website to be blocked over victim remarks because some crybabies would rather blame a satirical Internet wiki for some girl's death than dare name the people at her school who ruthlessly tortured her without cause for so a year. Somebody should direct them to ShutdownED.org.
• Joseph Evers is quoted in an Australian article highlighting the perceived misogyny of Anonymous culture.
• Our Australian Racial Discrimination Act debacle was mentioned in an opinion piece titled Time to renew our commitment to freedom in the Sydney Morning Herald.
• The Australian has a tl;dr article entitled "Is it time to censor the Internet?" which includes an interview with Steve Hodder-Watt, of course he goes off on one about the Aboriginal article and ED

July 2010

• Coverage for the Jessi Slaughter incident at gulf-times.
• Gawker's coverage of Jessi Slaughter lol.
• Blowback at gawker for its coverage of Jessi slaughter while mentioning of ED.
• Le Post, the French Huffington Post has an article about Jessi Slaughter that references ED (Translation)

October 2010

• PCMag.com has an article about Anonymous's plans to take down the RIAA which wouldn't be the same without a reference to ED's article on the group.

December 2010

• Gawker has an article about Operation Payback and ED
• Computerworld has an article intended to spread FUD amongst its readership about Cyberattacks, the diplomatic cables at Wikileaks and which describes ED as Anonymous' very own Wikipedia
• The Tech Herald makes a lot of fuss and bother about The Feds striking back after Operation Payback and sending a cease and desist letter to ED ordering all information about it be removed. That worked well didn't it ?
• Salon also has an article about those mean nasty Feds cracking down on ED
• As does TPM. This time the noose is closing around Pro-Wikileaks vigilantes. I think they mean ED
• Even an Italian Website L'espresso gets in on the action with basically the same article about Anonymous, Wikileaks and ED (Translation)

2011

January 2011

• Sherrod DeGrippo lies to Adrian Chen about not closing ED, and he writes an article about it on Gawker.
• The Village Voice has an article about ED's brief dark period - Archived version
• WPost, a Polish website has an article all all about our very own ED (Translation)
• The University Times has an article about Anonymous which mentions ED

February 2011

• As far as I can make out, a Russian Business Website] has an article concerning a wiki on a region in Russia, which for no apparent reason, mentions ED (Translation)
• Heisse online, a German website, has a brief article about ED and Anonymous (Translation)
• NBC News has an article about Daney21 and of course refers to ED's article

March 2011

• Ecrans, A French website, has an article about knowyourmeme that mentions ED (Translation)
• The Australian has an article about trolls on the internet that mentions ED

April 2011

• Spiegal Online has an article about the "death" of ED (little did they know...) (Translation)
• Geekosystem also has an article about the death of ED
• ... as has Gawker
• ...and The Inquisitor

May 2011

• Who Killed Encyclopedia Dramatica at Tech Tangerine Archive
• Itproportal A tech site, has an article that takes in Anonymous, Ryan Cleary and ED {{archive|buWGc|Archive]

June 2011

• http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2011/06/how-important-was-ryan-cleary-in-lulz-sec.html
• Comprende.de A German website, has an article about Anonymous that mentions ED (Translation) Archive
• Hollywood Today has an article about Anonymous, the Federal Reserve Bank and ED

July 2011

• Daily Dot praises the Kentucky article, when announcing ED's triumphant return
• Norwegian Newspaper Handelsblatt has an article on Anonymous and ED (Translation)
• Bizarrely, A Katy Perry article from Popbytes magazine references ED
• Slate.fr has an article about 4chan which mentions ED (Translation) Archive

August 2011

• Asian Week has an article about Kenneth Eng which references ED's article

September 2011

• http://www.dailydot.com/news/encyclopedia-dramatica-outage/

October 2011

• http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/northwest/9307857.Vile_website_mocks_murder_of_Sophie_Lancaster/
• http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9307857.Vile_website_mocks_murder_of_Sophie_Lancaster/

2012

January 2012

• Mac Generation, a French Website has an article about memes that references ED(Translation)

February 2012

• Transcript of an interview zaiger did with  The Bournemouth Rock newspaper – a newspaper distributed across Bournemouth, UK.
• French Newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur reports on a BBC TV Programme 'Panorama' which aimed to expose trolls and managed to mention Encyclopedia Dramatica as well (Translation) Archived version
• Digital.bg, a Bulgarian website, has an article on The biggest scandals affecting our personal data on the Internet, which mentions the Craigslist experiment and ED (Translation)
• thongtincongnghe.com, A Vietnamese website had an article on Internet Scandals and mentions ED (Translation)

