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"

Jeff_the_Thriller said:
That dead egged cunt void burger is probably dancing on his grave. I know a lot of users here are doing that too but I was as much of a fan as one could stand of lowtax until the end. I was hoping he could get his shit together but after he sold the site, I knew it was over. I thought Gaming Garbage was still funny, expect when he would go on whiny rants about how much his life sucks and 'woe is me'. His podcast 'Murder the Internet' was funny as fuck. It was two pill popping drunks rambling at each other about nonsensical bullshit. But again, that was far too much hassle for Rich. I'm in the minority here as an actual fan but this confirms that if you cross the troon mafia, you either flee the country or join the 41%.
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You can see for yourself

I mean maybe. If you are still a fan of Lowtax after the Mangosteen post, I'm going to wonder if you have enough IQ to read.
 
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Pissmaster said:
I think I had more fun in this thread over the past week than anything ever on the Something Awful forums, even back when they were kinda good
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I'd like to know more about where the regulars are. People like Sarah Butts had their own threads but guys like Zack Parsons and David Thorpe, I wonder what happened to them. There were a handful of normal people in there from what I rememeber.
 
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Ghostse said:
You can see for yourself

I mean maybe. If you are still a fan of Lowtax after the Mangosteen post, I'm going to wonder if you have enough IQ to read.
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During Mangosteengate I was drinking as much as lowtax and it flew under my radar. That is to say my radar wasn't even on. I know when news first broke here I saw a lot of people shitting on him in a non-teehee way. I guess I missed a couple of stages of the internet famous grieving process.

I haven't really paid much attention since the suicide but it's pretty fucked that he got more love on the forum that he blamed for his downfall more than his former friends. I knew Slowbeef was a piece of shit but I didn't realize what a back stabbing cunt he was.
 
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We even talked about how him becoming an hero would NOT be good for his kids and you know he read this. Ok, buddy.

I didn't hate Lowtax or even dislike him until he started posting about having his wife charged with KIDNAPPING on his Facebook. I'd followed SA since 2000 and thought he was kind of funny sometimes tho corny dad jokes and him blowing up over stupid shit was even more reason to stick around for those laughs. I liked the site but didn't want to spend tenbux on a forum so someone eventually gifted me an account. When Lowtax got banned off twitter it was kind of like when your parents joined FB even though he wasn't that much older than me. Some girl goons on FB were saying don't add him because he's creepy and will creep on your friends as well (and they were right), but my account mostly has internet people on it and I could comment on his statuses so I kept him on for the fun... until it wasn't fun.

I didn't know about the police reports with Megan. I'm sure they were posted around the time of the divorce and mods covered it up. She didn't push the matter. Dude literally came up on my feed with MY WIFE STOLE MY MONEY AND KIDNAPPED MY DAUGHTER AND I'M GOING TO GET HER DEPORTED AND DENIED CUSTODY AND SHE'LL NEVER SEE OUR KID AGAIN. Like how much clearer could his intentions be? So I made a new KF account and started posting.
 
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Sabrina said:
We even talked about how him becoming an hero would NOT be good for his kids and you know he read this. Ok, buddy.

I didn't hate Lowtax or even dislike him until he started posting about having his wife charged with KIDNAPPING on his Facebook. I'd followed SA since 2000 and thought he was kind of funny sometimes tho corny dad jokes and him blowing up over stupid shit was even more reason to stick around for those laughs. I liked the site but didn't want to spend tenbux on a forum so someone eventually gifted me an account. When Lowtax got banned off twitter it was kind of like when your parents joined FB even though he wasn't that much older than me. Some girl goons on FB were saying don't add him because he's creepy and will creep on your friends as well (and they were right), but my account mostly has internet people on it and I could comment on his statuses so I kept him on for the fun... until it wasn't fun.

I didn't know about the police reports with Megan. I'm sure they were posted around the time of the divorce and mods covered it up. She didn't push the matter. Dude literally came up on my feed with MY WIFE STOLE MY MONEY AND KIDNAPPED MY DAUGHTER AND I'M GOING TO GET HER DEPORTED AND DENIED CUSTODY AND SHE'LL NEVER SEE OUR KID AGAIN. Like how much clearer could his intentions be? So I made a new KF account and started posting.
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Until he started fucking up his kids life I hate "Lowtax" - that is the internet persona. The lazy pill-popping mangosteen slinger and his cadre of moronic sycophants. He was up SA and it was infuriating to watch him shit on all the things life was just dropping in his lap, but didn't bear him any ill-will outside of the internet. I am friendly with real people who are almost as dumb with their life choices, just the scale is different.

