Fark

Drew Curtis collected the news too odd to take seriously and let users submit it with their own headlines. The tags became the site's signature: Obvious, Dumbass, Asinine, Interesting, Stupid — and Florida, which earned its own category once the state's combination of open public records and strange events made it an inexhaustible source. That tag is widely credited with laying the groundwork for the whole Florida Man phenomenon. The Photoshop contests were an institution of their own, and being linked from the front page was called getting farked — the same thing as the Slashdot effect, from a different direction. The paid Total Fark tier gave access to everything submitted, not just what got published.