When the community was banned from LiveJournal, they created their own website. She became involved in the LJdrama community, which covered stories on LiveJournal gossip. It was mostly just personalities that were just so nuts and fascinating. Voyeurs and exhibitionists were able to interact in a way that was normalized. People were accessible and it was bidirectional. DeGrippo joined LiveJournal in 2000 and became enthralled by the behavior of some of its members: History DeGrippo Era (.com) Encyclopedia Dramatica's historical logo (2005–2010)Įncyclopedia Dramatica was founded in 2004 by Sherrod DeGrippo, also known by the online pseudonym 'Girlvinyl'. se, with each domain bearing the second-level domain 'encyclopediadramatica'. Between 20, the website was hosted under various top level domains. Based on these archives, the site has repeatedly gone offline and come back under new domain names, with the website currently being hosted at encyclopediadramatica.online. Besides this archive, fan-made torrents and several mirrors of the original site were subsequently generated. The Web Ecology Project published a downloadable archive of Encyclopedia Dramatica's content the next day. On the night of the Encyclopedia Dramatica shutdown, regular ED visitors bombarded the 'Oh Internet' Facebook wall with hate messages. Parts of the ED community harshly criticized the changes. 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. The site hosts numerous pornographic images, along with content that is misogynistic, racist, and homophobic. Encyclopedia Dramatica celebrates a subversive ' NSFW' ' trolling culture' 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. It often serves as a repository of information and a means of discussion for the internet subculture known as Anonymous. Its articles lampoon topics and current events related or relevant to contemporary internet culture in an encyclopedic fashion.

It has been linked to the 2017 Aztec High School shooting and participates in harassment campaigns. The site hosts racist material and shock content as a result it was filtered from Google Search in 2010. com: December 10, 2004 18 years ago ( ) Įncyclopedia Dramatica ( ED also spelled Encyclopædia Dramatica) is a satirical online community centered around a wiki that acts as a ' troll archive'.

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