Something Awful

comedy website founded by Richard Kyanka
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Something Awful

Summary

Something Awful is a website[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,237 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Something Awful is in the country of United States[3].
  • Something Awful's instance of is recorded as website[4].
  • Something Awful's founder is recorded as Richard Kyanka[5].
  • +1999-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Something Awful[6].
  • Something Awful's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027tmg[7].
  • Something Awful's official website is recorded as http://www.somethingawful.com/[8].
  • Something Awful's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+5206'}[9].
  • Something Awful's X is recorded as Something_Awful[10].
  • Something Awful's Quora topic ID is recorded as Something-Awful[11].
  • Something Awful's Patreon ID is recorded as SomethingAwful[12].
  • Something Awful's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Website/SomethingAwful[13].
  • Something Awful's All the Tropes article ID is recorded as Something_Awful[14].
  • Something Awful's Know Your Meme slug is recorded as something-awful[15].

Why It Matters

Something Awful ranks in the top 2% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,237 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

It has been cited as an influence by Christopher Poole[18], an entrepreneur[19], b. 1989[20], of United States[21].

FAQs

Who did Something Awful influence?

Something Awful has been cited as an influence by Christopher Poole[18].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . tvtropes.org. Retrieved . tvtropes.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Know Your Meme. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [18] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Something Awful. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/something-awful
MLA “Something Awful.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/something-awful.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_something-awful_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Something Awful}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/something-awful}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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