Caricatures of the press or pamphlet have existed for centuries; the drawing is generally grotesque which means that the reader has no possible doubt on the fact that it is a parody and not reality.
The articles of Le Gorafi comment real or imaginary events in a satirical and offbeat way, taking again most of the press codes.
[4] Le Gorafi was first an element on Twitter that began in February 2012, during the French presidential campaign, before being transformed as a blog in May, and then becoming in September 2012 a website.
[4][5] Since then, many of its articles were relayed in the press, especially the one stating about a supposed new challenge undertaken by Felix Baumgartner who would have decided to cross alone the entire region of Île-de-France taking the RER B.
In November of that year, the following book titled L'année du Gorafi 2 was released, and the creators were invited at the radio program of media criticism L'Instant M broadcast on France Inter for 15 minutes.
The first theme is the object of the treatment of twisted news presented in a satirical tone by one of the two co-founders Pablo Mira, of a length between two and four minutes.