- Joined
- Nov 14, 2017
It's funny to look at Burt's pre-mod post status. Just a normal catch-phrasing suck-ass same as any other GBS denizen. Then his personality shifts to that smug wiseass bully attitude bullshit subsequent to making mod. Psychologists that are fascinated with the Stanford Prison Experiment would probably have a blast with data mined from the posting habits of mods before and after they were promoted.
Burt's a cunt.
A large streak of SA had this unironic sense of superiority towards the rest of the internet. Granted, it was at a time when websites needed a little stricter moderation for grammar and spam, which SA enforced, but for some reason they ended up the only game in town doing what they did. This sense of superiority was frequently disguised as being merely ironic, but we all know the goons believed and felt it.
In retrospect, SomethingAwful was a worse place to post than even reddit if we're talking about culture, because of the sheer amount of dickswinging. And also in retrospect as an adult, a lot of the humor is super cringey and I really like to describe Lowtax as an internet Adam Sandler.