Cracked truly went to shit when they witch hunted and crucified John Cheese, one of their best writers and editors for the sake of vague accusations by notorious grifter Talia Jane. That faggot Jason Pargin (who yellowfaced by using the pen name "David Wong" to trick people into thinking he was Asian) deleted all his articles at the demand of Talia Jane.
Unsurprisingly, after the bitch Pargin left cracked, John Cheese's articles were quietly added back, likely because they were seeing the metrics of how many people were still trying to click through to the URLs for those articles from other sites.
Why so much of the internet comedy space of the early 10s decided to collectively guzzle the woke kool-aid and kill their own industry, I will never understand.