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 wonder how many of his articles are true vs shit he fabricated for content. For instance, the Ultimate Warrior responding to criticism by calling up Lowtax's father Richard Kyanka Sr with crazy threats. I can see Warrior reacting like that, but after all the lies who really knows.
 
The only thing Kurt Cobain and Lowtax have in common is they were drug users who commited suicide. Lowtax was a trust fund kid, Cobain lived in poverty for most of his teenage and young adult life. Before hitting it big he toured for half a decade making little to no money sleeping in cars. Kurt had talent and toured endlessly which paid off Lowtax lucked into having a popular website at the perfect point in time. Kurt worked for his success Lowtax was handed it randomly.
 
So while he's lionized far beyond his talent, Dave Grohl was the better musical talent in every way, and if Courtney hadn't kill him he'd not be as fondly remembered (and probably have trooned/fagged out by now), unlike Lowtax he did have some skill & talent.
Yeah that's fair I can live with that

2023 Cobain with twitter would be the most fucking annoying thing I can think of. Playing Smell Like Biden Spirit and shit because of Orange Man Bad. "When I wrote Rape Me I was thinking about Trump!!"
 
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The only thing Kurt Cobain and Lowtax have in common is they were drug users who commited suicide. Lowtax was a trust fund kid, Cobain lived in poverty for most of his teenage and young adult life. Before hitting it big he toured for half a decade making little to no money sleeping in cars. Kurt had talent and toured endlessly which paid off Lowtax lucked into having a popular website at the perfect point in time. Kurt worked for his success Lowtax was handed it randomly.
and kurdt was killed on behalf of his wife.
 
and kurdt was killed on behalf of his wife.
Not to go too off topic but it's honestly more likely he just killed himself. Kurt had a long history of depression, had a previous suicide attempt in Rome, said in several interviews he's been suicidal in the past and self medicated with heroin which he became severely addicted to making his life living hell. He hated the band he was in and was sick of touring but had to contractually, was a slave to drugs and on the verge of a divorce with Courtney who was threatening to take away his kid forever plus half his shit. His life was spiraling out of control and he had quite a few reasons to kill himself.
 
Yeah that's fair I can live with that

2023 Cobain with twitter would be the most fucking annoying thing I can think of. Playing Smell Like Biden Spirit and shit because of Orange Man Bad. "When I wrote Rape Me I was thinking about Trump!!"
This basically exists and it's an entire band called Rage Against the Machine
 
Watching the front man shill for Disney of all companies should tell you all you need to know about their actual politics.
Oh they'll happily tell you all about it themselves lol. The guitarist Tom Morello is a massive politisperg and borderline lolcow, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them had threads here.
 
Oh they'll happily tell you all about it themselves lol. The guitarist Tom Morello is a massive politisperg and borderline lolcow, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them had threads here.

What I mean is they blast capitalism and "racist white society" then for free shill for Disney and other corpos with zero introspection.

Day of the rope can't come soon enough.
 
What I mean is they blast capitalism and "racist white society" then for free shill for Disney and other corpos with zero introspection.

Day of the rope can't come soon enough.
I lost patience with them when they started telling people to get vaccinated.

Talk about going from "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" to "Fuck you, do what you're told."

Of course, comparing Lowtax to Kurt Cobain means that Logan is Courtney Love, which actually fits really well. When addicts meet BPD nightmares someone is getting their brains spread all over the wall sooner or later.
 
Goons also being the sorts who fall for any BPD case's explanation for anything didn't help. Lowtax should have known better seeing how the average goon went utterly nuts about defending Zoe Quinn's goonette honor across the internet.

I'm going to give the goons a sort-of pass on that one. See, no one believed Maplewife because that shit came out of nowhere. No Mods were ready to try to start an overthrow. Koala's Mooch was the only one with the gumption and she got dropped then murked. But the mods never forgot, or forgot how Lowtax was vulnerable after the FYAD affair. So when the Bogan shit dropped, Jeff-o was ready to with his long knife sharpened to take down Lord Ambien.
 
I could be wrong but goons didn't even really give a fuck that he was slapping around his wives like a businessman in a 50's sitcom? If I recall his Patreon went to shit after he nuked FYAD and not after the abuse shit came out right?
They still don't give a shit. He's been doing shit like that for like a full decade and admins/mods were keeping it silenced, for free.

