I hear by declare ED and everyone of it's faggots total shitheads and fail.
Really, do we even need this shit? All GuyVinyl does is complain about the internet.
Seconded
I don't like the vulgar words and non stop negativity.
I enjoy it, it brings much headache-inducing wheeze-laughter.
Particularly the slander articles on bizarre characters (like Mongo the wikipedia ex-admin)
Also, check out the rare serious articles on wikipedia/Jimbo Wales' various vendettas (particularly toward ED itself)
Did you know the mere mention of Encyclopedia Dramatica on wikipedia is effectively banned? It's not even in this list of wikis despite being more notable than 80% of those already included!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis
And I have a runner up:
Urban Dicktionary.
Really, someone should IP hack and take down this shit.
also wikichan
etherchan.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
urban dictionary is often useful. encyclopedia dramatica is often shit. neither are 100% one way or the other
yeah, urban dictionary might be 96% written by idiots, but it's still incredibly useful for deciphering either some obscure regional slang or stupid meme that you haven't heard before.
encyclopedia dramatica on the other hand is a distillation of all that is terrible about certain corners of the internet.
> Really, someone should IP hack and take down this shit.
yay for vigilante censorship!
one of the memes i created is now on encyclopedia dramatica, so i feel like i finally accomplished something in my life
True story: Encyclopedia Dramatica is a shitty site accountable for about 50% of the keyboard-slobbering retards who currently post on 4chan. These people can be easily identified by their desperate attempts to use "lulz", "9000", or "drama" in practically every sentence. They think repeating the same thing over and over is funny, and have never come up with anything even remotely original. 4chan "invading" ED back in 2006 was a mistake. It made 4chan stupider, but completely failed to make ED better.
Truth.
>>11
I'd just like to say, FUCKING SECONDED.
lulz like drama x9000
>>11-14 90% probability of Jisaku Jien being the subject of an article on ED.
Not that actually I care, unless said person is a "Sage Freehaven" level douche.
nevertheless ED is good website IMO.
> good website
the only good website in internets history is zombocom
ED is a hate site, it promotes hate.
>>21
The face of ED (Erectile Dysfunction).
OP - Butthurt fag?
>>24
NO U
>>11
WORD.
I once believed that the GNAA-run ED deliberately made 4chan entries to entice newbies to join 4chan and sabotage it.
There are recognisable by their over use of the word EPIC.
Not that we needed the gnaa's intervention for 4chan die slowly from it's own openness.
"Fight club" has been overrun by "project mayhem", idiots with names, following leaders like sheep, who believe they have a higher purpose.
There is no purpose. There are no rules other than the ones set by freedom. "Tyler" is within every man.
You cannot belong by using signs and memes.
It is a slow process of lurking and learning.
It is a personal journey where anonymous, toshiaki, noname, etc... become part of who you are and you become part of them, you share in their successes and downfalls.
These new users do not understand the culture of anonymity, they do not understand anarchy, they want to belong without working hard, they want to be led.
As much as I despise these new users for pissing on my culture, I feel for them and their desperate longing to be part of something. Sadly, for most of them, anon culture is not the answer. They belong elsewhere but have nowhere to go.
>>26
I despise you for taking the whole thing way too seriously.
Who gives a flying fuck? It's anonymous, you can be a faggot, an asshole, an oldfag, it DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER. And you know why? Because it's anonymous. There are no rankings, no ideal way to be a /b/tard, just try you're best not to fail miserably.
And on the topic of ED, it's good for a few laughs here and there, but it's nothing special. It's just an encyclopedia of internet culture.
My issue with ED is that it's maintained by a bunch of faggots who are insecure about the size of their penis and as such they have to insult anything and everything.
Oh, and they're complete pussies for thinking swap.avi is the most fucking disgusting thing ever.
> a bunch of faggots who are insecure about the size of their penis
Sounds like you'd fit right in.
Through ED I found 4-ch.net - so it can't be all that bad, can it?
