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About Cracked is an award-winning entertainment and humor website founded by Jack O'Brien in History Cracked was started as a humor magazine in and was known for its conspicuous copying of Mad in layouts and style.
Features Cracked features a blog, videos, forums, a writer's workshop, four weekly Image Manipulation contests called Photoplasty, and small, one-shot articles called "Quick Fixes. Cheat Sheets Cracked, along with Rotten Tomatoes and Movieclips, launched Cheat Sheets in , a comedic, user-generated guide to popular movies. Live Shows Cracked has expanded into live shows. Reception Cracked has been generally well-received on the Internet. Search Interest.
Top entries this week. Latest Editorial And News. Recent Videos Add a Video. Sadly, that's largely history; first in the Great Firing of after the site was sold to Scripps and most of the full-time writers and part time contractors were fired see below , and finally in , when it was sold again, this time to Literally Media, who fired nearly everyone else.
They still put out two old-style articles a day, but you're likely to miss those among all the pictofacts on various subjects, news stories turned into quick-read articles and rehashes of old articles done as a series of macros. The website used to play 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.
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. The last part of the site to die was the Contest Forum, the source of their five 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 but is inaccessible, and the contests themselves are on hold indefinitely. The Writer's Workshop subforum is also inaccessible. The rest of the forums were deleted shortly before the final purge. Only by tasting our ancestors' suffering can we honor their sacrifices. I assume e veryone who clicked on this article looking for freelance work has already clicked away from it to send an email or pitch some stuff, and everyone who's still here just has it open on their phone to appear to be reading something while they avoid conversation with their extended family.
So since I'm basically talking out loud to myself, let me be sincere for a moment. If you want to know where other former Cracked people have gone, I've been keeping an updated list here of the great stuff they're making and how you can support them.
This is an industry that's in constant turmoil for a whole bunch of reasons you'd probably find boring, and I could write several thousand words about the people who are gone and how much we miss them. I could write more about how blessed I am to work with the people I do. Robert Brockway , Cyriaque Lamar , Alex Schmidt , Ann Smiley , and Logan Trent are all heroes, as are all of the people who work behind the scenes to keep the lights on, including everyone at Literally Media who believed in the team enough to take us all onboard.
Then there are the contractors and freelancers, who are too numerous to name but are the lifeblood of the site and, well, the entire industry. I've worked with something like 40 different columnists in the last year alone, and literally hundreds of writers have come through the Workshop in that time.
Working with them is by far the best part of the job, aside from the lavish influencer parties. I'm always eager to see who turns up next, and I'm always thrilled to see former freelancers who've gone on to do bigger and better things including several who've written for Saturday Night Live, among other shows. And if you're reading these words because you're just a loyal fan and like to read whatever we post, thank you. From all of us here, you have our sincerest gratitude.
You could be doing literally anything else right now, and you're choosing to do this. That warms our hearts and, you know, keeps us employed. I hope this site still makes you slightly smarter and happier than you were before each time you click. Everyone who comes through these doors really is trying to do good work and if you want to be a part of it, we're waiting. Wait 'til you hear about the moments in history you missed!
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