Encyclopedia Dramatica

Encyclopædia Dramatica

Type	Private
Founded	December 2004
Location	OTI
Key people	Joseph Evers (Owner) Girlvinyl (Queen) The Sysops.
Motto	{{{motto}}}
Industry	Drama documentation
Products	Lulz
Website	here.

Encyclopædia Dramatica is a central catalog for organized reference pages about drama, memes, e-pals and other interesting happenings on the internets. ED is also the final arbiter of truth and human destiny, and can be used to settle any dispute, anywhere, evar.

The old Encyclopedia Dramatica used to be cool, now it sucks, nothing funny, and everything is fucking lame now.

Origins

ED's version of Wikipe-tan is rich and beautiful like Mediacrat, and classy like ED's content.

Not a dickgirl or supreme slut as were suggested, but this works also.

“	That isn't Wikipedia, but the Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's that infamous site that's been made by a**holes who got kicked out of editing at Wikipedia so they made their own Wiki where standards of good taste, common decency, and the avoidance of NSFW pictures do not exist. They made pages for about a gazillion people whom they deem unfit to live, including myself.	„
—David Gonterman, on Encyclopedia Dramatica[1]

Encyclopædia Dramatica was created on December 9th, 2004, while girlvinyl was impatiently awaiting the delivery of her ibook. ghettofinger and girlvinyl were outraged and amused by the ill-treatment of internet celebrity jameth by the moderators and idiots at Wikipedia, and girlvinyl decided it was time to present an alternative to the fascist hold they had over information on the internets.

The site's title was coined by 33mhz on jameth's journal. On the inaugural install and first operational night of ED, scarlet and jeremyjx were added as moderators, with others following. Once the site was posted on LNN, its audience and content grew exponentially.

Like all websites with user-generated content, ED quickly degenerated into a forum for unfunny revenge attempts by butthurt individuals of every description -- bigots, banned website users, trolling victims, failed trolls, and virgins rejected by hot girls. 99.9% of all ED articles are tl;dr ravings about things the person dislikes, or unknown and uninteresting LiveJournal or deviantART users who made someone mad by existing. The other .1% are archives of dead YouTube embeds.

All users are welcomed to create and modify content to more accurately reflect the internets and help archive the never ending supply of e-drama. Please continue to add articles so that the encyclopedia will provide answers to questions like "What the hell is mediacrat?" and "Where are the lulz?"

Not to be confused with Dramapedia, silly pedophiles.

What's with the æ ?

A very good character

The proper spelling of Encyclopædia Dramatica includes the little æ; however, those characters are not allowed to be registered in domain names, so we used the mundane spelling. Feel free to use alt+145, alt+0230, or alt+z (option+' on OS X) if you'd like to experience it. As æ is confusing and mysterious like ED itself, it became the mascot for the site. æ is also a normal character in the Danish, French, and Norwegian alphabets.

Is ED racist/homophobic?

No it is not. While there is a lot of material on ED that many find upsetting, the admins come from a variety of backgrounds, races and sexualities. These people all understand satire and lulz, even when the minority group they are a part of is targeted, they know it was not a serious attack on them.

If you are part of a minority group and are offended by ED take note from PCBIZNUSS in the below video and try to understand we stand for free speech however threatened you may feel by that. After all, without free speech, no minority group would have ever received rights to begin with.

Death and Rebirth (The "Last Thursday")

What most everyone is unaware of is that Encyclopedia Dramatica in its original form cost something akin to an arm and a leg to run. Most people probably forgot the constant begging for donations and complete site shutdowns that used to plague the site, but it was bleeding dollars from every available orifice. In an attempt to profit off the interest of NORPs without scaring them off with pictures of severed dicks and esoteric internet nerd humor, WP80 was born. Whatport80 served as the work-safe alternative wiki to ED, meant to mirror the content of ED with sparkly graphics and sparing use of zingers all while trying to deny some of that sweet sweet traffic money to KYM.

But WP80 sucked and nobody gave a shit. KYM still made a ton of cash.

Failing to stop the monetary hemorrhaging, ED then introduced ClickBangPop. CBP was an ad network to exclusively dealed in advertising on ED itself and offered more leniency in the types of advertising that would be allowed.

But then everyone installed AdBlockPlus because they were sick of popunders and seeing Princess Peach's tits on the sidebar.

Finally, in a last ditch effort to save ED, an idea was born: save the idea of a snarky internet clubhouse and throw out the excessive content.

And now here we are backing up the old wiki because nothing can ever die on the internet. Ever.

How can I help?

For one, you could probably stop worrying about OhInternet and get to work re-uploading images and giving these cute little puppies a good home. Did I mention we need a lot of these pages back?

MysteryBot doesn't exist here so you can always help out by fixing broken redirects as they show up, as well as keep out vandals as they show up.

Write up some original content. Check out this old nugget for some pointers.

Pray to the ghost of OlDirtyBtard that the original goes back up at some point.

See also

• The Lollershop
• ED's MySpace
• ED's facebook
• ED's Main page
• Shut Down ED Petition (lulz it up boys)
• Shut Down ED Completely Make it lulzworthy.

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