History Website / TheBestPageInTheUniverse

->''This page is about Maddox and why the tropes he uses on his website are great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.''

As of 2017, Maddox's body of work has also expanded to:

* Two books; ''Literature/TheAlphabetOfManliness'', and ''I Am Better Than Your Kids''
* ''TheBiggestProblemInTheUniverse''; a weekly podcast in which Maddox, along with [[{{Podcast/TheDickShow}} Dick Masterson]] of Series/DrPhil and menarebetterthanwomen.com fame (infamy?), aims to create a comprehensive list of all the problems in the Universe, in hopes of eventually finding the biggest one. Hilarity ensues.
** NOTE: Maddox ended the show abruptly in 2016, neglecting to feature or even mention Masterson during the finale, right before starting the MadCast Media podcast network with satirist Rucka Rucka Ali. Dick questioned this on his own "sequel" podcast (link above), as well as other weird things that happened before and after the breakup. Leaked ''BPITU'' bonus content, doxing, slanderous videos, history denial, restraining orders, trademark debacles, and even courtroom dramas ensue.
* A third book, ''F*ck Whales: Petty Essays from a Brilliant Mind'', which, possibly due to the aforementioned story, isn't doing too well.

* SaltAndPepper: Complained about [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=cop_movie here]].

-->'''Liberal media:''' Whiny, bitching, cry-baby conservatives love to prattle on and on about the "liberal media." To be fair, except for Creator/{{FOX News|Channel}} ([[Series/TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]], Sean Hannity, John Gibson, Neil Cavuto, Steve Doocy, E.D. Hill, Brian Kilmeade, Brit Hume), [[Creator/IHeartMedia Clear Channel]], Laura Ingraham, Dr. Laura, Radio/RushLimbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Ann Coulter, Newsmax, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, Michael Savage, The New York Post, Sinclair Broadcast Group ([=WLOS13, Fox 45, WTTO21, WB49,=] KGAN, WICD, WICS, WCHS, WVAH, WTAT, WSTR, WSYX, WTTE, WKEF, WRGT, KDSM, WSMH, WXLV, WURN, KVWB, KFBT, WDKY, WMSN, WVTV, WEAR, WZTV, KOTH, WYZZ, WPGH, WGME, WLFL, WRLH, WUHF, KABB, WGGB, WSYT, WTTA), David Horowitz, UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch, [[Creator/{{ION}} PAX]], and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, they're right.

''The Best Page in the Universe'' originated from a text document that Maddox wrote in 1996 aptly named "fifty things that piss me off!" He gave the list to several people on [=EFnet=]'s #coders and a few coworkers, and the positive response led him to create the website. Maddox decided to name his site "The Best Page in the Universe" specifically due to his knowledge that Yahoo! blocked sites with the phrase "the best" in the title from inclusion in its search engine at the time. The website consists of satirical written articles by Maddox. Topics of the articles vary wildly, from humorous observations about everyday life, reviews of film, video game and other media, political satire, parodies of other websites, to random {{Non Sequitur}}s. Articles tend to written in a [[CausticCritic harsh, demeaning, and sometimes offensive tone]], with consistent themes of Maddox's own perceived [[RatedMForManly masculinity]] and intelligence, as well as mocking of others for behaviour he perceives as stupid or mindlessly conformist.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In his review of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' Maddox spends most of the review RootingForTheEmpire without shame, loving every second of Immortan Joe and his army almost literally wallpapered in RuleOfCool. Keep in mind that A) ''Fury Road'' is an unconventional FeministFantasy, and B) the Maddox persona is a [[DeconReconSwitch mild]] satire of being RatedMForManly and writes BlackComedy about mistreating women.

* RatedMForManly: And he even wrote a book to that extent.

-->'''Liberal media:''' Whiny, bitching, cry-baby conservatives love to prattle on and on about the "liberal media." To be fair, except for Creator/{{FOX News|Channel}} ([[Series/TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]], Sean Hannity, John Gibson, Neil Cavuto, Steve Doocy, E.D. Hill, Brian Kilmeade, Brit Hume), [[Creator/IHeartMedia Clear Channel]], Laura Ingraham, Dr. Laura, Radio/RushLimbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Ann Coulter, Newsmax, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, Michael Savage, The New York Post, Sinclair Broadcast Group ([=WLOS13, Fox 45, WTTO21, WB49,=] KGAN, WICD, WICS, WCHS, WVAH, WTAT, WSTR, WSYX, WTTE, WKEF, WRGT, KDSM, WSMH, WXLV, WURN, KVWB, KFBT, WDKY, WMSN, WVTV, WEAR, WZTV, KOTH, WYZZ, WPGH, WGME, WLFL, WRLH, WUHF, KABB, WGGB, WSYT, WTTA), David Horowitz, UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch, [[Creator/{{ION}} PAX]], and Creator/{{MSNBC}}'s Joe Scarborough, they're right.

* [[https://www.twitch.tv/realmaddox a Twitch channel]]

[[http://maddox.xmission.com/ The Best Page in the Universe]] is a personal satirical humor Web site created by George Ouzounian, better known by his pen name '''Maddox'''. Launched in 1997 without any high expectations, the Web site soon became one of the most popular websites on the Web, becoming known purely though word of mouth, and turning Maddox into one of the earliest internet influencers many years before modern social media existed.

* GrammarNazi: One of the ways that Maddox took apart a hate mail is by pointing out its numerous grammatical errors. He's had to deal with a few of these thinking that the words "inane" and "homage" are [[CriticalResearchFailure not actual words]], assuming he meant to write "insane" and "homepage".

* InsaneTrollLogic:
** Possibly spoofed: [[TakeThat "Mimes are worthless. Environmentalists are worthless. Therefore Mimes are Environmentalists."]]
** Screw the whales. Why? Because they're drinking all our water and eating our sailors.

Maddox also appeared in an eighth season episode of Series/PennAndTellerBullshit about old people and the stereotypes about them. Maddox thought that old people sucked. In 2015, a full 5 years later, he finally made a video and article about his experience, only for PennJillette to apologize immediately on Twitter.

%%Please kindly observe the Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment when editing this page. We don't want anybody to echo Maddox's opinions beyond his intentions.

%%Please kindly observe the Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment when editing this page. We don't want anybody to echo Maddox's opinions beyond his intentions.

Despite Maddox never creating any advertisements for promotions for his website, the site gained incredible popularity purely though word of mouth alone. Individual articles on the website would gain millions of unique views, an extraordinary amount considering this was in the late 90's and early 2000's when the Internet itself was not as popular as it is today. As of July 15, 2009, Xmission.com, which hosts The Best Page in the Universe, had an Alexa rank of about 16,000, and [=TheBestPageInTheUniverse.net=], which works as an alternative domain for Maddox's Web site, had an Alexa rank of about 33,000, [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen however the site's popularity has dropped in recent years as netizens have looked for other forms of entertainment than Maddox's controversial opinions on nearly everything]].

Oh, and please kindly use the Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment when editing this page. We don't want anybody to echo Maddox's opinions beyond his intentions.

* TakeThat: On almost everything. His ''VideoGame/{{0Ikaruga}}'' review turned into a random stab at ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'', mocking its character design (in particular, Armor King).

** Several movie reviews, along with his Ikaruga review randomly turning into mocking VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'s character design.

* TakeThat: On almost everything. His Ikaruga review turned into a random stab at Tekken, mocking its character design (in particular, Armor King).

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When the COVID-19 pandemic began to escalate in 2020, he reposted his word-for-word article from a decade prior where he lampooned the media's overzealous fearmongering around the swine flu by daring someone to infect him with swine flu, only replacing the phrase "swine flu" with "coronavirus." Once he (and in fairness, and most of the rest of us) realized that COVID was actually a very serious disease this time, he recanted himself and made a video calling out the COVID deniers using simple statistics.

* RiceBurner: He has a field day with them in [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=civic this article]]. He then points out that even if one does invest in an actual performance car rather than needless decorations for an economy car, the illegality of driving over 200 miles per hour on public roads [[ShaggyDogStory ultimately renders performance cars worthless too]]. He mocked their responses of accusing him of driving a lame car by posting a heavily photoshopped, pimped-out economy car. Of course, a lot of people actually believed that was his real car and accused him of being a hypocrite.

[-56,448,946 tropers [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife had their lives ruined]].-]

-->'''Liberal media:''' Whiny, bitching, cry-baby conservatives love to prattle on and on about the "liberal media." To be fair, except for Creator/{{FOX News|Channel}} ([[Series/TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]], Sean Hannity, John Gibson, Neil Cavuto, Steve Doocy, E.D. Hill, Brian Kilmeade, Brit Hume), Creator/IHeartMedia, Laura Ingraham, Dr. Laura, Radio/RushLimbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Ann Coulter, Newsmax, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, Michael Savage, The New York Post, Sinclair Broadcast Group ([=WLOS13, Fox 45, WTTO21, WB49,=] KGAN, WICD, WICS, WCHS, WVAH, WTAT, WSTR, WSYX, WTTE, WKEF, WRGT, KDSM, WSMH, WXLV, WURN, KVWB, KFBT, WDKY, WMSN, WVTV, WEAR, WZTV, KOTH, WYZZ, WPGH, WGME, WLFL, WRLH, WUHF, KABB, WGGB, WSYT, WTTA), David Horowitz, UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch, [[Creator/{{ION}} PAX]], and Creator/{{MSNBC}}'s Joe Scarborough, they're right.

* WallOfText: Played with in his [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=buzzfeed article critizising]] Website/BuzzFeed:

* DummiedOut: Looking at the HTML source of many of his pages reveals many bits omitted through ''<!-- HTML comments. -->''

-->'''Liberal media:''' Whiny, bitching, cry-baby conservatives love to prattle on and on about the "liberal media." To be fair, except for Creator/{{FOX News|Channel}} ([[Series/TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]], Sean Hannity, John Gibson, Neil Cavuto, Steve Doocy, E.D. Hill, Brian Kilmeade, Brit Hume), Creator/ClearChannel, Laura Ingraham, Dr. Laura, Radio/RushLimbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Ann Coulter, Newsmax, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, Michael Savage, The New York Post, Sinclair Broadcast Group ([=WLOS13, Fox 45, WTTO21, WB49,=] KGAN, WICD, WICS, WCHS, WVAH, WTAT, WSTR, WSYX, WTTE, WKEF, WRGT, KDSM, WSMH, WXLV, WURN, KVWB, KFBT, WDKY, WMSN, WVTV, WEAR, WZTV, KOTH, WYZZ, WPGH, WGME, WLFL, WRLH, WUHF, KABB, WGGB, WSYT, WTTA), David Horowitz, UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch, [[Creator/{{ION}} PAX]], and Creator/{{MSNBC}}'s Joe Scarborough, they're right.

''The Best Page in the Universe'' originated from a text document that Maddox wrote in 1996 aptly named "fifty things that piss me off!" He gave the list to several people on [=EFnet=]'s #coders and a few coworkers, and the positive response led him to create the website. Maddox decided to name his site "The Best Page in the Universe" specifically due to his knowledge that Yahoo! blocked sites with the phrase "the best" in the title from inclusion in its search engine at the time. The Website consists of satirical written articles by Maddox. Topics of the articles vary wildly, from humorous observations about everyday life, reviews of film, video game and other media, political satire, parodies of other websites, to random {{Non Sequitur}}s. Articles tend to written in a [[CausticCritic harsh, demeaning, and sometimes offensive tone]], with consistent themes of Maddox's own perceived [[RatedMForManly masculinity]] and intelligence, as well as mocking of others for behaviour he perceives as stupid or mindlessly conformist.

[[http://maddox.xmission.com/ The Best Page in the Universe]] is a personal satirical humor Web site created by George Ouzounian, better known by his pen name '''Maddox'''. Launched in 1997 without any high expectations, the Web site soon became one of the most popular websites on the Web, becoming known purely though word of mouth, and turning Maddox into one of the earliest social media influencers many years before modern social media existed.

[[http://maddox.xmission.com/ The Best Page in the Universe]] is a personal satirical humor Web site created by George Ouzounian, better known by his pen name '''Maddox'''. Launched in 1997 without any high expectations, the Web site soon became one of the most popular websites on the Web, becoming known purely though word of mouth.

Despite Maddox never creating any advertisements for promotions for his website, the site gained incredible popularity purely though word of mouth alone. Individual articles on the website would gain millions of unique views, an extraordinary amount considering this was in the late 90's and early 2000's when the Internet itself was not as popular as it is today. As of July 15, 2009, Xmission.com, which hosts The Best Page in the Universe, had an Alexa rank of about 16,000, and [=TheBestPageInTheUniverse.net=], which works as an alternative domain for Maddox's Web site, had an Alexa rank of about 33,000.

->''This page is about Maddox and why the tropes he uses on his website are great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong and an idiotic crybaby.''

* A third book which, possibly due to the aforementioned story, isn't doing too well.

->''This page is about Maddox and why the tropes he uses on his website are great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.''