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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Why would you think it's a good idea to admit to this?
Being a former Goon myself I sympathize with this. I miss the connections I made back in the day and the "regular" Internet is just very different place. Filled with ads, bots, and slop. Rather then connect with people on forums with common interest and forming longtime bonds and only using realtime chat like IRC to speak in the moment.
 
Being a former Goon myself I sympathize with this. I miss the connections I made back in the day and the "regular" Internet is just very different place. Filled with ads, bots, and slop. Rather then connect with people on forums with common interest and forming longtime bonds and only using realtime chat like IRC to speak in the moment.

Wasnt there a goon named two worlds who didnt believe normies used the internet? amoung other weird issues

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a post about him

“This is the longest thing I’ve ever posted on SA or anywhere online…
I don’t really remember when I started talking to Two Worlds but I believe he IMed me first and at the time I had no idea who he was. Some time later, he requested I make that avatar for him and I had to ask why he wanted all of those random characters in the first place. He proceeded to tell me in great detail about the Arielverse, how he has multiple “personas” and that each of those characters represents an individual persona in his mind: The Brute, The Tempest, Mr. C (now dead and with no current replacement), Partyman, The Saint and The Puppetmaster. He also talked about Helldump a lot and how he was the defender of SA (GBS in particular). He also told me about all these weird rules he has for his life like that he could not cuss or cry until he lost his virginity. The weird thing is though, he didn’t actually consider that he lost his virginity until the third time that he had sex because he hadn’t cummed inside her yet and they hadn’t both cummed at the same time.
Anyway, myself and some of the other goons listed as well as others often chat on Skype in the evenings so I invited Two Worlds in and he more or less became part of the group. It didn’t take long to find out that Two Worlds has problems. Lots and lots of problems. You see, he constantly talks about his problems and himself and always wants goony goon advice although he never ever takes it.

He insists on adding people to his Facebook so after much prodding a few finally became Facebook friends. One thing to note about Two Worlds is that EVERYONE trolls him. Not just Helldumpers or goons but people he knows in real life as well. He just kind of drives people to the edge, he has so many insane theories and misguided beliefs that he refuses to change that people he knows just end up insulting him or baiting him to say more ridiculous poo poo. I used to feel bad for him about this but now I know why they do it.

For instance, he believes in the upper world and the under world (Homo Lumen and Homo Cthoni he says). The upper world is full of people who go to Walmart, have 2.5 kids, live in suburban homes, go to church and don’t have any secrets at all, they don’t have any kinky fetishes and they don’t go on the Internet. Then there are the underworlders. This is essentially a laundry list that ranges from goons to channers to child rapists and goth kids. Ariel believes that he is the only person who is between these "two worlds” (yeah, that’s where the name comes from) and that he constantly has to balance the forces in his life. If you try to tell him, as many have, that most people who seemingly live normal lives have skeletons in their closet or have some kind of kinky sexual fetish he refuses to believe you and spergs out about it. He also refuses to believe that people “from the Internet” have “real world” problems or lives. Except for him of course, he’s a beautiful little unique snow flake.
At first, I took pity on him and I tried to help him. I spent a lot of drat time giving him good advice on things like women, making friends, sex and job searching. It’s amazing how completely naiive he is about the most common sense things. After he broke up with his girlfriend, I got onto the subject of sex and he said he didn’t use a condom with this lass. He then said “she only slept with 11 guys before me” and “she’s infertile” because he thought that that means he also cannot get an STD. I told him he should probably get tested and even looked up directions to a local clinic. He freaked out because the nurses would see him and know what he was coming in for and no one can know that he’s had sex. He asked me if he could just get tested for swine flu or something instead.

I told him how normal it is to get tested and told him that in the future he needs to wear condoms to which he had another freak out because the cashier will see him and maybe one of his former students may see him buying small penis condoms. Plus, they’ll all know he’s having premartial sex, which he believes Upper World people don’t do. He, to this day, refuses to buy condoms even when I gave him a link to ones he can buy online. He also claimed that Lutheran women don’t have premarital sex so he’ll just have sex with Lutheran women from now on. He treats non-lutheran women like chattel, if a girl is non-lutheran he has no problem asking them to make homegrown for his own personal enjoyment. When he’s mad at you and you’re a female he will threaten to masturbate to your photos, which he saves from Facebook and AwfulYearBook. Yes, this happened to me. One time, a goonette talked dirty to him as a joke and he had to leave the call to go jerk off.

