Inactive Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka - Deadbeat (emphasis on "Dead") founder of Something Awful, forced out of his own community, on his second divorce, stuck his dick in crazy, "Birth Giver"

[The Boga Dog]

Best news I've heard all day.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

I mean he said he was going to kill himself 100% in a few week, months ago...he is just late at this point.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

Does anyone have the video from the 2020 January drama where he recorded himself on the toilet and ended it with "Now to take a MASSIVE SHIT!"

I know it's nowhere close, but I want to fool people into thinking it was the last thing he ever said.

 

[What the shit]

I hope he killed himself and blamed Kiwi Farms and expressed his undying support of trannies.

I’d love another shitshow like that.

 

[Vulcanusii]

 

[Rabid Wombat]

Bunch of my mates were OG Goons, back before Quinn and the Helldump crowd invaded, and have fond memories of their times there. Shame it became what it did, when he started pandering to the rainbow hair / troon crowd.

He left a mixed legacy I guess.

 

[Jack Awful]

Yeah, seems about right.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Do we have any confirmation (besides frag)
-any cause?

I remember truly wishing him dead, almost 2 decades ago. Now, I'm a little sad.

 

[gaystoner]

I lurked SomethingAwful like...15 years ago? I haven't ever read this thread but I can definitely say SA influenced my early internet life.

RIP Lowtax

 

[tehpope]

 

[D_Tractor]

Lowtax
Is gone

 

[Beautiful Border]

Footage of Richard's funeral

 

[Red Mask]

Honestly, it would be pretty sad even though I didn’t care about him either way as a person, but he did create a long, lasting site whose forum I did(and still do, tbh) enjoy. Rest in whatever.

 

[NoonmanR]

Holy shit, i know he was talking about committing suicide a month or two back but i didn't think he'd actually go through with it. It's almost like if CWC hung himself.

Or maybe the alcohol and pill popping took it's toll...

 

[Mendicant]

Wait, there is a 'front page'?

 

[Anonymous Dimwit]

I won't believe it until I see an urn with his name printed on it.

He might just re-reg in life for tenbux and we'll have to put up with him again in 20 years.

 

[Almighty MoeBro Nation]

I would kill myself too if my only legacy in this world was Something Awful

But for real this is a very weird feeling. Love him or hate him he's played a very big role in internet culture. Rest in peace

 

[Paul Manafort]

He had more of an effect on internet culture than almost any other lolcow by sheer virtue of creating SA, considering how many facets of the modern internet spun off of it. That's saying something at least.

 

[Savage Randy]

Well no reason to go after him for child support anymore.

case closed

 

[Dumb Bitch Smoothie]

I got $5 on him still being alive, just because goons never fucking die.

Byuu 2.0