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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zap2theextreme said:
His mom spoke at the Republican National Convention about how Hilary was responsible for his death and all the goons freaked out screaming about how Vilerat wouldn't have approved lmao
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This picture and others like it caused a lot of triggering on SA too. It's had a bunch of different captions, this is just the one I found.
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People would post it and other Benghazi memes with Vilerat on social media and goons would REEE about them.
 
MrLobe said:
I wonder if he ever tugged at his collar nervously whenever some tankie started ranting about American imperialism.
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SA wasn't quite as bad when vilerat was moderating (although not specifically because of vilerat). In those days before it got real bad, GIP was actually a bastion for pro-America non-tankies, and despite being very liberal, D&D allowed dissenting opinions.

You could even get away with calling McCaine a faggot back then without immediately being banned for mod sass or hate speech.
 
Dynastia said:
It's going to be fun watching him find out that when people anywhere else on the internet ban you it's because they actually want you gone from their fuckin platform, not because they just want you to pay them ten dollars.
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It's as if he was frozen in cryogenic status with his brain somehow linked directly to his website for a decade or more. He awakens from his slumber to find the world, or rather the internet is a completely different place. No longer is his the powerhouse it once was (or even vaguely relevant). No longer is he fighting angry right wing pearl clutching soccer moms and evangelical prudes who are powerless to do anything but make vague threats of lawsuits to him. Instead they've been replaced by left wing ideologues who are perpetually offended by everything on earth. Unfortunately for him they have the power to remove him from various platforms (Twitter). Barely anyone cares to post much less join the Something Awful forums anymore; the one place where blase, carefree attitude really worked.
Unfortunately Mr.Lowtax has had a very rude awakening.

Rhysuu said:
Hey guys, Lowtax is ALREADY back with a brand new Twitter handle, @richard_kyanka (https://twitter.com/richard_kyanka). You can tell it's official since his wife retweeted the first tweet he made on the account just a few minutes ago. It really didn't take him long to come crawling back to the platform and in the process lost all of his like 37k followers.

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It looks as if he is trying to jump on the platform with antifa and the rest of the far leftists but, he ends up coming across as "how do you do my fellow kids"
"I too love to punch the Nazis! Let us punch them together! Look how wacky I am"
 
Out out of curiosity I checked out Lowtax's Patreon again, lo-and-behold he came to life to support it for a very short period of time and then fucked right back off. He's officially changed it over from being just Gaming Garbage related to now encompass Gaming Garbage, Murder the Internet as well as just generally supporting the Something Awful forums. Since making that change he's actually seen a nice little boost in numbers.

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I think that's because he included the forums in it as well so people who are really into those are able to support him in an easier way. That said, it appears that his interest in it has fallen off a cliff again. His last update was on August 29th and it was only to plug his merch.

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If you look at the updates before then, they tell kind of a sad tale in three pictures. Below, Rich asking for ideas for Podcast discussions topics, presumably to use for bonus Patreon-exlusive episodes.

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It looks like those Patreon donators will be getting something special!

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...Until Rich fucks it up and then doesn't even try again.

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The last time the Patreon backers got exclusive content was back on August 10th. It's not new that Rich doesn't care, but I like to check up every now and then to get that reinforced.
 
Rhysuu said:
Hey guys, Lowtax is ALREADY back with a brand new Twitter handle, @richard_kyanka (https://twitter.com/richard_kyanka). You can tell it's official since his wife retweeted the first tweet he made on the account just a few minutes ago. It really didn't take him long to come crawling back to the platform and in the process lost all of his like 37k followers.

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I'm going to get this one banned too :D
 
Rhysuu said:
Hey guys, Lowtax is ALREADY back with a brand new Twitter handle, @richard_kyanka (https://twitter.com/richard_kyanka). You can tell it's official since his wife retweeted the first tweet he made on the account just a few minutes ago. It really didn't take him long to come crawling back to the platform and in the process lost all of his like 37k followers.

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Sheesh, I know Lowtax! That is uncool up what Twitter did to you, baning you like that! Don't let them silence you by keeping you off Twitter! Anyone with half a brain could see it wasn't a threat! I mean don't they know you are clearly someone who knows the difference between a joke and a real threat?
 
Rhysuu said:
Out out of curiosity I checked out Lowtax's Patreon again, lo-and-behold he came to life to support it for a very short period of time and then fucked right back off. He's officially changed it over from being just Gaming Garbage related to now encompass Gaming Garbage, Murder the Internet as well as just generally supporting the Something Awful forums. Since making that change he's actually seen a nice little boost in numbers.

