Bigot Brigade Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield

[Ghostse]

I've not really much SA watcher, but I would like to know: how much of Something Awful's, let's call 'left-wing turn', came from either:

1. Outsiders coming over a 'take over' the site.
2. An organic evolution of the SA userbase and consequently it's moderation team.

Just wondering, since many people talk about how (1) occured and it was Lowtax's fault, but I feel like (2) is more likely than people give credit for.

2.
People always quote the Danganronpa influx but if you take a look at any SASS thread you'll figure out pretty quickly that the rot was always there

SA for a while was cool because you had people all accross the political spectrum. And various functioning on the autism and mental illness spectrums.

There were several events, and natural pressures, that caused SA to go to shit (I'll detail an example to have thunk about below). The Tipping point was a one-two blow. The first was the Obama campaign and Zach going full obamatard. The mods and admins, to brown nose, followed suit for the most part. So in the run to the election you had the jannies moderating heavily to the left, letting leftoids and commies skate while looking for any excuse to punish anyone right of Mao. So when McCain lost and the election toxxes hit, most of the banned posters didn't return. This shifted the balance to the left by removing most of the hard core & vocal right wing element.

Then Dangan Rompa LP hit, paywall went up, and the Tumblr influx started. This imported more deranged SJWs, sending things to the performative left. And that was what started the death spiral. No one with any sense was signing up at Something Awful. With no counter outcry, you saw more and more SJW policies put in place until you have people being banned for 're'tard'.


Natural Pressures: an example
So tl;dr is that if you are successful, you have better things to do than post on SA. IF you are sad brains, SA is your life and you make 500 posts a day while sucking up to the leadership. Its like the Peter Principal, only everyone remaining becomes an insufferable faggot.

Take for example the WoW goon who got his kids taken by CPS. Initially a very active poster. Then vanished, only to return to tell the tale of getting his kids back, stopping WoW Raiding, and getting his life together and being much happier and healthier. Anyone functional eventually has something better to do than SA.

The insane commies who grow up and realize that maybe Third World Maoism is a shit ideology just stop showing up the Mao chats, and get bullied to silence as soon as they start deviating from approved group think. If you are not a complete faggot loser, you leave the toxic commies and go make mostly normal friends doing hobbies or drinking. Only people who are too socially maladjusted to leave hang around and if they don't leave they drink the koolaid.

So what ideologies do these social mutants lean towards? "Free money to let me eat cheetos and play videogames all day"; UBI, universal health, 'I put on a dress so now lesbians who won't fuck me are bigots'. Even if you are a functional human being who just wants to forum around for a few hours after work, you don't have anywhere near the time and energy these human deadweights have to hammer out posts and try to organize a brigade of fellow human detritus to dig through your post history for an excuse to get you banned.

So it is both. The normal user base slowly became non-functional faggots because anyone who wasn't eventually stopped posting, then add in external events like the Tumblr invasion that accerated the process.

People blame Lowtax because he was entirely to blame. It was always Lowtax wanting jannies who would curate his forums for him like a full time job while paying them below minimum wage (starting with Fistgrrl). This eliminated everyone from the pool of potential moderators except for people entirely dependent on leftist social programs like welfare and disability payments, as well as exceptional college students. When they started to act on their political sensibilities and slowly purge anything right of center and then right of left, Lowtax did nothing. Once political opinions were quashed, the next step was humor that offended their politics. This took several years of sniffing out people and purging, but gradually not just the moderator team but the entire user base was culled to people who showed sufficient groupthink. Lowtax was warned this was happening, but out of laziness chose to do nothing over anything for over a decade, and eventually they succeeded in purging him as well.

Good riddance.

He could have stopped it, but was too much of a lazy pillhead do to so since the checks kept coming.

Again, just imagine a different world where he didn't think only with his dick, and hadn't abandoned his wife over the holidays to fuck a clearly BPD thot. He'd still be collecting 10,000/mo in patreon + 3,000 from the forums. Doing literally nothing other than putting up with being called a faggot by some strangers.
He might have still have had a costly divorce with Maplewife, but having not literally abandoned her with no drivers license to baby sit their kid for a month while he fucked a mormon cokewhore, she might have been a little less eager to squeeze his scrote in the waffle maker and might have settled for the $350/mo in child support and some token alimony.
(Also if he hadn't held her passport and deliberately fucked with her resident application, the Judge probably wouldn't have destroyed him on allimony. He also might not have needed to shell out for the legal representative for their kid)

IF he had not chased wall-hitting BPD pussy, he'd still be doing pills and box wine and making 6 figures.

DO NOT STICK YOUR DICK IN CRAZY

 

[Mr. Boogedy]

The only good thing to come from the Danganronpa LP was the guy who went to an anime convention dressed as the paywall

 

[Pissmaster]

Barnacle Jim is dead...

Could SA be far behind?

No, but Lowtax was just a year and change away lmao

 

[Something Awful]

 

[Fish Boss]

some body asked for teh details on the fundraiser since goons have a v good track record of not getting scammmed. theyt are not taking it well

how dare u ask about smthing normal liek a trust fund so the kids money doesnt disappear

 

[Trip Chesterton III]

Goons really are just the dumbest fucking creatures

 

[Fictional Character]

Hey, I'm sure a woman who married Lowtax is responsible enough to not immediately blow through 90k dollars.

 

[repentance]

Hey, I'm sure a woman who married Lowtax is responsible enough to not immediately blow through 90k dollars.

Jeffrey claims that during negotiations for the purchase of SA, Lowtax told him that he had turned down an offer of $13,000,000 in 2006. lol

 

[Dyn]

Jeffrey claims that during negotiations for the purchase of SA, Lowtax told him that he had turned down an offer of $13,000,000 in 2006. lol

Like having $13m would have changed his story any. We'd just be dunking on him for abandoning his pet tigers and mail-order sex slaves and maybe a third and fourth family when he shot himself.

 

[repentance]

Like having $13m would have changed his story any. We'd just be dunking on him for abandoning his pet tigers and mail-order sex slaves and maybe a third and fourth family when he shot himself.

And he would have leased a Lambo instead of a GTR.

What he would not have done is used that money to set up a passive income stream while he learned some marketable skills.

 

[Dyn]

And he would have leased a Lambo instead of a GTR.

What he would not have done used that money to set up a passive income stream while he learned some marketable skills.

And no matter how much money Lowtax made he still would have been addicted to garbage middle class drugs like gabapentin and ambien.

 

[Ghostse]

Like having $13m would have changed his story any. We'd just be dunking on him for abandoning his pet tigers and mail-order sex slaves and maybe a third and fourth family when he shot himself.

He might have OD'd

 

[Fish Boss]

Goons really are just the dumbest fucking creatures

the one doing the gfm replyed w/ details about how the trust will be set up and now the ppl mad that he asked aboutit are 'oh wow good idea want to make sure u dont get screwd over'

it cant be more transparently obvious that goons are only donating to feel better about themselves and they dont actually care about the moneyt getting to the kids

 

[White Devil]

I 100% hope goons are getting fleeced and robbed of their HRT money.

 

[Hybrid Icing]

Jeffrey claims that during negotiations for the purchase of SA, Lowtax told him that he had turned down an offer of $13,000,000 in 2006. lol

In 2006, he could've taken that money, paid taxes on the gain, put the rest into 100% safe 30-year Treasury bonds paying 4.8% (at that time), and locked in passive income of over $400,000 a year. Instead he... did whatever the fuck he did in 2006. Nothing I guess.

And it looks like (though he doesn't confirm it directly) Jeffrey bought the site for $200k.

 

[Frank N Berry]

Jeffrey claims that during negotiations for the purchase of SA, Lowtax told him that he had turned down an offer of $13,000,000 in 2006. lol

“But they wanted me to pick up a pen and sign my name on a contract. That’s a lot of effort. I don’t know if I have a pen. I might have been required to get off my couch even.

I said no thanks, I’ll just keep the passive income.”

 

[White Devil]

And it looks like (though he doesn't confirm it directly) Jeffrey bought the site for $200k.

Thought Family Court revealed the sale was $450,000.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

“But they wanted me to pick up a pen and sign my name on a contract. That’s a lot of effort. I don’t know if I have a pen. I might have been required to get off my couch even.

I said no thanks, I’ll just keep the passive income.”