March 2012

• http://www.dailydot.com/news/encyclopedia-dramatica-suffers-minor-outage/
• 15 Worst Internet Privacy Scandals of All Time An article at PC World mentions ED
• Polemika A Russian newspaper, has an article about Anonymous and ED (Translation)
• Aviisi, a Finnish magazine, has a short article about furries, and quite rightly tells people if they want to know more, they should come to ED (Translation)
• A Ukrainian newspaper: Сім'я і дім reports on 4chan's antics putting porn on Youtube and quotes figures from ED (Translation)

May 2012

• Info on Luka Magnotta kitten killing videos [1]
• Another mention in BoingBoing concerning Luka Rocco Magnotta

June 2012

• http://crushable.com/entertainment/canadian-gay-porn-star-murderer-kim-kardashian-233/
• 20 Minutes a French website mentioned ED in an article about Lulzsec (Translation)
• WMF's own WikiNews on Critics United

July 2012

• http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/finding-the-mystery-man-behind-funnyjunk/ EDiots SuperIrene and Mightyirene appear to have identified Bryan Durel as the owner of FunnyJunk.
• http://larrysanger.org/2012/07/the-saga-of-wikimedia-uk-and-its-chair/ Larry Sanger linked to ED in his blog

August 2012

• http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/08/01/50-shades-wikipedia-uk-head-banned-after-bondage-porn-ties/ Fox News links to Fae's ED article
• Educating the Dumb, Drunk and Racist, Galus Australis, a Jewish blog, explains how ED uses free speech as a "hate speech" cover.

September 2012

• SMH makes mention of Encyclopedia Dramatica "For other trolls who gather on websites such as 4chan.org and Encyclopedia Dramatica, attacking or flaming people is a game."
• The Atlantic writes about Techno Viking and mentions ED.

November 2012

• [2] (archive) Less Looting, More Trolling: Daily Mail, Drudge Get Pwnd By Twitter Pranksters #SandyLootCrew (archive) - Betabeat Observer links to ED when reporting on the #SANDYLOOTCREW hoax.
• The Internet’s Best Terrible Person Goes to Jail: Can a Reviled Master Troll Become a Geek Hero? Gawker has a profile of weev

December 2012

• A day in the office with Know Your Meme—the Web's "Britannica" - ED is linked to, and is mentioned as being one of the first sites/wikis to catalog memes and internet culture.
• Slate.com links to our #dongforce article.

2013

January 2013

• townhall.com article about Bullet to the Head of the NRA, where the player gets to kill Wayne LaPierre, the president of the NRA. Tons of neocon butthurt in the comments. First reported on by Glenn Beck on his radio show and them reposed by every other news site.
• After Beck, the story was picked up by Sean Hannity and talked about on Fox.
• The Blaze cries about Bullet to the Head of the NRA, an EDF2 original game.
• Los Angeles Times writes about Bullet to the Head of the NRA, referencing ED as "a wiki for online memes."
• Salon.com Links to ED numerous times, makes fun of Hannity and Beck but also implies our trolling is lazy. We do not disagree.
• The first Kotaku report on Bullet to the Head of the NRA
• Kotaku Wayne LaPierre responds/gives his thoughts on the EDF2-member-made "Bullet to the Head of the NRA" game about him.
• DigitalJournal NRA mocked in 'Bullet to the Head of the NRA' video game demo.
• newmediarockstars talks about Jin Saotome article.

March 2013

• An Israeli news site, The Calcalist, interviews Brad Kim of KYM, who cites ED as one of the inspirations for KYM. Archived version
• In an article by NewMediaRockstars about Dongcopter pirate Aleksandr Pistoletov's infamous YouTube video, ED's article on the subject is referenced. Archived version
• Buzzfeed writes an article on LJ troll Madrigalskylark and heavily quotes and sources ED's article. - Archived version
• The Atlantic Wire writes about weev's unfair persecution by the man, and quotes ED's article on weev. - Archived version

April 2013

• Motherboard, a Vice-owned technology news site features an article about Aush0k, and links to ED and ED IRC.

