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WARNING: This site is NOT safe for work! If you want to mess up your mind - do it at home.

Encyclopedia Dramatica

Type	Private
Founded	December 2004
Location	OTI
Key people	Joseph Evers (Owner) Girlvinyl (Pope, Queen, President, Dictator) Ghettofinger (Lead developer)
Industry	Drama documentation
Products	Lulz
Website	Encyclopediadramatica.com.

Encyclopedia Dramatica is a cesspool of a wiki that allows any kind of content at all with no restrictions. Due to this fact it is not safe for work at all. EVAR!

Origins (From Encyclopediadramatica.com)

“	That isn't Wikipedia, but the Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's that infamous site that's been made by a**holes who got kicked out of editing at Wikipedia so they made their own Wiki where standards of good taste, common decency, and the avoidance of NSFW pictures do not exist. They made pages for about a gazillion people whom they deem unfit to live, including myself.	„
—DaveykinsFoxFire on Encyclopedia Dramatica [1]

Encyclopedia Dramatica was created on December 9th, 2004, while Girlvinyl was impatiently awaiting the delivery of her iBook. Ghettofinger and Girlvinyl were outraged and amused by the ill-treatment of internet celebrity Jameth by the moderators and idiots at Wikipedia, and Girlvinyl decided it was time to present an alternative to the fascist hold they had over information on the internets.

The site's title was coined by 33mhz on Jameth's journal. On the inaugural install and first operational night of ED, Scarlet and Jeremyjx were added as moderators, with others following. Once the site was posted on LNN, its audience and content grew exponentially.

Like all websites with user-generated content, ED quickly degenerated into a forum for unfunny revenge attempts by butthurt individuals of every description -- bigots, banned website users, trolling victims, failed trolls, and virgins rejected by hot girls. 99.9% of all ED articles are tl;dr ravings about things the person dislikes, or unknown and uninteresting LiveJournal or DeviantART users who made someone mad by existing. The other .1% are archives of YouTube links.

All users are welcomed to create and modify content to more accurately reflect the internets and help archive the never ending supply of e-drama.

What's with the æ ?

The proper spelling of Encyclopædia Dramatica includes the little æ; however, those characters are not allowed to be registered in domain names, so the mundane spelling is often used. Anyone can use alt+145, alt+0230, or alt+z (option+' on OS X, or Ctrl+Shift+u+00E6 on Linux) if you'd like to experience it. Okay, well maybe not the last one. As æ is confusing and mysterious like ED itself, it became the mascot for the site. æ is also a normal character in the Danish, French, and Norwegian alphabets.

See Also

• ED's MySpace
• ED's Facebook
• ED's Twitter
• Wikipedia's article on ED

Ooo those cheeky Uzbeks! (Alexa.com)