Cracked.com, founded in 2005, is a comedy-infotainment website spun off from the now-defunct
Cracked Magazine, which was founded in 1958. It can be found
here
.
Relying largely on (debatably) humorous list articles, Cracked has become rather famous on the internet. Its lists, which can be written by anyone (hence these notes indicating inconsistency), are rooted in fact (usually) and coated in humour (mostly), dispensing interesting (often), historical (sometimes), and scientific (occasionally) trivia surrounded by jokes (always). It has about a half dozen full-time columnists on payroll, who dish out weekly and biweekly articles on serious subjects ranging from the cultural effects of the Internet, to
Choose Your Own Adventure Gonzo-style articles about visiting the zoo while on an amount of drugs capable of killing most men, to action reporting while getting kidnapped by pirates.
Small-time celebrities, including
Seanbaby and Michael Ian Black, have written articles for Cracked, with Seanbaby now part of the column staff.
The website plays host to numerous Internet sketch groups, published occasional webcomics when their artists were actively posting on the forum (such as
Nedroid and
Daisy Owl), and had its own caption contest (now running successfully on the
forum). It formerly published an encyclopedia known as Cracked Topics, where Cracked readers submitted articles on a variety of subjects, from
Steven Seagal to
Punk Rock (including one about
TV Tropes)which still turn up in site searches but often with wonky formatting and broken image links.
Cracked also runs 5 weekly contests consisting of reader submitted content for cash prizes awarded by Editorial: humorous image manipulations called "Photoplasty" and Macros containing sourced facts or observations. The contest forum is
here and is open to any members of the site.
For tropes relating to the original magazine, see
Magazine.Cracked.
Who's who on the current column writers:
With frequent non-columnist posters:
And Formerly:
They also have video content. The videos range from cultural to just random topics.
Video contributions include:
Cracked also has a
weekly podcast, usually hosted by Jack O'Brien in which he discusses various topics with other members of the Cracked team or invited guests in a sound booth, or live on stage in front of an audience.
On top of the regular columnists, Cracked accepts articles from anybody who wants to write one: all you have to do is create a forum account, read
this, and follow the link at the bottom to get access to a forum where you can pitch your own potential articles. As such, some of their articles are written by denizens of
This Very Wiki.
Reading and/or general association with Cracked.com will also make you irresistibly sexually attractive.
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Tropes present on the website:
