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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Mr. Professional said:
Arent all the admins from FYAD or BYOB or some other fucked up subforum? Like one of them got admin and made all his buddies mods.
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To me it always seemed the other way around (with a few exceptions). Once they become admins they parade through FYAD because they know they have immunity and the posters there will pretend they're funny in exchange for favors. I doubt FAU would have dared to post in FYAD without his little red star to protect him, but maybe he tried before.
 
I know Abe and Shmorky saw themselves as FYAD superstars. Nobody liked them, but then again, disrespecting or upsetting a mod or admin is bannable, so of course everyone pretended to like them. Or at least silently tolerated them.
 
Dynastia said:
. Big swinging dicks like Honest Abe wander off the reservation and even with a dozen goons at their back they end up getting dunked to fucking pieces by a literal thirteen-year-old on twitter.
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You can't just leave it at that!

TheGreatCitracett said:
Remember that one goon who gave Doobie his family's entire $1000 Christmas fund?

Looks like we're having an imagination Christmas this year, kids!
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He kept defending himself with "But my kids are grown up!"

As if that made it any better.
 
Manah said:
You can't just leave it at that!



He kept defending himself with "But my kids are grown up!"

As if that made it any better.
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Oh man, I never knew what ended up coming of that, if anything. I only followed the first thread or so. Between SA and SS having multiple threads, Doobie himself joining both forums, frog dogs, team frogout vs. the bad froggers, vent hoods, goons talking about making pilgrimages, etc it was such a convoluted shitshow.

And in the end none of it mattered anyway because a funeral home (I think?) bought the dog house property to bulldoze for a bigger parking lot or something.

His kickstarter from 2013 is still up if anyone wants a laugh.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/657642328/doobies-dog-house
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TheGreatCitracett said:
Oh man, I never knew what ended up coming of that, if anything. I only followed the first thread or so. Between SA and SS having multiple threads, Doobie himself joining both forums, frog dogs, team frogout vs. the bad froggers, vent hoods, goons talking about making pilgrimages, etc it was such a convoluted shitshow.

And in the end none of it mattered anyway because a funeral home (I think?) bought the dog house property to bulldoze for a bigger parking lot or something.

His kickstarter from 2013 is still up if anyone wants a laugh.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/657642328/doobies-dog-house
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I don't think this guy knows how to even make an enticing logo. Usually red and yellow colors are an often ideal choice since it emits a psychological appetizing feel to it. Sometimes the logo would have to at least make you familiar with it.

This logo though is the exact opposite to that. Green is usually reserved for an eco-friendly look, something plant related, or a sense of peace. In the context of food, it's pretty gross. Also, it's really forgettable.
 
Yaoi Zowie said:
Not really, I used to go there sometimes but I didn't really post.

I guess the thousand-word screed doesn't reek of caremad to anyone else. mb
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Well, yeah nigga. I have over 10k posts on an autism forum that obsessively chronicles the minutest details of retarded online people. :autistic: is hardly new information. I'm pretty sure you can quality for tardbux just by getting past the capcha here.

Does the thousand-word screed reek of "caremad" to anybody else? Probably not here, to be honest. Maybe if you shop it around to prickly goons who don't like what it says. Maybe if you show it to normal grown-ass people who'll point out 'That sure is a lot of words written about shit that doesn't matter'. But most people here know me well enough to know I'm never mad, and I don't care. Does that make my screed as wrapped-up in unfunny irony as any filthy goonpost, and the people recognising it as incestuous a circlejerk as anything seen on Something Awful? Does it make me as garbage and pathetic as any 'FYAD superstar' out there? Absolutely it does.

See, this place isn't any better. We can easily go toe-to-toe with the goons on being hypocritical faggots who take funposting on the internet way too seriously, overestimating our nonexistent cultural impact and spitting out shitty injokes that make us look like a pack of gibbering speds to anyone looking in from the outside. We're just as bad when it comes to picking out random people to act like vicious cunts at, then copping a mad case of the vapours and needing our fainting couches anytime somebody turns it around on us. We have our protected classes and our designated targets and our orthodoxy of opinions, just like your dead gay forum does. Kiwi Farms is shit, and all of us who post on it are shit people. The only difference is it doesn't cost ten bucks to remind each other when it looks like everyone's forgetting.

But hey, great job acting like a spineless goon faggot and falling back on 'whatever, mb' just because nobody agreed with you. I probably would have agreed with you if you just said what you wanted to say, instead of defaulting to a goonlike reliance on going along with group consensus.
 
The Great Chandler said:
I don't think this guy knows how to even make an enticing logo. Usually red and yellow colors are an often ideal choice since it emits a psychological appetizing feel to it. Sometimes the logo would have to at least make you familiar with it.

This logo though is the exact opposite to that. Green is usually reserved for an eco-friendly look, something plant related, or a sense of peace. In the context of food, it's pretty gross. Also, it's really forgettable.
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I'm pretty sure goons made that and Doobie used it. Not that that invalidates any of your points, but blame goons for the shit logo, not Doobie.
 
TheGreatCitracett said:
Oh man, I never knew what ended up coming of that, if anything. I only followed the first thread or so. Between SA and SS having multiple threads, Doobie himself joining both forums, frog dogs, team frogout vs. the bad froggers, vent hoods, goons talking about making pilgrimages, etc it was such a convoluted shitshow.

And in the end none of it mattered anyway because a funeral home (I think?) bought the dog house property to bulldoze for a bigger parking lot or something.

His kickstarter from 2013 is still up if anyone wants a laugh.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/657642328/doobies-dog-house
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People saw those chili dogs and were like "yes, this man should sell people food. I will give him money."
 
proteus4994 said:
I'm pretty sure goons made that and Doobie used it. Not that that invalidates any of your points, but blame goons for the shit logo, not Doobie.
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Yeah, some goon made that and Doobie used it. Because why the hell not when the goons just handed you $14k+?

Best part is, it was never even settled on what a "Frog Dog" was, or what it consisted of. Possibly a hotdog with lots of green stuff. Who knows. Looks like relish in that picture. Doobie himself even said the idea was stupid and he wasn't going to use it, he just put the picture up to humor goons and get more donations.

Meanwhile, goons were discussing having that frog sign painted on the side of the dog house like 8 feet tall, totally oblivious.
 
Dr. Studman M.D. said:
People saw those chili dogs and were like "yes, this man should sell people food. I will give him money."
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It wasn't really about the chili dogs. It was this weird lemmings mentality where goons found a way to pay for congratulations and positive attention.

People were dropping like $5-$10 at first the but project was getting so much attention that Computer Janitor #4503 dropping $50 got a lot of asspats for helping the cause. So then people started dropping $100 so they were the center of attention. Then $200. Then that one idiot dropped $500 and when his dick was sucked for a couple days over it he "Disccused it with the family and decided to skip christmas this year" to add another $500 and got even more attention for it.

It's the same concept as how they congratulated each other into paying $300,000 for Star Citizen spaceships. Buying a really expensive ship got you a lot of attention, and then goons started competing for attention leading to some of them being $10,000+ deep.

The stupidest thing about Doobie Doghouse were the moderators that started the craze with long speeches about how they would revolutionize a town in Alabama and impact thousands of lives by funding a hillbillies hot dog restaurant.
 
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I think @Dynastia is more or less correct that we were more forgiving of faux-edgy shit couched in faux-ironic idgaf affectation when we were all teenagers. The average age of the internet's denizens is older now. It's the same reason a guy like Maddox can't maintain an audience anymore. Most of us grow out of Family Guy humor at some point too.

Photoshop Phriday was a fun highlight of my week back in college though.
 
Holocaust Mansplainer said:
SA was always kind of lame but back in the early days it was a choice between SA or Fark if you wanted to post "hilarious" edgy shit. There was some funny and interesting stuff there at times but any forum with enough traffic will generate that.
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Stile was the edgy choice, Fark was the proto-reddit choice and SA was the elitist contrarian choice
 
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