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This is the type of thing that makes me think I'm losing my fucking mind. It is the internet. SA regulars have to know that both they AND the forums do not fucking matter in the slightest. We are talking about a goddamn comedy forum that has been extant for two decades and is so archaic and outmoded that core functions of the board just straight up do not work and cannot, apparently, ever work, because Lowtax loves two things above all others: losing money (and, now, custody) in messy e-public divorces, and hiring terrible backend administrators who incidentally also love stealing money. The only actual value SA has or had at any point in its history is to fucking retards like me - sentimental value, that is to say, which is basically the same thing as "valueless." Lowtax has never been able to leverage SA into anything other than Vice articles and enabling his addictions and that isn't an accident. It's that SA basically has no intrinsic value.

If you were a complete outsider lacking the context necessary to understand this, the language being used by the retards involved in this most recent drama would be both breathtaking and baffling. There are people talking about Nazi spy infiltration conspiracies and the culture wars and systemic oppression of marginalized peoples because one dead gay subforum filled with idiots who thought they could define the comedy on this worthless forum (FYAD) got into the world's most boring slapfight with another group of screeching morons who define "oppression" as a six-hour posting break and are enraged that someone might make fun of them, and thus also think they define the comedy on this worthless forum. It is a never-ending traincar pileup of literal Joke Police, and the involved parties are so motherfucking ridiculous that they almost defy actual ridicule.

Like, think for a moment about who the craziest people in this sordid affair actually are. The self-segregating TGRS martyrs who unironically scam posters out of money in the name of keeping minority heads up, whatever that fucking means, and have "sundowner" threads, and revel in the online ghetto they themselves created? Or is it the old rejects who couldn't hack it on weird twitter posting inane in-jokes at each other while simultaneously seriousposting in QCS about which grey forums are and aren't funny? No, wait, maybe it's the wildly over-represented trans community who not only post like CascadeBarney does, but also e-publicly thank that retard for their service like they're a veteran returning from a fucking war. It could be Extremely Online lefties who think that posting "white people are THE WORST" will scrub off the stink of their suburban upbringings so that they can more pedantically explain how the world really works to the unwashed masses. You could vote for the unpaid volunteer admin and moderation team, filled with people so paralyzingly desperate for a fraction of attention or power that they will cave in to any or all of the above groups at a moment's notice so that someone, anyone might actually like them, even if only briefly, even if only disingenuously. Actually it's definitely Lowtax himself, who put his faith in such paragons of stability as shmorky and ZDR and any number of ugly ex-wives and has been successfully run off of his own forum owing to both a figurative and literal (if you believe his contemptible e-begging) lack of a spine.

Really though, the craziest person in this dumbass garbage is me, for ever giving a fuck about SA in the first place. Come for the overwritten Zack Parsons front page articles and postin about shit nobody cares about with your pals, but stay for the drama acted upon by retards as if they're describing the fucking End Times!
 
I don't feel sorry for CascadeBeta in the slightest. His attitude seems that of a member of the Stasi. If he were ever in a position of real power, I have supreme confidence he would be an absolute monster, punishing people on whims and coming up with endless rationalisations for why he's not awful. Since the mods at SA sacking up and expelling the deranged troon infection is too much to hope for, I hope CascadeBarney continues to give us many lols.
 
CascadeBeta would never be in a position of real power. Their dominion is a shrinking online community full of mentally ill people funding an alcoholic who's incapable of forming real relationships. Someone just wrote an essay attempting to understand them but all you need to know is this. SA tells itself that its sense of humor evolved and grew up, when in reality those that did long since left to go live actual lives. These people are a rounding error.
 
Our nigga is reaching levels of Nazi paranoia that is now on par with Walt Disney's sperg-outs about communists.

I pity CascadeBeta. He seems like a depressed guy who has no friends, a shitty life of his own apathetic making, has probably never gotten laid, and his only sense of control or validation is a delusion that he's an important internet figure. I kind of feel bad for him.

