Inactive Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka - Deadbeat (emphasis on "Dead") founder of Something Awful, forced out of his own community, on his second divorce, stuck his dick in crazy, "Birth Giver"

I'm not a doctor, but just from my experience with these people, I think taking pain killers reduces your overall pain threshold until it's so low just being alive and sober is physically agonizing.

You're spot on. It's a well documented phenomenon.

 
Also the Super Kansas City Worldskippers. That was kind of funny when I was 20 years old.

I tried to watch it maybe two-three years ago though and it made me cringe so hard my testicles went up inside me and they still haven't come back out.

That makes me wonder: I'm shocked Goons haven't tried harder to #Cancel a lot of old, borderline-funny SA stuff like that. Has there been any pushback on the SA forums about past SA content? Because up until 2010-2011 or so, I'm relatively sure frontpage writers were still dropping "faggot" bombs and making fun of troons, gross fetishes, etc. which would be seen now by goons as extremely "problematic"; I could absolutely see the current goons throwing a fit about something like the Kansas City Worldskippers since it's essentially racial humor (though completely inoffensive to anyone who isn't a moron).


If Lowtax did say that -- and fuck it, y'know what, I actually believe he did as part of 'grooming' (for lack of a better word) a mentally ill drunk so that she'd be so enamored of him that she'd come and be his personal assistant/nanny/mommy/jack off hole -- that is one of the most withering self-owns in internet history.
 
Where is Lowtax's toddler? Does Richard somehow have custody right now? A shit parent nodding off on opiates is the start to lots of tragic CPS casefiles.
 
Where is Lowtax's toddler? Does Richard somehow have custody right now? A shit parent nodding off on opiates is the start to lots of tragic CPS casefiles.

He has time with her. He posted a couple of photos of her at his house after their court date for emergency orders.
 
I kind of doubt that‘s true only because in my experience rumors of ppl having “millions“ almost never turn out to be true or they are vastly exaggerated, esp if the mountains of money are supposedly from bitcoin or day trading.

We have a resident lolcow Troon (James “Katie“ Charm) who supposedly made $2 million in bitcoin three years ago, yet today he lives in squalor in a efficiency flat with two roommates who hate him and had to sell his car (and his major only asset) last year to make ends meet. Bitcoin windfall winners tend to treat their money like gamblers who hit it big - it’s gets pissed away or gambled away in more bitcoin very fast.

Jeffery might have some cash on hand thanks to bitcoin. But if he’s ready to throw down real cash for an asset he’s never seen the legit accounting on to some guy like Lowtax, that cash is going down the shitter real fast one way or another.

Also curious about that tax lien situation with Lowtax. He might be able to con Jeffery in paying off his tax debt “so he can sell SA”. A tax lien or debt will prevent any sale until it’s satisfied. I could see the IRS seizing the entire sale price if someone tries to pay Lowtax for it.

According to what I hear, Jeffrey is a bitcoin millionaire

"The easiest way have a million in bitcoin is to have invested $10 million"

the TL;DR on this is the people I know who have significant stakes in BTC fall into one of two categories
1) They invested a substantial amount (buying BTC or mining rigs), so the $500,000 they have in Bitcoin is minus $490,000 in costs.
2) Did successful Cryptotrades, and are unable or unwilling to touch their sick gains because of what the IRS will do their anus.*

That's in addition to as @MirnaMinkoff posted, the first windfall tends to get spent like a trailer park scratch off winner*.

During the December 2017 surge I know at least one person who got out and then got right back in, just in time for it to all collapse. He could cash out and still have five-figure returns, but he thinks we'll get back to $20K per coin. Granted he's not selling his car or living in Ramen squalor so, who knows.


And by the trailer park scratch off I mean I know of a few people who utterly wrecked because they bought more BTC right before the high, or are waiting to get curbstomped by the IRS as soon as they touch their Coinbase account again.
 
