It's no secret that Something Awful's been going downhill for years, metastasizing into the enemy of everything it used to be. The site's now a haven for butthurt, SJWs, moral relativism, twattery, and the worst elements of the Internet left. It just doesn't get the same attention as other places because you have to pay to post on the forum.
This has led to much discontent among those who used to frequent the forum, the most notorious of which was the Something Awful Sycophant Squad. Long since defunct, SASS was notorious in its own right for containing many of the same problems that plagued SA, only from the right wing instead of the left.
However, what that story doesn't tell you is that SASS lives. Much in the same way as PUAhate metastasized into Sluthate,
SASS has bloomed like the corpse flower into Something Sensitive.
Non-ironic anti-Semitism,
non-ironic racism,
the edgiest edgelords; SS has everything you could want, as long as your goal is making a thread for this forum.
I gotta give some insight here, from the few Goon contacts I have, most of which have been giving me info during the Nyberg incident, but to hear them tell it, there's an ongoing, vicious war between subsets of Something Awful. This comes from some Goons themselves, so, as ever, take this report with that in mind.
The old guard, including Lowtax and most of the not-shit mods, want to be rid of the pedophilia-supporting, identity politics-pushing bullshit we all know and loathe. They want to get back to the way SA once was, where it was just making fun of the internet for being the internet. To hear my Goonfriends tell it, the SocJus shit got its foot in the door the same way it got into almost every other community that remotely leans left: by exploiting their tolerance of other views. The SocJus fags were able to slip under the radar, and suddenly, you have a full-blown occupation on your hands. At first, nobody really minded; most of them paid their cash and most
weren't too bad
yet.
Operative word being
yet. Over time they rapidly showed their true colors. Things got harder and harder to ignore...
...And then the Pedophilia began.
The thing is, by this point, SA is so thoroughly infested that even with multiple near-complete mod-purges and countless banhammer swings, the problem just isn't going away, having become a canker at the heart of Something Awful and one that's survived countless attempts to burn it the fuck out. SA's die-hards are devoted as shit, but they're in a catch-22 because they
can't just burn the site down to start over. If they do, they risk losing everything to the
same idiots that are, in their eyes, trying to occupy and ruin shit. More than that, they're economically vested in it due to the cost of membership, which means most of them are locked down in this nonsense.
Which brings us back to Something Sensitive. It originally began as a sort of containment zone for the people who got banned (usually for being shits), but it increasingly wound up catching traffic-flow from SA amongst the worst of the people SA wanted to be rid of (again, the Goons assure me, Pedophiles; all evidence supports this given what we currently know).
Indeed, almost every member of the Pedophile Defense Force is a former member of SA and the overpowering majority (Kirtaner, for example) got their asses banned from Something Sensitive as well, which lends credence to this theory. The Goons believe otherwise, but I worry that SA might be too infected to save without burning everything to fucking ashes and starting anew with new leadership. Here's hoping they're right. As much as I personally dislike SA, I prefer to remember the good times, and we can hope that now, as SocJus is losing pretty much everywhere, the ripples will be felt in Something Awful, but considering the insular nature of the site, and how that openly appeals to the people in question.... Well, they have their work cut out for them, to say the least.
Also SASS was run by Weev of GNAA fame, IIRC.