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I concur. Back when I was looking up his online presence to facilitate us stealing his identity it was fucking depressing looking at his circa 2008 LPs because it made me wonder how many other internet people I watched (Not that I watched thecanadiancolin. It's just similar to a lot of the shit I watched in that era) and forgot about from back then have died in the meantime. I know gaiacrusher fucking trooned out.
CascadeBeta would never be in a position of real power. Their dominion is a shrinking online community full of mentally ill people funding an alcoholic who's incapable of forming real relationships. Someone just wrote an essay attempting to understand them but all you need to know is this. SA tells itself that its sense of humor evolved and grew up, when in reality those that did long since left to go live actual lives. These people are a rounding error.
He has to beg his dad for a (overpaid) job and even then he complains. He'd be kicked out of any professional organization in a heartbeat.
 
Lol absolutely not. There are multiple people in C-SPAM and D&D who are deluded enough to believe that the forums are not only a major influence on American politics, but also riddled with infiltrators attempting to sway people.
They might be right, but for all the wrong reasons. The forums spawned 4chan, and FYAD spawned weird twitter, which ultimately became unironic virtue signalling twitter, which then became the #resistance. The subgroups infest social media, and the real media reports on the garbage they respectively spew because the real media is absolute shit.
 
In AD2020, war was beginning

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Unfortunately KF already won. Most of the funny SA posters migrated over here.

And of course the troons think KF hates them. No, no. I'd never forcibly anesthetize you and rearrange your genitals into a grotesque form that only Mary Shelley would appreciate. You do that yourselves. You pay money to do that. You hate yourself more than I ever could.
 
They might be right, but for all the wrong reasons. The forums spawned 4chan, and FYAD spawned weird twitter, which ultimately became unironic virtue signalling twitter, which then became the #resistance. The subgroups infest social media, and the real media reports on the garbage they respectively spew because the real media is absolute shit.

This is one of the hardest things for me to get a handle on - the influence of internet bullshit I mean. Not a single person I've ever met offline gives a solitary fuck about anything posted by leftist twitter accounts or /pol/ shit on 4chan, assuming they even know those things exist. I don't want to say that the internet matters less than people seem to think it does, because that feels wrong, but I also think "4CHAN ELECTED TRUMP!!!" or "CONTRAPOINTS IS CHANGING SOCIETY!!!" takes have nuclear levels of heat, so who knows/cares

My gut tells me it's unwarranted self-importance from people who do all of their socializing online, but again it seems retarded to say that the internet broadly just doesn't matter, I'm pretty sure internet discourse impacts political discussion elsewhere. I just don't have any data to look at and I'm too lazy to invest in this particular subject matter

Either way if nobody seems to give a shit about that then there's zero chance anyone thinks that the way you win America is to fight in the trenches of fucking C-SPAM like lol what the fuck
 
This is one of the hardest things for me to get a handle on - the influence of internet bullshit I mean. Not a single person I've ever met offline gives a solitary fuck about anything posted by leftist twitter accounts or /pol/ shit on 4chan, assuming they even know those things exist. I don't want to say that the internet matters less than people seem to think it does, because that feels wrong, but I also think "4CHAN ELECTED TRUMP!!!" or "CONTRAPOINTS IS CHANGING SOCIETY!!!" takes have nuclear levels of heat, so who knows/cares

My gut tells me it's unwarranted self-importance from people who do all of their socializing online, but again it seems exceptional to say that the internet broadly just doesn't matter, I'm pretty sure internet discourse impacts political discussion elsewhere. I just don't have any data to look at and I'm too lazy to invest in this particular subject matter
To powerlevel a bit (hello former hell crew), the best example of this was by following the gamergate saga. In real time, you got to see mindless social media slapfights gain traction, first through second-rate bullshit news sites, then fringe sites like Breitbart, then eventually to CNN, MSNBC, NPR... the scourge of white gaming men! Then vile white gamers were lumped into deplorables, and Hillary got a Pepe call-out during a rally, and then the entire gamergate world was tied into alt-right twitter, and 4chan shitposters. It only spread further from there. Like a memed-out whore of a media brush fire.

Your friends may not know what the hells going on with the internet, but I bet they know what Pepe is by now. Or the white power hand sign.
 