I cannot contain my contempt for people in chronic pain. Florida is pill capital of the world, and I am so sick of hearing pill heads talk about their fucking aches and pains. I'm not a doctor, but just from my experience with these people, I think taking pain killers reduces your overall pain threshold until it's so low just being alive and sober is physically agonizing. There's a certain point where someone, like Boogie, is just so pitiful you can't pity them anymore. It wraps around to being offensive. You start thinking like a veterinarian, that the merciful thing is to put her down.
Pretty much any drug has a nasty rubberbanding effect when you go off of them, exasperating whatever problem they were temporarily solving. Uppers will leave you tired for weeks, ecstasy will leave you depressed, and so on and so forth.

Opiates are the fucking devil and make you severely sick and in constant hellish pain if you kick hardcore shit and go cold turkey, since they make you feel wonderful, happy, without pain, any kind of glee you can imagine. Flip that around when you go cold turkey, and you're suddenly living in an inescapable hell, where the only out is more.
 
That makes me wonder: I'm shocked Goons haven't tried harder to #Cancel a lot of old, borderline-funny SA stuff like that. Has there been any pushback on the SA forums about past SA content? Because up until 2010-2011 or so, I'm relatively sure frontpage writers were still dropping "faggot" bombs and making fun of troons, gross fetishes, etc. which would be seen now by goons as extremely "problematic"; I could absolutely see the current goons throwing a fit about something like the Kansas City Worldskippers since it's essentially racial humor (though completely inoffensive to anyone who isn't a moron).



If Lowtax did say that -- and fuck it, y'know what, I actually believe he did as part of 'grooming' (for lack of a better word) a mentally ill drunk so that she'd be so enamored of him that she'd come and be his personal assistant/nanny/mommy/jack off hole -- that is one of the most withering self-owns in internet history.
Lowtax knew what she wanted and needed to hear. Hell he managed to get her to come to Missouri to clean his damn house after that second good for nothing wife left him.

I’m sure he told her she was going to revitalize the “SA brand” back to it’s glory days and build a internet influencer empire.
 
Found this documentary:


Going to watch the whole thing but apparently LT got the idea for the name while working with Radium and Fragmaster(?) at Gamestop (2:28)
Im such a fucking goon but Im sad I missed this because I was like 12 at the time. Looks like a good fuckin time. Id have hung out with like 9/10 of those guys, but goons are not known for good decisions.

Theyre obviously going around being a public nuisance and completely obnoxious but honestly when youre still in puberty and under 25 or so, that shits still kind of fun when youre the goon doing it.
That makes me wonder: I'm shocked Goons haven't tried harder to #Cancel a lot of old, borderline-funny SA stuff like that. Has there been any pushback on the SA forums about past SA content? Because up until 2010-2011 or so, I'm relatively sure frontpage writers were still dropping "faggot" bombs and making fun of troons, gross fetishes, etc. which would be seen now by goons as extremely "problematic";
When they find out about them, they do try to get them cancelled or removed. I remember in the other SA thread, people here were posting old photoshop Fridays of like "make products more problematic", and it was kind of funny and somewhat creative edgelord humor (by goon standards, mind you*) of like turning Rice Krispies into a Nazi joke, shit like "Sugar frosted Kikes--they snap crackle and pop when you put em in the oven!" It was a little better than that, but goons evidentially were reading the thread, saw KF posters talking about it, and had the article removed or at least tried to.

*This is still the site known for invading Second Life and flying virtual dildos into a Twin Tower monument (actually I think it was just across the virtual stage during some dudes speech, but a Twin Towers joke is absolutely goons' MO too) during some company's "Internet of the Future" event or whatever where they hosted a company event virtually on Second Life. Edgelord humor is goons' primary nature. If you look at the Lowtax cancel thread, there are a bunch of goons still posting Goatse and gifs of Porky Pig popping out of his asshole and doing the "Thats all Folks!" thing.
 
