[citation needed] The name also described the nature of "news aggregator" sites that "sucked" stories from the internet and published them in magazine-like formats.
[2] During 1996, Suck integrated the writing talent of Heather Havrilesky, who provided the sarcastic comments of her supposed alter ego "Polly Esther" in her column, Filler.
In the years 2000 to 2001, cartoonist Peter Bagge did a number of comics journalism stories for Suck on such topics as politics, the Miss America Pageant, bar culture, and the Oscars.
"[10] During the autumn of 2015, software developer Mark MacDonald began serializing the website's archive in an email newsletter, which is sent on a daily basis 20 years-to-the-day after its original publication on Suck.com.
[11] From the beginning, site founders Anuff and Steadman created daily comically cynical commentary with a self-obsessed and satiric theme.