Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield

[AnOminous]

I can't tell if the probation is serious or not, as the fall of Something Awful keeps on going. There is no end in sight.

In a rare case of truth in advertising, "Seth Pecksniff" lives up to his name:

[A proper name of fiction: the Warwickshire Wordbk. of G. F. Northall 1896 has `Picksniff, paltry, despicable; an insignificant, paltry, contemptible person'.]
ˈPecksniff
The name of a character in Dickens' novel `Martin Chuzzlewit' (1844), represented as an unctuous hypocrite, habitually prating of benevolence, etc. Used allusively. Also as v. intr. and in Comb., as pecksniff-shark (nonce use). Hence Peckˈsniffery, ˈPecksniffism, conduct or utterance resembling that of Pecksniff; Peckˈsniffian a., resembling Pecksniff; whence Peckˈsniffianism (nonce-wd.); Peckˈsniffianly, Peckˈsniffingly advs., in a manner resembling Pecksniff.

Nobody other than a pecksniffian pederast could object to such a tame term as "spaz" to refer to a spastic retard.

If Jeff's feeling the pinch, I hear deep throating smoked sausages on cam is a highly lucrative hustle.

If you're Jeff though, deep throating a Glock is an even better idea.

 

[Gangster Talk]

While SA is discussing low registration counts (and honestly I guarantee 90% of those are current members), it's interesting that if you go to somethingawful.com, you will still see a two year old "Please pardon our mess while we change owners" article front and center. Then, the other most prominently featured pieces of content are the ALOD: a page about dead babies, posted by a dead man in 2018, and then a confusing article titled "DEAR FURRIES WE WERE WRONG" with the text "Dear god this was an embarrassment to not only this site, but to all mankind".

Maybe I just don't quite get the modern internet and nobody actually goes to websites anymore, but I would think as SomethingAwful increases in complete irrelevance prospective new users would go to somethingawful.com to get an idea of what the site actually is. What would any new visitors in the past two years think seeing this shit?

I'm not sure, but based on the quality of the contemporary front page writers it might actually be preferable to seeing whatever third-rate wannabe Cracked bullshit would otherwise be up there.

 

[AnOminous]

Maybe I just don't quite get the modern internet and nobody actually goes to websites anymore, but I would think as SomethingAwful increases in complete irrelevance prospective new users would go to somethingawful.com to get an idea of what the site actually is. What would any new visitors in the past two years think seeing this shit?

They'd come to the entirely correct conclusion that it is a dead or dying site.

Note that Jeff has recently boasted about the amazing progress they've made since he took over. And the front door is overgrown with weeds and there's a dead body on the porch that has been there so long it is now a skeleton.

And the most recent thing is a sign in the front yard saying "PLEEEEEEZ WE ARE SO SORRY ANIMAL FUCKERS COME BACK WE NEED ANIMAL FUCKERS BACK."

Is it even possible to be more pathetic than to apologize to fucking FURRIES? Why not beg for Juggalos to join?

I forgot about that shit. I just thought Jeff was a joke. Now I think he should join Lowtax.

Also I just went there, after multiple attempts to get past Clownflare, which thought I was a robot (since no actual human would even try to visit this cemetery of a site) I got this:

This isn't even a gay bar. A gay bar would have visible activity.

It's a pathetic corpse of a site begging for forgiveness from furries. From fucking FURRIES.

Suicide. It's what these people need to do.

Also I just noticed, the retard Phiz Kalifa actually retracted that article, which you'll see if you click it. But absolutely nobody (well nobody neurotypical anyway) reads past the headlines. So it's still there apologizing to furries, that's what everyone sees.

Here's the original retarded article begging for forgiveness from people who rape animals:

DEAR FURRIES: WE WERE WRONG

archived 3 Jul 2020 04:24:57 UTC

archive.vn

 

[FudgeFish]

It's funny - I don't think I'd ever checked out Something Awful since 2006/2007 after having registered sometime in '99. I remember, because I didn't have to pay anything to join and the WTC were still standing. I really only joined in the early days of MP3s and stuff.

During the initial lockdowns of 2020, with very little to do, I figured I'd check the site out again and see what was going on - and was deeply fucking confused as to what was going on with the forums. Seeing that every subforum had banned any and all use of the word "cunt" was the first clue that something had fundamentally changed with the culture, and was what led to me finding out about KF in trying to work out what the story was.

I imagine I wasn't the only person who checked the site out again during that time, and if they were trying to attract new users, that would've been a great time to do so. Instead, they're all so far gone and pathetic that I can't imagine what element of the site they think would be appealing to new users.

 

[TheBigZee]

I imagine I wasn't the only person who checked the site out again during that time, and if they were trying to attract new users, that would've been a great time to do so. Instead, they're all so far gone and pathetic that I can't imagine what element of the site they think would be appealing to new users.

Redditors unhappy with Bardfinn's tolerant moderation policies.

 

[AnOminous]

Seeing that every subforum had banned any and all use of the word "cunt" was the first clue that something had fundamentally changed with the culture, and was what led to me finding out about KF in trying to work out what the story was.

I don't know why they suddenly started hating British and Australian people and banned a completely harmless bant.

I mean everyone SHOULD hate British and Australian people, but that isn't the way to go about it, now, is it?

 

[Spunt]

Also I just noticed, the retard Phiz Kalifa actually retracted that article, which you'll see if you click it. But absolutely nobody (well nobody neurotypical anyway) reads past the headlines. So it's still there apologizing to furries, that's what everyone sees.

Here's the original retarded article begging for forgiveness from people who rape animals:

DEAR FURRIES: WE WERE WRONG

archived 3 Jul 2020 04:24:57 UTC

archive.vn

Phiz Kalifa didn't retract it, Lowtax deleted it - I believe it was the last change he ever made to the front page. In the middle of the Logan/Lowtax cancellation saga she let Phiz write that thing to spite Lowtax. Lowtax was so outraged by it that he actually emerged from his Ambien haze long enough to delete it personally.

For those wondering how much of a faggot Phiz Kalifa is, this is him:

Phiz is a man whose crowning achievement was being called fat by Donald Trump on live TV.

 

[Gangster Talk]

Phiz Kalifa didn't retract it, Lowtax deleted it - I believe it was the last change he ever made to the front page. In the middle of the Logan/Lowtax cancellation saga she let Phiz write that thing to spite Lowtax. Lowtax was so outraged by it that he actually emerged from his Ambien haze long enough to delete it personally.

For those wondering how much of a faggot Phiz Kalifa is, this is him:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tATqZk1AmCo
Phiz is a man whose crowning achievement was being called fat by Donald Trump on live TV.

Imagine the kind of human being that manages to get publicly roasted by both Donald Trump and Lowtax of all people

 

[Shotgun Badger]

I don't know why they suddenly started hating British and Australian people and banned a completely harmless bant.

I mean everyone SHOULD hate British and Australian people, but that isn't the way to go about it, now, is it?

I think they actually have some bizarre proviso to the rule that you can say cunt if you are British/Aussie or at least post on threads dominated by those users, notably the British politics thread and the particularly infamous Auspol thread.

I wonder how this works if you are half Australian, does SA work on the basis of the one drop rule, or if you are mixed can you only call people a cu or nt?

 

[Raven Rainbow]

At this point they should just put the forum on the domain apex and archive the frontpage as a historical artifact. Really Lowtax should have done that over a decade ago but was probably too attached to it.

 

[The Fatriarchy]

Not attached enough to make sure some of the legacy video content actually worked. I would just say "lazy" as that's the most probable thing.

 

[Big Nasty]

Elon Musk is the new Lowtax.

 

[scottfree]

Jeff was elon before elon. He paid 450k to work part time on a dead website. Still funny that goons never question paying lowtax (satan) half of a million dollars.

It baffles me seeing goons mention having new users. Goons are hostile faggots that hate everyone, especially other fags. They don't want new people.

 

[Shotgun Badger]

Elon Musk is the new Lowtax.

Unironically correct about this, he's just Lowtax on a much larger scale, being an unfunny idiot who thinks being king retard on a popular internet platform should guarantee plaudits and acclaim from everyone around him and seething to ban people if they make fun of him,

 

[The Fatriarchy]

ban people if they make fun of him,

Where'd you get your info? The dumpster? Leftist websites? Same thing really. But be honest with yourself here. That's not the actual reason anyone got banned for anything on twitter.

 

[Hybrid Icing]

Where'd you get your info? The dumpster? Leftist websites? Same thing really. But be honest with yourself here. That's not the actual reason anyone got banned for anything on twitter.

It absolutely is, even if you're happy it happened.

"The enemy of your enemy is still a retard."

 

[Henri Barbusse]

Elon Musk is the new Lowtax.

He's the new Jeffrey of YOSPOS.

 

[CptnSnshn]

Of course no-one want's to sign up for SA.

Kiwi-Farms is basically the distilled good posters of SA and it's free.

 

[JustStopDude]

Lol this boomer site is still around?

 

[_Samson_]

i still don’t get it. where is the plinkey ban ? why is the individual from yospos so squeamish suddenly ? did he promise jeffrey access to the casino buffet :iiam: