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"

[Sicko Hunter]

Why did Lowtax keep getting married and having kids when he clearly didn't give a fuck about anything but getting high? Why not stay single and save all your money for drugs and moon pies?

 

[Spunt]

Why did Lowtax keep getting married and having kids when he clearly didn't give a fuck about anything but getting high? Why not stay single and save all your money for drugs and moon pies?

He didn't really want a wife, he wanted a combination maid/secondary mother who would clean his shit-stained pants and serve him tendies while he got wasted and watched TV. And if they objected, then it was Sweaty Toe Time.

As for kids, the first marriage was a shotgun wedding so it was probably an accident. Getting Maplewife pregnant was part of his scheme to turn her into his indentured servant.

Also I think there was an element of "Look mom, I did an adult thing, you can't complain when I rouse you from your literal deathbed to do my laundry, you're a grandmother now so get over here and start scrubbing."

 

[LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2]

I think Lowtax basically sold SA at the behest of and for the approval of his remaining friends and confidants. It was a rather illogical move--why the fuck would he sell it? Because the trannies on the site were bitching? Why would he care? Because people near him did, and they talked him into giving up the one thing he had to be proud of in his disaster of a life.

Obviously if he was even half a man it wouldn't have gotten to this point, but he should have just stood up, best his disintegrated spine would allow, said "I DID NOT DO THIS!" and ban the trannies and Make SA Great Again. But he couldn't do that, because he craved the instant appreciation and approval of his dwindling inner-circle.

Everything Lowtax did on SA was at the behest of his friends. That's how EPG and FistGrrl basically held soft control of the site and turned it into a progressive garbage dump. That's why he kept on radium. So on and so forth. Lowtax always made low-quality decisions for these people. He craved respect and admiration.

He sold the website because he had no other options. What was he supposed to do? The website completely turned on him and disavowed him. He wasn't going to make a single dime from the users again. No patreon, no funding campaigns for "site improvements" that weren't going to come true. Nothing. On top of that, he couldn't even have the laughs he once had with people. His best option was to sell it because that was going to be the final way he could make tiny bit of change.

I really wonder if had the drama with Logan never occurred would Rich still have decided to bite the bullet a year later. If he still just had one tiny safety net to fall back on, I think he would have decided to just pay the court order and continue trying new things.

 

[Axiom.]

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.

I don't think he cared about more than half of those things, I just think losing what he had left that did it.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

He sold the website because he had no other options. What was he supposed to do? The website completely turned on him and disavowed him. He wasn't going to make a single dime from the users again. No patreon, no funding campaigns for "site improvements" that weren't going to come true. Nothing. On top of that, he couldn't even have the laughs he once had with people. His best option was to sell it because that was going to be the final way he could make tiny bit of change.

I really wonder if had the drama with Logan never occurred would Rich still have decided to bite the bullet a year later. If he still just had one tiny safety net to fall back on, I think he would have decided to just pay the court order and continue trying new things.

If Lowtax revamped SA and kicked out all the old people and had a free registration week or something I think people might show up, especially if Lowtax wasn't such a faggot and could do and allow somewhat politically incorrect humor and not have worried about what his friends thought. Certainly a more loyal and profitable crowd. But if Lowtax had the creativity to pull it off he wouldn't have been where he was. Regardless SA wasn't really about money to Lowtax, it was about being respected and admired. Talk of Lowtax selling the site hit it when so many troon members were begging for it and the accusations hit, as I recall.

If Lowtax had something else to be admired for he would've stayed, but his attempts at being a streamer failed which probably really hurt his ego because he knew deep down he was a useless has-been and would never be liked again.

If he was still respected forum admin, money problems aside Lowtax probably would've lived with his parents but have kept on living--wasn't he standing to inherit stuff from his parents anyway along with his sister?

 

[AnOminous]

I think Lowtax basically sold SA at the behest of and for the approval of his remaining friends and confidants. It was a rather illogical move--why the fuck would he sell it? Because the trannies on the site were bitching? Why would he care? Because people near him did, and they talked him into giving up the one thing he had to be proud of in his disaster of a life.

