Encyclopedia Dramatica
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Encyclopedia Dramatica (ED or æ;[5] stylized as Encyclopædia Dramatica)[6][7] is an online community centered around a wiki[8] that acts as a "troll archive".[9] The site hosts racist material[10] and shock content; as a result it was filtered from Google Search in 2010.[11] An administrator of the website was the perpetrator of the 2017 Aztec High School shooting,[12] and users of the site frequently participate in harassment campaigns.[13]
Type of site | Wiki, forums and parody |
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Available in | English |
Owner | |
Created by | Sherrod DeGrippo[3] |
Revenue | Advertising and donations |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional (required to edit pages) |
Launched | |
Current status | Online as of July 2024 |
Its articles lampoon topics and current events related or relevant to contemporary internet culture in an encyclopedic fashion. It often serves as a repository of information and a means of discussion for the internet subculture known as Anonymous.[14] Encyclopedia Dramatica celebrates a subversive "NSFW" "trolling culture"[15][16] and documents internet memes, events such as mass organized pranks; trolling events called "raids", large-scale failures of internet security, and criticism by those within its subculture of other internet communities which are accused of self-censorship in order to garner positive coverage from traditional and established media outlets. The site hosts numerous pornographic images, along with content that is misogynistic, racist, antisemitic, islamophobic and homophobic.[17]
On April 14, 2011, the original URL of the site was redirected to a new website named "Oh Internet" that bore little resemblance to Encyclopedia Dramatica. Parts of the ED community harshly criticized the changes.[18] On the night of the Encyclopedia Dramatica shutdown, regular ED visitors bombarded the 'Oh Internet' Facebook wall with hate messages.[19] The Web Ecology Project published a downloadable archive of Encyclopedia Dramatica's content the next day.[20][21] Besides this archive, fan-made torrents and several mirrors of the original site were subsequently generated.[22] Based on these archives, the site has repeatedly gone offline and come back under new domain names. Between 2013 and 2020, the website was hosted under various top level domains: .rs, .ch, .es, .se,[23] .wiki, and .online, with each domain bearing the second-level domain "encyclopediadramatica".[24][25]