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"

I remember glancing at the SA front page a few weeks after Jeffrey bought SA out of curiosity over what he'd do with it, and being a little disappointed that he did absolutely nothing. No redesign, no announcements, no new articles, literally nothing.

I check it today, and I see exactly one difference; Jeffrey finally changed the "copyright Lowtax" text at the bottom of the page to "copyright Jeffrey".
There is no motivation at this point to seriously change the site. The site is largely dead in terms of outside value, its user base is made up of some of the biggest retards on the planet, and any change that is attempted will just lead to more complaints down the road.
 
Tenbux says that Jeffrey will try to shill a semi-obscure fruit at some point and have a similar meltdown to the mangosteen incident. The real question is what fruit? My bets are lychee, dragon fruit, or rambutan.
I'm going with pomegranates. Just so he can have a callback to SA's first real "troll": Mark "Keep It Real" Pomerantz aka Poopy Marc
 
does anyone else enjoy beating the dead horse that's lowtax as much as I do?
Yes! Because he was the most arrogant asshole on the planet and would ban people on a lark, essentially robbing them, whilst living a life of opulence. Later on, he had a hysterical downfall complete with rapid aging, and a picture of him rubbing a woman's foot on his face. He ended up committing suicide at 45, not even outliving the politician/murderer he named himself after.

There wasn't a single shred of Lowtax's being that wasn't contemptable. He was an awful person all around, and the handful of scattered goons that paid respects and acted sad were people he knew at least 20 years ago, that he hadn't had the opportunity to screw over.

There are SO MANY different stories about horrible people pulling shit and just getting away with it, or winding up with completely unsatisfying punishments, only to go right back to doing what they do. KF has countless examples. But Lowtax? Lowtax is a perfect tale. He finally killed himself. He's gone for good. We finally got a satisfying tale of comeuppance for a genuinely horrible person. And that situation is so fucking rare that we're still relishing in it 7 months later. He was so maligned, his suicide brought people together across political and cultural bounds, at the most contentious time of our lives, to dance on his grave.

It's just too bad he didn't shoot himself on livestream. If I knew for sure he was gonna kill himself, I'd have fully expected a livestream.
 
KF has countless examples. But Lowtax? Lowtax is a perfect tale. He finally killed himself. He's gone for good.
Lowtax is one of the few suicides with a thread here who there's at least a tortured argument for blaming on the Farms. But nobody would, because the propaganda value would be zero.

People would say "the Farms killed Richard Kyanka, one of the visionaries of Web 1.0."

And anyone who even knew who Kyanka was would nod sagely and say "Good."
 
I heard if u say mangosteen into the mirror three times at midnight, lowtax' ghost appears behind u

does anyone else enjoy beating the dead horse that's lowtax as much as I do?

Don't count me out! I hope this thread stays open until November 11, 2022, when I'll figure out some way to pour out 40oz of mangosteen juice and commemorate Lowtax's useless existence. Couldn't have happened to a "better" guy.

There once was a man from Missouri
Whose forum got large in a hurry
So he beat up his wife
And fucked trannies in spite
Then melted his brains into purée.

There once was a man from Missouri
Whose spine was crumbled like a slurry
Popping Ambien and wine
"Online and Feeling Fine"
Then he blew off his face, wasn't sorry

There once was a man from Missouri
Who couldn't keep his DVs hush-hush,
Richart said that he'd lose
And Tax growled "FUCKING GOONS!"
Then blasted his skull into mush.
 
This thread makes me hopeful that after Chris's death there will be active forums about him. Six months since Novemeber.
There'll be plenty of Chris threads after he dies. Threads about calls to the hospital, threads about calls to the coroner, threads about calls to the funeral home, threads about visiting his grave, threads about defacing his grave, threads about digging him up, threads about putting him back, threads about trying to find his new grave, threads about people getting arrested for digging him up, it'll be a very exciting time.
 
And while we're on the subject of Lowtax parodies... this goes to the tune of Hotel California.

In the dim, dark beforetimes
Before Twitter and Twitch
Was an internet forum
Where they made you their bitch
10 bucks for an account
Unless it was a gift
And you'd just get banned anyway, what's the point
T'was a wonderful grift

Twenty years he did nothing
While making thousands apiece
2020 rolled over
And he disturbed the peace
When the goons found out about
His abuse and DVs
They jumped ship, left him behind
With his spine and broke knees

Lowtax, you're a druggie deadbeat addict
Your life was meaningless (Meaningless)
And you died penniless
If you told me back in '02 "Señor Lowtax"
Would die a broken mess
I would never guess

He went from writing at Doom sites,
To running SA for years
I think we all know what happened
He preyed on our worst fears
Then he hired a dumbass
Code monkey named Radium
Who broke the search even worse
I didn't know it could happen then

