Bleef is a satire website created by Micah Pelman, an individual of innumerable profound virtues and incredible wisdom and humility in all manners of judgement. Micah once had a vision of an online service that would bring together people of all backgrounds, whether gradients, images, or just plain colors. He spent many long and difficult hours crafting the code, painstakingly designing each pixel to be exactly as he'd envisioned it. Once created, the website was so grand and so perfect that all cloud hosting services refused to host it, probably since it reminded them of their own imperfections and limitations. It was permanently deleted by an unknown entity.

Unfortunately, after many more long hours of contacting various customer support lines, the backups were corrupted and the work was unrecoverable, so Micah lifted himself up by his bootstraps, spent like 20 minutes asking ChatGPT to design a satire website, and that's what this is.

Not everything in the previous two paragraphs is true; don't trust everything on the internet, but your belief is your choice. Speaking of which, Bleef sounds a lot like "belief" and I wish I could tell you that's how I thought of the name, but honestly I just like beef and added an "l" for a little spice. As the creator of this entirely satirical (take notes, adsense) website, I made pretty much everything for it so far, code and content, although much credit goes to my inspirations, the Babylon Bee and the Onion. For anyone who is curious, Bleef was made with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on the front-end, and Express.js with Nginx on the back end. For hosting I used VPS Pulsar.

The idea of making a satire website came to me sometime in 2024, when I got really into the Onion and the Babylon Bee (neither of which would probably like to be grouped with the other, but I digress) style of content, and began writing a few of my ideas for fake news articles in a google doc, which made a few family members laugh, but it has been long lost. I had previously dabbled in web design, so in the summer of 2025, I used the great load of time on my hands to piece together the code and turn it into a reality.

There isn't supposed to be a “the” in Bleef, despite what the url says. Originally I intended for the website to be bleef.com, but that was a bit under $6k for just the domain name alone, which was way out of my budget to say the least. So, I settled for thebleef (the added “the” shaved off about $5850 for some reason), but always remember that it is just Bleef, not “The Bleef”, and if I ever hear anyone using “the,” I will be profoundly disappointed and probably cry myself to sleep for the next ten months.

Soon after Bleef went online, I discovered that you could search for it in Google and Bing, despite me never having set up anything allowing that (which essentially means some bot was scraping Bleef without my permission, go figure), but it isn't always the top result and sometimes the urban dictionary definition of the word, which I discovered is an obscene slang term, came up first. In fact, I highly recommend you do not, under an circumstances, look up bleef on urban dictionary, I promise you will regret it.

I encountered many, many technical difficulties while building Bleef, including many things that are absolutely essential to a functional website, but to which little thought goes into by the typical consumer. For instance, the favicon - the little image next to the title in the tab bar - took ages to make work in every browser, and I acquired an appreciation for little design quirks like it, that are so often overlooked.

I was inspired to create the Editor's Notes due to the profound number of people online who don't understand satire. Will this solve the problem? Most certainly not, but it does offer insights into articles that are otherwise inaccessible without communicating with the author directly, which can only happen so many times before said author falls into an email-induced coma.

Questions such as “When will you publish consistently?”, “Will you ever add comments?”, “How can I give you money?”, “What is Bleef's SSH password?” and “Will you be allowing article submissions?” will all be answered in due time, but until then the best way to ensure Bleef’s continued existence is sending me an email of feedback or support (micahofrockville@gmail.com for anyone too lazy to click the “contact me” page.)