You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News by Cracked.com

Roughly 30% of Cracked's content is video.

That evening, Cracked Forums user SemiSpy submitted a thread titled 'Did something happen to Cracked?', which discussed speculation that the site was 'possibly done.' In response to the post, Cracked executive editor Jason Pargin responded under his pseudonym David Wong, saying 'a core group of editors' remained on the site but that several Los Angeles-based staff had been 'let go' (shown below).Ĭracked features a blog, videos, forums, a writer's workshop, four weekly Image Manipulation contests called Photoplasty, and small, one-shot articles called 'Quick Fixes.' Web Series On December 4th, 2017, several former Cracked employees tweeted that they were looking for work and were no longer employed by the website, including Katy Stoll, Tom Reimann, John Cheese, Cody Johnston and Josh Sargent. As of 2012, Cracked receives over 300 million monthly page views, making it the most popular humor site in the world, ahead of The Onion, CollegeHumor, and Funny or Die. In 2010, Cracked reported over 1 billion page views. The site's traffic has doubled each year, and it has become one of Demand Media's most successful properties. In 2010, Cracked released an iPad application, which allows users access to mobile browsing of Cracked's articles, videos, and contests. Cracked's 2,000 to 3,000 word articles, which are published daily, usually are read by over one million users on the day of the upload.

In 2007, Cracked reported a few hundred thousand users per month and 3 to 4 million page views.

Though the magazine discontinued soon after, the website was purchased by Demand Media in 2007, and rapid growth followed. In early 2005, editor-in-chief Jack O'Brien founded the website as a separate website. Cracked was started as a humor magazine in 1958 and was known for its conspicuous copying of Mad in layouts and style.

You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News by Cracked.com