June 2013

• Salon writes an article about menstrual painting, and quotes' ED's article on the subject.
• Daily Dot prominently mentions ED when covering one of Meepsheep's epic adventures.

July 2013

• ReadWrite mentions ED in their article about an Edward Snowden Parody account.

August 2013

• The New Age Online writes an article about a sick fuck who gets off from thinking about or seeing women fart, and references ED's article on Eproctophilia.
• The Huffington Post quotes ED's Rules of the Internet article in an article titled Rules of the Internet: 'Tits or GTFO!'
• Salon writes an article about trolling vs threats, pertaining to feminists, and quotes ED's Troll article.
• Salon publishes an online article about Internet Tough Guys and links to ED's article on the subject.
• The Globe and Mail' features an article on people hating on hipsters and qoutes ED's Hipster article.
• Wired quotes ED's "Rules of the Internet" article in a guest feature authored by Jamie Bartlett, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, entitled: Trolls aren't going anywhere, so we need to learn to live with them
• RT refers extensively to the PRISM article, especially the section on the Parabon Leaks. Allegations that NSA tool can neutralize common online security

November 2013

• Suite101 publishes an article on AA and mention's ED's AA article. archived version

2014

January 2014

• Esquire Magazine quotes the lulz article, and calls us a "lulzy swamp".

February 2014

• Latin Post quotes ED's Menstrual Painting page. Archive 1 Archive 2
• Salem News posts about Anonymous and mentions correctly that ED was *once* associated with the now-lame group. Archive 1 Archive 2

March 2014

• KY Kernel name-drops ED in an article about feminism. ( Archive 1, archive 2)

May 2014

• Broward Palm Beach New Times refers to ED in an article on Laura Flynn, anonymous member. Archive 1

August 2014

• Vice mentions ED in an article about sex in gaming, referring to it as an "online trollgarden." Archive 1
• Gawker references ED for information on AnonIB during #thefappening.
• Breitbart linked to ED in an article about Zoe Quinn and gaming journalism, referring to it as a "Cruelly-worded but factually sound run-down of the current controversy." ( Archive 1, Archive 2)
• Vox mentions ED as part of its "basics of 4chan"

September 2014

The Ivy League takes notice

• Cracked.com quoted ED in an article trying to discredit GamerGate.
• Confessions of a former internet troll, Vox.com. The writer claims to have written Chronic Troll Syndrome at .com and talks about his troll's remorse as part of the anti GamerGate propaganda. He says this was the first article he ever wrote but that's not true. We guess he didn't want to publicize the fact the first article he *actually* wrote contains nothing but a picture of a woman shoving hot dogs up her cunt.
• Fatass Denial Bloggers was cited in Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (Harvard University Press, 2014), page 257

October 2014

• Gawker linked to us in an article about 8chan and wizardchan in relation to GamerGate.

November 2014

• Slate.com links to the Lulz article. ( Archive 1, archive 2)
• CBC report on GamerGate shows ED's twitter while discussing "the harassment of women."

December 2014

• BoingBoing mentions ED in an article about *chan culture and claims ED is responsible for hosting dox of people, despite our no-non-public-information/No Dox in articles rule.

2015

January 2015

• BoingBoing mentions ED again, claiming that "having an ED article on you means that the page will be filled top to bottom with smears against you or anyone who shares the same name as you, mixed in with hateful slurs against your ethnicity, religion, or (real or perceived) deviation from the sexual norm," and being "the epitome of using the 'lulz before accuracy' approach." Archive 1 Archive 2

February 2015

• Jizzabel links to the ParkourDude91 article in a smear piece trying to cover the fact that Brianna Wu is trying to have him assassinated.
• Vice writes an upset article about the Muhammad Sex Simulator game created by gizmo01942, a member of the ED forums. He defends the game as satire and is quoted on the forum as saying "I want to make it clear this is not intended as a serious attack on anyone's faith nor is it meant as a serious critique of any real-life historical figures." (archive)
• Spanish gaming news site Mertistation writes a short piece about the Muhammad Sex Simulator game, naming EDF user gizmo01942 as its creator but not mentioning the forum it originated from. (archive)
• Daily Stormer writes an article about Muhammad Sex Simulator 2015, linking to both ED and EDF.

March 2015

• This VICE piece mentioned our former article on Senshimedia
• Tranny feminazi site Ravishly mentions ED as "A satire Wiki" (in quotes) in an interview with Sarah Butts about his article (where he accidentally verifies everything)

April 2015

• This article on VICE mentions our Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme and the subject's opinion of it.

