Fark.com

Fark.com is a popular community website allowing users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and notable websites, which it classifies as "Stupid," "Interesting," "Obvious," "Strange," "Spiffy," and so on. Originally, the web server on Drew Curtis's fark.com domain contained no content, except for an image of a squirrel with large testicles. Later, in 1999, the site was changed into a popular weblog, as a way for Curtis to share what he considered interesting news postings with his friends rather than sending them numerous emails. This proved to be so popular that a web-based method of submitting links was added, to avoid receiving all of their numerous emails. Eventually, Drew decided Fark needed a talkative community built around its theme of off-the-wall humorous news links, and so the fark "Comments Thingee" was born, along with a system of Fark.com user accounts. Fark is a euphemism for fuck. Forms of the word include farking, farked, farker. Like many online communities, Fark.com has developed its own in-jokes known as "Farkisms" or "Fark clichés". For example, "Fb- is the father" is often added to any report involving birth or pregnancy. One of these in-jokes is a clever way of preventing "first post" messages: if a message contains the words "first post" its time stamp is changed twelve hours into the future (making it one of the later posts), and the words "First Post" are turned into "Boobies". Fark.com also has regular "Photoshop contests" where users use a graphical editing program to create various funny pictures derived from an image provided by the creator of the contest, or less commonly according to a set theme as set out in written form. Clichés (really, in-jokes) are common in the resulting works; some of the most common recurring clichés include Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars yelling "Its a trap!", the killing of kittens, a disembodied black baby head, the aforementioned large-testicled squirrel, and Domokun the squarish muppet-looking thing from Japan (who also originated the kitten-killing cliché). Fark.com's arch-rival is Somethingawful.com. The common practice in both communities of using Photoshop to alter photographs sparked a Something Awful vs. Fark Photoshop Battle, with Wil Wheaton as celebrity judge. The result of this battle was Fark's resounding defeat at the hands of Something Awful with a score of 10 to 74.

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