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"

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Sharzod_the_Boov said:
Way late, ultra gay.

I have a weird perspective, I’m about LT’s age and I never knew about him or was very online with any board scene in the 00’s-10’s. Most I heard about him was the Shmorky stream and the Logan Day interview. 100% newfag/Gen-Xer.

It seems to me that @Null has taken the proper lesson from Mr. Kayanka and numerous exceptional online individuals and is actively taking steps to not fall into these traps.
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I don't think it really dawned on any of us until after CWC that Lowtax really exhibits all the characteristics of a lolcow. Excessive narcissism, a detachment from reality, and empowerment from a persistent base. Obviously no one on SA at the time would have stopped and put a mirror in front of the big bad ban man, but Chris was something new for them.
 
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BiggerChungus said:
Why do some people hate Lowtax so much? Maybe I don't know enough but he never struck me as an especially malicious cow.
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He literally spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on hookers and videogames in an effort to rob his children of their future, but the judge saw through it and just said "weeeeell, I guess we'll have to garnish 90% of your wages for the next 50 years then", thus leading to the most hilariously pathetic suicide motivation in history.
 
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I’m an SA oldfag that left the forums long before the Troubles came about. I loved the community and the genuinely new and exciting things that were going on in the fledgling days of the Internet 1.0

I just never liked that fucking Rich Kyanka guy. Even when I was an impressionable, idiot teenager at the turn of the millennium that easily latched onto any dominant internet personality around at the time (mostly through Fark.com). I even liked Maddox, for Christ’s sake.

But Lowtax was just never funny. My first experiences of him were him begging for people to click banners for ad revenue, threatening to have to close the site and vacillating between pompous bravado and “cheese monkey” random-access humor.

Something Awful was built on the backs of talented people orbiting around a lazy, unfunny turd that didn’t deserve his success even before he was discovered to be a drug-addled wife-beater. That he killed himself is just a testament to a pathetic, petty life that accidentally found itself some worth through happenstance and plain old fucking luck.

Bye, Richard
 
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Shaka Brah said:
They had 95,000 of it or something. Not the whole amount.

I can't imagine this being too different from Current Year SA to be honest. Conde Nast buying it might actually have been funnier in the long term.
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yeah, but from Jeffs perspective, they probably would not have let it be mismanaged to the point that a loser like him got to be in charge of anything.
 
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Trip Chesterton III said:
yeah, but from Jeffs perspective, they probably would not have let it be mismanaged to the point that a loser like him got to be in charge of anything.
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My point was more that he had to pay extra into escrow on top of what the court already had, at least as far as I'm aware.
 
I wonder what type of pills he was on.

I remember using SA for one month back in 2002 or so to talk about weed I think, can’t remember

Right off the bat from watching his last video he had severe damage to his nervous system from alcohol and drug abuse. Twitchy movement, stuttering and impaired motor function, reminds you of punch drunk Parkinson’s early onset symptoms.
I can’t really criticize him in a lolcow way because I don’t really know what he’s like, but I know enough about pills and booze to know that it’s driving force behind his suicide, you can’t outsmart your way out of the intoxicating effects of alcohol and pills. Once you mix those two things your super fucked because once the high kicks in you either want to drink more or pop more pills, and before you know it you black out and die, or end up behind bars
 
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RodneyStark said:
Right off the bat from watching his last video he had severe damage to his nervous system from alcohol and drug abuse. Twitchy movement, stuttering and impaired motor function,
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That guy was off his fucking nut in that last video on Gaming Garbage. Granted, I had not seen Lowtax in any form of media since ‘Doom House’, but as a life long dirtbag myself, I recognize the signs of someone who his suffering from some serious peak mania/chemical high. Probably both.

Lowtax probably iced himself at the absolute crash from a manic episode into total oblivion on top of having to face the responsibilities of his past actions like an adult.
 
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plattschwanz said:
Hellchick, co-worker of Lowtax when he worked for PlanetQuake, posted a tiny message about it on her twitter too.

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Here's also the rest of what that Buecheler guy wrote, it's somewhat interesting, I like that part about the loaded gun in the dresser.

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The thing is, he's 100% wrong.

No one gave a shit what his boss wanted (but him). No one cared about how many ads PlanetQuake sold. GameSpy put a ton of money and effort into all sorts of shit that ultimately failed. They bought RogerWilco (inferior to Teamspeak and Ventrilo, the precursors to Discord), they bought a bunch of streaming sites and then shut them down when the Napster brouhaha landed, They bought into hosting game servers when the bulk of the gaming public was mad about corporations trying to take over hosting game servers, and they were all offline by the mid 2010s. My memory of the Planet(xyz) sites from that era were the plethora of OTHER sites from that era that came online and ultimately thrived (whether or not they made money) because of the corporate shitbaggery of GameSpy and whoever owned them at the time drove people to quit the Planet(xyz) forum sites and start their own.

Lowtax was right, the internet wants drama, not corporate bullshit. All those guys trying to make their boss happy have been trying to make their boss happy for 25 years and getting peanuts for it. Lowtax did jack shit but run a forum that advertised "degenerates welcome here!" and he had 13 mil on the table, which that guy in those tweets will never see.

So even by that guy's metric (turning words on the internet into money), Lowtax won and he lost.
 
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