Because he was a little bitch, to the point even trannies ruled over him. He was such a weak pussy he couldn't even flip over the tables and chase trannies off his forums. He was that weak.

He ended up having to kill himself.

Nobody should ever give in to trannies, because that's how it ends. In your grave.

 

[Ghostse]

Because he was a little bitch, to the point even trannies ruled over him. He was such a weak pussy he couldn't even flip over the tables and chase trannies off his forums. He was that weak.

He ended up having to kill himself.

Nobody should ever give in to trannies, because that's how it ends. In your grave.

lowtax 41%'d himself to show tranny solidarity. Checkmate leftoids.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

lowtax 41%'d himself to show tranny solidarity. Checkmate leftoids.

either beat 'em or join 'em, and lowtax did both

 

[Something Awful]

Here's a clip of Lowtax having a moment of... well, I can't say lucidity or sobriety, but perhaps self-awareness.

This was one of his multiple "meat streams", where he aimed to raise 260 bucks by eating 26 meat sticks on camera for $10 apiece. As you can see, this one was pretty successful, as there are only two meat sticks left. October 28, 2021, two weeks before his suicide.

 

[Tanner Glass]

I'd argue it wasn't the money. It was the fact people making fun of him and the admins weren't banning them. Registrations didn't slow down very much during the tranny revolt.

If Lowtax hadn't been an addict, he would have money set aside for a short disruption. He could have evicted all the admins and replaced them, and just waited out the buck-broke trannies because other than some vocal flounces they weren't going to leave and even the flouncers would crawl back; see: Bread and Roses.

The patreon wouldn't have ever come back to what it was (it was already melting even before MapleWife dear richard'ed him) but the site was still netting 50K/year just on forum purchases for him doing nothing. He was making another 10-30K in advertising bux and could have gotten that 40-50K if he wasn't a fucktard and actually attended calls to advertisers - Ads on something awful reach a guillible, terminally online, and constantly spending base.

But Lowtax was an addict and his ego wouldn't let him sit by.
Also remember that Lowtax had to pay alimony to Chinkwife out of SA bux, so he'd done that dance before. That's why he sold, he didn't want the hassle of paying alimony and thought if he sold the forum (his only non-mom related source of income) and spent all the money, he wouldn't have to pay alimony and could just sponge off mom in the meantime.
Sadly, he couldn't just permaban the judge or disappear into an ambien coma till they went away when his gay little plan was unraveled.

You aren't wrong about what he could have done but Lowtax was deathly (lol) allergic to real work.

He didn't care about paying Chinkwife out of SA bucks because there was enough SA bucks left over for him to be a pure, unadulterated degenerate. He would have happily paid out Maplewife if he still was getting piles of money for doing nothing and would have started busting loads into the next one (CrazyWife, probably) without even thinking about it.

We can talk about the money he had, but for Lowtax $120,000/year was a complete failure - he was used to making much more and assumed the gravy train would never stop running.

All Lowtax needed was to cut someone in to the company - someone he trusted and could handle the actual business side of. To this day I have no idea why he didn't cut in Fragmaster.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Don't forget that lowtax was sexually attracted to trannies. Guy was a certified coomer which should not come as a surprise considering his hedonistic lifestyle.

 

[Mikoyan]

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Here's a clip of Lowtax having a moment of... well, I can't say lucidity or sobriety, but perhaps self-awareness.

This was one of his multiple "meat streams", where he aimed to raise 260 bucks by eating 26 meat sticks on camera for $10 apiece. As you can see, this one was pretty successful, as there are only two meat sticks left. October 28, 2021, two weeks before his suicide.

It sounds like one of his 'funny' random rambles from the site too though. Maybe there's some realization creeping in but would this be out of character for 2005 Lowtax explaining why he's long form reviewing a shitty game?

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

It sounds like one of his 'funny' random rambles from the site too though. Maybe there's some realization creeping in but would this be out of character for 2005 Lowtax explaining why he's long form reviewing a shitty game?

No, I thought the same thing. It's basically Lowtax humor from back in the day, he's still doing the same schtick. He doesn't believe his words, he thinks he's being ironic and funny.

