History Website / Cracked

Reading and/or general association with Cracked.com will also make you irresistibly sexually attractive.[[superscript:[-[''[[color:#002BB8:citation needed]]'']-][==]]]%%It's a joke. Please don't remove.%%

** In [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18606_8-historic-symbols-that-mean-opposite-what-you-think.html this]] article, the writer blames Guy Fawkes of being a "fighter for Spain and the Catholic Church" and "trying to install an evil theocracy in place of the slightly more egalitarian Protestant revolution". In truth, the gunpowder plot was in part motivated by Spain washing its hands off of the situation, which is ''the opposite'' of what the article says. This is generally a one-sided account of a decidedly GreyAndGrayMorality situation- for one thing, Catholics were persecuted in this "egalitarian" England.

** [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-ways-to-enjoy-nature-according-to-insane-old-magazines/ This article]] has the author talks about old-timey magazines suffering from this.

* Cezary Jan Stusiewicz

Formerly:

* Adam Brown, a frequent poster promoted to columnist. (2007-)
* Brendan [=McGinley=], a person recently added to be a columnist.( 2011-)

* Kristi Harrison (also editor)(2007-)

** Jacopo Della Quercia and Rohan Ramakrishnan are usually the biggest offenders at times.

* FinalDeath: Parodied in a Photoplasty. Inability to start a new game after having lost all lives is the [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_381_22-terrible-ideas-that-would-have-ruined-great-video-games/ #22 terrible idea that would have ruined]] ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros]]''.

* [[{{Monumental Damage}} Monumental Damage]]: The Statue of Liberty is the #1 [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19924_5-iconic-building-that-were-barely-saved-from-destruction_p2.html Iconic Building That Was Barely Saved from Destruction]] because "when Lady Liberty gets destroyed, it means the apocalypse is here".

* SmallReferencePools: When Cracked says "5 Greatest ___ in Films", those films will inevitably be limited to sci-fi fare and other products related to the geek subculture, e.g. ''StarWars'', ''{{Alien}}'', or {{Batman}}. "Greatest Trilogies" must mean ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' or ''TheMatrix'', never, say, ParkChanWook's Vengeance Trilogy. {{Justified}} because of their base of readership. After all, if they do cover all media, unfamiliarity will make the articles far less interesting.

* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: In [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-internet-in-11-days-epic-online-odyssey/ An Epic Online Odyssey]], TVTropes plays the part of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis Charybdis]], with YouTube serving as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla Scylla]].[[note]][[AllBlueEntry Blueness]] not in original; that would have just been cruel.[[/note]]

* [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/author/Mortal+Wombat/ Christina Hsu (H.)]] (2009-)

* Monumental Damage: The Statue of Liberty is the #1 [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19924_5-iconic-building-that-were-barely-saved-from-destruction_p2.html Iconic Building That Was Barely Saved from Destruction]] because "when Lady Liberty gets destroyed, it means the apocalypse is here".

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Called [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18721_the-5-stupidest-ways-movies-deal-with-foreign-languages_p2.html The 5 Stupidest Way Movies Deal with Foreign Languages]].

* TakeThat: The tendency to mock Magazine/{{MAD}} has continued, especially since the magazine's sales figures have been in decline whilst "Cracked" has enjoyed a reasonable amount of success as a website. [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/cracked-eases-mads-transition-into-obscurity/ This article]] is a good example, which, upon closer reading, can be seen as a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech towards Mad.

** [[http://harkable.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/super-computer-nerd.jpeg This picture]] gets used quite a lot as well.

** The picture of a slightly chubby, old-timey nerd sitting in front of one of those really old switch-based computers is used a lot as well.