May 2015

• Salon.com refers to our Socrates article
• journoterrorist Archive, a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, references the article on Sarah Nyberg to discuss whether outing someone as a pedophile is ethical or not when reporting their involvement on another subject.

August 2015

• TheRalphRetort (archive) mentions our  Twitter problems stemming from Sarah Nyberg and Sibe.
• TheMarySue (archive) Refers to our Gen Zed page and posts a screenshot of tha page and of one of our tweets. Also calls us Encyclopedia Douchebag (lol).

October 2015

• HoustonPress (archive) Mentions ED in the same sentence as the phrases "SWATed her mom" and "drug addicts who had sold their children for drug money."
• The Daily Beast (archive) namedrops ED in yet another Gamergate article written by Arthur Chu.
• VICE Motherboard (archive) links to Fake LJ deaths in an article about faking deaths online.

November 2015

• Daily Kos (archive) Notes that Milo Yiannopoulos repeated many of the claims made in the Randi Harper article and called ED a "hacker's trophy case of doxx and so-called 'satire' written by internet harassers."
• Geek-E Inc (archive) Twill wins "Nerdcore Artist of the Month" and is described as both an ex-hacker and former Encyclopedia Dramatica editor.

December 2015

• An article at Medium.com about online communities and how well ED does it.

2016

January 2016

• SugarFreeSocial.com mentions ED in an article about the controversy surrounding Wil Wheaton's wife Anne Wheaton ragequitting twitter.
• Time.com mentions ED in an article about Wikipedia. Refers to ED as "the Encyclopedia Dramatica."

February 2016

• iDigitalTimes (archive) refers to Encyclopedia Dramatica as "repository of troll knowledge and least trustworthy possible source" in an article about the TV show Better Call Saul.

March 2016

• Fusion (archive) mentions us in their history of trolling piece.

April 2016

• iTimes.com (archive) some bollywood dirt sheet tells people they should never google "AE Offended"

May 2016

• VICE Motherboard (archive) sources ED a bunch of times on an article about The Bloody Board.

June 2016

• Breitbart.com (archive) references our article in Zoe Quinn preceding her cancellation as key note speaker for some Wikipedia event or something.

July 2016

• Hertfordshire Mercury (archive) An article about the Samuel Collingwood Smith's legal actions against Encyclopedia Dramatica users.
• Daily Express (archive) "Tory politician receives £10,000 damages after being wrongly accused of being a paedophile"
• The Register (archive) calls us an Internet toilet wall.
• Mic.com (archive) sources ED on an article about 8chan's /pol/ board.

September 2016

• DailyDot (archive) links to our "blatantly racist" article on Zarna Joshi.
• DailyDot (archive) again. This time about the Wew lad meme.

October 2016

• Sydney Morning Herald (archive) references ED as an expert on GamerGate. Six years ago they simply called us racist.

November 2016

• The Only True Winners Of This Election Are Trolls (archive) mentions us twice, describing us as "very lulzy".

• Anonymous and the Million Mask March (archive) briefly mentions ED as a "platform for activities" relating to Anonymous.

2017

January 2017

• Bill Burr mentions ED at around 9:34.
• Mark Hamill responds to ED on Twitter
• Heat Street mentions ED and the Vordrak article, defending the inclusion of pedophilia accusations as being satire by stating "Vordrak is well known for accusing others of being pedophiles online and the accusations were meant to mock him."

February 2017

• Daily Dot links to ED's Naked Banana article on February 11th, and brands us "homophobic". Hey, at least they linked to us, heh.

April 2017

• An article archive published on April 20 by WIRED links to our article on The Battle of Berkeley, calling us an extreme-right corner of the internet.
• April 27 article by Mother Jones links to Battle of Berkeley while white knighting for Moldylocks

May 2017

• Meme Historians Are an Inevitability (archive), an article by VICE, discusses Encyclopedia Dramatica.

June 2017

• Free Speech Assault: Encyclopedia Dramatica is Getting Sued Too! (archive), popular nazi trolling platform, Daily Stormer, runs a story about our ongoing lawsuit to help bring us in more donations. Thanks bro.
• Hunting the Manosphere (archive) a New York Times piece protecting David Futrelle by saying that ED cherrypicks quotes, which doesn't explain why there is a link to the source for every quote.
• The rise of the online altcyclopedia (archive) we get mentioned twice and they quote our take on RationalWiki.

July 2017

• The lawsuit that could kill Encyclopedia Dramatica (archive) The Daily Dot writes about the Jonmon lawsuit.

• KnowYourMeme writes a special news post about the copyright troll/SLAPP lawsuit.

September 2017

• A nice write up on VICE featuring comments from Lt. LulzKiller and Zaiger.
• Gizmodo mentions us in article about Gab.ai

October 2017

• The Pedobear Motion Practice You’ve Been Waiting For: the fate of ED and the Pedobear meme will be decided in court!

December 2017

• Mentioned in connection with couch cuck William Atchison, aka User:AlGore. (archive)
• "The Root" also wrote an article about AlGore where they somehow came to the conclusion he was "banned from one site, Encyclopedia Dramatica, for two years for being a troll, although, while using another of his usernames, he became a moderator on the same site until users complained about him posting too many “alt-right” and pro-Columbine, Colo., high school shooter memes.
• Algore article on Law and Crime
• Raw story article also about him

2018

February 2018

• The fucking SLPC "Atchison also allegedly frequented the Daily Stormer, the racist alt-right’s most notorious website, in addition to other known online communities favored by the alt-right, such as EncyclopediaDramatica, Kiwi Farms, 4chan and various videogame forums."
• Ball State Daily used an image from our article on the folk rock band Neutral Milk Hotel and was kind enough to credit us!! ARCHIVE 1 ARCHIVE 2

August 2018

• Study Breaks mentions us in an article about so-called "Internet Bloodsports." They describe us as "a completely NSFW version of Wikipedia". ARCHIVE 1

2019

February 2019

• The Daily Beast links to our page on Sarah Butts. ARCHIVED

2022

January 2022

• Daily Eastern News name drops ED and falsely claims we engage in bullying campaigns. But a news mention is a news mention, right? "A quick background on her is that she is a YouTube vlogger and creator of this web comic called Sonichu. Since late 2007, Chandler was a target for bullying by Encyclopedia Dramatica, 4chan and Kiwi Farms who mocked her artwork and online behavior. "

April 2022

• TheThings.Com quotes a le reddit user reference to Encyclopedia Dramatica. "Reddit Moment"?

November 2022

• Denver Post blames ED's old drama-filled article about Anderson Lee Aldrich for his shooting spree happening, claiming we at ED partake in "online bullying". ED is satire - not 'bUllYinG', ya lusers. Whatever, though. Oddly enough they don't mention Encyclopedia Dramatica by name, rather vaguely mentioning specific elements of the article in question. Archived on Archive.is

ED in the Newsis part of a series on The History of Encyclopedia Dramatica

[Seal ThemOpen the Records] Events: In Chronological Order In the Beginning ◆ Attempted coup of the wiki ◆ RFJason CL Experiment ◆ May 2007 ◆ Dancing sandwich war ◆ ED turns 5 ◆ Creation of the ED Mascot ◆ ED sued by Australian Human Rights Commissions ◆ Australian Media interview ◆ Sheneequa Turns Four ◆ Girlvinyl deletes "Niggers" ◆ DeHippo replaces ED with KYM clone ◆ Operation Restoration ◆ New ED founder v& ◆ We change domains over 9000 times for various, hilarious reasons ◆ EDF2 game on the news ◆ ED turns 10 ◆ The Great ED Civil War of 2018 and Zaiger being kicked out for stealing money ◆ New ED owner gets v& (again) ◆ The Great Ass Napkins Saga ◆ Chicago Footjob During the Great Reign of ED: Includes Timelines 2005 ◆ 2006 ◆ 2007 ◆ 2008 ◆ 2009 ◆ 2010 ◆ 2011 ◆ 2012 ◆ 2013 ◆ 2014 ◆ 2015 ◆ 2016 ◆ 2017 ◆ 2018 ◆ 2019 ◆ 2020 ◆ 2021 ◆ 2022 ◆ 2023 ◆ 2024 Other Notable Years: 1980s ◆ 1990s ◆ 2000s ◆ 2010s ◆ Y2K ◆ Future ◆ 2001 ◆ 2002 ◆ 2003 ◆ 2004 See Also: ED Government ◆ Encyclopedia Dramatica in the News ◆ Disgraced, Missing and Dead Dramaticans ◆ Taking down ED