 

[Ghostse]

You aren't wrong about what he could have done but Lowtax was deathly (lol) allergic to real work.

He didn't care about paying Chinkwife out of SA bucks because there was enough SA bucks left over for him to be a pure, unadulterated degenerate. He would have happily paid out Maplewife if he still was getting piles of money for doing nothing and would have started busting loads into the next one (CrazyWife, probably) without even thinking about it.

We can talk about the money he had, but for Lowtax $120,000/year was a complete failure - he was used to making much more and assumed the gravy train would never stop running.

All Lowtax needed was to cut someone in to the company - someone he trusted and could handle the actual business side of. To this day I have no idea why he didn't cut in Fragmaster.

He cared about paying out Chinkwife even when he had the money. He bitched incessantly about it and his whorebitch of an exwife sucking him dry; it was not the money, it was principal.
He An Hero'd about Maplewife largely due to the reasons you mentioned: there wasn't as much money coming in, and he was looking at another two decades of allimony and child support.

He remembered those fat checks going to support his Wife and Daughters and looked at SA's finances and realized he'd either have to get a job or forego mail-order pies and 4 hour drives to tourist trap restaurants for the next two decades. He was already in his forties, he wouldn't be able to have another Gold Belly pie until he was a senior citizen. Under such harsh strictures, how could he do anything other than an hero?

Also, RE: Fragmaster, from my understanding Frag told Lowtax lolno. Granted Lowtax also probably made him some insulting offer that was largely Moofwear in lieu of base salary.

 

[Something Awful]

No, I thought the same thing. It's basically Lowtax humor from back in the day, he's still doing the same schtick. He doesn't believe his words, he thinks he's being ironic and funny.

You're right of course, but that was the only way Lowtax was able to communicate. I wouldn't be surprised if he even talked to judges the same way during his divorce proceedings, with his squeaky faggot voice and zany humor.

He did realize he had fucked up his life (I mean he was on his 24th meat stick for an audience of 30 people), but it's not like he could sincerely own up to it and make amends. He just offed himself instead. People talk about irony-poisoning on SA, but for Lowtax it was literally terminal.

 

[AnOminous]

This was one of his multiple "meat streams", where he aimed to raise 260 bucks by eating 26 meat sticks on camera for $10 apiece. As you can see, this one was pretty successful, as there are only two meat sticks left. October 28, 2021, two weeks before his suicide.

It pissed me off he was degrading himself while trying to look like Walter Sobchak.

What a legacy.

 

[Fornicario]

Why did Lowtax keep getting married and having kids when he clearly didn't give a fuck about anything but getting high? Why not stay single and save all your money for drugs and moon pies?

He thought by marrying his fans he would have a permanent unpaid housemaid with pussy on demand. I bet if he had a vasectomy we would reflecting on his overdose instead of his last blowjob to a Five-Seven.

 

[Mikoyan]

It pissed me off he was degrading himself while trying to look like Walter Sobchak.
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What a legacy.

And yet he was doing it while putting Nihilism into practice. It would be funny were it intentional.

 

[Ghostse]

He thought by marrying his fans he would have a permanent unpaid housemaid with feet on demand

fix'd for you

 

[LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2]

He An Hero'd about Maplewife largely due to the reasons you mentioned: there wasn't as much money coming in, and he was looking at another two decades of allimony and child support.

That is how I feel. He may have bitched about it, but if he had the money he probably would have paid what he owed to his second wife anyway and still would be alive today. His suicide was the result of a much bigger issue with him: he wasn't able to be an adult and couldn't handle anything that was uncomfortable. He used various safety nets, like his mother or just having access to money, to deal with everything in life. Look at what occurred with his health, rather than take care of himself he took the easy road and became an addict to deal with his deteriorating body.

His divorce was the first time in his life that he was going to be genuinely negatively impacted by something. There was no way out, the consequences of his poor decision making had caught up to him. He had no money to pay the settlement, he didn't want to get a job and even if he did no one would probably hire him.

The story of Richard Kyanka is the story of what happens when a manchild fails to grow up.