Encyclopedia Dramatica is a site that you [[LoveItOrHateIt 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 TheOtherWiki. Its second purpose is to document the lulz (pretty much just laughing at stupid things people do on the internet) and internet memes.
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!! This Site Provides Examples of
* AccentuateTheNegative: A trademark of the site.
* AcceptableTargets: Averted. Having acceptable targets implies that some are unacceptable.
* AnarchyIsChaos: [[{{Understatement}} Played fairly straight]] by [[http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Anarchy this]] SelfDemonstratingArticle, which would not be out of place on {{Uncyclopedia}}.
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Parodied with their main page's featured articles section, "THE MOAR YOU KNOW."
* BrainBleach: You better have this on hand before clicking a link to ED. On the offchance you decide to actually take a complete WikiWalk there (holy crap what are you ''thinking''?!), bring a [[MemeticMutation 9001]]-gallon tanker of Brain Bleach.
* BrandX: Some of the "ads" that pop up offer [[EverythingsWorseWithBears Pedobear T-shirts]], [[LOLCats Long Cat plushies]], links to fake dating sites, and some other things... Yes, even [[{{Rule34}} that]].
* ButYouScrewOneGoat: Several of the people documented -- including some almost-literal examples from people who [[TooDumbToLive apparently thought telling the whole world about it was a good idea]].
* [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crosses The Line 2.28811^11 Times]]
* DeadBabyComedy: 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 SmallNameBigEgo are members of deviantART, as are members of the FurryFandom.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Despite its content, people from various different backgrounds, races, religions, and sexualities read and edit the site [[AllegedlyFreeGame when they create an account.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Harm a cat, and you ''will'' suffer the consequences of the Internet Hate Machine.
* EverythingsCuterWithKittens: Cruelly parodied. "Kitten" redirects to "Cat", which, ironically, is (mostly) safe for work. [[{{NauseaFuel}} "Kittens"]], [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel on]] [[{{NSFW}} the]] [[BrainBleach other]] [[{{Gorn}} hand...]]
* EvilFeelsGood: Arguably one of the reasons why it has so much traffic.
* FanHater
* FantasticRacism: 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.
* ForTheEvulz: Partial TropeNamer.
* FunWithAcronyms: 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 ''TeamFortress2'') also link to this article, just for the hell of it.
* FurryFandom: Debatably their favorite targets; however, ED actually doesn't hate furries. [[http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Template:Furry/Welcome This explains it all]].
* GarbagePostKid
* {{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 [[ThoseWackyNazis Metapedia]].
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The part of "Offended" that isn't {{Squick}}.
* JerkAss: Pretty much the whole point of the site.
* KickTheDog: 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.
* LighterAndSofter - Whatport80 is a SFW version.
* LoveItOrHateIt: [[CaptainObvious Yeah]].
* MemeticMutation: The only thing they seem to like. Just be careful though... you might get grossed out.
** [[http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Oh_exploitable You can join in, too.]]
* NauseaFuel: If you're reading an article there, odds are there's some {{Squick}}y porn or a ShockSite.
* NonindicativeName: 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 [[ImageBoards /b/]] and [[SomethingAwful 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 [[{{Squick}} Not Safe For Sanity either]].
* OverNineThousand: 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."
* PotHole: Possibly the TropeCodifier 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).
* RapeAsComedy: Most of the time.
* RuleThirtyFour: Lots. And not just the regular kind. There's some really creepy shit over there.
* RefugeInAudacity: Also the entire point of the site!
* RefugeInVulgarity: 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.
* SarcasmMode: 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.'
* SchmuckBait: It says DO NOT ENTER on the entry page. So what do you do??
* ShockSite: Another reason to be careful and avoid looking up Goatse. You will learn ''too much'' about the man behind the anus.
* ShownTheirWork: 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 ThatOtherWiki 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 ThatOtherWiki.
* SitcomArchNemesis: {{Uncyclopedia}} and ThatOtherWiki.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: In danger of falling off the Cynical end.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Goes by the name of "Unwarranted self-importance" there.
* {{Squick}}: See BrainBleach above.
* StealthParody: 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 [[DudeNotFunny nasty]] that often you can't tell whether it's a stealth parody or an excuse to [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike 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 "[[ThisLoserIsYou You]]", "[[EagleLand America]]", "[[QueerAsTropes Gays]]", "[[GreedyJew Jews]]," and "[[TheUnfairSex Women]]", it's just DeadBabyComedy.
** 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.
* StepThreeProfit
* StrawmanPolitical: Politicians of all stripes get savaged fairly equally, and it's probably one of the only sites out there to give BarackObama anything close to the same savaging as GeorgeBush.
* ThisLoserIsYou: '''You''' ("You Suck" redirects to [[EpicFail "Fail"]])
* TradeSnark: Used for their [=WikiFur=]® 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.
* WikiSchizophrenia: 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.
* XanatosGambit: The article "It was a social experiment" mocks people's attempts at claiming to have set up one of these.
* YourMom: A perennial favorite.
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