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"

[Calandrino]

I hope his mom gets raped and murdered too.

Well, we all show our grief in different ways.

 

[Hippopatumus]

Moot went to work for Google; that's like being on Satan's payroll.

Guy who runs glowie site goes to work at glowie HQ.

 

[frozenrunner]

It somewhat disturbs me that I actually feel nothing about this.

I do feel something, but it's not even what I would describe as shock. It's not strong enough to be shock. And I am also surprised by how unsurprising this is and how unexpectedly little I feel. I expected something else.

I can't be happy about it, though. What a waste of a life, even if it wasn't a good one.

Moot went to work for Google; that's like being on Satan's payroll.

So he's catering to troons for a living. Perhaps a fate worse than death by suicide.

 

[ParaBeagle]

Can they still take money from a dead guy in some way?

 

[JCDenthog]

Moot went to work for Google; that's like being on Satan's payroll.

I imagine James Bond villains at least pay well

 

[Synthetic Smug]

Not to moralfag, but I wonder if it's possible for us Web 0.9b types to put together something for his kids.

 

[Gimmick Account]

Communities like Something Awful take a tremendous mental toll on the people who run them.

You can say what you like about Christopher Poole, AKA Moot (the standard autocomplete is probably still 'Moot is a fag'). He got out from under 4chan at the right time and he did something else. Lowtax left it too late. He dug a hole that was too deep and then concluded that life wasn't worth living. He leaves behind a family who will have to deal with the long-term practical and emotional consequences of his decision.

There is a time to step away. Just like there will be a time to step away from the Farms. Five years from now, I don't want to read an online dispatch about Null an-heroing, after being cornered in some backwater nation that lacks an extradition treaty with the US. I want to read a profile in the Financial Times about his flourishing agricultural empire that began with a single banana pepper plant and is now buying up farmland previously owned by Bill Gates. I want to read about a second act where people like this lead normal lives, finally make some money and aren't dogged by lunatics like Russell Greer.

There will always be someone online who will cater to hopeless cases like me, who just want to sit at the bar of the Titanic as it slips beneath the waves. I don't want these individuals to drag themselves down into an inescapable existential abyss, just so that I can point and laugh at people who are marginally more degenerate I am.

They also probably have feds fucking with them 24/7 to get em mentally where they want them.
Not necessarily so much back in the day but from like 2010 onward, 2012 at the latest, manipulating online communities is serious business. The tranny takeover of SA was basically the blueprint for what happened to the rest of the internet so LowTax was probably a prime target no matter how dumb that sounds. It's a big reason I don't judge the dude, it's hard to tell where the line is between him and his brain being relentlessly fucked with.

 

[Retard#7822]

I feel bad for his kids for having a shitty father. Oh well, another one bites the dust.

 

[frozenrunner]

Not to moralfag, but I wonder if it's possible for us Web 0.9b types to put together something for his kids.

There's the predictable GoFraudMe being run by/on behalf of his exs and kids. Decide for yourself if you think handing them free money is a good idea.

 

[AnOminous]

m00t actually running an international cp distribution ring and getting arrested?

Tbh I'd probably actually cry if mootykins croaked. I couldn't give a fuck less about Dickard, an absolutely worthless piece of shit who literally capped himself to fuck over his own flesh and blood. What an absolute garbage person. I hope he's getting deep dicked in Hell right now by Satan's scaly pecker.

Also fuck his mom too.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Communities like Something Awful take a tremendous mental toll on the people who run them.

Well good for Lowtax then since he didn't run the forums in almost 20 years.

It's normal to feel somewhat bad about Lowtax death even if you disliked him. Means you're a normal person.

 

[Fools Idol]

Pay attention Null this is how it all ends.

 

[Goodbye Horses]

Moot went to work for Google; that's like being on Satan's payroll.

Pretty sure he didn't really do any work there and just got to sit on the roof until his stock options vested, like the dude in Silicon Valley.

 

[Pepper Jack]

FEET

 

[SpergRush]

I haven't looked at SA in like a decade. I saw on here that they had gone for the troons and shit but didn't pay any attention to it. Just didn't care cause I was already divested.

But I faintly remember laughing at some photoshop Friday shit as an adolescent. I feel faintly bad the dude who gave me a chuckle once ended it like that. Must've had a lot of shit go wrong in his life.

 

[blablabla]

so the piece of shit emptied his bank account and killed himself instead of providing for his daughters.
again: good fucking ridance

 

[MrTroll]

Pay attention Null this is how it all ends.

Don't be ridiculous. Null will never find a wife or come close to making as much as Lowtax did at his peak.

Oh. You meant the suicide part.

 

[Magikoopa]

Once again the same people who made a huge moral grandstanding about Byuus "suicide" and KFs involvement in it are dancing over Lowtaxes body before its even in the ground showing once more that suicide actually really isn't that big of a deal after all

 

[Thumb Butler]

Tbh I'd probably actually cry if mootykins croaked. I couldn't give a fuck less about Dickard, an absolutely worthless piece of shit who literally capped himself to fuck over his own flesh and blood. What an absolute garbage person. I hope he's getting deep dicked in Hell right now by Satan's scaly pecker.

Also fuck his mom too.

Hopefully Momtax will never see her younger grandchild again.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Communities like Something Awful take a tremendous mental toll on the people who run them.

You can say what you like about Christopher Poole, AKA Moot (the standard autocomplete is probably still 'Moot is a fag'). He got out from under 4chan at the right time and he did something else. Lowtax left it too late. He dug a hole that was too deep and then concluded that life wasn't worth living. He leaves behind a family who will have to deal with the long-term practical and emotional consequences of his decision.

There is a time to step away. Just like there will be a time to step away from the Farms. Five years from now, I don't want to read an online dispatch about Null an-heroing, after being cornered in some backwater nation that lacks an extradition treaty with the US. I want to read a profile in the Financial Times about his flourishing agricultural empire that began with a single banana pepper plant and is now buying up farmland previously owned by Bill Gates. I want to read about a second act where people like this lead normal lives, finally make some money and aren't dogged by lunatics like Russell Greer.

There will always be someone online who will cater to hopeless cases like me, who just want to sit at the bar of the Titanic as it slips beneath the waves. I don't want these individuals to drag themselves down into an inescapable existential abyss, just so that I can point and laugh at people who are marginally more degenerate I am.

But the internet didn’t kill Lowtax - bad marriages, difficult interpersonal relationships, depression and drug abuse all rank higher on the list than the internet. If anything losing SA was the biggest blow to Lowtax because that was his greatest achievement and his income source.

Maybe he should have sold it years ago, but it’s what made him famous, gave him his identity and provided a very sweet monthly income stream with very little work. Lowtax get away from SA, he virtually abandoned Something Awful for a decade or more. He was an absentee landlord. But a few years ago when he was in a bad marriage, had a bad back and needed more money came back, posted his troubles and goons fucking set him up to the tune of $16k a month.

I think his biggest regret is he didn’t do more with SA. SA spawned mountains of content trends and creators. Lowtax always said he wanted to be a comedy writer, not a businessman but then was forever salty that he lost so many business opportunities because he didn’t want to run a business.