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"

[Twinkie]

Did something happen? Why does his thread keep getting bumped? Sorry for lazy

e: I know he ded. I mean, has something happened recently?

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

It was found he is not only dead, but also gay. People noticed it mirrors the state of SA.

 

[Ghostse]

Did something happen? Why does his thread keep getting bumped? Sorry for lazy

e: I know he ded. I mean, has something happened recently?

Null did a MATI epsiode to commemorate Lowtax's ultimate vindication.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Radium was also cheap. That meant more money for pies and pills.

Superficially. Radium was a huge opportunity cost.

Null did a MATI epsiode to commemorate Lowtax's ultimate vindication.

Yeah, Null, if you're reading this, THANK YOU, I'll have to watch this, I'll probably learn some things--Lowtax was my most despised cow for a very long time--he actually ripped me off, and you don't want to cross my inner Jew.

 

[Dylan]

Lowtax was lacking any kind of sense to alienate people, turn them against himself, and end up in a situation where he would be left with nothing that would support his lifestyle, all alone, without a single soul caring for his well being, that's the ultimate reward for being a commited piece of shit.

Now... look at Null's terfs ... and draw parallels with liwtax's troons...

 

[Null]

Lowtax was lacking any kind of sense to alienate people, turn them against himself, and end up in a situation where he would be left with nothing that would support his lifestyle, all alone, without a single soul caring for his well being, that's the ultimate reward for being a commited piece of shit.

Now... look at Null's terfs ... and draw parallels with liwtax's troons...

You are such an embarrassing faggot

 

[Fornicario]

Lowtax was lacking any kind of sense to alienate people, turn them against himself, and end up in a situation where he would be left with nothing that would support his lifestyle, all alone, without a single soul caring for his well being, that's the ultimate reward for being a commited piece of shit.

Now... look at Null's terfs ... and draw parallels with liwtax's troons...

A major difference is Lowtax would have banned you, and you would pay the tenbux.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Forgive me if this was "pozloading my negholep," but this was years ago and I had to get some digs in at Lowtax before he inevitably killed himself. Let it be known nobody tried to kindly point out the situation to him, and that this was always how he responded to everything, super defensively and obtusely, like he can't get the point:

I also wanted something for posterity.

He could never not get the last word in, he couldn't say anything but he could not not say something. Every time someone confronted Lowtax with just how silly he was, he'd resort to defense mechanisms.

 

[Stan]

Did something happen? Why does his thread keep getting bumped? Sorry for lazy

e: I know he ded. I mean, has something happened recently?

His death-a-versary is on the 10th of November and some of us are planning commemorations, burnt offerings, and funeral games.

 

[Mikoyan]

Forgive me if this was "pozloading my negholep," but this was years ago and I had to get some digs in at Lowtax before he inevitably killed himself. Let it be known nobody tried to kindly point out the situation to him, and that this was always how he responded to everything, super defensively and obtusely, like he can't get the point:

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I also wanted something for posterity.

He could never not get the last word in, he couldn't say anything but he could not not say something. Every time someone confronted Lowtax with just how silly he was, he'd resort to defense mechanisms.

Say what you will about this exchange, he did in fact end up permabanning "Richard Kyanka".

 

[Lidl Drip]

Forgive me if this was "pozloading my negholep," but this was years ago and I had to get some digs in at Lowtax before he inevitably killed himself. Let it be known nobody tried to kindly point out the situation to him, and that this was always how he responded to everything, super defensively and obtusely, like he can't get the point:

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I also wanted something for posterity.

He could never not get the last word in, he couldn't say anything but he could not not say something. Every time someone confronted Lowtax with just how silly he was, he'd resort to defense mechanisms.

Looks like a pretty reasonable response to someone sperging out at him in an e-mail tbh.

Criticizing people for not taking advice from complete strangers is autistic and weird. Nobody is going to be taking advice from people who 1. They don't know at all and 2. Are obviously malicious since you didn't come across genuine or well meaning at all, but openly hostile and sarcastic.

I'm sure Lowtax got plenty of good advice from friends, family and people close to him that he ignored and you can fault him for that but "He didn't thank me for my sarcastic e-mail" isn't exactly lolcow behavior.

 

[Stan]

Looks like a pretty reasonable response to someone sperging out at him in an e-mail tbh.

Criticizing people for not taking advice from complete strangers is autistic and weird. Nobody is going to be taking advice from people who 1. They don't know at all and 2. Are obviously malicious since you didn't come across genuine or well meaning at all, but openly hostile and sarcastic.

I'm sure Lowtax got plenty of good advice from friends, family and people close to him that he ignored and you can fault him for that but "He didn't thank me for my sarcastic e-mail" isn't exactly lolcow behavior.

More to the point, by the time he got Kali Yuga's email he had already received so many emails threatening to kill him that people started calling them "Dear Richard letters", and I think if you say "Oh yea bird.up? He sent me a Dear Richard letter a few weeks back" people on this forum (or other terminally nostalgic online communities) would still understand what you mean.

 

[retard strength II]

Why were you writing like a gay anime villain monologue because Lowtax nuked the retarded "we were wrong furries are cool actually!" article?

 

[Pitbull Victim]

More to the point, by the time he got Kali Yuga's email he had already received so many emails threatening to kill him that people started calling them "Dear Richard letters", and I think if you say "Oh yea bird.up? He sent me a Dear Richard letter a few weeks back" people on this forum (or other terminally nostalgic online communities) would still understand what you mean.

