Type of site Pure player Website www.legorafi.fr | Available in French Commercial No | |
Created by Pablo Mira
Sébastien Liebus Slogan(s) "Depuis 1826, toute l'information de sources contradictoires" | ||
Le Gorafi is a pastiche of a news network, created in May 2012 during the French presidential campaign in the style of The Onion, a satirical newspaper of fake information. It has also been compared with Infos du Monde and L'Examineur.
Since 2014, the site is also declined in a televisual form on channel Canal+ as a humoristic segment on the program Le Grand Journal. The identity of the creators was unknown until January 2014, when the two creators, Pablo Mira and Sébastien Liebus, became known in the media.
History
The articles of Le Gorafi comment real or imaginary events in a satirical and offbeat way, taking again most of the press codes. 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. Since then, many of its articles were relayed in the press, especially the one stating about a supposed challenge undertaken by Felix Baumgartner who would have decided to cross alone the entire region of Île-de-France taking the RER B.
The site presents the newspaper as dating of 1826, from a scission after a conflict of interest at the redaction of Le Figaro and named Le Gorafi due to the dyslexia of its founder Jean-René Buissière. The contents are compared to the "Page Pute" of Brain Magazine, or other humoristic and satirical sites like Bilboquet Magazine and L'Humour de droite, which reacts on Twitter and Facebook. Le Gorafi claims more than 400,000 viewers in February 2013 and regularly more than 900,000 viewers per month stated by Les Inrocks.
In January 2014, the book L'année du Gorafi 2013 was released at the Éditions Denoël. 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.