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"

[Umaibae]

Lowtax was weird but not autistic. He was honestly one of the more charismatic and likeable of the early-Internet bigshots. Long story short, the site that made him famous became different from him, eventually rejecting him entirely. His life over the last 5 years became a really depressing saga of court cases and domestic abuse allegations while he tries to be a funny man who doesn't let anything get to him. Also, a pedophile tranny in a yarn wig got together with a BPD whore and caused a bunch of shit in his life, read more here.

Thanks for actually giving context.

 

[Rekkington]

I don't keep up with Lowtax's life (it's too depressing) honestly but what I will say is the timing of his suicide will be very good for drama. She only revealed the details she did because she was upset about the mother accusing her of being to blame

That's kind of the point. She told everyone he killed himself cause of a private text his mom sent her? That makes zero sense, this was done to specifically hurt Lowtax's public standing and, from the sounds of it, directly hurt the mother. Which should tell you all you need to know of her behavior outside of her side which is she does everything in the world for her kids or whatever.

 

[Calico Jack]

It's not often that you get to hear SomethingAwful mentioned nowadays - I remember finding out about that site when I was still back in high school, and I'm surprised that it's still around.
I know I'm not the first one to express this sentiment, but I genuinely thought Shmorky would be the first to go between the two of them. Plenty of red flags, plenty of boxes getting ticked.
Sad to hear about the kids, though.

 

[Kaede Did Nothing Wrong]

It had its own cows and everything, though they weren't called cows at that time. These guys for example:

wow steve sutton. that takes me back.
also "two worlds"lmao. he is the exact type of person who would be archived here if his time was several years later. I can't find much online anymore besides these youtube summaries

 

[QwahlityKahntent]

so why didn't lowtax just ban all the trannies from his forum and take it back instead of selling it? if he cleaned up the userbase maybe it would have been profitable again

 

[Ghostse]

Whut? "Slipped past us"? Dude we've been documenting not only his every utterance, but those of dozens of people who knew him personally. We know exactly what his deal was.

His "pain" and "depression" were that his easy, gravy train life was gone. And as we have extensively recorded, that was 100% his own fault but he was in complete denial about it. Anyone trying to talk sense into him was met with a wall of unfunny lolrandom bullshit. Up until the very end he blamed everyone else but himself for the loss of his cushy life. Let's recap this man's greatest hits:

- He defrauded his own forums users by raising $20,000 to upgrade the software, but embezzled it instead.
- He let a known paedophile babysit his children.
- He beat two wives and one girlfriend, at least.
- He confiscated and hid his second wife's passport and deliberately didn't complete her immigration paperwork so that he could threaten her with deportation if she stepped out of line.
- When he went to Utah for a month to fuck some BPD girl half his age, he left his wife alone with the kid and no transport.
- When his eldest (14-year-old) daughter called him out on the above he told her to go fuck herself.
- Despite this, his first wife arranged for the second to get into into a women's shelter. She setup a GFM which Lowtax's mods got taken down.
- Lowtax's first action on discovering this was to tell Facebook that he was going to call ICE on his own wife out of vengeance.
- When she sued for divorce he deliberately spent as much money on gatcha games and prostitutes as he could to spite her AND HIS OWN DAUGHTER.
- He spent months denying that Bogan was a side-piece and instead insisted she was a "brand manager". The main contribution to SA was to offer unpaid writing for the site in return for "exposure".
- After he beat her and she revealed it on the forums, he forced her to record a tearful video saying she lied and he didn't hit her.
- He spent years popping pills and chugging booze, whilst vehemently denying it, even when he appeared on stream smashed out of his head.
- When the DV case collapsed because his victim declined to give evidence, he described it as "vindication" and being found "not guilty".
- The second it became clear he had to bear some consequences for the above, he blew his brains out leaving three children without a father.

That's like maybe 10% of Lowtax lore. This is a man who would literally rather die than support his own children. His suicide wasn't an act of despair or desperation, it was an act of narcissism and the ultimate laziness. He didn't want to bother with his children any more, he didn't want to bother fixing his life or having to work for a living, so he checked out.

In general, when someone offs themselves, I would agree that there is often private pain that we will never know. But Lowtax made his private life very public, often against the wishes of the other people involved. It's crystal clear why he ate a bullet, and it does not show him in a good light at all. Yes, his exes were all crazy, you have to be crazy to let Lowtax stick his droopy dick in you. But they weren't, by and large, bad people, at least not compared to Lowtax. And his kids are innocent in all this. From the little we've seen, his eldest daughter is much more mature and responsible than the father who let her down so badly throughout her life, then let her down one last time. He let all his kids down by doing what he did, and it certainly wasn't the first time he put his feelings above their welfare, but thank God it will be the last.

This should be the board announcement post tbh.