The most famous "Dear Richard" was probably this one:



Lowtax's life ironically ended up even worse than this guy had hoped.

 

[AnOminous]

Why were you writing like a gay anime villain monologue because Lowtax nuked the retarded "we were wrong furries are cool actually!" article?

That was probably the last remotely based thing he did. I mean other than killing Richard Kyanka.

 

[blablabla]

Dickard was a loathsome piece of shit who spitefully killed himself to avoid supporting his children. That's literally why he killed himself.

What an absolute turd shat out of the ass of Satan himself. I hope there's a Hell because he belongs there.

i dont know why some many retards still have trouble figuring this out

 

[Fornicario]

I would say Dickard is the prototypical lolcow of the new millenium. He got handed money and glory beyond expectations and promptly pissed it all away with the determination of a crackhead searching pile carpet for leftovers.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Looks like a pretty reasonable response to someone sperging out at him in an e-mail tbh.

Criticizing people for not taking advice from complete strangers is autistic and weird. Nobody is going to be taking advice from people who 1. They don't know at all and 2. Are obviously malicious since you didn't come across genuine or well meaning at all, but openly hostile and sarcastic.

I'm sure Lowtax got plenty of good advice from friends, family and people close to him that he ignored and you can fault him for that but "He didn't thank me for my sarcastic e-mail" isn't exactly lolcow behavior.

Disregarding the fact that you do nothing ever but trolling to get a rise out of people with only a fraction of the finesse of Dynastia, none of this is the point, and you don't need any grand motions to get under Richard's skin. All you ever needed to do to silently piss off Richard was humiliate him in a venue where he couldn't retaliate. He'd seethe and be silently pissed off. That's why he banned people, it really got to him every time and he needed the last laugh. Outside of SA he never could get it and it would simmer under his skin, fuck. He killed himself because he couldn't handle it. That's why he stuck to only SA a long time until his own mismanagement ran him off his OWN GODDAMN FORUMS and it became actually more convenient to post on Twitter instead. Rich was always super proud of SA deep down but also would try, as we referred to it on SASS, "SERIOUS DEFENSE MECHANISMS" or something along the line since "SERIOUS BUSINESS" was a Lowtaxtian catchphrase to try to seem "chillax." On one hand, he'd be super defensive of SA, but he'd try to have his cake and eat it and and try to make it seem that caring about anything on the forums was stupid. I suppose he was absolutely right, but he couldn't internalize it because he cared too much about his own GODDAMN FORUMS.

The point is that Lowtax, no matter who, where, what someone said to him, he literally responded in the same ways. Lowtax was a two-dimensional character with a one-dimensional neurosis.

He never broke character, never admitted he had any problems ever, not once, he never even really flashed any humanity that wasn't about HIM and his relation to something awful. He barely had hobbies. His final days were spent streaming shitty games that were goon-approved because he was so pissy about so many things that were connected to SA that didn't throw anything back at him, like notch and Minecraft. In every single personal conversation you had with Lowtax, it only ever went one way, with the same sarcastic responses that ultimately just resulted in him indirectly attacking his only accomplishments on Earth. You literally had zero variety in a conversation with Lowtax. Once you figured out the guy's wavelength you realized he stuck to it like glue. In all my times laughing and cringing at Lowtax over the many years he was known, I never saw him once actually address anything people said head-on.

Look at his mangosteen rant post. Fuck, his original blow-up at Balki Way (which got Balki Way banned, by the way) was responding to Balki Way just calming explaining how this Mangosteen shit looked to him. Lowtax couldn't even just say "yeah, I phrased this all the wrong way," which would have saved him years of embarrassment if he just let shit roll off his back and actually be able to not take himself so seriously.

This pretty much is the point with Lowtax: He was so unable to admit to being wrong, he couldn't even admit it in regards to all the people who screwed over his forums because that would ultimately criticize Something Awful and his own leadership. On SA you felt like your account status was in jeopardy all the time because of the unstable mood swings of the crazies that ran the show.

All this trickled down into making Something Awful utterly insufferable for what it was, people writing in 'ironic' low caps, "SERIOUS DEFENSE MECHANISM"-style rhetoric, and everyone trying to pretend they're making everyone else lose their shit to an extent not even close to what happens on KF.

 

[Lidl Drip]

Just skimmed your 1,000 word reply but what kind of response did you expect to your e-mail exactly? Everyone agrees that Lowtax was a lolcow who didn't accept any criticism, but are you under the delusion that your snarky e-mail should have changed that in some way? Or are you just bragging that you sent him a spergy e-mail and he replied politely? It maybe would have been interesting if he had some crazy meltdown in reply but honestly you're the one who looks mad and autistic in that exchange, probably because you are tbh judging by this response.

 

[Stan]

That's why he banned people, it really got to him every time and he needed the last laugh. Outside of SA he never could get it and it would simmer under his skin, fuck. He killed himself because he couldn't handle it.

I think the reasons he killed himself were more to do with the following:

> Out of money, no clear path forward to getting more
> Divorce judgment not in his favor = debt he had no method of paying off
> Loss of potential future 'vindication'
> His own kids blocked him
> Publicly known for DV against 3 different women
> Despised by a community that used to adore him because of (substantiated) DV accusations
> Loss of support system (except for his mom)
> SUD/AUD, MDD
> Physical pain (?)

Not that any of these justify killing himself, but those are the reasons I think he did it.