>>26
But... do I have to be anonymous? I watched Fight Club and I think it's a pretty good movie. A movie. I've been to /b/ on many imageboards - and there's no fightclub spirit there. "lolz" killed it I gues.
Name: Katamari Bowl
> Through ED I found 4-ch.net - so it can't be all that bad, can it?
> But... do I have to be anonymous?
Changed my mind; ED SUX COX!
lol :) Don't get me wrong, there are things wrong with ED, namely negativity. But they do fight a good fight against furry, we have to credit them for that.
About that name of mine :) It's a joke, ok?
>>35
"On a forum where registration is required, or even where people give themselves names, a clique is developed of the elite users, and posts deal as much with who you are as what you are posting. On an anonymous forum, if you can't tell who posts what, logic will overrule vanity." http://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/
Corrected my error and will follow the tradition. Thnx, bye now.
>>36
Thank you for lurking more, it's appreciated by all.
>>31
A goon-funded, Brazilian(I think) made scat porn.
>>30
They do? I never remembered it being mentioned anywhere, then again, I have hardly been there in the last year and a half or so.
When I first found it (googling something, I forgot what), I thought it was entertaining, and decided to start writing/editing.
Then I started posting on 4chan.
Then I thought it would be a good idea to invite channers to ED.
It worked okay for a little while, but then they started coming in droves, in part because of the shit from last August, in part because ED was starting to become Wikichan 2: The Memening. Between that and people wanting to really get ED's name out there, which ended up compounding the problem, it wasn't fun anymore. Pissing off some emotionally unstable LJ users was one thing, but trying to be wikichan, and an internet celebrity site, and keeping up with the vlogs of fat youtube users rambling about hackers and geospacial coordinates was just too much to try to even read about, let alone write about.
Then I found 4ch and decided to just chill on DQN.
jesus fuck, you pussies.
ED is just another site meant to be funny. if its not your humour, dont visit it. you just look stupid for having a serious discussion about this shit...
for fucks sake...
i hate encyclopedia dramatica. stfu and go do something positive
ED isn't any more funny then telling somebody "Your moms so fat..".
>>40 agreed
this thread is so bad
i fucking hate you OP
Actually I find a fair number of the articles quite amusing.
I do believe it's slightly better than Urban Dictionary on the intelligence scale. At least most of the stuff written is coherent and not some one liner dribble. Unless you have a page written about you (in which case you are either an attention/cam/furry/deviantart whore), I wouldn't see why it would be more offensive than some cheap satire. Granted, it's not as funny as it used to be with the recent over use of memes, but like with most good sites, it's the cost of popularity and as a result, more noobs joining the party.
I visit ED a lot, not really because I enjoy it, but because it's great to find out what's happening around the internet, epically the parts I'm not really into like myspace. A lot of times I go on it to find out more about 4-chans latest trolling victim, or to see if Fox News has done another INTERNET HATE MACHINE story. I wouldn't have ever even watched the Chris Crocker rant if I hadn't skimmed the article about it, simply because word-of-mouth wasn't enough to interest me. Some of their Youtube links are pretty good too.
OP is just a 4chan troll victim and is butthurt the laughs are now shown on ED.
Kind of like >>49, I just go there to see what the hell is going on with things. Right now I go to ED every day to see the status of 420chan.
>>54
Don't provoke your other personalities.
>>49
I agree. However, I do slip in some contributions in the form of images "for the lulz"
Have you read the discussing for the wapanese page?
These people clearly understand what they're doing is wrong (like posting personal information and being racist) but the fact that they're doing it on the net, they feel like they're not doing any harm.
The thing about this is, if the spotlight turned to them instead of the people they mock on their site, they would realize how bad it feels to have your face on a page with text degrading you.
There isn't an article there about me, but I've been mocked before so I know how it feels.
>>59 the thing is, what can you do about teenage bullies on the internet?
If ED didn't exist, they would just be doing the same thing in some other place.
1) Don't post your real name online. (I used 2 searchengines and there was nothing about me to find)
2) For every account you have, use a different alphanumerical password.