As long as he owned SA he could pretend he had a job even while doing absolutely nothing. It gave him an audience to pitch his ideas to when he was sober/manic, even though he'd become intoxicated/depressed before he could even get started on any of them. Like SA beer, lol. Plus goons love to throw their money at stupid causes, so lowtax could always invent some tragedy along with blatant lies about his finances to scam more money.

Without SA he'd just be a boring nobody who used to own some forums and couldn't use his clout to get involved with other things like rifftrax or groom goon"ettes".

 

[eternal dog mongler]

how dare u ask about smthing normal liek a trust fund so the kids money doesnt disappear

Hell I'm sure a lot of goons are in special needs trusts already so they should be familiar with this shit.

 

[Caesare]

the reason that everyone sided with him every time is because people hate women. Women hate women.

No, that's not it. A lot of men, I won't say most cuz I don't know most men, love women, cherish their wives or their chick, and vice versa. It's silly to make an assumption like that based on Something Awful users taking lowtax's side, cuz "men hate women" because there weren't any actual men on that site.

The entire site consisted of total rejects, hyper nerds who definitely got their asses kicked by the other, more traditional nerds in school. Something Awful was a site that was absolutely loaded with the biggest rejects of their generation.

Never before have I witnessed lameness in such a large concentration anywhere else, either on or offline. I doubt we will ever see something like that again in our lifetimes, so many offensive looking losers in one place.

Of course they despised women. Why wouldn't they? The rejection they must've faced from women at every step of the way their entire lives was legendary.

And not just rejection, think of the ridicule they received from girls and women. The embarrassment. The yearning mixed with hatred. That's why they looked up to and defended lowtax after every abusive relationship. He was their idol, he was King Nerd of all the other nerd rejects of SA.

He succeeded with his shitty, wannabe edgy, early 2000s internet humor where nothing was sacred, everything deserved derision and mockery, and life was a big, irony-filled, random access humor, attack on everyone and everything that hurt him and his doofus users. He got wealthy doing this on his shitty website, and had a small army of users who ate it up.

Only he was never funny. He didn't need to be. He attacked the right targets and gave the users the ability to do the same, largely unchecked, for years on his website and he even convinced them to pay for this privilege.

But get it straight, these were never men. These were nerds who despised actual men because men possessed all the things that they wanted. Men were everything they wished they were, only they lacked the social skills, the brains, and the physicality to be the same as actual men.

I know, I saw the pictures from the Something Awful doxing thread where a ton of the users pictures were leaked. These people were extraordinarily ugly in a way that repulsed me to my very core. And these were just the people who had actually put pictures of themselves out there, imagine what the ones who knew better than to show their faces looked like.

Yeah, they hated women. They simultaneously desired and hated them but could never quite convince one to actually date them. After years of trying and failing, they took the next logical step that an ugly, misogynist, nerdy loser would take: they attempted to become the woman they couldn't attract as a pitiful male specimen- they all became horrifying trannies who are 10x scarier and uglier looking than when they presented as males.

Of course, as everyone would expect, they fail at this too. They are less women and more a kind of mockery of a woman. A terrifying caricature of what they think of women. Hence why they dress like sluts most of the time. They dress not like any real teenage girl would dress, but how they've always fantasized how a teenage girl dressed in their disgusting and perverted adult minds.

They always wear inappropriate clothing, sort of like a horrifying combination of childish and whorish, because they all stopped developing mentally as teenagers themselves. They'll wear something along the lines of stripper high heels with a skirt, and like a pink rainbow bright tee shirt. Both childlike but also decidedly grown up and promiscuous. A melange of creepy, inappropriate attire dreamed up by a disgusting, highly damaged, male mind.

But it's inaccurate to compare your average man to these failures. There are psychopaths who hurt women, of course. Though they hurt other men too on occasion but women take the brunt due to proximity, somehow these kind of men will able to at least attract one woman insane or naive enough to think she'll be the one to change him.

Regular guys don't hate women. Some of them may hate their ex-wives for being particularly disgusting individuals and behaving awfully during and after the relationship, but this rarely extends to all women.

Most non-mentally ill people can differentiate between a person they despise and everyone else who share as mundane a trait as gender with that individual.