https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxil_hoax
Here is the wikipedia page about his bait so many people swallowed. Basically he made up a bunch of shit about Freemasonry to troll the Catholics, then years later he confessed and thanked them for giving publicity to his insane claims. But the best is the interview with him, that sounds so incredible familiar to what rdramanauts have been doing:
The public made me what I am; the arch-liar of the period," confessed Taxil, "for when I first commenced to write against the Masons my object was amusement pure and simple. The crimes I laid at their door were so grotesque, so impossible, so widely exaggerated, I thought everybody would see the joke and give me credit for originating a new line of humor. But my readers wouldn't have it so; they accepted my fables as gospel truth, and the more I lied for the purpose of showing that I lied, the more convinced became they that I was a paragon of veracity.
Literally being spelled out 100 years ago, and see how his reason for doing it was for amusement pure and simple, just like us
Then it dawned upon me that there was lots of money in being a Munchausen of the right kind, and for twelve years I gave it to them hot and strong, but never too hot. When inditing such slush as the story of the devil snake who wrote prophecies on Diana's back with the end of his tail, I sometimes said to myself: 'Hold on, you are going too far,' but I didn't. My readers even took kindly to the yarn of the devil who, in order to marry a Mason, transformed himself into a crocodile, and, despite the masquerade, played the piano wonderfully well.
One day when lecturing at Lille, I told my audience that I had just had an apparition of Nautilus, the most daring affront on human credulity I had so far risked. But my hearers never turned a hair. 'Hear ye, the doctor has seen Nautulius,' they said with admiring glances. Of course no one had a clear idea of who Nautilus was, I didn't myself, but they assumed that he was a devil.
Ah, the jolly evenings I spent with my fellow authors hatching out new plots, new, unheard of perversions of truth and logic, each trying to outdo the other in organized mystification. I thought I would kill myself laughing at some of the things proposed, but everything went; there is no limit to human stupidity
this rdramachad was born 100 years too early, I'm in awe
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Snapshots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxil_hoax:
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Uh
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Sneediment
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There were dramatards throughout history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter
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I KNEEL.
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Wtf, this guy was beyond based
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Did you really not know what caning was?
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Its when we dunk on Srdines
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The first dramachad was Socrates, who pissed off the authorities so much that they killed him.
He's been a little salty about it ever since.
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The first may have been Socrates, but the one who turned it into perfection was Diogenes
Your honour, I rest my case
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Diogenes was dogpiilled
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Why do you think he would be salty about it?
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Because he was right, and the authorities were wrong, but they chose to kill him rather than to admit that they were wrong? If that happened to me, I'd be rooting for some genocide or at least a revolution.
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Why would you be rooting for some genocide or at least a revolution?
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Why wouldn't you?
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I don’t know, why would you think I wouldn’t?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_hoax
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Mencken is a quote machine and would 100% be the patron saint of drama
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Born to late to explore the world
Born to early to explore space
Born just in time to troll the interwebs
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not a bad deal tbh
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Proof that Deuxchads are the true dramatards
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I knew you were a Mason shill
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I bet the freemasons made him write this at gunpoint, or else he was always on their side and his books are a masonic disinfo psyop to muddy the waters (more likely).
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I saw one historian characterising him as a "fake news factory" which I think is also a pretty good description of rDrama.
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That historian sounds like a cute twink though
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Dramacels have existed way, way earlier than that!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus
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Stop repeating his name REEEEEEEEEE!
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4th century BCE B4rdf1nn
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a king in search of a kingdom
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Should look up Diogenes, the original Greek troll
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your bit is just spam at this point
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Even the best janny misses, sometimes.
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me the best, that can't be right, I'm a loser
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gotta take into account who your competition is
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He died 100 years ago you fricking r-slur.
Transform your Marseys!
www.pastebin.com/Jj9URfVi
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You were more interesting when you couldn't see.
Carp should have left that on
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Couldn't see?
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