3) Make everything you have private (not viewable by others except you allow it [whitelist])
4) Don't draw attention to yourself. Don't post naked pics of you for everyone to see.
With those guidelines, aka common sense, only few people are able to do something.
I mean look at that pedo dude who got raided/made fun of. He is asking for the hate/lol he got. Nothing wrong with it. Same for Applemilk. Nothing wrong with it.
>>Have you read the discussing for the wapanese page?
>>These people clearly understand what they're doing is wrong (like >>posting personal information and being racist) but the fact that >>they're doing it on the net, they feel like they're not doing any harm.
Unless it has been edited, that talkpage doesn't look all that bad, unless you are incapable of understanding that much of what was said is not serious. RL names are frowned upon, and none appear in the article as it is now, meaning any previous RL names were edited out.
>>The thing about this is, if the spotlight turned to them instead of >>the people they mock on their site, they would realize how bad it >>feels to have your face on a page with text degrading you.
Have you looked at user pages for any admins or more prolific editors? Mostly self effacing humor and plainly exaggerated claims of various sorts.
>>There isn't an article there about me, but I've been mocked before so I know how it feels.
Me too. I got over it.
ED complains about everyone and everything that isn't bisexual. Seriously, the Bisexual article was the only one not filled with hate for the topic of the article.
That explains why the ED myspace says it's a bisexual nigger.
Asshurt nigger. HAHA! Die of you LULz, or that shit.
What's with all this "Anonymous as Fight Club metaphor" crap that people like >>26 spout? It's pure wank. I missed the scene where Tyler Durden posts some 15-year-old's phone number online and some other 15-year-old in Iowa phones in death threats to his entire family.
No matter how you cut it now, They are having the final laugh.
This is what ED wants. Chaos, fighting drama, they want to see fighting so as to sit back and laugh.
You wanna do something about it? Call an invasion with 4ch anons and root out all the pages, then damage it in such a way that anon has nothing.
Cause frankly, there is nothing being accomplished by sitting here and whining about how much hate ED has.
Its all the same really, just anons little rally point in which people take out whatever observations or flames they have on other people. They are essentially the fight club of the internet.
Its all a bit of fun. I like it.
Thank you 4chan /b/fag Anon for being a stoic faggot. Besides, THAT'S what ED wants us to do so that they can get more attention. And besides, most of their users get asshurt over this shit anyway. Fucking pussyfoots.
ED is funny and one of my main sources of entertainment while at work.
I found ED several months before the chans. So I thought it was about livejournal.
I use Livejournal to talk to a relatively close-knit group of friends. As a result, there aten't many idiots on my friends list.
But, if I were to read Encyclopedia Dramatica, I would have assumed that LJ was mostly intended for whining and flamewars and trolling.
It became apparent to me that the people who edit ED hate practically everyone and everything, whether it deserves derision or not. And I saw right through that into the core of self-loathing behind it.
But, I know how easy it is for a kid to take the wrong thing seriously, especially while in high school.
Uncyclopedia is much more amusing anyway... it's like Encyclopedia Dramatica but with less idiocy and personal attacks.
But entertainment is a matter of taste, I guess.
At least it was a Fight Club metaphor that made sense. Could be worse.
ED had to become garbage, it was prophecied by Hamtaro long ago.
This thread may be just smart advertising for ED.
I admit it's kinda stupid. But it gives more of a point of view insight then Uncyclopedia or Wikipedia.
>>75
People are selling erectile dysfunction now? WTF?
>>38
Wow, it happened the exact same way for me (only I didn't really post ED to 4chan, I knew better than that). I was there when only I and a couple actively edited and the Recent Changes log for two, three days could fit in one page. (Hell, we probably know each other) I really liked it when it was mostly a LJDrama injoke filled with geek humor, exaggerated parodies of Internet stereotypes and angry LJ users who should have known better than to create drama.
