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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So what kinda jokes are allowed there now?
Do posters even risk trying to be funny?
So sad that they took something entertaining and nice and just turned into a safe little hugbox with zero redeeming qualities.
They could have done that literally anywhere, made some gay little forum or just a discord server today.
Basically nothing but “dad gay, so what” over and over again.
The first page has a Simpsons meme thread that people still regularly post in. Everyone else moved on from the Simpsons like 15 years ago but not the dorks of SomethingAwful.
A couple of goons are behind the Talking Simpsons podcast, one of which is Bob Mackey, who wrote a bunch of batshit insane screeds on SA. It’s probably the only SA-originated media that anyone outside of SA bothers checking out these days. A very low bar.
 
I think the forums are on a lifeline because its an amazing petri dish full of internet fungal formations.
I still check in on this old Usenet group I posted on in the late 90s from time to time. I wasn't on Usenet in its heyday, but I checked it out a bit back around 98-99 before I got into posting on Internet forums. There are three or four guys who are 50+ on there who don't subscribe to any streaming services, still update each other about their lives and projects and stuff and do shit like buy Disney+ shows on DVD to watch them. They'll probably just be there talking to each other in their little clubhouse until they die. I think SA is kind of an elder millennial version of that now. People go there and talk about the shit they talk about because it's what they've been doing for the last 20 years.
 
I still check in on this old Usenet group I posted on in the late 90s from time to time. I wasn't on Usenet in its heyday, but I checked it out a bit back around 98-99 before I got into posting on Internet forums. There are three or four guys who are 50+ on there who don't subscribe to any streaming services, still update each other about their lives and projects and stuff and do shit like buy Disney+ shows on DVD to watch them. They'll probably just be there talking to each other in their little clubhouse until they die. I think SA is kind of an elder millennial version of that now. People go there and talk about the shit they talk about because it's what they've been doing for the last 20 years.
That's unironically what internet communities should be, but what a place like SA isn't. I bet those guys aren't looking around to throw each other under the bus at the first sign of wrongthink. Every day SA creeps closer and closer to being like your group with every user they chase off and the idiots are completely blind to it.

Except in SA's case the last two are going to be Cain & Abel where Cain kills Abel for accidentally misgendering Princess Peach.
 
Yeah, I took my oldest to airsoft in Phoenix two weeks back and there was a tranny maybe a few years younger than I am with his son. Dude was damn near 40 with old favorites covered in pink patches with ponies and ugly flags with kitty cat ears on his helmet. His fat son looked so embarrassed and you could tell the kid didn't want to be there and it was totally his faggot father's totally feminine hobby that he was dragging the kid to.

I'm sure that dude has posted in GBS before now that I think about it
Seriously, what the fuck is up with trannies and airsoft?

It's a goddamn infestation. Troons are invading other hobbyshit forums and post nonstop about airsoft.
 
That's unironically what internet communities should be, but what a place like SA isn't. I bet those guys aren't looking around to throw each other under the bus at the first sign of wrongthink. Every day SA creeps closer and closer to being like your group with every user they chase off and the idiots are completely blind to it.

Except in SA's case the last two are going to be Cain & Abel where Cain kills Abel for accidentally misgendering Princess Peach.
Not before Abel kills Cain for daring to have heterosexual relations with a woman without being a complete doormat.
 
Seriously, what the fuck is up with trannies and airsoft?
Trannies aren't an entirely new class of people. They're just autistic weird dudes who have an extreme fetish.

But any place you'd expect to find autistic weird dudes (airsoft, speedrunning, video game tournaments, conventions, etc) you're going to find trannies.
 
That's unironically what internet communities should be, but what a place like SA isn't. I bet those guys aren't looking around to throw each other under the bus at the first sign of wrongthink. Every day SA creeps closer and closer to being like your group with every user they chase off and the idiots are completely blind to it.

Except in SA's case the last two are going to be Cain & Abel where Cain kills Abel for accidentally misgendering Princess Peach.
SA at large isn't, but FYAD is essentially just a groupchat with a dozen nerds in their 30s-40s posting about their lunch.
 
Crosspost with https://kiwifarms.st/threads/fucking-pedotroons.199640/page-2#post-19268848
fake_troon_chart.png (warning: this is wrong)
If anyone wants to try to get this troon etymology chart fixed it could be interesting due to the possibly lost history here.
 
If anyone wants to try to get this troon etymology chart fixed it could be interesting due to the possibly lost history here.
It's fairly accurate, but Goon in the SA context is best seen from the SAclopedia where Lowtax provided an explanation on how the term came to be. This was in the very early 2000's, for context.
Awful Link of the Day owner came over here back when registration was open to anybody and made a thread in GBS calling all of us goons for putting mean words in her guestbook.
The name, of course stuck and it's etymology is of course referring to the original slang term for a hired thug of low intelligence and high brawn.
 
Just looked at a few old 9/11 "image macros" and it's hard to believe just how outrageously juvenile the place used to be. Everybody tried to be as tasteless and funny as possible, without much care about other people's sensibilities. Goons are a perfect example of how you either die young or become the exact person you despised in your youth.
 
Just looked at a few old 9/11 "image macros" and it's hard to believe just how outrageously juvenile the place used to be. Everybody tried to be as tasteless and funny as possible, without much care about other people's sensibilities. Goons are a perfect example of how you either die young or become the exact person you despised in your youth.
Frankly SA was better when it was people competing to be the biggest retard on the site rather than the biggest wokescold. That was the kind of content you saw all over the web even if, like me, you never had an account there. A lot of that retarded shit was actually funny. Some has not aged well but there are still memes from that era shambling around.
 
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