Cracked.Com then and now

[Darwin Watterson]

I still go there on a somewhat regular basis because they'll still make a funny article or two every now and then. They seem to have scaled back on the SJW shit slightly. They'll still occasionally produce articles about, like, trannies and stuff, and they still insult MRAs sometimes. But compared to last year when they were constantly writing articles about Gamergate and had Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu write articles, it's gotten a lot better. It's still not as good as it used to be, and probably never will be again, but they still produce gold from time to time. They're the diamonds in the rough.

Seanbaby still writes for them occasionally, and his articles are still funny. The most recent one of his that I remember was about how Superman went batshit insane to protect his secret identity in the older comics.

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

I think one of my favorite articles from Cracked was back when the Internet was in love with zombies and Cracked wrote a piece on how zombie apocalypses would realistically fail. That was honestly the best thing about Cracked: tongue-in-cheek pop culture humor. It could hold you for a good while.

Occasionally their reveal pieces are interesting - I did like what they did for Fundie religious groups and Scientology - but when they talk about SJW shit and sexism and all of that stuff I kinda just go on autopilot because it's not really funny anymore.

Oh, and they had an article written by Brianna Wu, and it was pretty fucking meh. ... Yes I'm petty let me have my cheap shot at SJWs.

 

[Falcon Lord]

Remember: David Wong's real name is Jason Pargin and he's a white guy who wants you to think he's Asian.

 

[XH 502]

What I find hilarious is that a site that's routinely attempted to take a serious anti-bullying stance ended up posting this article.

Because that's not bullying at all, Cracked.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

It's not a bad as people act like it is but they do have to slip in a Peter Coffin Is Right article at least once a day.

Their Vice style articles are very interesting but overall the site just isn't that funny anymore.

 

[AnOminous]

Remember: David Wong's real name is Jason Pargin and he's a white guy who wants you to think he's Asian.

Talk about cultural appropriation.

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

I might be the only person on this site that read Cracked back when it was still a Mad clone. This is so long ago that none of the current Cracked staff even has any idea what the fuck I'm talking about.

RIP Severin

http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-john-severin-emmad-magazineem-and-emcrackedem--69367

Yeah, I remember back in the day Cracked did parodies of famous movies. It was mildly entertaining but it seems every website on the internet is "FIVE INSANE THINGS ABOUT THINGS" these days. They discontinued the magazine in 2007 though

 

[CatParty]

they still insult MRAs sometimes.

does this bother you a lot?

 

[vertexwindi]

does this bother you a lot?

The double standards are pretty amusing to watch.

"Oh no men coming up for their rights, how dare they those darn neckbeard fedoras. PS never question feminism OKthx"

 

[HG 400]

I wonder what @cat thinks of all this.

 

[Pikimon]

My favorite article: http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-most-insanely-violent-cartoon-ever-is-about-bible/

It's a shame they didn't make more of that article series since there are more of the same films, now I peruse Cracked every 3 weeks or so and skim over 3-4 articles (most I just gloss over because the subtitle thingies pretty much sum up any important info)

 

[The Colonel]

Does seanbaby still write for Cracked?

 

[MasterDisaster]

Does seanbaby still write for Cracked?

Even in Cracked's heyday he only posted once a month if you we're lucky. I think he's turned most of his attention to his retro gaming magazine.

 

[The Colonel]

Even in Cracked's heyday he only posted once a month if you we're lucky. I think he's turned most of his attention to his retro gaming magazine.

Seanbaby wrote some of the funniest stuff. I loved his section back when he wrote for EGM.

 

[vertexwindi]

Seanbaby is great, and Dick Whiskey is some of the funniest shit I ever read online.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

They had an entire article last year about how the Ebola panic was "secretly racist"

I rarely go back there, it's too depressing

 

[The Lizard Queen]

I don't know why I keep going back there. Every single article I've read recently took an opportunity to spew out some far left SJW political nonsense, and usualy dedicated a secton of each list to pointlessly bash Donald Trump. The worst crime is it's not even funny.

It's like they simply can't help themselves. No matter how off topic, they have to squeeze in their views, even when they're just writing a comedy article about quirky movies, or strange animals.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

strange animals

So for example, they could be talking about those monkeys with the funny looking butts, and then go off on a tangent how a guy looking at a girl's butt is "dehumanizing" somehow?

 

[The Lizard Queen]

So for example, they could be talking about those monkeys with the funny looking butts, and then go off on a tangent how a guy looking at a girl's butt is "dehumanizing" somehow?

There was one article recently where they talked about strange celebrity beliefs. It covered genuinely strange celebs thinking math itself is wrong, to rap groups who think white people were created by an evil black man. The #1 entry just mentioned that Tom Brady is a Trump supporter.

That's basically like ending an article with, "Trump eees hitler, dur hur hur!!11"

 

[neogafrefugeenumber44634]

Seems cracked is now defending terrorism such as Antifa and ISIS. If this is meant to be comedy it fails utterly