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Fark.com is an aggregator of user-submitted headlines and news stories from all over the world. Of course, we use "news" loosely here. Sometimes it's breaking stories. Sometimes it's in-depth investigative reporting. Usually, it's weird-ass stuff done by dumbass people.
How it works:
Farkers submit their own headlines for the stuff they come across on the interwebs: Dumb politicians, shark attacks, water on Mars, Skynet taking over, Florida -- it's wide open. We share only a small portion of the selected headlines and links here on Facebook.
Call it a social network of news. Call it crowd-sourced story gathering. Call it citizen journalism, minus the journalism. Whatever it is, submit funny headlines to us.
Fark receives over 2,000 submissions a day. So we've trained helper monkeys to choose the funniest, strangest, bestest headlines for the reading pleasure of us humans.
At which point, members of homo sapiens can talk about selected stories to their hearts’ content. Or until Hitler gets mentioned.
Or until Skynet takes over.
To submit a link, don’t do it here. Instead, visit http://www.fark.com/submit/
How it works:
Farkers submit their own headlines for the stuff they come across on the interwebs: Dumb politicians, shark attacks, water on Mars, Skynet taking over, Florida -- it's wide open. We share only a small portion of the selected headlines and links here on Facebook.
Call it a social network of news. Call it crowd-sourced story gathering. Call it citizen journalism, minus the journalism. Whatever it is, submit funny headlines to us.
Fark receives over 2,000 submissions a day. So we've trained helper monkeys to choose the funniest, strangest, bestest headlines for the reading pleasure of us humans.
At which point, members of homo sapiens can talk about selected stories to their hearts’ content. Or until Hitler gets mentioned.
Or until Skynet takes over.
To submit a link, don’t do it here. Instead, visit http://www.fark.com/submit/
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United States, Kentucky, Versailles
Mentions in press and media 29
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| Feb 16, 2015 | Nokia’s Ruthless Corporate Bullying of a Small Startup Is Even Worse Than We Thought | Nokia even forbade Lowdown from using the word ‘here’ in the drop-down menu in the original app. (Photo: Twitter/lowdownapps) A trivial legal battle between Nokia and a small U.K. startup could put the latter out of business. The U.K. start... |
| Jan 23, 2015 | Fark's Drew Curtis Running For Governor Of Kentucky | If you read Techdirt, hopefully you’re also familiar with Fark, the super popular news aggregator that was sort of Digg before Digg, Reddit before Reddit and Hackernews before Hackernews — but still unique in its own way. It’s main claim to... |
| Sep 13, 2014 | Social Media Time Management Tips | Small business owners have a ton of responsibilities on their plates every day; unfortunately keeping up with social media isn't usually on top of their lists. Social media has become a big part of most people's lives these days, especially... |
| Aug 28, 2014 | Popular Site Aims To Set ‘Blueprint’ For Fighting Online Misogyny | Last week, Drew Curtis, CEO of the popular news aggregation site Fark, announced that the site is cracking down on misogyny in comment threads. Do you think popular websites do enough to keep misogynistic comments away from users? Share you... |
| Jul 28, 2014 | The virtues of bootstrapping your startup | What did it take for these startups to get started without venture capital? With venture financing all around, why did these startups not go through with venture financing rounds? Some didn't have a choice, until they got bigger and at that... |
| Aug 13, 2013 | Eleven-Year-Old Worth1000 Faces Shutdown After Founder Fails To Find A Programmer | In the pantheon of web-famousness, Worth1000 is up there with Fark and SomethingAwful when it comes to popular image sharing sites. With little of the crassness of 4chan, Worth1000 allowed users to compete against each other in Photoshop co... |
| Oct 11, 2012 | Reddit Challenges Policymakers on the Open Internet, Creating Jobs | This year’s internet blackout and the fights against SOPA and PIPA show that the community of the internet, as diverse and weird as it can be, does have a common intrest in keeping the web open for everyone. Reddit, the popular social news ... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Snip.it, the Pinterest for brain candy, revamps site | News aggregation has a new look - from links to visual images and collections News aggregators have been popular sites to access information. Reddit, Techmeme, Fark (for humor) and once Digg, were the go-to places to find must-read stories ... |
| Nov 14, 2011 | Bootstrapped Company Behind iDrive, iBackup Is Fed Up With Patent Trolls | Normally, one doesn’t learn about patent infringement litigation through press releases, and if it does happen it’s usually the company initiating the lawsuit(s) that intends to make some noise. This morning, however, a company under attack... |
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FAQ about Fark
What has the press written about Fark?
Parsers VC has collected 29 articles mentioning Fark, among them “Nokia’s Ruthless Corporate Bullying of a Small Startup Is Even Worse Than We Thought” (Feb 16, 2015) and “Fark's Drew Curtis Running For Governor Of Kentucky” (Jan 23, 2015).
Is Fark still active?
Yes, Fark is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 23, 2026.