one student journalist citing this as evidence that "auteur-style" humor sites were being displaced by the more anarchic brand of comedy characteristic of YouTube. However, Eric posted a new news entry on July 21, 2006, renewing the possibility of a regularly updated website. Another update was posted on April 1, 2008, along with a new adventure. On April 12, 2020 the website appeared on the now deleted YouTube channel UnusAnnus. Eric Wu acknowledged this on his Twitter. Recognition Eric states that he has never sought to publicize the site, but favorable press notices and a BBC Radio interview appeared within two years of its foundation. By May 2000 Eric was receiving more than 100 requests and 1000 hits per day, and by December 2002 the site had been covered by "media in Germany, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic". In 2003, the site was one of five nominated for a Webby Award in the humor category. In spite of being identified by the San Francisco Chronicle'''s Peter Hartlaub as "[a]mong the best" that year (along with Whitehouse.org in the same category), it lost out to the webcomic Get Your War On''. References External links Eric Conveys an Emotion American comedy websites Internet memes Internet properties established in 1998