Around the time of the Shmorky allegations coming out, I started to dislike not just Lowtax but also dislike Richard Kyanka, as in the person and not just an internet post, and that solidified when Maple Wife Story Complete began.


something awful eat the bullet.
 
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Jeff_the_Thriller said:
That dead egged cunt void burger is probably dancing on his grave. I know a lot of users here are doing that too but I was as much of a fan as one could stand of lowtax until the end. I was hoping he could get his shit together but after he sold the site, I knew it was over. I thought Gaming Garbage was still funny, expect when he would go on whiny rants about how much his life sucks and 'woe is me'. His podcast 'Murder the Internet' was funny as fuck. It was two pill popping drunks rambling at each other about nonsensical bullshit. But again, that was far too much hassle for Rich. I'm in the minority here as an actual fan but this confirms that if you cross the troon mafia, you either flee the country or join the 41%.
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troons seem to be really unhappy and tend to drag everyone down with them. maybe they should, oh i dunno, GO BACK TO AFRICA????
 
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here lies lowtax, he never scored
bested by jeff, with his crypto hoard
last words were given to a discord tranny
another angling to be a pedo janny

richard took his own advice
"FYAD", which he closed twice
unable to bear the pain of supporting his child
with his five-seven he went wild

his neck he milked for prescriptions
to feed his demons and addictions
a drug addict, "i am protected"
yet no child left unneglected

he had a green money printing machine
and yet all he loved was mangosteen
his failures, too many to list
his presence will not be missed

dear richard, wrote many a goon
now they're troons in communes
ban the user, close the thread
goodbye you faggot, I'm glad you're dead
 
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It baffles me that people are upset at Lowtax for "squandering internet fame/wealth."

Allow me to explain: (IN THIS ESSAY LOL
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The reason Lowtax had internet fame/wealth is AUTHENTICITY. Authenticity is a basic required trait of any art. That's why those posters of Lamborghinis at Walmart you used to buy when you were 10 years old were shit, but the Mona Lisa is considered priceless. The posters are not authentic, they're mass producible. The original oil painting is not mass producible, there's only one of them. Its rarity and the conditions of its creation confer value to it.

Lowtax was nothing if not authentic. He wasn't just pretending to make fun of Internet spergs, he was an internet sperg. He wasn't just selling a mirror for the spergs to look at themselves in, he showed up at the airport to pick up a girl and found a dozen 90 and 290 pound spergs sitting there waiting on him... with a video camera! The reason he had internet fame is it wasn't an act put on by corporate stooges looking for ad money, it was legit.

It doesn't matter whether or not people understand these concepts enough to explain them, the concepts still resonate even with people who don't understand them. This has all been well studied over the past couple of centuries and written about ad infinitum. The same thing goes for literary genres that re-occur in newer mediums like movies and popular music and internet stream bullshit. People don't have to know why a vampire story is an inversion of a medieval romance with a sexual component involving the monster. They don't have to know who Bram Stoker is or that he wrote the first one. Everyone else knows, and people follow herds, so we'll all be influenced by the genre even without knowing what it is.

“I didn’t really care for any of this, my brothers. ‘And what will you do,’ I said, ‘with the big big big deng or money as you so highfaluting call it? Have you not every veshch you need? If you need an auto you pluck it from the trees. If you need pretty polly you take it. Yes? Why this sudden shilarny for being the big bloated capitalist?’

Excerpt From: Anthony Burgess. “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text).”
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If Lowtax had sold his forum and lived happily ever after with his 13 mil, he wouldn't be Lowtax. That was never going to happen. If it were, he wouldn't have had the forum, because his inauthenticity would have prevented him from having that audience in the first place.
 
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ForgottenUserName said:
Fuck, I forgot those looked so generic. Like everything SA, it's half-assed.
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TheSockiestSock said:
That’s the IMPROVED design you should see what they looked like originally View attachment 2723635
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This was such a Doobie tier example of Goon overthinking ruining everything.

The original idea was beautiful in it's simplicity:
CITY NAME
SPORTS TEAM
in white letters on a black background. Prime ironic t-shirt material.

Of course Goon crowd design made it "better" with a "clever" logo, "funny" mashup of a baseball and football and basketball and flames and a colored jersey. They over thought it and ruined the concept.
 
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BobbyBriggs69420 said:
the wood-panelling apartment landlord has sent jannies to remove dickard's last post from his wall (and ceiling) my question is what do they charge for that sort of thing?
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I don’t know how much it costs but it is an industry Lowtax could have easily found gainful employment in if he had chosen. There’s always people dying and others who have to clean up where they died.
 
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