I'm gonna disagree here - the model of "provide something that people will only use if it's free, get into huge debt for development and hosting costs, have no clear way to make a profit" is what killed almost every Tech Bubble 1.0 company and is still a brain disease among a lot of Silicon Valley (Twitter being the most obvious example of something that costs insane amounts to operate and has lost money over its lifetime because it took 15 years to get to the point where it could charge significant money for ads). Lowtax actually figuring out how to monetize Internet comedy made sense and at one time the notion of "a forum that isn't a disorganized mess of people yelling catchphrases" was worth paying for. If he had solved the technical issues by 2010 or so and continued to provide a product that "people interested in humor" would buy as opposed to becoming a political death cult, he'd be fine.
Most of what you say here is factually wrong.
Hosting a text-based forum like SA is dirt cheap nowadays, I can't talk about development, but SA has spaghetti code and Lowtax already grifted $20k "trying" to migrate SA to xenforo, so I don't think its development deserves any merit.
Enterprises like Youtube lose a lot of money because videos are really large elements data-wise, I don't know how some tech companies lose so much money, I assume it's in part due to AI development (Youtube is yet another example in this case), which is also a bubble.
Others, like Facebook, which is free, are money printing machines.
Even if there was no troons and no wife beaters I'm skeptic about SA surviving, everything comes to an end, and SA hasn't evolved properly, troons and Lowtax aren't to blame here, they're yet but another symptom.
 
I'm gonna disagree here - the model of "provide something that people will only use if it's free, get into huge debt for development and hosting costs, have no clear way to make a profit" is what killed almost every Tech Bubble 1.0 company and is still a brain disease among a lot of Silicon Valley (Twitter being the most obvious example of something that costs insane amounts to operate and has lost money over its lifetime because it took 15 years to get to the point where it could charge significant money for ads). Lowtax actually figuring out how to monetize Internet comedy made sense and at one time the notion of "a forum that isn't a disorganized mess of people yelling catchphrases" was worth paying for. If he had solved the technical issues by 2010 or so and continued to provide a product that "people interested in humor" would buy as opposed to becoming a political death cult, he'd be fine.



Whatever else he is (was there a thread here about the recent drama over the Earthworm Jim guy going full Scott Adams on their podcast?) Mike Nelson is, like the rest of the MST3K crew, someone who has a very small-town Midwest attitude towards the need to work for a living. They want to keep producing new content and not just take the opportunity to do a convention circuit signing DVDs of a 25 year old TV show for the rest of their lives. I think Lowtax's refusal to evolve his brand past 2003 and unsustainable lifestyle would disgust all of them, even the much more liberal ones.


Your right after the 1.0 crash the 10 buxs was worth its but he trusted radium who was just in over his head. Then he neglected the site. also Sass had lowtaxs Adsense guy on who basically worked for free. when the forum had high traffic he was rolling in money.

Asking D&D this question got me one of my perma's
"Hey why not talk to people on the right figure out what their legitimate grievances are? Maybe you could learn how to counter their ebil hate better."

I m gonna assume that perma was done by FAU
 
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The very first thing they tell you with a back injury is to lose weight, even 10 pounds makes a huge difference any kind of spinal issue. He just keeps getting fatter though, he looks like he’s getting into the high 200s? This just might be me being accustom to a different medical system but it is shocking to me that a doctor would give him opiates instead of making him try to treat the pain by getting not obese first.
 
I’m sure he told her she was going to revitalize the “SA brand” back to it’s glory days and build a internet influencer empire.

Ironically, from leaks I've seen of the SA Slack group, Logan did a shockingly okay-ish job of trying to organize things and keep everyone on track and focused. Like, from what I can tell (and from what I hear from the leaker), was she a genius whiz-bang brand manager? Eh. No, not really, though I've only seen <a dozen screenshots and one person's anecdotal account. But she had, like, some degree of a skillset and was at least trying to keep the content creators and moderation staff focused and on task instead of just goofing around and then just doing whatever on a whim. Lowtax has employed people who sold themselves just as big as she did but delivered a lot less.

And honestly, that makes Lowtax look like an even bigger dumbass. Even back in the good old days, people with any sort of tangible skillset weren't exactly throwing themselves at him to work for 'free' (which I assume is what Logan's employment boiled down to: live with Lowtax, do all this work shit (and wait on him hand and foot) and in return, she gets to live in a (mc)mansion, get fucked, not have to worry about bills and have *some* sort of access to money, by way of Lowtax probably just buying her shit if she needed it), let alone lately.