Two Worlds is incredibly socially awkward. He doesn’t have any real friends to speak of in Decatur where he currently lives. He says that he has to have balance in his life so when he gets an opportunity to possibly hang out with someone he will often turn it down because they are too nerdy and he feels that he did one nerdy thing that day so now he needs to balance out his upper world and under world by hanging out with a broseph type at a bar. He doesn’t really like bros but he wants to be like them so he figures if he hangs out with them he will be more like them.
One time, he was feeling particularly lonely. He wanted our advice on how to set up something at his apartment. He’s never had anyone except for his ex-gf at his apartment before. So he turned on his webcam and walked us through his apartment so I could give him tips on what needed to be cleaned up/moved for guests. After this, he wrote up a message to send to some of his nerdy gamer friends on Facebook inviting them over for a party that weekend. I believe this was a Wednesday. In the past, when he tried to call people to hang out he would get very distressed if the call went to voice mail or they said that they were busy. We assured him that this wasn’t a big deal. I and another goon looked over his note to his nerd friends and it looked pretty chill. Invited them over to play some games, wii and drink. He kept asking us over and over again if he sounded gay. He is very afraid of sounding gay.

He sent off the message and the response from one of them was that he was busy that weekend but he knew some other people who might want to hang out. To this, Ariel responded that it was “too late” and just killed it right there.

Another time, there was a celebration in his town and he was whining that he had no one to go with but this one girl did express interest. He refused to call her because she was “too goony” (even though I’m pretty sure she’s not a goon), possibly watches anime and is the “bad kind of fat.” She was less heavy than his last girlfriend and a lot cuter but whatever. Eventually, he invited her to come to his apartment to watch a movie and hang out. She agreed even though they barely know each other. So he tells us that she’ll be coming over the next night around 8:30 PM to watch a movie. The goons he was talking to on Skype lightly joke with him that he’s going to get some. He spergs out, as usual. He claims he doesn’t want to get laid because getting laid turned out so badly last time. Eventually we convince him it might be a possibility. Then he says that he doesn’t want to do anything with his penis involved, and that he can show her his magic fingers, claiming she won’t be able to walk afterwards. Once he gets her off, he’ll simply jerk himself off so she doesn’t have to get him off.

Needless to say, it’s frustrating when someone asks you for advice then constantly doesn’t take it. Then when things don’t go his way he calls up crying and sobbing. On top of the crying and sobbing, there is literally no way of making him feel better. He wallows in self-pity. It’s like crack for him. I can give him compliments and he says, “I AM NOT A GOOD PERSON DON’T EVER SAY THAT.” I can tell him good things about himself and he just turns it around. He goes to the bar and gets drunk by himself on three screwdrivers then comes back and cries some more about how he’s going to kill himself via alcohol poisoning. It’s probably my own fault but I wasted a lot of time worrying about the little guy and trying to talk him out of “doing something to put himself on the news.”

The ultimate thing myself and all the goons who were talking to him tried to help Two Worlds with was getting him to go to a psychiatrist. He went to a therapist a few times (several times he skipped his appointments) and the therapist recommended that he go to a psychiatrist. All he had to do to get medication for his many issues was have a blood test done, so he said. Much like going to get tested for STDs, he flat out refused to do this. I never understood why but he simply would not go. Now, his insurance from his past job has run out and he has no hope of getting it done. Instead, he chooses to believe people who are trolling him’s diagnosis of Asperger’s, so he is now self-diagnosed aspie.