They only cared when they realized this was a chance to get him off the site and to get the site into someone else's hands. Jeffrey of YOSPOS who was absolutely going to bring SA back to it's former glory (but don't ask how it's going).
 
I could be wrong but goons didn't even really give a fuck that he was slapping around his wives like a businessman in a 50's sitcom? If I recall his Patreon went to shit after he nuked FYAD and not after the abuse shit came out right?

It dropped a bit when shit came out. At peak he was doing something like $15,000/mo at peak and by the time Maple Wife Story Complete dropped it had melted down to ~$11,000 and in the aftermath of that it dipped below $10,000.
edit: Looking up some old posts, Lowtax beat his girlfriend was afflicted with sweaty toes in 2020. He started the year at $9500/mo, that had melted to a little above $8000/mo when the Big "Yikes!" Heard Round the World happened, and he ended the year making $385/mo

Granted that could also be less because he was (emotionally) abusing his wife, forcing her into a women's shelter, and publishing the location of one of their safehouses and more because it came out that his poverty sobbing was shown to be fake.

It wasn't nuking FYAD that caused his patreon to shit itself, it was his walking back on cancelling FYAD that made the troons turn on him and pull their troonbux.
 
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What I mean is they blast capitalism and "racist white society" then for free shill for Disney and other corpos with zero introspection.

Day of the rope can't come soon enough.
Dude. I was literally just thinking about this 15 minutes ago in the shower, not about goons but about the left in general. I cannot comprehend this world anymore. Saklas and his archon army are really running ideas for the plotline to this shitshow. I am losing my mind with the world around me.

A parallel on the right is right-wingers hating the government but absolutely loving, fetishizing every military goon (most military people will tell you, the military is just a shit job with way more fucking drama and personal human corruption and nepotism). Respond how you want to this but just look at what UK cops are. American cops would be happy to act the same ways if that's what's demanded of them.
 
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The only thing Kurt Cobain and Lowtax have in common is they were drug users who commited suicide. Lowtax was a trust fund kid, Cobain lived in poverty for most of his teenage and young adult life. Before hitting it big he toured for half a decade making little to no money sleeping in cars. Kurt had talent and toured endlessly which paid off Lowtax lucked into having a popular website at the perfect point in time. Kurt worked for his success Lowtax was handed it randomly.
Also, Kurt never really wanted to be a superstar - Just be able to live off his music. He was more than glad for the huge income that his mainstream success brought, but simply couldn't handle the pressure and the downsides of overnight fame, like constant media exposure and obnoxious fan hounding. Furthermore, he was no slouch when singing and playing the guitar, and was actually willing to pursue new artistic directions (for example, according to Michael Stipe of REM, he grew fond of more polished techniques and intended to incorporate full-string sections in future recordings). And as mentioned, he used his newfound fame and influence to shed some light on bands he admired. Most of us would have never heard of stuff like The Melvins, Mudhoney, Shonen Knife and Daniel Johnston if it weren't for him.

On the other hand, Lowtax wanted all the perks of fame and fortune without the effort to keep the gravy train going. He really fell into the trap of "what worked once will keep working again and again forevermore" and that people would automatically respect him just for inventing the virtual hangout they used on a daily basis. And even if he did sell Something Awful for a bajillion dollars like he was offered back in the day, you can be sure he'd waste it all anyway. Dude was notoriously terrible with his personal finances as well.

If it weren't for him being a trust fund baby and Something Awful, Lowtax would be your average wagie flipping burgers in some joint or cleaning bathrooms in decadent strip malls, living paycheck from paycheck and complaining about his situation. Kurt Cobain almost went this way.
 
Stop calling that manchild the 'Kurt Cobain of the Internet'.

Cobain took his meager talent to new heights. Lowtax was elevated by others only to fall from grace.
Cobain was disowned by his family. Lowtax was coddled and supported by his, until his mother's death.
Cobain was sickened and haunted by his addictions and relationships. Lowtax celebrated, no, REVELED in them.
... can continue ad naseum...

Lowtax was a selfish turd, in the right place at the right time. Nothing more.
An unskilled, maniacal narcissist. The worst of 'comedians'.
Unable to cash in each and every Golden Ticket handed to him.
Because he expected others to do it for him.

The only thing extraordinary about Lowtax and SA was the technology and Age in which he lived.

Rest in Shit.
So, Bizarro Cobain?
 
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