Then, 4chan happened. 4channers started pouring in, who misunderstood the style and started making their (really bad) articles about /b/ memes. Come on, [[100 years ago]] and [[lulz]] on every 2 paragraphs stopped being funny a long time ago, for fuck's sake.
/b/ filled ED with their people. In return, every single new /b/tard will find ED, read the 4chan related articles and proceed to make 4chan shittier by doing nothing but sprout stupid memes 90% of the time. It's a never ending cycle of lameness.
It's not all bad, though. I can't deny that ED is still useful sometimes, for example, when you want to get up to date on subjects that Wikipedia refuses to cover.
So 4chan and ED ruined each other, then?
Wikis are a petri dish for memes.
As one of those who found 4chan mostly through ED, I didn't post memes because I figured if they were what I thought they were, nine people would post the appropriate meme at the same time, and so forth. I was also on Usenet, so I'm already familiar with the life cycle of a meme.
Ok, I have to say that you clearly didnt understand the point of ED then
On the first page it says : "This website is ment to be a work of satire and should not be used as an actual referance."
Think of it like this: It's "The onion" of the chan culture
> It's "The onion" of the chan culture
No it fucking isn't.
I would have agreed if you said "7chan culture".
The core of what you call "chan culture" is in Japan and has zero overlap in culture and userbase with the ED crowd, and very little overlap with most of the english-speaking anonymous bulletin boards - save for a few of them.
And regarding that, the core of the English-speaking anonymous bulletin boards is 4chan, but /b/ isn't the only board there. All the staff have pretty much completely given up on /b/, but they are trying hard to help the rest of the site to become more mature. Pretty much anyone who posts on one of non-/b/ non-porn boards on 4chan is likely to loathe the ED-7chan-/i/-"we are legion epic lulz" idiots.
Also, the Onion is extremely funny. ED isn't funny at all. Even if a few passages could be funny the first time they are written, any good writing on ED is eventually wiki-raped by meme-spewing idiots.
1 word and this will end the entire debate:
Satire
There. all you people need to know.
>>83
There's nothing worse than when people claim acting like a horde of obnoxious braindead unfunny cunts actually, wouldn't you know, has some deep biting satirical purpose and meaning to it. Postmodern BOLLOCKS.
ED's always been shite. But yeah, just don't go there. I NEVER go there! Just someone on my MSN keeps sending me links to articles.
Doesn't matter if they're a douche or not. The poor behaviour of others does not justify poor behaviour on your part.
A lot of it is just plain cruel and heartless. They attack handicapped people and those with behaviour disorders they can't help.
Well....I don't know....but one thing that I want to say is that I don't like ED! Nuff said!
there's good satire and shitty satire. ED is satire for morons.
>ENCYCLOPEDIA DRAMATICA IS ABOUT TO SHUT DOWN FOREVER.
>Encyclopedia Dramatica is being attacked, has lost ads and has no money.
THERE IS A GOD
ED is a horrible site. I much prefer Wikichan, as its articles are written more like Wikipedia's but focusing on internet culture. It's not an unlimited faggotry portal; it actually tries to record internet cultural memes well.
I hate ED, because it's hateful and dehumanizing, if I wanted that I'd hang out on 420chan's /b/.
Listen up EDers, that crap you spew isn't comedy, it's just you being a bunch of creepy nerds.
HAIL TO THOSE WHO ATTACK ED!!! BRAVO!!!!!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
It's almost funny how serious people are taking something like ED. Especially given the notion that you don't have to visit it, you don't have to do anything with it. As long as you aren't a complete moron or attention whore on the internet, then you aren't going to end up on ED.
The site has a very disjointed, neurotic style, but it follows through the entire site. Essentially it chronicles the seedier side of the internet and Web 2.0 in particular. It's a voice against the self-important dolts on Youtube, MySpace, etc. That voice may be masked as a shreiking 16 year old boy full of pent up rage, but it's a voice none the less.
Besides, if you actually look through ED, they hate everything. Almost nothing escapes criticism and the only bias is unto itself.
Yeah, they hate everything that I even don't know what they are believing, luls?