I guess I should address Two Worlds’ past career. There’s a lot of rumors on the forums about this I’ve noticed. He worked as a teacher for one year at a Lutheran high school. He had zero control over his classes and students walked all over him. He couldn’t even control a class of two students. As a result, Ariel called Professor Xavier to get the Dream Helm to help with the dementor attacks in his class, but the X-Men were too busy to bring Ariel the Dream Helm because the S.H.I.E.L.D helicarrier was hijacked by terrorists (from his Live Journal). Eventually, the students who actually wanted to learn complained to their parents that nothing was getting done in class and the school had to let him go. He has been unemployed up until this month when he got a job as a delivery boy with Papa John’s.
Although he claims to be in between the two worlds of the Internet and the real world, I don’t know anyone who has more cross over between lives. Most people probably keep their Something Awful postings and general Internet shenanigans out of conversation with real life friends. Ariel does not do this. He talks about Something Awful on his Twitter and Facebook. He uses Intener memes in real life (I know from talking to one of his real life friends.) He even goatsed everyone on his Facebook once. He talks publically on his Facebook about separating his Lutheran friends/Decatur people from the Internet people on his list like they can’t see it. Telling him to remove Internet people from his friend’s list is futile. So I told him he could make a separate fake Facebook just for Internet people so that he wouldn’t make a gigantic rear end of himself in front of friends and family in real life. Another piece of advice he did not take.

If there’s a term for Two Worlds, it would be “Too Much Information.” Even when people ask him not to he shares intimate details about things like his girlfriend’s vagina (horrid smell and the gaping size) and the kinky things he would do to her involving household objects such as his toothbrush, remote control and cellphone. He would also use the horrid smell of her vagina as the reason he couldn’t stay hard, even though he would constantly ask her if he was still hard while he was inside her. He would say these things both during and after he was dating her.

He never ever talks about anyone but himself. If you try to have a conversation about something it somehow gets turned into a conversation either about the Arielverse or his problems. Even when I had conversations with him about things we both mutually liked like comic books it would get turned into something about him. He never asks how I am doing or what’s going on in my life but I sure as hell knew every minute detail of his every day happenings whether I wanted to or not. He will blatantly interrupt you mid-sentence and ramble into one of his own problems totally unrelated to any conversation, and will ignore any attempts to move the conversation away from himself.

So after months of this bullshit, everyone just kind of got sick of it, so after he was invited in, we’d turn the conversation back to something that wasn’t Two Worlds. One time we tried to turn the conversation to food and he freaked out and said, “IS THAT A MEME?!” He thought we were laughing at him when we weren’t and would freak out over weird poo poo like one person in Skype saying, “WWCXD?” (What would Charles Xavier Do?) He yelled at us to shut the gently caress up.
He told one goon that he was being “out of character for this story arc” because he stopped giving him advice. When the goon implored what he meant, Ariel said that he was “breaking the 4th wall” and that Warren Ellis was writing a story about them.

This all came to a head one night when one person in Skype told him he was One World and that if anyone was Two Worlds it was not him. He got really depressed about this. The next day he started raging out on Facebook about us. I sent him a message asking him to just remove me from his friend’s list and telling him that I hope he seeks psychological help and is happier some day. That afternoon, I find out he decided to start calling bosses to get back at us for whatever reason.
He called my friend’s boss and said that she was harassing him from work, which was totally bogus. So she had to have a conversation with her employer about Ariel Campos. She is a single mom by the way and probably the one person out of the group who was the nicest to him out of everyone.
This all happened very recently and I feel that people need to know this poo poo, that Ariel isn’t a poor soul who gets a bad rap on SA but actually a really big jerk who has mental problems but refuses to get help and revels in the attention that people give him; good or bad. I guess that’s where the “passive aggressive posts” come from because I didn’t want to troll the thread with the drama. I’m sorry to poo poo up your challenge, Ayb.

I think that’s about everything. I really didn’t want this to be tl;dr but it’s kind of impossible with someone like Two Worlds who holds four-hour conversations with you entirely about himself.“
 
is the word "troon" allowed on SA

I was looking at 10 year old thread and saw people using it.
I believe that term actually started in the transgender thread on the e/n subforum. I’m pretty sure it had “troon” in the title at one point. It definitely wouldn’t be allowed today, though.
 
I believe that term actually started in the transgender thread on the e/n subforum. I’m pretty sure it had “troon” in the title at one point. It definitely wouldn’t be allowed today, though.
This is correct. "Troon" as a term is actually "goon" + "trans" and referred to transgender members of the Something Awful forums, who were called "goons". (This also predates the term "gooner".)

