Why is Something Awful Forums so woke now?

[ShahOfIran1979]

It used to be cool, but now you'll get banned for disrespecting the tranny mods' pronouns. What changed? Anyone else have this experience? Lowtax needs to get off his ass and make SA great again.

 

[Tablet County]

You know that Lowtax blew his brains out with a Five Seven right?

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

You know that Lowtax blew his brains out with a Five Seven right?

Excuses, excuses.

 

[dreamworks face]

somethingawful was wokeness ground zero and has glowed in the dark for decades.

something awful invented the word "troon" and was patient zero for the gender special bullshit that later pervaded the entire internet.
something awful invented the let's play and popularized staring at a computer screen watching some fat tranny play video games instead of actually playing them yourself.
you know the hillary clinton bleach-bit scandal? paul combetta aka stonetear posted a thread on something awful asking to how to get rid of emails from an email server.
sean smith aka vilerat (somethingawful mod of debate and discussion) died in the benghazi attack.
zoe quinn was a something awful poster - she fucked five guys and caused gamergate, setting off a chain reaction which led to donald trump getting elected not once, but twice.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

SA is in shambles. Shmorky doesn't even animate any more!

 

[ShahOfIran1979]

SA is in shambles. Shmorky doesn't even animate any more!

He couldn't find the answer to the final solution

 

[Barry Williams]

pak chooie unf

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Forums in general especially in 2000s trolling culture were very leftist, or at least anti-conservative. a big reason why people went after Chris-chan was 1. autism wasn't as well known back then but more importantly 2. he was extremely racist and 3. homophobic like Chris-chan in 2009 and Null in 2025 have the exact same politics.

This is also why users here from before 2017 are almost all complete faggots, being woke was considered a virtue until around the Trayvon Martin shooting. like sure you could make "offensive jokes" but they had to be jokes, and once trump and his followers started making the same jokes, suddenly it stopped being ok so all you were left with was their real politics. This forum a decade ago was extremely pro-anime and pro-trans and the most right leaning guy here was Hulk Hogan, believe it or not.

Encyclopedia dramatica was also made up mostly of lefties, just the idea of being a nazi was practically not a thing online pre-2012 aka when Something Awful was king of the internet. Everyone was leftist and agreed with the democrats no matter how silly their policies were. much like ED they too didn't get the memo when the fringe parts of the internet were rapidly becoming alt-right. obviously they knew how to deal with conservatives but /pol/ocks were impossible for them to argue with.

the reason SA seems so woke now is that the politics of the internet changed a lot from 2012. most of the beliefs on SA were also held back then only most people agreed or stayed silent so no one really understood how insane SA had become.

there's a reason you didn't even hear the term "social justice warrior" until about 2012. In general SA is something tons of modern lefties including everyone on Chapo Trap House and Cumtown were users of because being leftist was the norm and as you grew up you'd keep those same politics and end up being a faggot working for the enemy.

AKA they were always woke, its just that the internet moved on from everyone being cringe leftists

you know the hillary clinton bleach-bit scandal? paul combetta aka stonetear posted a thread on something awful asking to how to get rid of emails from an email server.
sean smith aka vilerat (somethingawful mod of debate and discussion) died in the benghazi attack.
zoe quinn was a something awful poster - she fucked five guys and caused gamergate, setting off a chain reaction which led to donald trump getting elected not once, but twice.

these are all great examples of my point above

 

[Hamstirer]

Trannies.
Josh did a lowtax stream that covers a bit of it.

 

[Super Malario]

Any type of woke culture comes from aging millennials, and they so happen to be the only users that actively gather and post on those dying forums and sites.

 

[Beardless Lenin]

Trannies.
Josh did a lowtax stream that covers a bit of it.

I think the most interesting part that's relevant to this was the 2008 election, where users put their accounts on the line. The people who lost the bet on the election would have their accounts deleted. Of course Obama beat McCain so the more right leaning Goons that bet had their accounts deleted, and would leave the more left leaning Goons on the site. It's probably not what caused SA to be what it is today, but it certainly was a step in that direction.

 

[Whaler]

zoe quinn was a something awful poster - she fucked five guys and caused gamergate, setting off a chain reaction which led to donald trump getting elected not once, but twice.

Didn't she brag about getting somebody to kill themselves on SA? I believe it was involving a FYAD (Fuck You And Die) thread or some shit.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Imagine being such a fucking fat loser that you have your own website stolen from you and have to swallow a bullet, because you are just that incompetent.

 

[winterfag]

It's called Something Awful, not Something Based

 

[blackface enthusiast]

1. A lot of trolls went in on of two directions, either troll's remorse where they make a big show of prostrating themselves because they used to say nigger and faggot a lot, or right side of history trolls like Zoe Quinn and the like who just performatively engage in leftist politics because they have several personality disorders and can only function when they can absolve themselves of responsibility for their actions. (I'm not a catty drama loving attention seeking whore, I'm on the right side of history!) So just very cowardly people who can't troll to troll, they need to be righteous when they do it, so over time all trolling on SA became rooted in leftist ideology.

2. Lowtax started getting addicted to substances and had a long string of failures and basically checked out of managing the website day to day, allowing trannies to come in and start taking things over. By the time he snapped out of his pill induced stupor long enough to notice it was too late, pretty much the entire website had been converted to hating him (even though he kept throwing them bones and trying to say the right thing) so he sold the site to some other fag.

This was my understanding of the issue but I could have missed some things, I never used SA myself. (Paying to post is stupid, gay and retarded.)

 

[NoBueno]

It used to be cool, but now you'll get banned for disrespecting the tranny mods' pronouns. What changed? Anyone else have this experience? Lowtax needs to get off his ass and make SA great again.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

Imagine being such a fucking fat loser that you have your own website stolen from you and have to swallow a bullet, because you are just that incompetent.

He didn’t really have a choice by the end iirc, he literally didn’t know how it operated anymore and relied on a couple admins to even do anything. His own mental retardation and years of neglecting to update the code ultimately caused him to fall into a situation where he was, to a degree, held hostage by his own mods.

Held hostage by your own mods, Christ I think you pretty much have to kill yourself if you ever get to that point.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Held hostage by your own mods, Christ I think you pretty much have to kill yourself if you ever get to that point.

right? Like I wouldnt believe it if it didnt literally happen before our own eyes.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

the reason SA seems so woke now is that the politics of the internet changed a lot from 2012

As passé as it sounds gamer gate was a big shift, as leftist became more radical, controlling and censor happy it pushed a lot of moderate people right and along with stuff like the 2016 election destroying peoples minds and tumblr faggots breaking containment and pozzing the left shit changed dramatically. Its extremely common to hear younger conservatives say that they used to be democrat before the left pushed it to the extreme.
As for specifically something awful, lowtax was a lazy irony poisoned dipshit who didn't want to take control of his site. He was already disillusioned with it users because of shit like mangosteens and once he got the wake up call that was people defending smorkys pedophilia because of his gender shit it was to late and to hard for his apathetic ass to do anything about it.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

I think the most interesting part that's relevant to this was the 2008 election, where users put their accounts on the line. The people who lost the bet on the election would have their accounts deleted. Of course Obama beat McCain so the more right leaning Goons that bet had their accounts deleted, and would leave the more left leaning Goons on the site. It's probably not what caused SA to be what it is today, but it certainly was a step in that direction.

are you shitting me? what a retarded idea, like a week ban sure, but full on deletion probably sucked, of course the percentage that would do so was probably hilariously small, people forget how often people would "ironically" support the GOP. i even had a friend say that about me, because the idea of being a true believer in a non-ron paul style non-leftist ideology was that absurd.