ED is shit and is the embodiment of the children on the internet in 2005 www
It was decent back when it conformed to its own mission statement and acted as a wiki for internet drama that Wikipedia wouldn't touch.
Now it's overrun by kids who want to make it Uncyclopedia With More Bad Words, which even seems to include the founders now.
Most of the articles there are based on something amusing, but it's impossible to read any article long enough for the self-evident funny to shine through since the whole thing is ruined by idiotic superfluous garbage. For example, there are a number of articles on paedophiles. Many of these have good content. Why then does almost every single other article need to start with a baseless unfunny accusation of paedophilia, or whatever, when that has nothing to do with what's actually interesting about that subject?
Unfortunately the current userbase almost universally misses the point.
I hope it doesn't meet it's goal (donations). I will be glad when it's closed, some sh1t is just going too far and really not funny.
The tone of the articles used to be "here is a funny thing let me tell you about it".
Now it's "I assume you already know this so here it is again but with a meme in every sentence".
I hope it does fail the fundraising and die. Actually, I hope the owner has suddenly suffered a bout of shame over what a plague the site is to the internet and this is just a scam to rip off any faggots stupid enough to donate before he shuts it down JUST AS PLANNED.
> I much prefer Wikichan
Wikichan is ran by a completely fucktarded kid who isn't capable of running a site for more than 1 month without getting everything deleted. Make sure you save anything worthwhile you find there when it happens to be up and don't forget to ask Shii to mirror it for you on his wiki when it goes down.
The "it's actually a deep ironic parody" defense, what a cop out.
>That voice may be masked as a shreiking 16 year old boy full of pent up rage, but it's a voice none the less.
No it's not a "mask" (the fuck?), they're real 16 year old self loathing tossers. Honestly, "disjointed, neurotic style"? A voice against self-important dolts? Who was taking ED too seriously again?
You are some bored teenagers who death threat people for stupid things they've done on the internet. And if you aren't doing that, you're doing something equally churlish. I'm sure there's some real heavy social criticism woven into this abuse though. Clits.
Great, it was saved by donations. Instead of wasting money on that piece of shit, you could've fed some starved children, meme my ass
"do we even need this shit?"
Since when is the internet about what you need? You're just butthurt about people doing something you don't like. Get over it, or you're a bigger idiot than anyone on that site.
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fisting?
lesbian fisting with anal and vomiting
um.. so?
We are Eponymous
We never forget,
expect us to, uhh errhmm,
wait a minute----
Eponymous needs your support,
all of us are just as stupid
as none of us, like legionnaire's
disease, you breathe us,
you die of stupid.
Eponymous wants total control
and compliance, but obeys no
code.
Eponymous can break Rules 1 & 2
but you can't
Eponymous always wants MORE,
and it gets MORE.
Eponymous does it for your ballz.
Eponymous is your Hero
Eponymous is your friend, REALLY!
Eponymous is your personal Army,
we will even raid innocent bystanders
if you simply ACCUSE them.
Eponymous will forgive you if you
comply.
Eponymous unites by dividing by zero.
Eponymous delivers failure,
right to your door, at no
extra charge.
Eponymous is a hydrant, constantly dripping
and rusting. Remove one valve, and
you will get soaked.
Eponymous is humanity, morality, armpits,
and horses.
Eponymous cannot be harmed because
if you fall in battle, what the hell
do we care, there are 8999 more
drones to replace you.
Eponymous has an identity crisis.
Eponymous says: "Me First!!!"
Eponymous expects you to be naked
with chickens or promptly remove yourself from
us.
Eponymous has been destroyed
over 8999 times and it just
keeps coming back for more.
Eponymous is NOT a terrorist,
it just wants to be loved.
Eponymous: Over 8999 strong.
Eponymous = One divided by Zero,
it is impossible.
Eponymous: Coming soon to
a theatre near you.
Eponymous: Betraying itself
over 8999 times.
Eponymous: Blowing up more
Ford vans than there are
ballz on a golf course.