I do not exactly know at what point "troon" made the jump from SA inspeak to the broader web where it became derogatory. My assumption is that it made the jump from SA to 4chan, which shared a userbase, and then from 4chan spread to the wider web and lost its original context in the process.
 
This is correct. "Troon" as a term is actually "goon" + "trans" and referred to transgender members of the Something Awful forums, who were called "goons". (This also predates the term "gooner".)

I do not exactly know at what point "troon" made the jump from SA inspeak to the broader web where it became derogatory. My assumption is that it made the jump from SA to 4chan, which shared a userbase, and then from 4chan spread to the wider web and lost its original context in the process.
IIRC it was the Shmorky incident caused its mass exposure.
 
This is correct. "Troon" as a term is actually "goon" + "trans" and referred to transgender members of the Something Awful forums, who were called "goons". (This also predates the term "gooner".)

I do not exactly know at what point "troon" made the jump from SA inspeak to the broader web where it became derogatory. My assumption is that it made the jump from SA to 4chan, which shared a userbase, and then from 4chan spread to the wider web and lost its original context in the process.
Troon and Gooner both relate to SomethingAwful using as Goon for the userbase, in that that "Goon" was a terminally online zero-hygiene basement dweller. This was supposed to be comedy-by-absurdity "Haha yeah I'm nerd doing nerdy things but its not that bad" except instead of absurdity it usually ended up just being accurate.

Troon was originally Trans Goon, like faggots were called Fagoons, but due to the number of zero-effort Flava-flav levels of being clocked trannies on and attached to the forums, once the wider internet got a hold of the term they assumed that it was to apply to all disgusting fat unshaven clearly male trannies and it took on a life of its own.

Gooning/Gooner came about because of "Goon mode" - being unwashed, in your basement, zero social contact and watching the most degen porn. Again, this was supposed to be a "haha yeah I'm mostly just paying videogames but its not that bad" but then that turned out to be accurate.
 
This is correct. "Troon" as a term is actually "goon" + "trans" and referred to transgender members of the Something Awful forums, who were called "goons". (This also predates the term "gooner".)
They invented the word for themselves.
I do not exactly know at what point "troon" made the jump from SA inspeak to the broader web where it became derogatory.
Mostly on SA spinoffs like SS and this very site. I think @Internet War Criminal may have been the first importer of it but it caught on.
 
I always thought it was internet meme voodoo economics where it started on SA, trickled down to Something Sensitive, and just spread out from there. Either way, very pleased that it has entered modern lexicon. Punchy, effective, suitably derogatory with enough mystery and crassness to pique the interest of the casual beholders.
 
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Goon rightfull points out that kids like to be edge lords, and since WWII is the start of history and nazi's are the devil and hitler is satan.

kinda like goth retards in the 1990s modern kids are going nazi's.

He gets the hammer

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I always thought it was internet meme voodoo economics where it started on SA, trickled down to Something Sensitive, and just spread out from there. Either way, very pleased that it has entered modern lexicon. Punchy, effective, suitably derogatory with enough mystery and crassness to pique the interest of the casual beholders.
I suspected but have no real evidence troon also came about because "TruScum" - that is, Transexuals who wanted to get surgically close to the gender they deluded themselves they and then drop out of queer & tranny spaces and otherwise stop screeching general politics (extremely haram).
You TruScum and Troons.
 
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Goon rightfull points out that kids like to be edge lords, and since WWII is the start of history and nazi's are the devil and hitler is satan.

kinda like goth retards in the 1990s modern kids are going nazi's.

He gets the hammer

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They really don't like to admit that time has passed on from under them. They are no longer the taste dictats who insisted that everything must be "feminist" in the 2010's but instead, they are the uncool previous generation that still hasn't gotten the memo that tedious movieblob-tier moralizing is deader than hair metal.
 
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Goon rightfull points out that kids like to be edge lords, and since WWII is the start of history and nazi's are the devil and hitler is satan.

kinda like goth retards in the 1990s modern kids are going nazi's.

He gets the hammer

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That will teach that nazi sympathizer, boy I bet he sure is sorry now.
 
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