Wiki of the Week: Encyclopedia Dramatica

There's a lot to be said about Encyclopedia Dramatica (besides, "in lulz we trust"), and it's place in the internet. It's hard to describe for one. Maybe think of it as "4chan lite" or a "best of 4chan" kind of place. While a lot of it is simple documentation of troll internet culture and humor, a lot of actual discussion is done there. Popular topic pages are often updated extremely frequently, making a weird sort of conversation within edits (since most is done with the wiki format). The New York Times described the site fairly well (if a little pretentiously), "an online compendium of troll humor and troll lore."

Anonymous is here, they have power, and there's a reason they exist in this new thing we call the internet. It may not be apparent until we are able to really step back and take a look at how these constant connections are affecting us.

But maybe I'm taking this too seriously, and should probably just have fun reading some lulz instead.

Encyclopedia Dramatica.

and "Encyclopedia Dramatica" on Wikipedia.