10 Facts About Encyclopedia Dramatica

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Encyclopedia Dramatica is an online community centered around a wiki that acts as a "troll archive".

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Encyclopedia Dramatica was founded in 2004 by Sherrod DeGrippo, known by the online pseudonym "Girlvinyl".

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Encyclopedia Dramatica's became involved in the LJdrama community, which covered stories on LiveJournal gossip.

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Encyclopedia Dramatica threatened legal action, traveled to Portland, Oregon, in order to speak to LiveJournal's abuse team, and reported the alleged harassment to a local TV news station.

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Articles at Encyclopedia Dramatica were particularly critical of MySpace as well as users on YouTube, LiveJournal, DeviantART, Tumblr, and Wikipedia.

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Encyclopedia Dramatica's had hoped that ED would return to its roots and focus on LiveJournal drama.

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Furthermore, according to her, Encyclopedia Dramatica never turned a profit during the time she owned it due to its content which put off advertisers.

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Encyclopedia Dramatica's stated that hosting Encyclopedia Dramatica caused her to have troubles involving the FBI.

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Encyclopedia Dramatica became a "favourite target for critics, who accuse Anonymous of propagating hate, " for allowing alleged members of the group to sometimes use the website as a platform.

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10.

In December 2008, a message on Encyclopedia Dramatica asked for donations and claimed that the website was under attack and had lost its advertisers.

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