And this leaves off that when Lowtax abandoned his wife and daughter to go fuck Logan Day in Utah for a month, it was over the holidays; Nigga left his wife and daughter alone with no ability to drive while he jetted off to Utah to fuck a BPD whore 15 years his junior.

 

[Thumb Butler]

That's kind of the point. She told everyone he killed himself cause of a private text his mom sent her? That makes zero sense, this was done to specifically hurt Lowtax's public standing and, from the sounds of it, directly hurt the mother. Which should tell you all you need to know of her behavior outside of her side which is she does everything in the world for her kids or whatever.

Birds of a feather flock together. Neither of them knew when to shut up and what does not belong on the internet.

 

[AnOminous]

way too hard for him to deny deny deny after the court outcome yesterday.

Ironically, his death could more fairly be laid at our door than any of the other retards and rejects we're blamed for driving to suicide. But the assclowns who constantly shriek about those other deaths that had nothing to do with us would never raise the torch for Lowtax, because they're too busy dancing on his grave themselves.

 

[Lame Entropy]

He must have been feeling pretty low and taxed.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

That's kind of the point. She told everyone he killed himself cause of a private text his mom sent her? That makes zero sense, this was done to specifically hurt Lowtax's public standing and, from the sounds of it, directly hurt the mother. Which should tell you all you need to know of her behavior outside of her side which is she does everything in the world for her kids or whatever.

Yep. Being a victim doesn't make her innocent of wrongdoing. Loganberry getting her face bashed in was reprehensible, but doesnt stop her being a cunt.

 

[Hesa]

so why didn't lowtax just ban all the trannies from his forum and take it back instead of selling it? if he cleaned up the userbase maybe it would have been profitable again

Because that would have taken some effort.

 

[Wurstbrot]

WTF? The last thing I remember - and this is extremely outdated - that I loved his gaming commentary and when his daughter was involved because she's hilarious and showed surprisingly smart commentary for her young age. Always thought he must be a fantastic father with such a daughter. I never followed the lowtaxian thread, so at least he stays positive in my memory.

Feels bad man.
I'm a sad man.

 

[Lurk McDurk]

People are talking about the kids, but if he really did kill himself it was probably the pain from his disease. Having a decaying spine, or whatever, would make life a living hell. By the time he got to the end he probably lusted for the numb relief of nothingness.

Funny that drug addicts always have some sort of debilitating medieval rickets type syndrome that requires them to be drug addicts, ain't it?

He doesn't appear to suffer any back problems when getting beat up by Uwe Boll. What did the self-proclaimed laziest man alive do between then and 2020 to get himself permanently injured? Slip and fall on a hot pocket?

 

[Red Mask]

He must have been feeling pretty low and taxed.

Honestly, I didn’t know much about Lowtax’s personal life at all until I came here. To me, Something Awful was the one good thing that came from him.

 

[Red flaming panda]

So long Lowtax. I barely knew you or pay attention to you, but thanks for everything

I guess the old internet really is dying before our eyes huh
Edit:Yeah I know I'm late, just got on here lol

 

[AnOminous]

Imagine if in 15-years-time Null was paying to suck tranny dick and eating $40 mail-order pies and Kiwifarms was totally taken over by furries and trannies. Meanwhile all the current users were all on some other, newer forum for talking about internet trainwrecks, watching from a distance. That's this thread and the SA & Friends thread.

Even if you took every single word of his ED article as gospel truth, he'd still be in better shape than Dickard was when he ate the business end of a gun.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Funny that drug addicts always have some sort of debilitating medieval rickets type syndrome that requires them to be drug addicts, ain't it?

He doesn't appear to suffer any back problems when getting beat up by Uwe Boll. What did the self-proclaimed laziest man alive do between then and 2020 to get himself permanently injured? Slip and fall on a hot pocket?

He had a degenerative nerve disease that showed itself later in life. That Uwe Boll stuff was from mid-2000s. (and I'm not sure why people find it so funny, Lowtax was a nobody who had to write his first article on Uwe to even get invited to the bout and Boll was a trained boxer, what did people think was going to happen?)

 

[Fish Fudge]

wow steve sutton. that takes me back.

I'm still a little confused as to how one person managed to be so overwhelmingly active across the entire internet at once. But back then, the internet was different I guess.

The old internet has been dead for a long time now, but Lowtax's death does feel like this pathetic little punctuation mark to the whole thing.

Anyway, he was a real lazy/cowardly piece of shit and I hope his kids aren't too mentally scarred.

 

[Jan_Hus]

Imagine being known as "Creator of Something Awful" but having the Something Awful thread where your death is announced full of people being thankful that you died and pissing on your grave.

What a fucking way to go, lmao.

It's kind of sad. The thread devoted to mocking him is more respectful of his death than the website he created.

 

[AnOminous]

so why didn't lowtax just ban all the trannies from his forum and take it back instead of selling it? if he cleaned up the userbase maybe it would have been profitable again

Because he was a pussy. He pussied out of life, just like he pussied out of everything else.