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alt title(s): Encyclopaedia Dramatica
Encyclopedia Dramatica
Encyclopedia Dramatica is a site that you either love or hate. It's pretty much impossible not to be on one side of the fence. Its purpose is to parody and satirize the internet, and this is done in a format similar to The Other Wiki. Its second purpose is to document the lulz (pretty much just laughing at stupid things people do on the internet) and internet memes.


This Site Provides Examples of

  • Accentuate The Negative: A trademark of the site.
  • Acceptable Targets: Averted. Having acceptable targets implies that some are unacceptable.
  • Anarchy Is Chaos: Played fairly straight by this Self Demonstrating Article, which would not be out of place on Uncyclopedia.
  • And Knowing Is Half The Battle: Parodied with their main page's featured articles section, "THE MOAR YOU KNOW."
  • Brain Bleach: You better have this on hand before clicking a link to ED. On the offchance you decide to actually take a complete Wiki Walk there (holy crap what are you thinking?!), bring a 9001-gallon tanker of Brain Bleach.
  • Brand X: Some of the "ads" that pop up offer Pedobear T-shirts, Long Cat plushies, links to fake dating sites, and some other things... Yes, even that.
  • But You Screw One Goat: Several of the people documented — including some almost-literal examples from people who apparently thought telling the whole world about it was a good idea.
  • Crosses The Line 2.28811^11 Times
  • Dead Baby Comedy: They dedicate an entire page to this and a caption of a harlequin baby is "fried to perfection."
  • deviantART: A very common target for the site is deviantART and its members. In fact, a noticeable amount of the people shown on ED could be considered examples of Small Name Big Ego are members of deviantART, as are members of the Furry Fandom.
  • Equal Opportunity Evil: Despite its content, people from various different backgrounds, races, religions, and sexualities read and edit the site when they create an account.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Harm a cat, and you will suffer the consequences of the Internet Hate Machine.
  • Everythings Cuter With Kittens: Cruelly parodied. "Kitten" redirects to "Cat", which, ironically, is (mostly) safe for work. "Kittens", on the other hand...
  • Evil Feels Good: Arguably one of the reasons why it has so much traffic.
  • Fan Hater
  • Fantastic Racism: They may be serious about the racism, or they may be joking. You just can't tell with this site. However, users who are suspected of being real racists are branded as such, and are sneered upon by most of the community. There's even a template that says: "THIS USER MAY ACTUALLY BE RACIST". Their pages for Stormfront and the KKK show that they think racists are just as retarded as those who try so hard to be politically correct.
  • Fetish: Dramatica has no qualms with poking fun at the strange fetishes people may have.
  • For The Evulz: Partial Trope Namer.
  • Fun With Acronyms: The article on "CP" (child pornography, specifically the posting thereof on 4chan). Other things that are referred to as "CP" (such as control points in Team Fortress 2) also link to this article, just for the hell of it.
  • Furry Fandom: Debatably their favorite targets; however, ED actually doesn't hate furries. This explains it all.
  • Garbage Post Kid
  • GIFT
  • Gorn: Why you have to be careful when the pictures start loading.
  • Hatedom: It thrives here. The website is basically a combination of every hatedom in existence. Good luck finding a website that can match it in terms of over the top hatred of everything. Well, except Metapedia.
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The part of "Offended" that isn't Squick.
  • Jerk Ass: Pretty much the whole point of the site.
  • Kick The Dog: Some people who are attacked really do have personality and mental disorders that haven't been taken care of well. Encyclopedia Dramatica holds nothing back for those people.
  • Lighter And Softer - Whatport80 is a SFW version.
  • Love It Or Hate It: Yeah.
  • Memetic Mutation: The only thing they seem to like. Just be careful though... you might get grossed out.
  • Nausea Fuel: If you're reading an article there, odds are there's some Squicky porn or a Shock Site.
  • Nonindicative Name: You would not automatically assume it was this kind of thing from the title, unless you were so net-bound you immediately thought 'controversy' when you read 'drama.'
