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"

[Magikoopa]

I guess being a Internet figure is the worst profession to age in.

When your persona and legacy is built off of a snapshot of whoever you were when you got big, there's almost certainly going to be a compulsion to continue acting the part. That's even when you're no longer in the same mental space nor age as you were when you formed that identity. The alternative is being a "sellout" or otherwise just being forgotten, which certain people won't recognize is the best thing that could possibly happen to them.
Considering the age range and culture of the internet back then, being angsty and aloof can easily factor into that persona. Then when your entire identity is a front of pretend edge, comes intimacy issues, either with just having genuine friends that you don't worry about bailing on you if you drop the front or fail to toe the line, or a steady relationship with a partner you actually confide in. This derails your entire psychosocial development, even if you're well past your 20s. Moot got out in time, Lowtax didn't. Lowtax also always seemed far more "present" socially, so to speak, so the hole he dug himself into was a lot harder to crawl out of, and it looks like he never did

 

[GooglePuppet]

Being internet famous must be some sort of tragedy archetype by now.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

His ex-wife really is a cunt, though.

Yes, but even if she had been a perfect saint the court outcome would have been the same.

 

[Dickxon]

I was hoping he would bring on the $3000 tranny prostitute as a guest on Gaming Garbage.
Does this mean that won't happen now, fellow goons?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

If Lowtax really did pass on, at least he's no longer suffering.

 

[Overcast]

I remember first finding out about him through his Gaming Garbage videos. I found him and Schmorky really funny. Of course, later on, I found out that Schmorky wasn't just some character one of them was playing and the whole reality of the situation just became depressing.

Can't say lowtax didn't do all this to himself, but I still gotta respect what he did prior to his downward spiral.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

I saw the inactive tag and immediately wondered "Did he leave a note?"

Some good laughs came out of SA. I can't recall any that had Lowtax's fingerprints on them, aside from his foray into boxing.

If there is any meaning in his death, I can't find it.

It’s been commented by Ashli that he did not, but that’s as far as she knows.

It’s ironic and sad if he didn’t leave a note. Lowtax always considered himself a writer. He knew his suicide would attract significant attention and any note or writings he left would get a huge audience of readers but didn’t bother. Even worse if he didn’t leave any message to his kids or parents.

Makes me think it was probably a snap decision, as many suicides are esp with a gun involved. It’s why having a gun in the house with a depressed person is bad idea. I know he was depressed and he had talked about suicide in past months but I think he just snapped getting the bad news from the court.

Leafwife indicated he killed himself within an hour of the decision, idk if that’s accurate but... I wonder how he got the news? Lawyer call him? Email? Zoom court appearance? Was he alone when got the news?

 

[Dyn]

He knew his suicide would attract significant attention and any note or writings he left would get a huge audience of readers but didn’t bother.

Really though what would you put in your suicide note if you knew everyone was just going to make fun of it?

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

Being internet famous must be some sort of tragedy archetype by now.

Honestly, I wouldn't wish being internet famous on anyone. It's like being a lottery winner, but without the perk of having ludicrous amounts of money.

 

[Cabelaz]

This is the most apathetic news I've ever received.

 

[Dog Anuses]

SO DONT FUCKING READ IT, DONT FUCKING READ IT, DONT FUCKING READ MY NOTE.

 

[Shovel Mech Pilot]

It's kind of wild that people like Lowtax kill themselves while CWC and Yaniv are still kicking around.

 

[Mullti Port RDRAM]

TL;DR, was there a police report where the Missouri law enforcement found the body? If not I doubt this is true as it makes the news when a suicide or homicide takes place.

I've been monitoring the police blotter in Lee's Summit and St. Louis proper, and nothing has appeared.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

I never really resented moot for leaving 4chan for his gig at Google because it always seemed to me he was avoiding becoming Lowtax

Moot got out exactly at the right time. He left 4chan January of 2015 right after goober gate blew up and there was all that drama about him banning discussion of it on /v/ (which just moved to /pol/) and people branded him a cuckold and a traitor after 12 years of doing a shitty, unprofitable, miserable job where he had to hide his identity because of the amount of insane people that followed him. I would have left too. He got a real job at Google and moved on. Lowtax should have done the same thing but he was too much of a spineless coward and blew his brains out.

 

[Sexy Potoo]

Really though what would you put in your suicide note if you knew everyone was just going to make fun of it?

"LOL
See you hell faggots!"
- Lowtax

P.S. Have fun scraping my brains off the wall.

 

[Rekkington]

It’s been commented by Ashli that he did not, but that’s as far as she knows.

It’s ironic and sad if he didn’t leave a note. Lowtax always considered himself a writer. He knew his suicide would attract significant attention and any note or writings he left would get a huge audience of readers but didn’t bother. Even worse if he didn’t leave any message to his kids or parents.

Makes me think it was probably a snap decision, as many suicides are esp with a gun involved. It’s why having a gun in the house with a depressed person is bad idea. I know he was depressed and he had talked about suicide in past months but I think he just snapped getting the bad news from the court.

Leafwife indicated he killed himself within an hour of the decision, idk if that’s accurate but... I wonder how he got the news? Lawyer call him? Email? Zoom court appearance? Was he alone when got the news?

It's believable he wouldn't leave a note if he was drunk. Even if you're depressed over a long time, you're way more impulsive when you're drunk and if you're that angry at the world you probably don't care. In fact knowing him this was probably a common ritual he played with whenever he would get blackout and this time he just ticked over the edge.

 

[northstar747]

 

[Dyn]

It's believable he wouldn't leave a note if he was drunk. Even if you're depressed over a long time, you're way more impulsive when you're drunk and if you're that angry at the world you probably don't care. In fact knowing him he probably got blackout drunk to do it, or this was a common ritual he played with and this time he just ticked over the edge.

I think he was just self-absorbed enough to see no reason to leave a note if he won't get to see people react to it.

 

[Fictional Character]

Gotta remind the kids that Dad didn't say goodbye or 'I love you' when you're breaking the news of his suicide.

Lowtax's Mom: Dear granddaughters, always remember that your dad killed himself to avoid supporting you financially. It's all your fault.

 

[Hesa]

Jeff and all the mods enabled Richard by deleting posts about the police reports, banning users who talked about it, parroting the stories Lowtax told, and doing all of the grunt work necessary to keep a website like that running. The only reason he could afford to sit back with his $20,000 box wine and ambien is because he had a staff of mouthbreathing sycophants doing all of his work for no pay. They knew he was an addict wife beater deadbeat dad for years and still continued to slavishly support him.

Nail on head.