Encyclopedia Dramatica

"In lulz we trust"

Encyclopedia Dramatica, often abbreviated as ED or æ, is a website consisting of a satirical MediaWiki based wiki and a XenForo based discussion forum. It was created by the website's former owner Sherrod DeGrippo on December 10, 2004, who went by the alias "Girlvinyl". The wiki is mostly a parody of Wikipedia, containing much more offensive/vulgar content; however, much of the offensive content is solely for "the lulz."

The wiki hosts many infamous shock pages including Offended, Kittens, and Puppies, and Reporting Un-Islamic Content. Many articles on this wiki contain shock images such as Goatse, Blue Waffle, and Lemon Party among many others, as well as numerous other gruesome images. Encyclopedia Dramatica is known for having something vulgar/disturbing on almost every page. The reason why æ is used as its mascot is that, according to the site, it's "confusing and mysterious like ED itself."

Encyclopedia Dramatica has moved domains many times during its life. It was established in December 2004 at encyclopediadramatica.com and was originally meant to document dramatic happenings on LiveJournal, but instead quickly became associated with 4chan and Anonymous. In 2011, the site moved to a safe-for-work website called OhInternet, which also closed the same year.

After that, the site moved domain extensions plenty of times from .rs to .se to .ch, and many others, usually because of the owners either being arrested or banned for different reasons. For a while, there were two sites for Encyclopedia Dramatica, which were created by Jacob Stellmach (dubbed Ædiot), and were the main domains for a while. However, after Jacob attempted to sell the site off to dark net users, the rest of the ED staff forked the wiki and moved the domain to where it currently is at encyclopediadramatica.online. The .wiki domain, however, was still the more popular domain as Google put that site first and Wikipedia does not list .online. Later on, however, .wiki shut down which signified even more that .online was the true æ.

Leadership History

 * Sherrod DeGrippo (A.K.A Girlvinyl): 2004-2011 - The founder of Encyclopedia Dramatica and didn't like how the site she wanted to use for live journal drama was becoming what it was. Eventually shut down the site and turned it into OhInternet. Lasted about two years before it was shut down in 2013.
 * Ryan Cleary: 2011 - Took the site away from Girlvinyl, and helped restore the site in what would be known as "Operation Restoration". He later got arrested for being a part of the hacker group Lulzsec.
 * Garrett - Was supposed to be the next leader but retired.
 * Brian Zaiger (A.K.A Mantequilla): 2011-2017 - Took over for Ryan after he left. Would spend years running the site, even though he didn't know how to code and was a known junkie. He was also known to take bribes for both unbanning and admin positions. It was later found out that he had been taking donations from people for years to "fund the site", but instead was spending the money on cocaine and heroin, even though, around the tail-end of his failure of a career, he was in massive debt from a lawsuit with a famous copyright troll. He even tried to make a new ED (encyclopediadramatica.online), and tried to brand it as the real ED, but no one believed him.
 * Seebeen: 2017-2019 - Took over for Zaiger in 2017. Already had a bad reputation beforehand, as in he would enforce arbitrary rules. Assured ED that he was an amazing tech wizard; but, when the site eventually crashed, it turned out he never had a single backup, and so he just disappeared.
 * Conrad Rockenhaus: 2019-2020 - Took over for Seebeen who was formerly known to be insane, and was generally hated by the rest of ED. He Was in charge for a while but disappeared for a while. After he got hit by a car, he later came back for a while, but then disappeared again after he went to jail. The site would eventually crash along with the forum.
 * Jacob Stellmach (A.K.A Aediot): 2020 - Restored the site after it crashed. Crashed multiple times after he restored it, and was not able to keep it up for more than a couple of weeks at a time. Got sued and tried to crowdfund lawsuit money. Later tried to sell ED to his dark web friends, and was quickly booked. He also talks to an imaginary 6yr old girl and groomed 16-year-old boys to be his husband.
 * Umkemesik: 2020-present - Took away the site from Aediot after the stuff got leaked, and created a new ED, which took him 12 hours compared to the 3-4 months it took Aediot.

Links
NOTE : The following website contains extremely graphic content!
 * Encyclopedia Dramatica Category
 * encyclopediadramatica.online