    • Allegedly, it used to be a legit wiki for a dead LJ community, until /b/ and the goons found it. The original articles themselves haven't been touched, oddly enough.
  • NSFW: The entire site, due to the ads if not the content. The content that is NSFW is Not Safe For Sanity either.
  • Over Nine Thousand: They seem to love this one. Its ubiquity is derided on some pages. On one of the new Improvement Drive pages, it pretty much says "No more. Alright? Stop."
  • Pot Hole: Possibly the Trope Codifier for using pot holes as a form of humor or commentary (some articles, such as "SHIT NOBODY CARES ABOUT", exist pretty much solely for this reason).
  • Rape As Comedy: Most of the time.
  • Rule Thirty Four: Lots. And not just the regular kind. There's some really creepy shit over there.
  • Refuge In Audacity: Also the entire point of the site!
  • Refuge In Vulgarity: Speaking of which, NEVER, EVER, EVER go to the article titled 'Offended', Your faith in humanity will automatically drop to zero. Let's put it this way: at one point, it manages to turn Pokemon furry porn into a breath of fresh air.
  • Sarcasm Mode: One of ED's favorite activities is, when writing an article, to say something along the lines of, say, 'Elderly people are totally awesome,' and have 'awesome' hyperlinked, leading to a page entitled 'Lies' or 'Bullshit.'
  • Schmuck Bait: It says DO NOT ENTER on the entry page. So what do you do??
  • Shock Site: Another reason to be careful and avoid looking up Goatse. You will learn too much about the man behind the anus.
  • Shown Their Work: If it's an article about a someone on the net, they're going to show lots of images and footnotes about that person's drama.
    • Even (perhaps especially) if there are embarrassing forum posts that the subject attempted to delete. ED contributors make sure to get screencaps so the lulz is forever preserved.
    • Generally, when they're not being hideously offensive (or perhaps because of it), ED is surprisingly accurate. Whereas things must be toned down or excluded from That Other Wiki even if (or sometimes seemingly because they) are factual in the name of neutrality, ED has no such illusions, and will gladly parade all the facts (and speculation and fiction, but it's easy enough to tell because these usually aren't sourced) that rules lawyering can get removed from That Other Wiki.
  • Sitcom Arch Nemesis: Uncyclopedia and That Other Wiki.
  • Sliding Scale Of Idealism Versus Cynicism: In danger of falling off the Cynical end.
  • Small Name Big Ego: Goes by the name of "Unwarranted self-importance" there.
  • Squick: See Brain Bleach above.
  • Stealth Parody: A few articles like the one on men or heterosexuals are obviously joking.
    • The whole damn site is this. Generally. However, much of the humour is so nasty that often you can't tell whether it's a stealth parody or an excuse to say really nasty things about people you don't like.
    • Keep in mind- it's a wiki. Even within a single article, some of the contributors may be tongue in cheek and others just using the excuse.
    • It depends on the whole article. If it's attacking a particular group, they're usually serious. If it's stuff like "You", "America", "Gays", "Jews," and "Women", it's just Dead Baby Comedy.
    • The "JEWS DID WTC" meme for example mocks those who believe in massive Jewish conspiracies to control everything. Their articles on pretty much every race (including white people) are clearly satirical. They simply don't make any effort to make it clear to people who are easily offended.
  • Step Three Profit
  • Strawman Political: Politicians of all stripes get savaged fairly equally, and it's probably one of the only sites out there to give Barack Obama anything close to the same savaging as George Bush.
  • This Loser Is You: You ("You Suck" redirects to "Fail")
  • Trade Snark: Used for their WikiFurŪ article.
  • Troll: The main goal of the wiki is to be so offensive that it will inevitably provoke people to write angry complaints, which means more material for the articles the complaints are related to.
  • Wiki Schizophrenia: An entry can go from mocking its target, to mocking ED, to mocking who are against the target (for example: Nazis, which has an entry for trolling Nazis, trolling by pretending to be a Nazi, links blaming Jews, and links mocking Nazis for blaming Jews). This may be deliberate.
  • Xanatos Gambit: The article "It was a social experiment" mocks people's attempts at claiming to have set up one of these.
  • Your Mom: A perennial favorite.


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