Trip Chesterton III
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I actually read them as passive aggressive, like "uhhh I 'GUESS' you know what you are doing or something..."
Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield
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Learned Hand
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Yes, sadly! As Back Me Up! mentioned, CLAM DOWN became a forum mod and things went to shit really fast. SFD used to put out all these propaganda pieces and videos of them griefing the star trek community, trolling RP events, and generally being irreverent, which even if you're not into all of that was refreshing as far as goon groups went. CLAM DOWN put a stop that hard though around 2016.
There is a direct correlation between the 2016 election of President Trump and goons absolutely losing their minds, though I can't give precise reasons why. Goons who played games who were always down for trolling and antics in games who didn't care about "wrongspeak" were suddenly extremely upset about those activities and very vocal about getting those who still enjoyed them banned or blacklisted.
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Also, the Wendy's brand has a lot of goodwill and isn't convulsed by scandal over and over, meaning they can take risks in their SM style. Having a light-hearted, fun, slightly edgy SM presence is great if you're a brand like Wendy's or Sonic the Hedgehog, who people have a lot of affection for and aren't associated with, I dunno, infidelity, embezzlement, paedophilia and child endangerment. Even so, those brands SM strategy is lightly self-deprecating, not thin-skinned and defensive. They also don't get their SM managers to insult their own customers on the company's own premises.
SA has no brand goodwill left to take risks with its marketing strategy. Its current customer base consists of:
1 - Crazed transgender communists who are convinced the site is infested with, and run by, literal Nazis.
2 - A dwindling number of normal people who are increasingly unhappy with the above and the non-stop scandals emanating from the site's owners and administrators and leaving in droves.
SA's potential new customer base consists of:
1 - Disaffected ex-goons who want the insanity ended rather than doubled-down on.
2 - People who don't know much about SA but who certainly won't be persuaded to put down their ten bux by very public infighting and the aforementioned communist troons.
Every single aspect of their current "strategy" (lol) seems purpose-designed to anger and chase away their own existing customer base whilst dissuading anyone else from going anywhere near SA when there are better alternatives. Even Reddit is a better place to hang out, because it may be full of Troons and terrible moderation, but at least its CEO isn't airing their dirty laundry in public and taking money from customers for promised software upgrades and openly spending them on personal expenses instead.
Also, maybe not try to appeal to a core audience with a 41% suicide rate.
There you go, Lowtax, a marketing analysis for you. That'll be one blowjob please.
Tanner Glass
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I can't get over how horrific Logan Day is at marketing - she's like the Sargon of Akkad of Marketing Campaigns.
A complete lack of credibility and effort on her part. She's pretending like she's always been a part of SA and she totally has an '06 account but forgot the login for it totes for real. You are currently living with the owner/main administrator - have him look the account up. He isn't doing shit right now besides licking batteries for donations - all of his wives and kids are away from him, his schedule is wide open. Even if you're lying (which you are) just have him fucking make you one. This shouldn't be so hard.
You are being incredibly antagonistic to your audience which you are also expecting to help out in the new re-monetization of Something Awful - an audience which is currently monetizing Something Awful and being antagonized by it's current owner (Lowtax). "Fuck you, pay me" is not a great marketing strategy but for SA it isn't even different than the current marketing strategy. Even if your focus is the front page, most of the "good" front page content came from the fucking forums and if you've been posting on SA for 14 years people would expect you to know that.
You need to have a plan that is more than "I have a plan", whatever your plan for SA is it's going to invariably involve the SA community (to generate free content) and it's better to get people on board now than let more bleeding happen when you finally come up with an idea 3 months from now (or better yet invent a time machine and go back to 2004). The community can't help you with your plan or participate in your plan if you don't actually have one to share.
You probably shouldn't be in Lowtax's house and you absolutely shouldn't be calling MapleWife a cunt on facebook. He probably shouldn't be in your house and certainly not for nearly a month, and not during any holidays.
She's been at this for a while but hasn't done a single thing right, which is statistically improbable (she should have guessed a few things right by this point).
A complete lack of credibility and effort on her part. She's pretending like she's always been a part of SA and she totally has an '06 account but forgot the login for it totes for real. You are currently living with the owner/main administrator - have him look the account up. He isn't doing shit right now besides licking batteries for donations - all of his wives and kids are away from him, his schedule is wide open. Even if you're lying (which you are) just have him fucking make you one. This shouldn't be so hard.
