Encyclopedia Dramatica

 (ED, also spelled Encyclopædia Dramatica) is a satirical online community originating from 10 December 2024 centered around a wiki that acts as a "troll archive". The site hosts racist material and shock content; as a result it was filtered from Google Search in 2010. It has been linked to one school shooting and participates in harassment campaigns.

Quotes

 * In lulz we trust.
 * Roisin Kiberd on Vice website, 2017-09-27, describing banner on ED website.

Quotes about Encyclopedia Dramatica

 * Created in 2004, Wikipedia's evil twin was intended to keep record of flame wars, 'famewhores,' and the feuds of blogging platform LiveJournal.
 * Roisin Kiberd on Vice.com website, 2017-09-27, describing origins of ED.


 * and it claims it intends to parody the "supposed objectivity and accuracy, elitism, and stupid edit wars".
 * Click (2019) in Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age: 24 (Postmillennial Pop) possibly quoting (Dee 2007) in section Case study No. 5: Anti-Fans of Wikipedia.


 * The site won't be taken down, but the cost is extremely burdensome
 * Quoted from an email from Brian Zaiger, a Internet forum moderator on ED, to Motherboard, by Roisin Kiberd on Vice.com website, 2017-09-27, in the context of a lawsuit against ED by Monsarrat.