Creating useless redirects

Genius!

Creating useless redirects is an art form involving typing #REDIRECT [[random page]] on random pages. It is a highly respected form of art by 12 year olds and Uncyclopedia vandals, falling behind only 2005cruft and random humor.

History

Idiocrates may have been the pioneer of creating useless redirects.

As an art form, creating useless redirects has a history dating back to the Ancient Greeks. In his later life, Idiocrates experimented with creating useless redirects, but he was cross-eyed, limiting his ability to use the method. A few decades later, Testiclēs helped the method flourish even further. According to some estimates, Testiclēs made nearly 25,000 useless redirects on paleo-Wikipedia, one of which was redirecting ridiculous names that nobody would ever have like Benedict Cumberbatch to stuff like mathematics. Due to the burning of paleo-Wikipedia by Wikipedia vandals, almost all of the useless redirects created by Testiclēs were lost to time.

Creating useless redirects remained a distinct art form throughout Roman times, with some sources reporting that Julius Caesar was creating useless redirects on the same day that he was assassinated by Brutus. Despite its continued popularity, there was little innovation in the process during the time. While creating useless redirects was immensely popular among the Roman aristocracy, later Emperors wished to curtail the practice. Notably, Nero gave an order to kill anyone caught creating useless redirects, while Domitian would personally roam around the Italian countryside and burn houses of people whom he thought may have been creating useless redirects. Ultimately, Commodus ended the practice of creating useless redirects by mauling to death the last person who still exercised the practice. The loss of creating useless redirects is considered, by modern historians, to be the primary cause of the end of the Pax Romana and the start of the Crisis of the Third Century. Many also hypothesize that barbarians bribed Emperors to destroy the practice, thus making creating useless redirects one of the first things lost to barbarian invasions.

Rediscovery

A rather futile attempt by Jimbo Wales to discourage creating useless redirects.

Creating useless redirects was not only one of the first things lost to barbarian invasions in Rome, it was also one of the last to be rediscovered. It was completely overlooked during the Renaissance, and attracted no attention for the next few centuries. This all changed with the foundation of Wikipedia by Jimbo Wales in 2001. Ancient scrolls describing creating useless redirects were discovered in July 2004 by archaeologist Wilhelm Felger, who was quick to deploy them against Wikipedia. Felger was quick to move on to more devastating attacks, but creating useless redirects has since remained popular among Wikipedia vandals.

Late 2004 saw more opportunities for creating useless redirects with the foundation of WikiCities Wikia FANDOM powered by Wikia Fandom in October 2004. While Wikipedia had armies of wikipedophiles policing the website, most Wikia wikis were policed by 12 year olds, who had stuff like school and thus could not stop vandalism. Wikia was quick to become a hub of completely useless redirects, pissing off Jimbo Wales since he had to buy more storage space for his cash grab. Eventually, Jimbo Wales would start destroying random wikis as well as putting up propaganda against creating useless redirects, but neither of these could stop the tide. Eventually, he managed to still profit off of Wikia by inserting over 20 advertisements on every page, making the site completely unreadable and discouraging people from creating useless redirects since the site was too slow.

Methods

Although creating useless redirects classically took the form of inserting bullshit into paleo-Wikipedia and then making redirects, the practice has taken on multiple forms since its rediscovery.

The Uncyclopedia style

Many people enter Uncyclopedia thinking that it's anarchic Wikipedia, and thus believe that it's acceptable to create useless redirects here. In the end, nobody will care if you redirect oi2fibqwefnwoq wn qi qi q to moccasin. However, this may provoke ire among the community, and the redirects may end up here, and you may end up here or here.

The AFC style

Wikipedophiles tend to think that the internet is SRS BSNS, and thus will protect and serve with their lives. Requesting useless redirects to be created is sometimes not considered to be a valid form of creating useless redirects, but it pisses off wikipedophiles. If done enough, you may even get a response from a page creator that will get them banned for lack of civility.

The Wikia style

Wikia wikis usually have no moderation, and thus can be vandalized by anyone for hours without any response. However, creating useless redirects is a shitty form of vandalism, somehow beating out page blanking with how shitty it is. This method can also be done on Conservapedia and RationalWiki, where it may see more success, since admins of both sites think that the internet is SRS BSNS.

Competitive creating useless redirects

Jimbo Wales with the money he won from a game of competitive creating useless redirects. He does not want you to look at this image, so please don't look at it.

Starting in the late 2000s, creating useless redirects has been integrated into the games of Rationaltroll and Conservatroll. Many people have participated in these games, including Jimbo Wales. Winners of Conservatroll and Rationaltroll may receive monetary prizes, leading to competitive creating useless redirects. Although the practice is no longer as popular as it once was, occasional games of competitive creating useless redirects still occur this day, albeit extremely rarely. As with literally every game ever, AAA holds the current high score.

Random humor

Even though the art of creating useless redirects has split into various different styles since its rediscovery, it all boils down to the same tactic: random humor. Often, vandals will create useless redirects titled stuff like oiqeoiqoqoi nfjda. Slightly more intelligent ones would spam penis over and over again, or add "on wheels" to the end of the title, in memory of Wilhelm Felger. Idiocrates would be proud.

See also

• USERNAME template abuse
• Edit farm
• Prevert
• 2005cruft