So, you're Lowtax, right? You're in your mid-40's, you look like shit, you're an addict, you have had police reports on you for physical abuse and as a result you barely have a relationship with your ex-wife and two daughters, your illegal immigrant current wife (with whom you also have a daughter) no longer lets you fuck her and your relationship with her is on the skids, your site is hemorrhaging support, money is drying up and you have to rely on a Patreon to live. Here comes this girl; she's crazy as a shithouse rat and you know this, but is also like half your age, is starstruck (she still somehow thinks you're a celebrity when you haven't been in over a decade), kinda/sorta/maybe in or near the ballpark of conventionally attractive I guess?, doesn't care that you look like shit, doesn't care you have 3 kids from two failed marriages, doesn't care you have one (soon to be two) ex-wives, doesn't care that you have a police record (or at least believes your side of the story unquestioningly), is willing to move across the country to bumfuck Missouri ("America's Taint™") to clean your house, cook you food, care for you (since you've convinced her you're an invalid), suck your dick, reorganize and administer your dead, gay comedy site (***and somehow, against all odds, do maybe actually an okay-adjacent job of it, come to find out!***) and do it all for basically room and board and maybe some minor, controlled access to your money but no salary.

Her being fucking nuts aside, this is a WAY cushier arrangement than you could reasonably expect to have at this stage in your life, given your baggage. All you have to do is not do stuff that will likely exacerbate her mental illness and also not do some of that famous Kyanka domestic violence you're becoming famous for, and you could probably ride this out for at least a few years. So, of course, what do you do? Isolate her like you did your ex-wife, leave liquor around the house for her to drink while on her psych meds and beat her like you did your last 2-3 partners. You try to do damage control by going on an edgy podcast and try to cater to the shitlords by talking about how you like to beat women while eating cookies, forever alienating the SJWs, and then reverse course the next day and try to cater to the SJWs by calling the podcast host a white nationalist MRA, forever alienating the shitlords. The girl is back in Utah, your ex-wife is still in a shelter, your Patreon is bottoming out, your website is in flames and the only thing to keep you company is the sound of a breeze blowing through your empty McMansion, as it blows an empty bottle of Ativan across the floor. To quote yourself in the possibly illegal recording you made, "you've burned every bridge that you've had".

The phone rings. It's your lawyer mom, not calling to tell you she misses you or to ask how her grandkids are doing, but to remind you that you have a Zoom meeting with the lawyer she's arranged for you to help with your brand new round of legal problems in the morning. She sounds distant. Cold. The conversation is terse. She hangs up without saying goodbye, let alone that she loves you. You have disappointed her. Again. Worse, she no longer thinks of you as her son who did something disappointing, but her son that IS a disappointment. You roll over in bed and fumble for your bottle of Ambien. You clumsily knock it off. It hits the floor with a hollow thud. Empty. Just like the McMansion. Just like your Patreon. Just like your life. If you close your eyes hard enough, you can almost see the calendar on the wall with the date marked "2000", as Fragmaster shows you his latest idea: some ironic MSPaint comics about firemen or something. But then, just as quickly, the calendar is gone, the comic is gone, Fragmaster is gone. You are alone again, 20 years on. "Oh well," you think, "just a quick nap and then I'll finish off those Goldbelly cookies". You end up sleeping for 12 hours and missing your appointment with the lawyer.

You either die a Web 1.0 e-celeb, or live to see yourself become the GOOFTROOP.

TL;DR Lowtax is as competent at being an abuser and manipulator as he is at everything else in his life.
 
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The very first thing they tell you with a back injury is to lose weight, even 10 pounds makes a huge difference any kind of spinal issue. He just keeps getting fatter though, he looks like he’s getting into the high 200s? This just might be me being accustom to a different medical system but it is shocking to me that a doctor would give him opiates instead of making him try to treat the pain by getting not obese first.
Lol. This is America, don’t fat shame! (Obviously if he had real back pain he would lose 150 lbs and be doing physical therapy/exercise.)

He just wants to eat pills and lay around. Back pain for men, fibromyalgia for women, the diagnosis of choice for those who want chronic pain pill scripts filled in America.
 
