Culture I got interviewed by Motherboard/Vice - (yes it's about ED, she did alright actually)

(partial quote of article)

Created in 2004, ''Wikipedia's evil twin'' was intended to keep record of flame wars, 'famewhores,' and the feuds of blogging platform LiveJournal. In the years which followed, the site grew into a library of a burgeoning troll culture, encompassing and attacking online life in its entirety. Under the banner ' In lulz we trust,' users contributed and edited entries, archiving online drama and doling out mob justice in the form of unfavourable search results.


Encyclopaedia Dramatica, often abbreviated to 'ED,' stands today as a microcosm of the internet at its most feral, a gallery of villains and trolls and grotesques. But the site may not be around for much longer: it's very publicly being sued for copyright infringement by gaming entrepreneur Jonathan Monsarrat, who founded Lord of the Rings Online and Asheron's Call developer Turbine. While in the past ED has laughed off frivolous 'lolsuits,' this current one poses enough of a threat that it's added a banner to every page, asking for donations to its legal defense fund.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...uble-with-keeping-wikipedias-evil-twin-online

Considering I sent my response really late and I wrote her about 5/6 full pages worth, she actually didn't twist anything I said, sorry if this isn't what KF care about.

inb4 u use this to shit on ED

 

[ICametoLurk]

The real news is that there exist people who care about ED.

 

[ES 148]

'a gallery of villains and trolls and grotesques' is super pretentious but I love it

 

[Quijibo69]

ED is sooo 2010!

 

[LulzKiller]

This is the full interview which is 5/6 pages worth of my writing - naturally not as much got in the article but the crux of what I was saying was put in, @CatParty also wanted to see this.

 

[Ineedahero]

That was a pretty good article, and amazingly free of judgement. I wonder if the author will get shit for not condemning the site.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

She actually did do alright.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

I had no idea ED was still around. I remember going to it like ... 6 years ago? But ever since they started jumping domains I kind of lost interest.

 

[SomethingWittyandBadass]

ED is still around surprisingly, which is strange but then again not really since I kinda talk to Oddguy sometimes over at his BadWebcomicsWikia site.

 

[m0rnutz]

Dear diary,

Vice actually did something right.

 

[escapegoat]

I thought this was going to be about erectile dysfunction.

 

[HG 400]

talking to media

Gonna murder you in real life you bigmouth rat.

 

[LulzKiller]

Gonna murder you in real life you bigmouth rat.

zaiger actually told me too

 

[HG 400]

zaiger actually told me too

 

[LulzKiller]

50 shades of grey kinky shit

 

[Feline Darkmage]

50 shades of abbo

 

[Cake Farts]

I think the reason notorious shock sites of the oldschool web are fading out is because we see this shit pretty much everyday now. Gone are the days when people actually put effort into hiding their shit on the web, and in many cases one can say deviancy is normalized to an exceptional degree now.

Seeing how easy we find cows proudly airing their dirty laundry to the web and people applauding them for being so "brave" about it is especially telling.