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"

[Dom Cruise]

He was a knucklehead but I'm not happy to hear about it, it's kind of chilling, a guy who made his living from laughing at internet weirdness until internet weirdness fucked up his life to the point that he killed himself.

The internet really seems like it's become nothing but a toxic, destructive force in the world, the laughs and good times are over and now it seems like the interwebs is genuinely ushering in some kind of apocalypse, how did things get so fucked up? It's just another example of the steep, stark decline over these last 5 years.

A slew of them joined at one point over (of all things) a Let's Play thread about Danganronpa, before it was translated and released in English. That led to them taking over the forum, becoming mods, and the state of the SA forums as they are today - a hellsite full of trannies that'll ban you for even the slightest missteps.

The way Danganronpa ties into this was that a lot of people who were on Tumblr at the time were following the thread, so Lowtax paywalled them out and made the subforum it was on only visible to those with accounts, so everyone had to pay $10 and join to keep reading it. So, they did, and tons and tons of them migrated into SA, slowly warping the forum and bending it their way.

Lowtax was a terrible administrator all along, and that all happened at a time when he was really burned out and barely running the forums at all. He was too busy wasting his money on luxuries like Goldbelly confections (look at their prices, just go look that shit up), a nice car, and lots and lots of ambien and whatever other drugs he could get ahold of.

When exactly did this go down?

 

[nekrataal]

Imagine he gets to the pearly gates and Saint Peter is like “that’ll be $10”.

 

[Dave.]

I want to feel sympathy for this guy but considering the shit he's done and the things I've read about him on this thread and his potential motive for why he carried out his suicide, I cannot bring myself to feel sympathy at all. I'm feeling whatever.

 

[SaintChristopher69]

Goodnight, sweet prince.

 

[Dyn]

internet weirdness fucked up his life to the point that he killed himself.

It was a bad divorce and a support judgement he didn't want to pay, the same as literally thousands of deadbeat drug addicted white trash who never connected to the internet in their lives.

 

[BALLZ-BROKEN]

Lowtax died as he lived: a petty, vindictive, spiteful, hypocritical POS.

 

[Inflatable Julay]

Damn. RIP for real Lowtax. Old school SA was a huge part of my high school and college days.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I just realized that Mars, a candy company, makes my cat's treats. That might explain why she is beginning to look like a black pumpkin.

Dude Milkbone is owned by Smuckers the jelly company.

 

[HumanHive]

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Not only that, but Gamergate would never have happened, Trump wouldn’t have been elected, and millions of people would not have died from Coronavirus.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Weird, it's such a nothing feeling. Like even after watching him get mocked to death I can't feel sympathy, sadness or much else. Dude made something real important and fun but in the end it just all ends up feeling pathetic at best

 

[I don't like jews]

Yeah but this one's ours

There are many pillheads like him but this one is mine!

 

[Marissa Moira]

I'm going to paint George Floyd's statue white in memory of lowtax. Feminism is what killed him when it stood on his neck.

 

[Dyn]

There are many pillheads like him but this one is mine!

I must master him as he plastered his wife.

 

[Dom Cruise]

It was a bad divorce and a support judgement he didn't want to pay, the same as literally thousands of deadbeat drug addicted white trash who never connected to the internet in their lives.

The loss of his forum is what seemed to really start the downward spiral though, if he still had that income he may not have been at the point of killing himself over not wanting to pay, right?

Not that the guy wasn't a fuck up in general, but if his forum hadn't been hijacked by trannies, would be he still be alive?

Not only that, but Gamergate would never have happened, Trump wouldn’t have been elected, and millions of people would not have died from Coronavirus.

The lesson? Don't fuck with weebs.

 

[JoyfulDarter]

Imagine he gets to the pearly gates and Saint Peter is like “that’ll be $10”.

The Pearly Gates and Saint Peter are in Heaven though, Lowtax is in Hell.

 

[Pissmaster]

The loss of his forum is what seemed to really start the downward spiral though, if he still had that income he may not have been at the point of killing himself over not wanting to pay, right?

Not that the guy wasn't a fuck up in general, but if his forum hadn't been hijacked by trannies, would be he still be alive?

The downward spiral started ages ago, possibly all the way back in 2006 when he threw a fit over people calling him out for shilling mangosteens and including an Amazon affiliate link:

Everything got progressively worse for him after that, and he killed himself 15½ years later.

 

[I don't like jews]

You know Lowtax has a lot in common with JFK. Notice how his forum and political views went back and to the left as well?

 

[White Devil]

I actually think this is an amazing example of spite.

 

[FunPosting101]

Man, he's actually dead? He shot himself? I mean, I guess we all should have seen this coming, but fuck. I got some mixed feelings right now, he was honestly an asshole, but he was also, for a time, genuinely funny, and for a time, SA was a good website. Goodbye, you obnoxious faggot.

 

[CatParty]

Do we count this towards the 41%?