The creator of the site was Sherrod DeGrippo and Owner 1. She tried to sell out with OhInternet in 2011 and thus ended the og regime.
Ediots scrambled to find a worthy successor and Brian Zaiger, a drug addict and all around useless retard was suddenly thrust into power (Owner 2). You might remember this as the era in which the site was basically unusable due to being plastered in malware porn ads. It got even worse when Gamergate was in full swing. This unpleasant viewing experience drove away readers. Most admins with any sort of competence left the site for good. He replaced these admins with random autists who were willing to provide bribe money from their monthly tugboats. The site got him sued in 2017 so people felt bad and tried to help him out by donating money. I think it was around this time he started getting even more sloppy with running the site than before and the ediots were sick of it. People started looking more into how site donations were being spent and lo and behold, the funds were completely misused . Of course a full time janny and junky is going to use any money he can get his hands on for drugs and financially supporting the ugliest ewhores you can imagine, the most well known of whom is AdeZero. Admins finally wrestled control from him and a guy named Conrad who had basically been running the site for Zaiger became owner 3. Fun fact: Zaiger won the prestigious Faggot of the Year award for 2017, beating out ED's very own school shooter William Atchison
Conrad seemed more competent because he actually knew how to work with 'puters but he was still a retard. He got arrested pretty early in his crat career after messing with his old job's computer networks in late 2018. He never passed on the keys to the site to anyone and this lead to ED being down for the greater part of 2019. He pretended to have backups of the beloved edf2 while he was prison in an attempt to extort the mods for a nonexistent backup of the site. Ediots maintained hope that when he was released from prison in 2021 he would bring back edf2 but Conrad never delivered due to the backup being nonexistant.
2020 is when Aediot aka Assnapkins took it upon himself to bring back the site and became owner 4. Jacob Stellmach was more of a useless retard than Zaiger. He could barely keep the .wiki site up despite being a terminally online NEET. He incorporated the site and very quickly found himself, the self appointed CEO of ED, at the receiving end of a lawsuit. He fancied himself something of a dark web l33t h4x0r and once again, unsuccessfully tried to sell the site. This is when the great ED schism of 2020 occurred. Umkmesik set up the .online domain and a new and improved forum to show how the site should be run. Aediot gave up on trying to compete with the superior .online after his no good, horrible, bad year of 2021 in which Adezero revealed his leaky anus on the Farms, he was caught grooming a 16 year old boy (sound familiar lol), and got v& for shoplifting.
UMK still owns the domains. However, he has other people run the actual servers and no one takes him seriously (as outlined @
https://encyclopediadramatica.online/Umkemesik). This is why current leadership is murky as of right now but he can debatably be considered owner 5 due to owning the domains.
Definitely still tldr but hope this helps.