He sued Ashli in '20,
"Get my superlawyer here",
And lo and behold R. Scott Richart did appear
But on November 11th ('21)
Richart said he'd lose instead
And he had nothing left to do
But purée his own head

Lowtax, you're a goddamn Ambien junkie,
Popping all those pills (popping all those pills)
Catching all those skills (catching all those skills)
Twenty years of running the SA forums,
Yet you need Wordpress
Your skills ain't the best

His brains painted the ceiling
His corpse got packed in ice
His life ended, a footnote
Of the early 'Net times
Then his wages were garnished
Ashes put in an urn
His mom died a few months later
I guess she felt the burn

"Catch you all on the flip side"
Were his last words, indeed
For the once mighty Lowtax
Was an emblem of greed
Because when it was serious
When his lies were revealed
He could never face the music
He would never be healed
 
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Watching all 6 1/2 hours of his last stream. Remember when he was so drunk he said "smooth as a bovine" and nearly puked, again? Ah, good times.




Also found a new contender for the Photoshopped photos of his gun. I'd do it myself but I suck at Photoshop.

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That's some bright light. And what was the song he played at the very beginning of the stream, anyway?
 
Watching all 6 1/2 hours of his last stream. Remember when he was so drunk he said "smooth as a bovine" and nearly puked, again? Ah, good times.


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Also found a new contender for the Photoshopped photos of his gun. I'd do it myself but I suck at Photoshop.

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That's some bright light. And what was the song he played at the very beginning of the stream, anyway?
Do you have a dump of the full stream? It got pulled from his YouTube channel because he watched a movie
 
Watching all 6 1/2 hours of his last stream. Remember when he was so drunk he said "smooth as a bovine" and nearly puked, again? Ah, good times.


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Also found a new contender for the Photoshopped photos of his gun. I'd do it myself but I suck at Photoshop.

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That's some bright light. And what was the song he played at the very beginning of the stream, anyway?
Say what you will about Rich, the man had good taste in boomer fuel. Rockstar lemonade is pretty good.
 
A couple years ago Lowtax tried to stream with Lauren. At one point he leaves to get something and Lauren has to entertain the viewers. When he come back he starts to have an emotional breakdown about a co-worker who was an addict that died. Here's a post with a breakdown and timestamps.

Turns out I'm retarded and messed up some details. He found some old pictures and started talking about a friend who died from abusing drugs, including Ambien, and Lauren didn't completely leave the room until the end. However, the stream is still up on YouTube, with even the Live Chat still available.

As penance, I've timestamped the main events of the video. Even if you don't want to watch it, I highly recommend watching the last two minutes. All my attempts to clip it out failed, sorry.
19:00 - Lauren doesn't know why Lowtax never told her that he went to college, doesn't believe him when he says he did. Lowtax leaves the room to get proof.

25:00 - Lauren calls for Lowtax, he doesn't respond

27:50 - Lauren goes to check on Lowtax, says he fell asleep on the toilet

29:30 - Lowtax finally returns, brought back a photo album. He sounds pretty tired.

32:30 - Lowtax talks about working at Voodoo eXtreme, owned by Billy "Wicked" Wilson. Billy was a massive addict, did a lot of uppers.

34:50 - Lauren begins to look visibly uncomfortable

38:40 - Lauren leaves to go to the restroom

40:30 - Lowtax goes back to talking about Billy Wilson, accidentally calls him "Villy Voodoo Wilson"

41:00 - "I was basically in the position to do the clean-up when [Billy] had taken his Ambien, and alcohol, and other drugs, and written nonsensical posts at 3AM." Lowtax talks about taking care of Billy during Billy's drug-related episodes.

42:40 - Lowtax reads a letter he wrote for Billy that he never go to deliver, because Billy died very shortly after. It's actually a heartfelt letter.

43:30 - Lowtax begins crying. He talks about wanting to help Billy and try to prevent what happened, you can tell he's really fucked up over what happened and laments that he couldn't do anything ultimately. This is also pretty genuine and you can tell just by his voice and body language.

44:40 - Someone in chat jokes or asks "drunk already?"

47:00 - Lauren returns. Watch another minute or two to get a feeling for Lauren's body language. The next 8-ish minutes are Lowtax talking about how shit the video game industry.

56:42 - Lowtax starts up a game after nearly half an hour

1:10:30 - Lowtax has Lauren play some YanSim clone, leaves the room again

1:11:20 - Lauren follows Lowtax and says "I don't want to a livestream" (not sure). Lowtax suggests she play another one, Lauren sounds upset. They come back in and I can't understand what Lauren is saying, but she's whispering. Lowtax goes on about playing a really awesome game. Lauren leaves the room, stream ends abruptly.

The next stream isn't until March 29.
It's still so unfortunate to watch, and I feel bad that Lauren had to sit through it all.

Was this the final stream with Lauren?
 
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