FARK is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site

What is Fark?

The first thing you should know is that Fark.com isn't a Weblog. Fark.com, the Web site, is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site. Every day Fark receives 2,000 or so news submissions from its readership, from which we hand-pick the funny and weird notable news -- and not-news -- of the day.

Fark isn't an acronym. It doesn't mean anything. The idea was to have the word Fark come to symbolize news that is really Not News. Hence the slogan "It's not news, it's Fark." Fark was originally a word Drew became known for using online back in the early 1990s. He can't remember why, but his guess is that it was either to replace another F-word or that he was just drunk and mistyped something. He tells everyone it was the former since it's a better story that way.

Four letter domain names were getting snapped up quickly, so on a whim in the summer of 1997 Drew checked to see if Fark.com was available. It was, and he grabbed it. At the time the only thing you could do with a Web site was put up what was then called a vanity site. This was almost all the Internet consisted of back in 1997. Think of vanity sites as poorly coded MySpace pages. Yes, MySpace pages look pretty bad, but these were worse. Drew didn't want to use the Fark.com domain name for a vanity site, so he decided to wait until he had a better idea.

For the first two years of Fark.com's existence (1997-1999), all you got was this picture of a squirrel with big nuts:

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Tue September 09, 2025
	That's the last time he'll not bring drugs to a football watch party	0
	In case you didn't know, hotels now regularly scam people large amounts of money with bogus "You were smoking in your room" charges, and there's nothing you can do about it, short of kneecapping the front desk clerk	12
	Dental nurse wins £25,000 after co-worker 'rolled her eyes at her'	7
	AI generated Simon Bolivar, dead nearly 200 years, prepares Venezuelans for the invaders by hallucinating details and not being able to do simple math	6

	Detroit gets $19.8M from Knight Foundation to boost art, technology and community projects, potentially including David Hasselhoff and a talking car	0
	Car Wars: Final Episode - The Phantom Menace	6
	Royal Courts of Justice in London receive artwork that could be worth millions, but don't appreciate it at all	4
	Possibly the most accurate Abergavenny Man headline to date	14
	You feed the blue squirrel, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You feed the red squirrel, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the nut hole goes	14

Mon September 08, 2025

	It's a GIRL. Texas family ends 108-year-long boy streak	24
	Jackie Gleason is not dead, he just returned home. The Zillow listing got abducted, apparently	20
	BREAKING: Former prince unhappy with no longer being prince	65
	How many points is it for hitting two cyclists with your SUV? Before you answer, know that this happened at 8:30 on a Sunday morning, the cyclists were children warming up for a race, and our protagonist blew a .252	61
	Photoshop this medieval Fark party	14
(Some Guy)	Town that already protects sensitive snowflakes from being triggered by banning something in residential areas now considering requiring it to be hidden from view with 4 rows of trees, but may not adopt proposed 1200-foot buffer zones	86
	Another typical day for Boeing as a WestJet 737 suffers from collapsed landing gear. Passengers hope they were wearing brown pants	33
	Egypt and Sudan concerned about GERD. Normally, you just take Prilosec for that sort of thing	25
	Suspect found in refrigerator after running from Police. Sounds like another one for the cold case files	34
	More than 19 dead in Nepal 'Gen Z' protests after goverment bans multiple social media apps	47
	What on earth was that big boom in New Jersey last night? You can't explain it	57
	Photoshop theme: An improvement to football	36
	Well Drive-In theaters were always popular with couples	40
	If you lost your tête in the Rivière-des-Prairies in the Montréal-Nord borough the police would like to parler avec toi	26
	You're never going to stop your kids looking at porn; you're never even going to make it unpopular, you just have to figure out how to deal with it	103
	Mushroom Killer sentenced to life in prison, where she hopes to land a job in the kitchen	26
	Fourth-grader found with gun on school bus. Since this is Florida, all bets are off on whether it was a handgun, an AK-47, a bazooka, or some kind of phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range	29
	Over 90% of the transactions at an ATM for fake money were fraudulent? You don't say	43
(Some Guy)	Man who lives in a neighborhood with an HOA develops a fear of opening mail during the pandemic. What could go wrong?	108
	Whatcom County Humane's cat kennel is full. Here's where, why and who you should help	31
	Caption this indigenous shopkeeper	18
	Man stabbed on Metro bus in Seattle. See, that's why I just ride the SLUT instead	35
	Survival challenge contestant wins	22
	There is water at the bottom of the ocean. Under the water, carry the water. Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean. Water dissolving, and water removing. And you may ask yourself, how do we work this?	72
	France's government on verge of surrendering	100
	Grand Theft Auto, Barbie edition	35
	The American Dream will now cost you $5 Million according to these numbers from the Pulled Out of My Ass Institute	109
	In most places a daycare center would call parents if a child they were watching was bit by a copperhead snake. But not in North Carolina	41
	If by "defect in pavement" they mean "abyss" then okay	18
	London halted by series of tubes	59
	Photoshop this wet couple	29
	Locals fight over who gets to claim the privilege of saying they live in America's fourth-best city	75
	The Merriam-Webster word of the day for September 8 is sanguine, as in "My Sam Cooke cover band sanguine your love for me"	10
	Day 1,293 of WW3. Another orc drone crashes in Poland. Slovak politician repeats russian lies about Ukraine, UAF liberates Zarichne in Donetsk, and the Druzhba pipeline gets struck by Magyar's Birds again. This is your Monday Ukraine War thread	238
	Sick and poor in America? It's probably cheaper to just die, since otherwise you'll be sued for being sick and poor	69
	This just in beep beep doodoo: 5 States face below freezing temperatures , repeat 5 States face below freezing temps Or as any Upper MidWest farmer would call it, End of first week in September	24
	Turn back the clock, and while you're over there put a "Mass shooting at bar in Texas" sticky note onto the "trifectas in play" board please	28
	Librarians suggest banning 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, more	39
	Living in New York is hell, example #768, River of Fire. Well, okay, Babbling Brook of Fire. But still	7
	Police forces across America loosen education requirements, hoping to recruit dumber, more volatile officers	37
	No, no, no, the pole is supposed to fall DURING the storm, not before it. Who is in charge of this stuff?	8