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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TiggerNits said:
I still think lowtax should have sold it to some Chinese malware company for some bitcoin and a bag of fentanyl laced heroin
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Kyanka will wish that downed couple bottles of Fentanyl he gets with 10 bux money soon enough.
 
Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
Out of curiosity, I looked up the Lowtax vs Boll fight. Both guys really suck at boxing. Boll is really bad considering the training he has, and Lowtax is somehow even worse
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Why do you think Boll only accepted challenges from losers like LowT and refused them from guys like Seanbaby?

TiggerNits said:
I still think lowtax should have sold it to some Chinese malware company for some bitcoin and a bag of fentanyl laced heroin
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That and dox the entire mod staff as well as the troons.
 
By 2020 standards, I'd imagine you could run SA off of a cheap workstation attached to a business line. The site doesn't even serve video, mostly just text, as most of the images are hosted elsewhere. And troons are still unquestioningly paying $5 every time they want to change their avatars. Like every single thing that would have given the site significant overhead cost has come down dramatically in price. If it was profitable in 2002, it's bound to be a money printer today, even considering how few newcomers are arriving.

Hell, I'm sure the modern residential fiber line has way more than enough bandwidth to run SA, the only reason you'd need a business line is so that your ISP doesn't kick your ass for violating their EULA.
 
Pissmaster said:
By 2020 standards, I'd imagine you could run SA off of a cheap workstation attached to a business line. The site doesn't even serve video, mostly just text, as most of the images are hosted elsewhere. And troons are still unquestioningly paying $5 every time they want to change their avatars. Like every single thing that would have given the site significant overhead cost has come down dramatically in price. If it was profitable in 2002, it's bound to be a money printer today, even considering how few newcomers are arriving.

Hell, I'm sure the modern residential fiber line has way more than enough bandwidth to run SA, the only reason you'd need a business line is so that your ISP doesn't kick your ass for violating their EULA.
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Even back in the day when it had hundreds of thousands of active users it was piss-cheap to run, it was just half a cab of gear in some bargain basement colo in Louisiana if I recall correctly.
 
Goodbye Horses said:
Even back in the day when it had hundreds of thousands of active users it was piss-cheap to run, it was just half a cab of gear in some bargain basement colo in Louisiana if I recall correctly.
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You're correct, Katrina took down the forums at that time.
 
Derek Smart said:
Of course he has had other income over the years. I mean, that's not exactly a secret - or is it?
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I'm curious about this.

Lowtax has always had some new wacky money making idea whether it was promoting Mangosteen, NordVPN, Murder the Internet Podcast, Gaming Garbage Livestreaming, or Goldbelly, but I was always under the impression that the forums was his main source of income.

His Patreon didn't start really pulling in money until mid-March 2019. That was when he posted his sob story about his back and medical bills in GBS.

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What else does he have for sources of income?
 
Goodbye Horses said:
Even back in the day when it had hundreds of thousands of active users it was piss-cheap to run, it was just half a cab of gear in some bargain basement colo in Louisiana if I recall correctly.
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Good lord. So you could run SA from an old Android phone attached to an external hard drive now.

Can't wait until the forums go down because Jeffery got drunk and knocked the SA server off its wireless charger
 
Frank N Berry said:
I'm curious about this.

Lowtax has always had some new wacky money making idea whether it was promoting Mangosteen, NordVPN, Murder the Internet Podcast, Gaming Garbage Livestreaming, or Goldbelly, but I was always under the impression that the forums was his main source of income.

His Patreon didn't start really pulling in money until mid-March 2019. That was when he posted his sob story about his back and medical bills in GBS.

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What else does he have for sources of income?
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His parents are very affluent. If he has a trust fund I wouldn't be shocked
 
Ilmseil said:
Derek, it's all semantics at this point. Let's just leave it at that. All we're saying here is that the forums paid for themselves many, many, many times over and at their height of popularity were worth likely well into the 7 figures if Owetax was willing to cash out. Instead, he squandered every single opportunity that fell into his lap and had the potential to make him quite wealthy and set for life if he had done even an iota of planning or long term investment. He screwed his content contributors, actively avoided his own community, avoided anything even resembling work, and instead fucked off to eat 400$ bagged pies and beat women. This is why he is a lolcow deserving his own thread separate from the SA thread proper.
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Indeed.

Sabrina said:
Don't know about "insanely" profitable, though it definitely was for many years, but even now it's profitable.
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Right. Also, I was just using the same adjectives that a responded use to describe the site's profitability.
 
I think Jeffrey is a few bagged pies short of a Lowtax if he think buying SA is a smart choice, or that the transvestite freaks that are goons won't turn on him within a couple weeks/months. Either way, neither this nor the Lowtax thread are anywhere close to finished yet. :)
 
Derek Smart said:
Agreed. And as you've eloquently pointed out, it's a double-edged sword depending on how you look at it. My key takeaway is that for the site to have been "insanely profitable", you'd think he'd have a lot to show for it. But as you pointed out, he doesn't because, well, he appears to be blowing money on bs and not much else.
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Something Awful’s business model is to accept electronic payments for automated electronic services administered by unpaid remotely-working volunteer staff. While you’re correct that profit in terms of volume probably isn’t crazy, profit as a percentage of total revenue is likely another matter, since there are practically no expenses to operate the site other than hosting and shit. That does give a bump to a site’s perceived value when an interested investor starts thinking, “What happens if I just scale up operations fifteenfold somehow...”

Diseconomies of scale are a thing, but people don’t think straight when they get a bright idea and their eyes turn to dollar signs. As for what the others said about why the site seems so impoverished: It comes with Richard having a poverty mindset, yes. You can make a million bucks a year and you’ll still feel like a poor if you instantly spend $980,000 of it on candles.
 
Ilmseil said:
I still think it's funny as shit that Owetax bitched endlessly about Ashliii "wasting money and spending frivolously" on shit like diapers and furniture or whatever while this business genius here is spending 5,000$/mo on cookies and pies that cost 200$ each.
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He treated Ashli like she was little more than a housepet that he could shove his dick into. In the event that she ever stepped out of line, Canada was the pound.
 
At one point in time, in one of those "time inflection vertices" nerds sometimes speak about, Loletax had the opportunity to become Twitch before streaming fortnite was a thing. He had the retsupurae tumblr influx, he had the so called content creators, he had them on his forums. What did he do? He encouraged his fyads (who even back then still hated him) to run them off the forums and seek other platforms. What an outstanding visionary.
 
"Wait these people want MONEY for their content? Uhhhh 15$ is the cost of a box of wine...wait they want HOW MANY boxes of wine for these articles?!"
 
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