Encyclopedia Dramatica

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Host of episode:
"Encyclopedia Dramatica."

Reporter:
"The encyclopedia Dramatica is a wanna-be wiki site that claims to be about humor, and has one of the most unlikely names."

North American woman:
"'encyclopedia' dramatica - is anything BUT!"

Reporter:
"Its webmasters are insanely envious of the real encyclopedia wiki known as Wikipedia, whose administrators and supporters stood up to them in the face of abuse. Encyclopedia Dramatica has been all bent out of shape over it since."

Encyclopedia Dramatica on the subject of Wikipedia:
"They are fascists!"

Ex-member banned from ED, pointing out their hypocrisy:
"Fascists? Give me a break! I had my account for maybe 24 hours - they didn't like what I did to some of their pages.""

Reporter:
"She was banned from Encyclopedia Dramatica for deleting offensive content including links to some of their cherished photoshopped porn pictures. This makes the administrators at Encyclopedia Dramatica fascists by their own definition."

"The ban notice referred to the ban as a rape. Encyclopedia Dramatica admins joke about and refer to banning as rape, and this indicates they identify with rapists, so, appear to encourage it as well, and have no compassion or understanding toward people who have been raped."

"This adds more insult to injury for people who have been effected by rape directly or indirectly."

"A survivor of such a demeaning brutal attack has this to say."

Irish woman:
"There are some things that should never be encouraged or treated as a joke. Once you go through something like that, you're never the same."

Reporter:
A die-hard Encyclopedia Dramatica fan expresses the attitude she and the site share.

North American Encyclopedia Dramatica fangirl:
"Well, it's all relative, isn't it? Okay maybe getting tortured, or losing a family member was tough on them but - MY SUGGESTION to these people: get a sense of humor! Get a life! So what if they been through bad stuff? We all have! For instance, last week...The electronics store didn't have the high-def TV I wanted."

Australian woman:
"It's a site for trolls, spammers, hoaxters and bullies. It's all about getting laughs at the emotional expense of other people. There was even a hoax about Encyclopedia Dramatica shutting down unless the site received enough money to keep it going."
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:ED_is_the_worst

North American woman:
"Encyclopedia Dramatica was behind that disgusting 'Megan Had It Coming blog, a sick hoax site impersonating somebody involved in cyber-bullying that lead to a suicide."
http://www.mycrimespace.com/2007/12/10/megan-had-it-coming-is-a-hoax-part-iii-hoax-confirmed/

Encyclopedia Dramatica trolls: "I did it for the lulz."
"I did it for the lulz. Desu desu!"
"I did it for the lulz!"
"I did it for the lulz!"

Australian man:
"Take the worst juvenile behavior and the most obnoxious drunken redneck speech, and you have Encyclopedia Dramatica, 4chan, ebaum, anonymous and something awful.com, all doing it for the lulz."

North American woman mocks Encyclopedia Dramatica's pledge of Allegiance:
"'In lulz we trust!' Have you ever heard anything so stupid?"

Trolls and bullies reciting some of their jibberish:
"Desu desu!"
"Fap!"
"Fap!"
"Lulz lulz lulz lulz lulz lulz!"
"Dong!"

North American woman:
"How cute, how cool...How intelligent, how inspiring! How original, how mature. How impressive and profound! ... Not!

Reporter:
"So What is lulz?"

British man:
"Lulz, is a corruption of LOL, the internet acronym for laughing out loud. This isn't ordinary laughing out loud like normal people do online. Lulz is viral bullying and the malevolent cackling by these idiotic internet trolls. They go out of their way to harass and provoke anyone they think they can hog-tie by the emotions, rake them over the coals, laugh at the hurt reactions they get, post these hurt responses on their stupid web sites along with more ridicule. The more reaction these self-enamoured gits can get, the more they cackle. The more they laugh and ridicule, the more emotional reactions they get, and the more they mock. And it's all done very publically with loads of cussing and faked up or stolen and ripped off pictures used in their massive hate and insult campaigns."

North American woman:
"They have this really - weird, stupid lingo..."

Trolls from Encyclopedia Dramatica and associated sites:
"Desu desu!"
"Fap fap fap"
"Butthurt butthurt!"
(censor beep)

British woman:
"Fapping is what they do when they look in the mirror."

Troll: falls all over a mirror, kissing it passionately.

British woman continues to explain:
"It's their term for getting turned on."

"Desu is a Japanese word that can mean different things depending on who's using it and how it's being used. Whether it's supposed to be cute, or the Japanese version of Nana-nana boo-boo, it looks and sounds ridiculous tacked on the end of an English phrase."

"Butthurt is their term for over-reacting to a real or imagined slight."

Reporter:
"It also explains the flaming glow of the posteriors through their clothes, from having their butts hurt as a result of getting themselves banned and blacklisted from other sites."

Troll:
"Butthurt butthurt butthurt butthurt!"

Australian woman:
"If anyone actually believed the shut-down hoax and sent money to save the site, they deserved to lose their money."

Effects of realization at being suckered kicking in:
Poke
STU-PID!
BONK

Troll fan taken in by hoax:
"BUTT HURT!"

Australian woman:
"Encyclopedia Dramatica needs to go."

Fangirl:
"They are the best site, ever!"

North American woman:
"They stink!"

North American woman:
"Yes, their behavior is disgusting."

Fangirl:
"They are the realest, most honest web site in the world!"

North American woman:
"Yank it...Banish it to the depths of cyber-hell. Let it burn..."

Fangirl:
"No - they should never go away...and definitely absolutely never get shut down! That would like - DESTROY the whole world, as we know it!"

trolls: babbling, drooling, eating noisily, passing wind, breaking things, all sorts of ill-mannered things, finishing with a tremendous show of butthurt.

Host of episode:
"Beware that Encyclopedia Dramatica is a troll-friendly zone, Upon entering that site, be sure to leave all intelligence and humanity at the door."

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Encyclopedia Dramatica

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