Shotgun Badger
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Dec 21, 2018
I don't think any Swatting attempts have actually implicated this forum directly. With or without it, its always been far more useful for just keeping track of information and exposing complete freaks online, when people like Jonathan Yaniv were at their absolute worse this place can feel like a necessary evil.The guy who cofounded it and has a family now would probably disagree with this.
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Whenever a comparison gets made somewhere along the way it seems like a collective wave of resentment and disgust ripples through the alumni of those places. Overall I get the feeling KF is something nobody wants to talk about but is occasionally forced to, like having a very embarrassing kid with emotional problems that you would have picked on claiming to have been part of your club. You wonder years later if they were arrested or sent to a psych ward but at some point you get the grimace-inducing news they're still free to roam around in public. Helldump singled out furries and autists and autistic furries to pick on but it was more like "this person is a creepy nerd" and not Westboro Baptist level screeching about how physically and spiritually ugly the person is and hundreds of self-serious essays about how their existence is the downfall of civilization.
At some point I remember the new sass owner or moderator or something showing up on SA years ago and they called him a retard and kept posting that supposed picture of their meetup (it was a group of dumpy Gen X men sitting in deck chairs wearing leather jackets and smoking cigars, obviously thinking they looked cool as fuck) which was pretty funny. Those guys were such insufferable lunatics I think the owner himself got fed up and threw the website in the trash. Which is good because a few of them were psycho enough it seemed like they actually wanted to physically harm Ozma. Anyway that's the closest one culture-wise.
Still, a funny thought is that in another 10-15 years, when Null's finally given up the ghost, a bunch of us will probably be saying 'yeah I was on Kiwifarms back in the day, have some regrets, but we were nowhere near as bad X new forum that has emerged to fill the vacuum, we had standards dammit!'