You are being incredibly antagonistic to your audience which you are also expecting to help out in the new re-monetization of Something Awful - an audience which is currently monetizing Something Awful and being antagonized by it's current owner (Lowtax). "Fuck you, pay me" is not a great marketing strategy but for SA it isn't even different than the current marketing strategy. Even if your focus is the front page, most of the "good" front page content came from the fucking forums and if you've been posting on SA for 14 years people would expect you to know that.
You need to have a plan that is more than "I have a plan", whatever your plan for SA is it's going to invariably involve the SA community (to generate free content) and it's better to get people on board now than let more bleeding happen when you finally come up with an idea 3 months from now (or better yet invent a time machine and go back to 2004). The community can't help you with your plan or participate in your plan if you don't actually have one to share.
You probably shouldn't be in Lowtax's house and you absolutely shouldn't be calling MapleWife a cunt on facebook. He probably shouldn't be in your house and certainly not for nearly a month, and not during any holidays.
She's been at this for a while but hasn't done a single thing right, which is statistically improbable (she should have guessed a few things right by this point).
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Uhh, you might wanna look which way that blowjob goes for work done
Goondolences
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Burt has been aware of Logan since late November. He's just another completely spineless mod who thinks he's doing the best thing for the community by standing by Richard.
This is going to completely bite Burt and anyone else in the ass once the court battle begins (which, by the way, will probably be open to attendance), or when Bogan opens her mouth some more, or lowtax demonstrates further he's exactly what all his detractors say he is, or another forum gets shut down (GBS? D&D?) when that becomes simpler than banning or dismissing, or when the patreon gets so low lowtax has to choose between his habits or the server fees.. there's actually a pretty wide number of factors all conspiring to land one on top of the other and most of them are inevitable. There may even still be some wacky zany surprises left in store, like the mod who was recently chased out after telling everyone he's some sort of internet Nazi hunter spying on forums members on discord. At least the forums are funny again!
Anyone still standing for Richards cult of personality right now is going to be remembered for it and should be fucking embarrassed.
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Does Koalas Mooch not realize she just said she started out a career in marketing and now is a completely unemployable loser, probably because she fucked over the only employer she ever had? I mean these are goons, but who is supposed to believe this shit? She basically just said "I am a completely unemployable psycho who is shit at the only job I ever had years ago."
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Counterpoint: Delete everything, self harm
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She's actually doing a perfect job. If her job was being a psychotic whore, anyway.
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I don't believe the KM story for a minute. She's a liar and a loon, and the moral of the story is that BLACK LIVES MATTER.
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Can you imagine goons with stickers? The ones that have ambled over here seem to have been able to handle it, but a forum populated by thousands of goons with a misplaced sense of worth due to getting an empty quote that one time in 2006 would be a beautiful disaster.
I've seen two xenforo switchovers on other forums cause unbelievable rectum rage due to a simple "dislike" sticker, that eventually had to be scrapped for all the crying. An actual troon getting a dislike? Fucking lolocaust.
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She looks more like a quadroon rather than an actual black person.
Of course, she looks more like a pillow with features. A stained pillow that someone's been wiping their asses on, but that's neither here nor there.
Back me up!
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God it's so true. I remember the funny images and you tube videos people where making for the release of GW2 but now it's like they actually believe the woke commie shit.
A bunch of dude getting near 35+ and Trump winning just broke all of the IT janitors minds.
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I'm curious, on a scale from "Koala's march" to "Actually Black", how black those kids in her marketing pitch to RMH were.
Because SA's resident sassy black girl is exactly as black as you'd expect her to be, so her views on people's race don't seem to match reality.
(The Dox incase anyone's just joining us and doesn't get the joke
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My guess is she chose a bunch of people as black as she is and they were like "bitch this is supposed to be for Detroit" because they all looked like they came from Mayberry.
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Locked down and registration only seems to be approved if you can prove you’re a Something Awful troon or politics bore, which is a shame as I bet there’s some HILARIOUS shit being posted there.
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SFD used to be fun and enjoyable to play games with but yes, 2016 really fucked them up and made it unbearable to do anything with them as there were no boundaries or limits with regards to talking about politics.
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She has a gif of herself floating around the Lotax divorce thread, and she looks whiter than my freckled Irish ass.