Bigot Brigade Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield

[robobobo]

The thing I don't get, and I may be wrong here, but I can't imagine that the old goons sitting around calling each other faggots were a fraction of the headache to manage as the troon crew are. The volume was likely higher just because the population was far higher than today, but the amount of headache per goon couldn't have been but so much when the forums were more chill and didn't have shrieking assholes doing witchhunts constantly.

 

[JoyfulDarter]

The thing I don't get, and I may be wrong here, but I can't imagine that the old goons sitting around calling each other faggots were a fraction of the headache to manage as the troon crew are. The volume was likely higher just because the population was far higher than today, but the amount of headache per goon couldn't have been but so much when the forums were more chill and didn't have shrieking assholes doing witchhunts constantly.

Lowtax doesn't do anything so the difference is negligible to him. The occasional blowout like this is a tradeoff for social cred by keeping his forum "progressive" and his respective paychecks.

 

[AnOminous]

You know I wonder if they realize the way they're acting makes people think that we should re-evaluate alternative sexualities and put them back under the mental illness category.

Or just gas everyone on SomethingAwful unironically.

Lowtax doesn't do anything so the difference is negligible to him. The occasional blowout like this is a tradeoff for social cred by keeping his forum "progressive" and his respective paychecks.

He loses a fat chunk of it for every one of these troon freakouts, whether from angry troons or people angry that troons have ruined yet another part of the forum.

Eventually that pill popping cuck is going to start suffering from that.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

"Kitten jail"

They've done it. They've turned into middle aged housewives from the early sixties. Was...was that their fetish all along?

 

[Thumb Butler]

I'm confused. There are now two septic tanks - the renamed subforum and The Great Race Space?

 

[Rotogravure]

"Kitten jail"

They've done it. They've turned into middle aged housewives from the early sixties. Was...was that their fetish all along?

"You know, Something AWFUL sounds so... mean. Why don't we call it Something AGREEABLE."

 

[The Real Taylor Swift]

"Kitten jail"

They've done it. They've turned into middle aged housewives from the early sixties. Was...was that their fetish all along?

That's actually an upgrade. Originally Goon communities called it "Kitty" Jail, and youd get KJ'd for saying the no-no words.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

And these people are still more alpha than Lowtax. It's amazing.

 

[Coolio55]

They've done it. They've turned into middle aged housewives from the early sixties. Was...was that their fetish all along?

They're always going for that look in all the photos I've seen

 

[Marissa Moira]

Did they do anything about the awful banned screen that says the no-no word?

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Yeah lmbo the exact people screaming Lowtax is a Nazi are actively setting up a new site. Arguably it wont kill SA it will maybe make it better since most the bluehaired screechers will frick off.

This has been done before, there were two political offshoots from LF one that was full of trannies and feminists and the other was the rhizzone.

The tranny/feminist one was very private and invite only. You had to have a vetted member vouch for you to join and then if you fucked up both of you were banned. Someone posted on SA screenshots of the drama and you can imagine how catty it was. The trannies eventually took over and everyone left due to the insanely strict moderating.

 

[QuadDamage]

Seeing SomethingAwful implode inch by inch is surreal.

When I was a kid, SomethingAwful was the internet's non-porn grown up section. It was on the list of places I knew I shouldn't really be allowed to look at, but regularily checked anyway because no one who knew any better than me knew enough to stop me. It was this dumb but infamous site that, as stupid as it was in the grand scheme of things, was a major cultural landmark to the early internet. It was the Disney of the early dotcoms. And Lowtax was literally SomethingAwful's king. He was a name that could make a person nervous because of the scale of power he held in his domain. He could have Zuck'ed zuckerberg before Zucking someone was a thing. He could currently own vast chunks of the entire planet. He could have realistically been a billionaire.

And he's arguing with a daughter he doesn't have custody of and barely sees about how dumb the bible is.

I haven't thought about SA in probably 15 years or more. I hadn't thought about the site at all honestly until noticing this thread on, of all places, some weird ass mocking forum caled kiwifarm. And it makes me appreciate this place more. Sometimes, when you watch something crash and burn, the emotion is indescribable. Failed hope, ruined potential, ignoble intentions, "there but for the grace of God go I..." Those are complicated emotions.

Thank god this site exists to flatten all that nonsense out to "LOL".

Finding out that THE Lowtax (the dude who owned ROMpit when I was young enough to care) has turned into some bankrupt washed-up deadbeat-dad sex-predator pill-junkie trany-fetishist has-been who let his site, his name and his legacy be completely devored by a bunch of valueless nameless shiftless ladydudes who decided they were girls now and that gave them power?

