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->''This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.'' - Tagline

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->''This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.'' - ''
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** Subverted in the article titled [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=owned "How is it possible that a guy with a small penis and a hairy back is more powerful than Pepsi on the Internet?"]] Though he maintains that his nuts are still huge regardless; for instance one of his [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=xbox_suckit complaints about]] the original UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} was that the original, infamously-huge controllers were "almost as big as my nuts".

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** Subverted in the article titled [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=owned "How is it possible that a guy with a small penis and a hairy back is more powerful than Pepsi on the Internet?"]] Though he maintains that his nuts are still huge regardless; for instance one of his [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=xbox_suckit complaints about]] the original UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} Platform/{{Xbox}} was that the original, infamously-huge controllers were "almost as big as my nuts".
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-->'''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/IonTelevision PAX]], and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, they're right.

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-->'''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]], FOX News (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/IonTelevision PAX]], and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, they're right.



** After the death of Creator/ChristopherReeve, Maddox updated his article about Reeve... simply to change the title from "Christopher Reeve is an asshole" to "Christopher Reeve [[strike:is]] ''was'' an asshole."

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** After the death of Creator/ChristopherReeve, Maddox updated his article about Reeve... simply to change the title from "Christopher Reeve is an asshole" to "Christopher Reeve [[strike:is]] ''was'' an asshole."
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Many of Maddox's articles include MS Paint illustrations, with touchup done in Adobe Photoshop. Images include elderly people being fired to the sun, hippies being killed, and Maddox's testicles drawn larger than basketballs. Maddox maintains a section in which he criticizes hate mail his website has generated. When posting his replies, he breaks the e-mail down, ridicules points which use fallacious logic and corrects linguistic errors. He also runs an online store which sells merchandise such as stickers and apparel that bear phrases used in his articles. The site contains several "hidden pages", many of which are unfinished works or first drafts of articles that were moved around.

The page is headed with an image of Maddox's face superimposed over a bust of UsefulNotes/CheGuevara. In the image, Maddox is wearing a beret emblazoned with the Jolly Roger, and an eye patch. Maddox uses this image as a parody of the revolutionary icon. Maddox says that Che Guevara is remembered as "Che the revolutionary", not "Che the pinko", and claims to be neither socialist nor communist. Instead, he often proclaims himself to be a {{Pirate}}, and typically portrays himself as such in his articles and artwork.

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Many of Maddox's articles include MS Paint illustrations, with touchup done in Adobe Photoshop. Images include elderly people being fired to into the sun, hippies being killed, and Maddox's testicles drawn larger than basketballs. Maddox maintains a section in which he criticizes hate mail his website has generated. When posting his replies, he breaks the e-mail down, ridicules points which use fallacious logic and corrects linguistic errors. He also runs an online store which sells merchandise such as stickers and apparel that bear phrases used in his articles. The site contains several "hidden pages", many of which are unfinished works or first drafts of articles that were moved around.

The page is headed with an image of Maddox's face superimposed over a bust of UsefulNotes/CheGuevara. In the image, Maddox is wearing a beret emblazoned with the Jolly Roger, and an eye patch. Maddox uses this image as a parody of the revolutionary icon. Maddox says icon, saying that Che Guevara is remembered as "Che the revolutionary", not "Che the pinko", and claims to be neither socialist nor communist. Instead, he often proclaims himself to be a {{Pirate}}, and typically portrays himself as such in his articles and artwork.



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. At it's peak, 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.

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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 '90s and early 2000's 2000s when the Internet itself was not as popular as it is today. At it's its peak, Xmission.com, which hosts The Best Page in the Universe, had an Alexa rank of about 16,000, 16,000 - he even bragged in one article about how his site got more traffic through word of mouth than corporations spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on advertising, including Pepsi and [=McDonald's=] - and [=TheBestPageInTheUniverse.net=], which works as an alternative domain for Maddox's Web site, had an Alexa rank of about 33,000.



** 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.

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 Penn Jillette to apologize immediately on Twitter.

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** NOTE: Maddox ended the show abruptly in 2016, neglecting to feature or even mention Masterson during the finale, right before starting the MadCast [=MadCast=] Media podcast network with satirist Rucka Rucka Ali. Dick questioned this on his own "sequel" podcast (link above), podcast, 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.

drama ensued.

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, experience,[[note]]Rather than talking directly with Penn and Teller, producers came to his house, interviewed him for about two hours, then, in his words, took about one minute's worth of clips from that interview [[QuoteMine and aired them completely out of context to push a narrative that also made him look bad]][[/note]] only for Penn Jillette to apologize immediately on Twitter.

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