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Encyclopedia Dramatica


Encyclopedia Dramatica (a.k.a. ED and æ) is a satirical wiki and the home to the Chris-Chan page that introduced Chris to the world at large in 2007 and made him a popular target for trolling.


ED discovers Chris

In late October 2007, Chris drew the attention of the folks in a forum at Something Awful, a comedy website. Shortly thereafter, the good people at 4chan also trained their lasers on Chris. Topics of discussion included his Sonichu comic, his website, and his MySpace page. Anna's blog story, "The Tale Of The Crazy Pacer", was also uncovered. The wealth of information and its lulzworthiness prompted the Anon later known as Jason Kendrick Howell to create the original Chris-chan page on Encyclopedia Dramatica, on 3 November 2007. Within two years it underwent over 5,000 revisions and became arguably the most popular page on the site.[2]

Chris discovers ED

Almost immediately, Chris discovered his ED page, during what he called "the worst weekend of my life."[3] He was horrified by the explicit fan art, what he would later call "Dark Parodic Shit."[4] He was especially enraged by the inclusion of a recent photo of himself, surreptitiously taken at The Game Place by Mimms and uploaded to 4chan by Lucas.[5] "A hacking terrorist group, Anonymous, and 4Chan are somehow involved in that page as well," he intoned.

Chris's initial response to this character assassination was civil. He uploaded a video on 7 November, addressed to ED, requesting that the page be removed on the grounds that it misinterpreted his noble and innocent person. Within a few days, however, he opted to take efforts to personally delete or edit the page.

After a considerable amount of bitching, Chris posted this gem on the ED talk page:

Chris then returned, admitting defeat after his tard rage:

Trying another angle, Chris also encouraged ED to muster as his personal army to go after Joshua Martinez. Obviously, nobody did what he asked[6] He also tried to create a page on ED for his "CCWC's Fanart of Horrors" (see: troll art), but a sysop immediately caught it and redirected it to an anti-Semitic template.

Chris's meddling with ED was a key reason for the destruction of his relationship with Megan. On 11 November 2007, in an attempt to "shove so much information down their throats and drown them into taking the page down," Chris uploaded five pornographic drawings to his ED page, including the infamous ShecameforCWC.JPG. When Megan found out about the drawing in March 2008, it was the final straw. Chris made more furious efforts to scrub the images from ED, but to no avail. Of course, Chris blamed ED for all of this.

By late summer 2008, Chris had largely given up on direct involvement with ED. Around the spring of 2009, he may have posted one or two comments on the ED talk page referring to Clyde Cash. The first is below. It was deleted fairly quickly.

There was some dispute over it actually being Chris until he himself confirmed it in the post that followed:

According to Clyde, the above entry was deleted after roughly a minute, probably due to Chris realizing that if he were to ever arrange to meet Clyde, he'd only send his parents anyway.

1 April 2009 Screenshot of ED's front page. Screenshot of the article.

On April Fools' Day 2009, the Chris-chan article was taken down and replaced with a message.

Not surprisingly, the page was put back up on 2 April.

Chris and ED in Retrospect Uploaded 12 December 2008, before the new comic, Miyamoto saga, and BlueSpike saga

For several months prior to the events of the BlueSpike saga in early 2009, many thought that Chris had dried up, that Chris could go no further. The FCTC's posting of new pics of Chris's bent duck in December 2008 prompted an ED admin to lock the talk page and demand satisfaction.[8]

For a while, the ED page was crammed with misinformation, such as the claim that Chris had attempted to molest Patti, or the idea that Ivy was really the blowup doll. These rumors were occasionally cleaned out, but trolls and general observers of Chris have since turned to CWCki to get a more accurate and less biased picture of Chris. TV Tropes once described the CWCki as being "more accurate and slightly more SFW" than ED.

As for Chris himself, the ED page bothered him for years, and presumably still does, but he rarely mentions it anymore. An entire page of Chris's website, established in December 2009, was dedicated to "correcting" the evil ED article with his own True and Honest take on the situation. Naturally, it was all about how Chris isn't remotely responsible for anything he has done wrong, and how it's all the fault of his autism or those DANG DIRTY TROLLS. Gradually, however, Chris's focus on ED died down. He made occasional references,[9] but his depression and focus on other enemies caused his anger to flag.

ED itself suffered from schism and dissention in April 2011, when it was redirected to Oh Internet, a more safe-for-work wiki, in an attempt to achieve the site revenue required to stay online. The site included watered-down articles about Chris and Sonichu. In October 2013, Oh Internet silently went offline. Encyclopedia Dramatica returned under several domains: .ch, .se, .es, and .rs, revived via scraping articles and images from archived websites. Going into 2017, it and the Chris-chan article are still kicking.

Chris-chan (forum) Your average Chris-chan following EDiot.

Chris-chan was a subforum of the Encyclopedia Dramatica forums (commonly referred to as EDF). It was created such that the talk page for the Chris-chan article could be used for its rightful purpose to discuss improving the article.

Chris indicated in his 13 September 2009 video that he had read the ED forums and had discovered a plan to photoshop images so they looked like they were from a Sonichu game.[10] Chris firmly believed this forum to be the main hub for trolling activity, despite other forums and websites (such as this one) having far more significance.




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