Welcome to our little corner of the Internet. We're a weird little bunch of rascals, and it's only fair we explain how we got here.
Back in 2013, a group of like-minded individuals gathered together in the comment section of a popular comedy website to read some articles, make a few jokes, roast a few trolls, and generally have a good time with each other as they'd done many times before. Instead, they were greeted with the threat of those comments being removed. Now any other website, that wouldn't matter probably. Communities just don't crop up in comment sections, do they? Those are the cesspools of human misery at the bottoms of articles. And yet, like a flower in a crack in the sidewalk, here were all these friends gathered together in a hard place to sprout.
We had to act quickly. Many of us had found each other in real life, most of us kept in close contact with each other already. We organized a movement and, spearheaded by Tesseracts, started life out in the vasty nothingness on our own for the first time. And somehow, through nothing more than sheer love for each other and our stupid puns and our awful serial-murder jokes, we found the money and time and determination to make the move into our own domain name, the site you're currently visiting, and grow by leaps and bounds in just days. We never forget where we came from, but now our eyes are firmly set on the future.
Back on Cracked we'd shared laughs and tears, triumphs and heartbreaks. Even our invented characters were brazenly honest folks, but here, in our new home, we are finally free to spout our outlandish plastic cup politics at the world no, please don't actually do that, please!. We at TCS warmly invite you to start that post you're afraid to start, to enter that chat full of people you only know marginally, submit that article you wrote, and to never be afraid to ask a moderator or admin for help if you ever feel anything but safe and welcome. You'll know us by our red and green blue names, and by the fact that we've been building threads, writing articles, and hosting chatrooms nonstop, just like our friends. This is entirely because, for us, this is as much our playground as it is our responsibility to keep it tidy. We're playing here just like you.
If you have questions, all of the staff have little PM buttons by their names--click those and you'll feel taken care of in short order. You can also reach us by posting on the Ask a Mod board. Or post your questions or comments on the Site Suggestions board. Don't be afraid that it might be a bad time--there's one or more of us at all hours of the day and night.
And don't be shy with those green thumbs we love so much! You can even jump in a person's profile and click "Rate User" to give them a little extra rep, just to brighten their day. Above all things, don't be shy about talking. Lurk as you like, but we'd love to hear from you. We'd love to hear your comments, because if the world had a comment section... this would be it.
I mean, what else were you gonna do? Be productive?