Encyclopedia Dramatica

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Encyclopedia Dramatica (ED or æ; stylized as Encyclopædia Dramatica) is an online community website, centered around a wiki. The website's articles use an encyclopedic style to parody topics and events relevant to contemporary internet culture. Encyclopedia Dramatica also serves as a repository of information and a means of discussion for the hacker group known as Anonymous. An article in The New York Times said that the wiki was "effectively" acting as a "troll archive". It celebrates its subversive "NSFW" "troll site culture" and documents internet memes, events such as mass organized pranks, trolling events called "raids", large-scale failures of internet security, and criticism by its users of other internet communities they accuse of censoring themselves in order to garner positive coverage from traditional and established media outlets. The site hosts numerous pornographic and gore images, along with misogynistic, racist, and homophobic content. On April 14, 2011, the original URL...

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