Misery loves company's Journal

ED Goes Down, Permanently. An ensuing shitstorm also goes down.
This is slightly old news, but I don't see it having been posted anywhere, so I'm going to go ahead. I hope ED counts as fandom - it did not seem to be in line with the usual topics of Unfunny Business. I'll be happy to move it if this proves not to be the case.

So, it seems that Encyclopedia Dramatica, unofficial wiki of 4chan, has disappeared. It now redirects to OhInternet, a sanitized version of ED (which seems a bit like having a cleaned-up pile of shit.)

Says Geeko System:
Last night, visitors to Dramatica’s home page found themselves automatically redirected to a new site called OhInternet which appeared to have more in common with the new, slicker generation of Internet culture trackers than with the unvarnished, offensive Dramatica of old. Some fans of Dramatica wondered if this was an elaborate troll or an April Fool’s joke; visiting Dramatica’s old IP address, 208.99.87.133, gave a message that was interpreted by some to mean that Dramatica was only temporarily offline. But the redirect is permanent, Encyclopedia Dramatica founder and current OhInternet primary contributor Sherrod DeGrippo told me by email, and OhInternet is here to stay.

Encyclopedia Dramatica is no more.

EDIT: Warning for sexist, racist, NSFW language, graphic threats, privilege, misogyny . . . you know what, if there is any type of offensive text that you do not wish to read, I suggest you not visit this article. There's . . . there's something for everyone, there really is.

( And then the Internet expoded. )