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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2008 was when SA became an unsalvageable shitshow.

-Ozma made admin.

-Huge influx of Tumblr users.

-McCain toxxes

-Most of the original userbase banned at that point.
Let's Play, Wow Goon guilds, the cliques in certain threads (the fgc and Let's Play fags in the Games section), Helldump, and Ozma played large roles in ruining the forums after Lowtax stopped caring about his own site. Wow, Tumblr, and Let's play brought in copious amounts of cancer to the SA Forums, and Helldump was basically your beta version of a cancel culture network trying to ruin lives Goon or non-Goon. If god forbid you made a post that set off Zoe and the goons who lurked on Helldump, they would go after you if they weren't trying to swat or drive someone to suicide. The cliques got really bad in game threads, worse with the new influx of people grabbing power thanks to Ozma and friends (fgc and mmo threads were just circlejerks after WoW and Eve came out). What didn't help the original users' case was some of them like Spokker Jones were exposed as pedos or creeps, and Axemaniac went full retard after DNF flopped. X-Jakk was also another fag who made a really shitty FF6 romhack that's unplayable even if you're an OG Goon.

I was just thinking today that last year was the 10 year anniversary Fatbeef and his boyfriend Betus called out Pewdiepie over shtity rape jokes. 10 years after that happened Felix wound up successful and happy while Fatbeef became an insufferable and unlikable sjw bitch with a strong case of TDS, an ugly wife, scummy friends in his clique, an irrelevant riff channel, and little to no views on his current channel. Felix realized the rape jokes sucked, but he stuck to his schtick while expanding onto other things. The guy looks happy with his family, and he looks like he loves to make content for his fans. If anything, Felix is way more influential than Mike will ever be. Pewdiepie is a household name for some families, and probably more relevant on SA than Fatbeef (because he mades the Troons and Far Lefties that infest the forums rage a couple of times, and still does to this very day).

Fatbeef, on the other hand, ironically became the thing(s) he hated. Someone donated a game for Mike to play only to rage quit the game and ironically act like DSP throughout each stream. Retsupurae fell apart when Mike and Betus bent the knee to the sjws, but before that happened Retsupurae made the retarded decision to let fans do guest riffs called Geusupuraes. Guesupurae was an unfunny disaster because most of the guests sucked at jokes/riffs, and if you called them out on youtube or SA they would go into tard rages (Hot take that might be wrong: Zoe Quinn might have been one of the guests. They were riffing a Battletoads LP, and she argued with anyone who mocked and criticized her). Come 2016, Mike develops full TDS to a point even Betus told him to chill while Proteus made fun of him later. Then we found out in 2017 or 2018 that most of Fatbeef's LP buddies like Voidburger, Psychadelic Eyeball, and Chip got exposed as horrible sjws and leftists who defended and supported Shmorky and his pedo-grooming antics. Despite the 39k+ subs from goons (let's be real), no one watches this fat fuck's videos. No one gives a shit about Retsupurae and its pathetic legacy anymore.

Just look at the pictures, and tell me which one looks with his life decisions. I can understand Mike not wanting any spotlight, but the guy dropped the ball after the Pewdiepie stint. Betus didn't do much better, but I don't know much about Betus.

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Its funny cause SA also had this great thread going called "Your webcomic is bad and your should feel bad" with a dude making a pretty funny website during the explosion of webcomics in the late 00/ early 10s. But like most things the unfunny people got ahold of the idea and just completely ran it into the ground. I believe the OG of the thread completely deleted his website to help stop the rot.
Rereading 'Your Webcomic is Bad' just reminds me how much that site could not exist today. Hoooooly fuuuuuck just saying 'transsexual fetish'...
Reading the 'Your Webcomic Is Bad' blog back in the day, after some comic artist or other sperged out about it, was my introduction to lolcow culture and is ultimately the reason I'm posting here today.

A lot of his reviews haven't aged well, just because they're too reliant on 'swearing-as-humor,' as was the style at the time, but the Dresden Codak ones were fucking spot on.
The guy who made the site still posts on SA and goes by the name 'Fuego Fish', he's generally got an irritating attitude where he performatively talks about how embarrassing the Your Webcomic is bad phase was but still likes the idea that he helped invent being an angry internet critic and does the same thing with other targets like tabletop games now. He used to be very active in the ancient Dominic Deegan (anyone remember that?) thread long after supposedly disavowing his old ways.

