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I-Mockery is a pop culture humor site owned and operated by Roger Barr (aka: -RoG-) that has existed online in various forms since 1996. Before then, it was a printed periodical called ''Visionary Darkness''. Free copies of Visionary Darkness were distributed in local high schools and record shops. It later became a web site on Geocities which housed a variety of humorous articles and rants. Barr also registered other sites on GeoCities under several aliases and made them all a part of the Visionary Darkness web site. After a few years of building up the popularity of these sites, Barr registered the I-Mockery.com domain name in August 1999 to house all of his humor sites under the same roof (and to avoid GeoCities' increasingly slow performance). The ''I-Mockery'' name was created as a spoof of all the corporate web sites that started with "I" or "E" at the time. The name loosely translates to ''Internet-Mockery''.〔West & Wylder 95.5 WTVY FM. (Radio interview: http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69701102)〕〔Richmond.com interview with I-Mockery Over the years the site has expanded greatly, but still continues to live up to its original slogan: "''Dedicated to making a mockery out of all things adored by the general public. Dedicated to exposing people who take themselves far too seriously. Dedicated to giving due credit to works of genius that have never enjoyed the spotlight.''" ==Sections== * Features (Minimocks) – This section contains a variety of earlier reviews of movies, photographed adventures featuring Roger and other staff members such as ''Jason Grunert'' (aka: Protoclown) getting into all kinds of mischief, articles about bizarre toys & food products, nostalgia and more. One of the staples of this section is the often amusing variety of animated gifs that can be found within many of the articles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Minimocks at I-Mockery )〕 * Editorials (Visionary Darkness) – This section is a large collection of rants and raves, with topics of mockery ranging from the Gorton's Fisherman〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="I Don't Trust The Gorton's Fisherman" at I-Mockery )〕 to Celine Dion〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Burbank, Max; "My Wild Life – Chapter I" at I-Mockery )〕 to feminine shaving razors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barr, Roger; "The Shaving Industry Lies"; I-Mockery )〕 * Shorts – This section was created in response to the ''Minimocks'' section of the site. The Minimocks had eventually become anything but "mini", with some of the pieces being in excess of 3–5 pages long. This naturally caused delays in how often the site was updated, as many of the Minimocks would take well over a week for the writer to complete. Thus, the "''Shorts''" section was created as an area where similar content could be featured, but created at a much faster pace. This section also gave the writers more room to cover a wider variety of topics including parodies of the infamous McDonald's web advertisements,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mexican Monografias )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barr, Roger; "Crazy Mexican Monografias: Alcoholismo"; I-Mockery )〕 and toys.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barr, Roger; "Stupid Toys"; I-Mockery )〕 * Games – This section contains links to I-Mockery's flash games and videos, including ''Trick-Or-Treat Adventure'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Trick-or-Treat Adventure Quest!'' at I-Mockery )〕 ''Domo-Kun's Angry Smash Fest'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Domo-Kun's Angry Smash Fest'' at I-Mockery )〕 ''Castlevania: Priest Battle'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Castlevania: Priest Battle'' at I-Mockery )〕 ''Kill The Old Man From Zelda''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Kill the Old Man from Zelda!''; I-Mockery )〕 and ''I Will Beat Pacman!''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''I Will Beat Pacman!" at I-Mockery )〕 It also includes links to some of their more popular gaming-oriented articles as well as originals articles, including "Sexual Moments In Video Game History",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sexual Moments In Video Game History )〕 "Nintendo: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barr, Roger; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; June 1, 2007 )〕 and "Cooking With Popinski".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barr, Roger; "Cooking with Popinski"; I-Mockery )〕 Also present is I-Mockery's "Rom Hack Reviews"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rom Hacks at I-Mockery )〕 * Comics – Over the years I-Mockery has produced a variety of web-based comics. First, there was "''The Guy Who Can't Draw Comics''"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Guys Who Can't Draw Comics"; I-Mockery )〕 which claimed to be the world's first and only completely artless comic strip. Then came "''Pixel Pals''"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pixie Pals at I-Mockery )〕 which quickly drew in a fairly large fanbase from the gamers with its Nintendo Entertainment System character humor. In recent years, Roger teamed up with ''Louis Fernet-Leclair'' (aka: -PoX-) to create the "''PickleMan''"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pickleman at I-Mockery )〕 online comic book series. These are full-sized comic books, complete with UPCs and clickable hidden secrets throughout each story. The PickleMan comics are written by Roger and drawn by Louis. Recently the two unveiled a special, non-profit printed version of the comic as a keepsake for the fans of the series. The comics section of the site also features columns by Jason Grunert(aka Protoclown)("Tales From the Longbox") and Max Burbank ("Hey Dork! Let's Talk Comics!") which cover both classic and modern comic book series. I-Mockery had a booth at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con where they unveiled some new print comics. * Mockeries – This section contains "mock sites" that often targeted music scenesters, including ravers, punks, metalheads and goths with gags and mocking commentaries. These sites often generated hatemail (including death threats) from people involved in these scenes, lifestyles and religions. GeneralZod.net is their popular satire of what General Zod, the villain from the film ''Superman II'', has been up to in more recent years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GeneralZod.net )〕 ElSerpento.com is their spoof of a self-proclaimed Mexican Wrestling legend who can physically beat up anyone and anything while also holding his breath for 45 seconds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ElSerpento.com )〕 Other mockery sites include "Albums That Sucked", "Cynical Greeting Cards", and "Martin Yan: Homicidal Chef".〔Alexander, Scott. "The Weird and the Wacky on the Internet." Yahoo! Internet Life. March 2001: 150. (Scan from issue: http://www.i-mockery.net/media/yahoo-internet-life-2001.jpg)〕 * Forums – The forums, which reside at I-Mockery.net,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=I-Mockery.net )〕 have always been a hotspot for a wide variety of people, many of which who come simply to argue with others for the sake of some good laughs. For years, it was well known that any newcomers would receive "''the newbie beatdown''" FROM EVIL ROBOT, WHO RULES in which all the self-proclaimed "veteran" mockers would verbally tear these people apart. These days, newbies come in by the truckload and do not seem to have to endure the same initiation mockeries that their predecessors did. The forums have gone through a variety of changes: First they were hosted in a very basic forum format with InsideTheWeb's free forum program. During this time period, the forums existed solely for readers from the Winky section of I-Mockery to argue about vegetarianism vs. meatatarianism and straight-edgers. The forums then opened up to all of I-Mockery's viewers when it moved to the ezboard〔(I-Mockery message boards )〕 software, which was free at first, but ezboard soon began charging to remove ads. With the large number of people visiting the forums, the fees eventually became too outrageous, so I-Mockery moved to the phpBB forum format until the software proved to no longer be stable. The forums are currently running using vBulletin software, which has been fully integrated with the rest of the site. * Blog – This is where RoG updates his readers with site news. * Weeklies – This section launched in January 2008 and was created as an area where the writers could quickly post reviews of video games, movies, comics and music for their readers to discuss on a weekly basis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I-Mockery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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