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To powerlevel a bit (hello former hell crew), the best example of this was by following the gamergate saga. In real time, you got to see mindless social media slapfights gain traction, first through second-rate bullshit news sites, then fringe sites like Breitbart, then eventually to CNN, MSNBC, NPR... the scourge of white gaming men! Then vile white gamers were lumped into deplorables, and Hillary got a Pepe call-out during a rally, and then the entire gamergate world was tied into alt-right twitter, and 4chan shitposters. It only spread further from there. Like a memed-out whore of a media brush fire.

Fair, and you're probably more qualified to talk about it than I am because I have zero qualifications. My reading on gamergate and related bullshit is that it feeds/fed into the narrative already getting clicks and adbuys - white guys are the worst, and have been throwing a temper tantrum for the better part of a decade. Shit like the Ghostbusters remake attempting to brand itself as a feminist commentary or whatever, that's what I'm deeply suspicious of - it's a product to be consumed so the studio makes money. If the movie sucks (and it did), you'd salvage that by drumming up any dosh you could in whatever way you could. gamergate you had two interests if you're a journo: you could get free clicks by attacking an entire industry's consumer base, and you got to espouse the nobility of journalism in any field (they're under attack, you see, by the angry white men, and oh won't someone think of the trans "journalists" on Kotaku as well, what trying times for these brave souls). That's just easy money.

I'm still deeply suspect of the real-world impact of SA in any fashion. D&D is basically a terminally long awkward Thanksgiving with your politically motivated relatives - lots of SICK BURNS and passive aggressive bullshit, some shouting, absolutely nothing of value said so safely discard it. C-SPAM is somehow the retarded little brother of a retarded little subforum, so its relevance has to be even more diminished. Even if you want to credit SA for lefty twitter and /pol/, the forum right now has to have close to zero political influence, which makes the Metal Gear Solid: Nazi Spy Infiltration Action saga even more hilariously stupid
 
This is one of the hardest things for me to get a handle on - the influence of internet bullshit I mean. Not a single person I've ever met offline gives a solitary fuck about anything posted by leftist twitter accounts or /pol/ shit on 4chan, assuming they even know those things exist. I don't want to say that the internet matters less than people seem to think it does, because that feels wrong, but I also think "4CHAN ELECTED TRUMP!!!" or "CONTRAPOINTS IS CHANGING SOCIETY!!!" takes have nuclear levels of heat, so who knows/cares

My gut tells me it's unwarranted self-importance from people who do all of their socializing online, but again it seems exceptional to say that the internet broadly just doesn't matter, I'm pretty sure internet discourse impacts political discussion elsewhere. I just don't have any data to look at and I'm too lazy to invest in this particular subject matter

Either way if nobody seems to give a shit about that then there's zero chance anyone thinks that the way you win America is to fight in the trenches of fucking C-SPAM like lol what the fuck

Your second paragraph is correct. They're too stupid to realize they've put themselves into containment zones, while hoping to matter somehow indirectly.

Mostly I just miss the informative subforums, but these days you can't even post about football without every other comment being some lazy woke-ism about Kaepernick or whatever.
 
Your second paragraph is correct. They're too stupid to realize they've put themselves into containment zones, while hoping to matter somehow indirectly.

Mostly I just miss the informative subforums, but these days you can't even post about football without every other comment being some lazy woke-ism about Kaepernick or whatever.

All of my effortposting can be summarized neatly by that point. I used to like going to SA to talk about video games, post pictures of dogs, play eliminator in TFF, and shitpost. I haven't done any of that shit recently because I'd have to read through pages of bullshit about idpol and/or carefully craft a post that wouldn't trigger any idpol discussion, which on current SA seems fucking impossible. So I just don't post, and increasingly don't even visit the site

edit: really I should have seen this coming when that insufferably performative movie review crew was on the front page all the time, Current Releases I think? I remember reading a few of those and having the same experience I had during this last month, where I was asking myself "am I just losing my shit or does this make absolutely no sense"
 
And just like that, the "r-word" (LOL) disappears from the smilies list:
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Another victory in the march towards Progress!

Might be time to start saving
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and the like, because theyare as good as gone now.
 
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