One he kicked up a massive fuss when a different site about bad webcomics reposted his old reviews until they took them down and I'm pretty sure he does the typical modern SA thing where he tries to be an edgy internet comedian with an attitude just like 20 years ago but makes sure everybody knows he regrets making jokes about trannies or whatever and is a good boy who directs his ire at the bad guys only.
 
C-Spam troon is mad about "rape".

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"Anyway, now that the forums have gotten up to speed with most of the rest of the world in condemning racism, csam, homophobia, transphobia & the R word, maybe we should work on not joking about sexual assault also."

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D&D is a sick place for sickos.

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"Rightwing-style sarcasm"

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Fluffdaddy ended up grudgingly probating the guy who made the joke, because what else could he do? When a troon complains, it is the janny's job to fix it.

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He creeped on Goonettes for nudes if I remember my creepmods right.
I don't think so. Ozma banned him for being a "misogynistic fuck"*, he posted a rant about feminism, and that was the last anyone heard of him. I think he was just deemed a creep because of that, not because he actually did anything creepy.

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I don't think so. Ozma banned him for being a "misogynistic fuck"*, he posted a rant about feminism, and that was the last anyone heard of him. I think he was just deemed a creep because of that, not because he actually did anything creepy.

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I feel like he showed up occasionally in FYAD circa 2005 and was barely tolerated there compared to how other posting legends were treated. Memory might be failing though.
 
C-Spam troon is mad about "rape".

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"Anyway, now that the forums have gotten up to speed with most of the rest of the world in condemning racism, csam, homophobia, transphobia & the R word, maybe we should work on not joking about sexual assault also."

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D&D is a sick place for sickos.

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"Rightwing-style sarcasm"

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Fluffdaddy ended up grudgingly probating the guy who made the joke, because what else could he do? When a troon complains, it is the janny's job to fix it.

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What the hell isn't the qcs a place to ask why how rules are applied? Fuck all goons do is tattle on eachother for not being pur?
 
I don't think so. Ozma banned him for being a "misogynistic fuck"*, he posted a rant about feminism, and that was the last anyone heard of him. I think he was just deemed a creep because of that, not because he actually did anything creepy.

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Which mod am I thinking about then?

What the hell isn't the qcs a place to ask why how rules are applied? Fuck all goons do is tattle on eachother for not being pur?
Always has been.

(more like using not being 100% ideological pure to whip the lynch mob up against their posting enemies)
 
Which mod am I thinking about then?
Dunno, maybe LooseChanj, who was a Book Barn mod who enjoyed commenting on the Awful Yearbook.

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What the hell isn't the qcs a place to ask why how rules are applied? Fuck all goons do is tattle on eachother for not being pur?
Yes. In a reversal of fortune, the tattling troon was found to have indulged in a little rape humor himself, and got probated for 3 days.

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irritating attitude where he performatively talks about how embarrassing the Your Webcomic is bad phase was
Every single oldschool goon I know is exactly liek this. "Boy those old days where I did lots of bad stuff but we're all better than that now aahahahahha'.

They all do it.
 
Every single oldschool goon I know is exactly liek this. "Boy those old days where I did lots of bad stuff but we're all better than that now aahahahahha'.

They all do it.
It's so pathetic. At best it's them autistically masking the behavior they learned was "bad" when in reality nothing changed.
 
Every single oldschool goon I know is exactly liek this. "Boy those old days where I did lots of bad stuff but we're all better than that now aahahahahha'.

They all do it.
Anyone that tried to make an edgy career turned out this way. Just look at Howard Stern and Geoff the Hero from the FGC (more like Goeff the Sjwcuck and Geoff the Worst QA Guy). They want you to think they've grown up and matured, but they're still spineless assholes.
 
It's so pathetic. At best it's them autistically masking the behavior they learned was "bad" when in reality nothing changed.
It's less about what they actually do and more about the targets chosen. If the target in question is what they would consider a chud/fascist, everything is allowed. It became extra hilarious during the Russo-Ukrainian war because both sides consider each other fascists for supporting whichever side they have chosen to support.
 
Willa Rogers is not a troon but an old women as far I know. She's run afoul of even approaching trans gender topics when they come up. She keeps her opinions to herself about this for reason on that website.
Frankly, I would be suspicious of the claims of those people that want to discredit her without receipts. The Caroline Farrow thread shows that the psychos that malign people to distract or discredit absolutely try to post here.
 
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