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I think that's because he included the forums in it as well so people who are really into those are able to support him in an easier way. That said, it appears that his interest in it has fallen off a cliff again. His last update was on August 29th and it was only to plug his merch.

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If you look at the updates before then, they tell kind of a sad tale in three pictures. Below, Rich asking for ideas for Podcast discussions topics, presumably to use for bonus Patreon-exlusive episodes.

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It looks like those Patreon donators will be getting something special!

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...Until Rich fucks it up and then doesn't even try again.

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The last time the Patreon backers got exclusive content was back on August 10th. It's not new that Rich doesn't care, but I like to check up every now and then to get that reinforced.
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His patreon was stuck around $200 bucks until he started begging on the forums for people to donate. That was several months ago and since then it's been stuck around the $700 mark. $500 a month is all the forum members think his place is worth. There are trannies on patreon that get more than that for just existing.

Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0 said:
Sheesh, I know Lowtax! That is uncool up what Twitter did to you, baning you like that! Don't let them silence you by keeping you off Twitter! Anyone with half a brain could see it wasn't a threat! I mean don't they know you are clearly someone who knows the difference between a joke and a real threat?
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GBS is his new twitter and I'm sure the mods are happy as hell to have him posting again!
 
jace821 said:
GBS is his new twitter and I'm sure the mods are happy as hell to have him posting again!
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I'll give it another 24 hours before GBS starts telling him to fuck off to FYAD.
 
repentance said:
I'll give it another 24 hours before GBS starts telling him to fuck off to FYAD.
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Nah they know better. It is kind of funny seeing him tell people to get lost in the thread he made about the show my 600 pound life. It's become a laugh at fat people thread and those are usually trolled then gassed.
 
jace821 said:
Nah they know better. It is kind of funny seeing him tell people to get lost in the thread he made about the show my 600 pound life. It's become a laugh at fat people thread and those are usually trolled then gassed.
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Yeah, that particular thread shows how Lowtax hasn't even actually looked at SA in a long time.

Mocking fat people has been a huge no-no for a really long time on SA. Any thread that has tried it has been closed and people probated and banned for taking part. Oddly enough the demographics of SA seem especially sensitive about their weight. It was even worse when the tumblrina mod was still active since you couldn't make fat jokes in her domain period.

That and the fat admin who mysteriously was extremely harsh on fat jokes for like 5 years while she was in power.

Then old man Lowtax wanders in off the street and thinks you can just make fun of something on Something Awful completely unaware that hundreds of people have been ran off of his site specifically for posting the way he is in that thread right now.

But where are all the posters?! Revenue is down 90% guys!
 
Anime is Blood said:
Yeah, that particular thread shows how Lowtax hasn't even actually looked at SA in a long time.

Mocking fat people has been a huge no-no for a really long time on SA. Any thread that has tried it has been closed and people probated and banned for taking part. Oddly enough the demographics of SA seem especially sensitive about their weight. It was even worse when the tumblrina mod was still active since you couldn't make fat jokes in her domain period.

That and the fat admin who mysteriously was extremely harsh on fat jokes for like 5 years while she was in power.

Then old man Lowtax wanders in off the street and thinks you can just make fun of something on Something Awful completely unaware that hundreds of people have been ran off of his site specifically for posting the way he is in that thread right now.

But where are all the posters?! Revenue is down 90% guys!
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LOL now this is stickied on top of GBS:

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Mr. Professional said:
LOL now this is stickied on top of GBS:

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As we all know Goons have been known for being fine, upstanding members of society. They all have IQs higher than your average Mensa member. They always are frugal and donate to charities. Above all else none would ever participate in sexual deviancy or any other activity that our civilization would look down upon.
 
Fagnacious D said:
As we all know Goons have been known for being fine, upstanding members of society. They all have IQs higher than your average Mensa member. They always are frugal and donate to charities. Above all else none would ever participate in sexual deviancy or any other activity that our civilization would look down upon.
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Don't forget their enthusiasm for peace, respect, and not dehumanizing anyone and everyone who disagrees with the party line.
 
Mr. Professional said:
LOL now this is stickied on top of GBS:

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I guess things like that prove that since his twitter ban he is actually paying attention to SA again.

It also proves how long it has been since he bothered but hey it's progress.

I'm curious to see how the extremely woke contingent that thought polices the forums with FactsAreUseless' support handles Lowtax having problematic opinions if he actually does continue to stay and post. FactsAreUseless can't just eliminate the people the woke crew screech at and close the thread when Lowtax is the OP and is taking part.
 
Why not? The last time Lowtax wandered back in and sponsored a thread, FAU gassed it after a day. Lowtax ungassed it and it stayed open for a few more days, then promptly got shut down again when Lowtax's attention span expired.
 
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