It's a weird culture due to the age of Something Awful.
I had typed a huge word wall but then I realized it's an internet forum and nobody cares about the history of it that much.
TL : DR more than a decade of extreme thought policing, leading to more than ten thousand banned accounts, has shrunk the remaining community making it easier for the even more extreme thought police that are there now to dictate the discussion rather than actually just moderate it.
Something Awful Forums is no longer a representation of the community that posted there and is instead what roughly a half dozen extremely liberal social justice warrior / tumblrina / male feminists that have power there think a forum should be.
Even mentioning their decisions is a bannable offense so it's mostly just behind the scenes shit that isn't easily noticeable on the surface, like FAU and Exmarx punishing people for suggesting Hillary would lose before the election in 2016 for fear mongering. That and hundreds of situations like it has led to hyper woke SA where you can't make problematic jokes anymore.
Ah, his podcast "Murder the Internet"? It's a complete slog to get through and I have no idea how it's receiving any positive feedback at all. Him and Jonathan generally spend the entire 40+ minutes just kind of rambling improv at each other with no real theme or foundation; it has no substance whatsoever and each episode is basically the same thing at this point. It didn't help that when he first started doing them he just like machinegunned episodes out with no consistent upload schedule. Most successful podcasts might upload an episode every Thursday or something but Lowtax oversaturates any and all interest by putting like two or more out in a week.
I listened to the first couple episodes but eventually I just couldn't keep going, they were little more than just noise with comedic undertones.
Lowtax is a genuinely funny, creative guy. I want him to succeed. He reminds me of a few other internet oddballs who are clearly talented but who, or whatever reason, can't seem to pull it together and use that talent in a career.
I'm not saying it's easy for anyone to do that, but it makes you sad to see.
Lowtax is a genuinely funny, creative guy. I want him to succeed. He reminds me of a few other internet oddballs who are clearly talented but who, or whatever reason, can't seem to pull it together and use that talent in a career.
I'm not saying it's easy for anyone to do that, but it makes you sad to see.
I'm right there with you, I'm a big fan of Lowtax's work and I genuinely think he has comedic talent, in fact I've been enjoying his content for pretty much my entire adult life. But somewhere in the last year and a half or so he lost his way. Watching him come on here and argue with Shmorkey's ex-gf about things we all know are true, getting in pointless Twitter fights with people more famous than he is, starting up a Patreon then completely forgetting about it and all while his forums just fester. He's capable of a lot better but every time I think he's at the bottom of the barrel and the only place he can go now is up, he finds someplace lower.
I love how they like to crow about their last big goon "achievement" which was getting /r/jailbait taken down (Not sure how much goon involvement there was, but they happily claim credit) and bragging about that while being the ones with pedo mods, Shmorky, etc.
I'm right there with you, I'm a big fan of Lowtax's work and I genuinely think he has comedic talent, in fact I've been enjoying his content for pretty much my entire adult life. But somewhere in the last year and a half or so he lost his way. Watching him come on here and argue with Shmorkey's ex-gf about things we all know are true, getting in pointless Twitter fights with people more famous than he is, starting up a Patreon then completely forgetting about it and all while his forums just fester. He's capable of a lot better but every time I think he's at the bottom of the barrel and the only place he can go now is up, he finds someplace lower.
Hes just way way too late to all this stuff, despite being an internet vanguard years ago. Hes just now doing a podcast and streaming on twitch, when he should have been doing these things years ago when SA was semi-popular. Now that his gravy train is running out hes trying to jump on all these bandwagons when they are all overcrowded and so over-saturated hes never going to get noticed. He should have been marketing the SA brand all these years instead of drinking wine and downing ambien. He could easily pick some talented people from SA to help him, instead he ends up with schmorky and ZDR (Does ZDR even do anything anymore?) He clearly should have been striking while the iron was hot.
TL;DR hes a lazy piece of shit and SA has turned into a hangout for broke exceptional individuals waiting for their benefits to arrive.
He does, as far as I know. SA always used to discourage them being posted outside specific meme threads. But when principles come up against the urgent need for cash...
Hes just way way too late to all this stuff, despite being an internet vanguard years ago. Hes just now doing a podcast and streaming on twitch, when he should have been doing these things years ago when SA was semi-popular. Now that his gravy train is running out hes trying to jump on all these bandwagons when they are all overcrowded and so over-saturated hes never going to get noticed. He should have been marketing the SA brand all these years instead of drinking wine and downing ambien. He could easily pick some talented people from SA to help him, instead he ends up with schmorky and ZDR (Does ZDR even do anything anymore?) He clearly should have been striking while the iron was hot.
TL;DR hes a lazy piece of shit and SA has turned into a hangout for broke exceptional individuals waiting for their benefits to arrive.
I love how they like to crow about their last big goon "achievement" which was getting /r/jailbait taken down (Not sure how much goon involvement there was, but they happily claim credit) and bragging about that while being the ones with pedo mods, Shmorky, etc.
Didn't they have the torrent tracker with a shit ton of naked children images which was quasi-legal due to them being photos taken from a nudist camp or something like that?
Didn't they have the torrent tracker with a shit ton of naked children images which was quasi-legal due to them being photos taken from a nudist camp or something like that?
I'm not even sure what was going on there, just that it seems to be the only goon accomplishment that's still PC enough for them to claim doing, and yet SA seems to be home to a disturbing number of pedo-apologists.
The amount of money thrown around on avatars is unbelievable.
Didn't they have the torrent tracker with a shit ton of naked children images which was quasi-legal due to them being photos taken from a nudist camp or something like that?
No, the file sharing section on SA was only up before torrenting was a thing, but a prolific poster was once banned after people discovered his "special interest". His name escapes me, but he was a knowitall asshole though.
No, the file sharing section on SA was only up before torrenting was a thing, but a prolific poster was once banned after people discovered his "special interest". His name escapes me, but he was a knowitall asshole though.
Zeitgueist was an onion of awfulness, every layer had something hilarious. A D&D superstar socialist who had a cushy job at a major toy company, ranted about social justice while conspicuously moving out of areas that got too non-white, was into interracial BDSM shit, and to top it all off, was part of an online pedo ring. It was hard to top Aatrek modsknew but somehow he did it.
Zeitgueist was an onion of awfulness, every layer had something hilarious. A D&D superstar socialist who had a cushy job at a major toy company, ranted about social justice while conspicuously moving out of areas that got too non-white, was into interracial BDSM shit, and to top it all off, was part of an online pedo ring. It was hard to top Aatrek modsknew but somehow he did it.
That was a lovely doxxing topic. It was basically the political opposite of the "Republican Senator gets caught in a gay orgy," story.
The best part was that after it was revealed he worked at a (Really unethical) cushy toy company job, moved to the whitest districts he could find in his state, and that he had a black lady-friend that he engaged in S&M with (Complete with a picture of her wearing a choker necklace that people speculated was a public-friendly collar), HE KEPT POSTING NORMALLY.
It took the mods finally banning him for the pedo stuff before he stopped.
Zeitgueist was an onion of awfulness, every layer had something hilarious. A D&D superstar socialist who had a cushy job at a major toy company, ranted about social justice while conspicuously moving out of areas that got too non-white, was into interracial BDSM shit, and to top it all off, was part of an online pedo ring. It was hard to top Aatrek modsknew but somehow he did it.
He was that edgy fucker whose custom title was "Redistribute your wealth or I'll redistribute your blood!"
He was also the one who had a black girlfriend with whom he engaged in BDSM Master/Slave race play too. Gonna bitch about racism all day on SA, then go home and whip my nigger. Wholesome stuff.
Speaking of the doxing of goons, there's one that I can't remember the guy's name, and since he's overshadowed by a more well known similar incident I haven't had any luck finding him.
He's a panty-sniffing guy, but not the one everyone thinks of when they think of SA.
The guy I'm thinking of popped up in a thread I was posting in. This was probably around 2009-10. I can't remember what the topic was, but he casually mentioned offhand he collected panties from girls. Like he bought them. Not online either, he mentioned that he traveled for business and if he had a cute waitress or maid, he'd straight up offer them cash to go take off their panties and bring them to him. And these were young teen girls, maybe underage.
A goon asked him what if a girl said no, to which he replied that he'd calmly tell the girl he'd have a nice chat with her employer and get her fired if she wouldn't comply, so she'd better do as he says. I think he also kept said panties filed and organized in a safe in his computer room with names, ages, stats, etc.
Dude was creepy as shit. Goons immediately doxed him, and found he was a middle aged husband and father, they linked his wife to the thread, she opened his secret safe and found the panties and a bunch more creepy shit and left him. Dude's life was fucked because he decided to brag about threatening teens for their underwear.
He wasn't a mod though. Anyone else remember that? I'd love to read it again.
Wow, I did not know about that one. I remember the guy who casually dropped that he was really into fairy torture Minecraft fanfics. Or the guy who developed this huge FFVI mod who sauntered into the LP thread for it and immediately told people he jerked it to MLP on the regular.