And he just said okay and gave it to them?

That's an abstract kind of feel.

 

[0 0]

I wish Kiwifarms had a shitpost forum similar to FYAD

What about the top-secret inn...I mean, yeah. Me too.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

This is true:
View attachment 1093283
(*sub-forums)
I forget the ID of, for example, the Conspiracy Theory sub-forum, but it's unlisted.
I think someone once posted a list of the secret sub-forums and their IDs. Somewhere.

I've always assumed this but never hit any of them trying to run through numbers that I can recall. I remember the conspiracy forum took the place of GBS during the time period that it was removed.

Couldn't somebody make a script to run through all the numbers in the address bar in different ranges and report back any hits?

 

[pwnest injun]

I'm confused. There are now two septic tanks - the renamed subforum and The Great Race Space?

I'm seein double!

I remember the conspiracy forum took the place of GBS during the time period that it was removed.

Yeah, because all of the CRAZY conspiracy theories about Queen Hillary """rigging""" the primary election, etc.
ZDR was such an ungodly faggot, and his inability to accept how wrong he was about everything all of the time allowed for all of the other morons on that site to cling to their ignorance and piss tapes up to this point of total fucking collapse.

 

[kiwilurkin]

From earlier in this very thread:
(to be fair, these aren't the secret forums, just hidden ones, mostly different Helldumps [goon dox subs] and meant to be forgotten. Unlisted non-the-less)

For those of you with accounts (and Archives access):
The following forum ids are your friends: 186, 193, 195, 204, 201
You gotta type 'em in though.

@Coolio55 you know of any more?

186


193


195 (two threads but a lot of bigot and "nazi" replies)


This used to happen if you posted in a forum Lowtax and/or Admins deemed bad or something?
Mods/etc can still do this to people I think? It's still a part of their "punish" drop down menu,
but I think it was auto applied to certain posters for posting in certain forums
I think you had to pay money to go back to normal


201


204


Thread has these links, I think they all still work
Someone might have fun going through and archiving some shit


-the djynn flyssa thread
Goons "doxing" each other


-Guns sure did a good job of protecting sky shark from robbers. Oh wai
Goon getting a .357 stolen by some kids or something stupid.



___

I hope I did all that shit right.

 

[Dan Abrams]

A mysterious benefactor sent me some logs from what appears to be a disgusting goon discord. There's several megabytes to go through.

I've yet to start harvesting sensitive personal information from it, but there was a channel with some nice selfies. Here's a few!

View attachment 1092594

Omitted were pages upon pages of "omg you're so cute uwu"

A few pages back but Jesus Christ dude, if you really are a woman born into the wrong body then being a tranny must be pretty important to you, yeah? If it's that important why do you not put any effort into being a woman? He just looks like a fat faggot with some lip gloss. "a useless trans girl from Australia" indeed.

 

[break these cuffs]

Capitalization is going to destroy the world if we don't do something about it very soon.

capitalization is too close to capitalism and gives preferential treatment to some letters over others in doing so it ignores the plight of the workers we must topple all forms of grammar and convention related oppression and seize the alphabet comrades

 

[tarni]

So, if they implement their final solution and run off all wrong-thinkers and are all alone... Doesn't the name 'something awful' hit a bit too close to home? Is the plan to change the problematic name in the end?

 

[Mr. Boogedy]

A screencap posted earlier jogged my memory: Between Radium and Zen Death Robot, there was another person who worked on the forums: Choochacacko. Most people just called him Chooch, or "wacky" versions like Choochoo, Cuckoo, Coo Coo Ca Choo, etc.

This is what I can remember. Don't quote me on anything though. Anyone who still has an account should be able to dig up some good info in his posts.

He started in 2012, and only worked on SA for about a year. He knew the culture and was obviously an alt of another poster. He actively posted about SA's software and hardware, and the changes that he was making. He posted a lot in YOSPOS. One of the things he did was reduce the number of servers that the forum needed. He was especially critical of Radium. Radium's solution to the forum being slow was to add more servers. There was an entire server hooked up that didn't even do anything. Radium would also make changes directly on the live forum.

One day he just stopped posting and no more updates were made. One of the admins said that he quit over being payed. I seem to remember that Lowtax was paying him, but didn't want to keep paying.

SA changelog that Choochacacko started. (archive.is)

Choochacacko doesn't appear to have a presence outside of SA other than an abandoned Twitter account. (archive.is)

Photos from his Twitter:

Interesting Tweet: