Registration has been disabled and the moderation extension has been turned off.
Contact an admin on Discord or EDF if you want an account. Also fuck bots.

PostSecret: Difference between revisions

From Encyclopedia Dramatica
Jump to navigation Jump to search
← Older edit
imported>Schnookums
imported>Schnookums
 
(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown)
(No difference)

Latest revision as of 12:49, 13 February 2014

A typical PostSecret postcard
The secrets sent in to PostSecret are apparently lens flares.

PostSecret encourages lonely, suicidal, emo people, with fucked up pasts, twisted sex lives, and/or disturbing fetishes, to write their deepest, darkest secrets on homemade postcards. Then, these people mail their works of art with secrets scribbled on them to a man in Maryland that they've never met. He posts them on the internet and publishes them in books, making the secrets thoroughly un-secret. Some believe that having the most embarrassing fact about you on display to the entire world will, of course, prevent you from killing yourself.

A selection of some of the most controversial secrets are featured in the song, Dirty Little Secret, by The All-American Rejects. Hearing your secret in the lyrics is yet another reason to not commit suicide.

Materials

PostSecret postcards are commonly made of:

History

Postcards are selected based on on how good of an ad they are.
Frank signing one of the books. Taking credit for the work of others.

PostSecret was originally founded by Frank Warren in response to the Supreme Court ruling that the Catholic Church must end its monopoly on secrets. Now, however, PostSecret continues mainly for the lulz and in the interest of capitalism.

In PostSecret's early days, information about the suicide prevention hotline would be present at the bottom of the page every week. Feedback from visitors would be emailed in and then hand-picked by Frank to be posted in response to the postcards, saying things like, "Don't become an hero! It was just an iPod! We still love you!"

Then, one day, Frank had an epiphany:

1. Collect postcards.
2. Compile these postcards into a book.
3. Everyone whose postcard is included in the book will be guaranteed to buy the book, plus some other saps.
4. ????
5. PROFIT!

From that point on, the website's primary motivation has visibly shifted away from keeping depressed people alive to keeping Frank's wallet fat. The suicide prevention hotline information was removed and replaced with information about the books, tour dates, and Amazon links. Visitor comments are chosen to be posted not by how uplifting they are, but based on how well they advertise the latest book. And if you send it in a postcard about the book, that HAS to go up. Quick, take down the one about having lost all hope, and put up the ad postcard!

Gallery of Secrets

See Also

External Links

PostSecret is part of a series on

Sites

Visit the Sites Portal for complete coverage.

YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND ME!
YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND ME!
 PostSecret is part of a series on
</3 EMO </3
[BleedCut]
Your best friend.
Your best friend.
This article is crap. You can help by completely re-writing it.
Retrieved from "http://edramatica.com/index.php?title=PostSecret&oldid=233887"