Here comes this girl; she's crazy as a shithouse rat and you know this, but is also like half your age, is starstruck (she still somehow thinks you're a celebrity when you haven't been in over a decade), kinda/sorta/maybe in or near the ballpark of conventionally attractive I guess?, doesn't care that you look like shit, doesn't care you have 3 kids from two failed marriages, doesn't care you have one (soon to be two) ex-wives, doesn't care that you have a police record (or at least believes your side of the story unquestioningly), is willing to move across the country to bumfuck Missouri ("America's Taint™") to clean your house, cook you food, care for you (since you've convinced her you're an invalid), suck your dick, reorganize and administer your dead, gay comedy site (***and somehow, against all odds, do maybe actually an okay-adjacent job of it, come to find out!***) and do it all for basically room and board and maybe some minor, controlled access to your money but no salary.

Bogan is not very attractive, despite the incels simping ITT, but she is still light years out of Lowtax's league.

And I'll believe she was semi competent as a brand manager, as you could take anyone even close to being a normal adult, given them Lowtax's authority to make people listen, and do vastly better job at running things than Lowtax just my nature of there being a consistent vision and someone sticking to it instead of going off to snort Ambien after two days because they're bored.

A part of one of the older jobs I had (essentially) required me to show up at a designated time, turn some things on, and then be at the same place in about 3 hours afterwards to turn everything off. Which I did, because that's what it said to do.
Our department was sent donuts and cookies on a weekly basis from people thanking us for our "exceptional service", because the group that had this responsibility before us could not accomplish this, so simply meeting the basic level of 'showing up when we said we'd show up' was enough to get people sending us fruit baskets as a thankyou.
 
Ironically, from leaks I've seen of the SA Slack group, Logan did a shockingly okay-ish job of trying to organize things and keep everyone on track and focused. Like, from what I can tell (and from what I hear from the leaker), was she a genius whiz-bang brand manager? Eh. No, not really, though I've only seen <a dozen screenshots and one person's anecdotal account. But she had, like, some degree of a skillset and was at least trying to keep the content creators and moderation staff focused and on task instead of just goofing around and then just doing whatever on a whim. Lowtax has employed people who sold themselves just as big as she did but delivered a lot less.

And honestly, that makes Lowtax look like an even bigger dumbass. Even back in the good old days, people with any sort of tangible skillset weren't exactly throwing themselves at him to work for 'free' (which I assume is what Logan's employment boiled down to: live with Lowtax, do all this work shit (and wait on him hand and foot) and in return, she gets to live in a (mc)mansion, get fucked, not have to worry about bills and have *some* sort of access to money, by way of Lowtax probably just buying her shit if she needed it), let alone lately.

So, you're Lowtax, right? You're in your mid-40's, you look like shit, you're an addict, you have had police reports on you for physical abuse and as a result you barely have a relationship with your ex-wife and two daughters, your illegal immigrant current wife (with whom you also have a daughter) no longer lets you fuck her and your relationship with her is on the skids, your site is hemorrhaging support, money is drying up and you have to rely on a Patreon to live. Here comes this girl; she's crazy as a shithouse rat and you know this, but is also like half your age, is starstruck (she still somehow thinks you're a celebrity when you haven't been in over a decade), kinda/sorta/maybe in or near the ballpark of conventionally attractive I guess?, doesn't care that you look like shit, doesn't care you have 3 kids from two failed marriages, doesn't care you have one (soon to be two) ex-wives, doesn't care that you have a police record (or at least believes your side of the story unquestioningly), is willing to move across the country to bumfuck Missouri ("America's Taint™") to clean your house, cook you food, care for you (since you've convinced her you're an invalid), suck your dick, reorganize and administer your dead, gay comedy site (***and somehow, against all odds, do maybe actually an okay-adjacent job of it, come to find out!***) and do it all for basically room and board and maybe some minor, controlled access to your money but no salary.

Her being fucking nuts aside, this is a WAY cushier arrangement than you could reasonably expect to have at this stage in your life, given your baggage. All you have to do is not do stuff that will likely exacerbate her mental illness and also not do some of that famous Kyanka domestic violence you're becoming famous for, and you could probably ride this out for at least a few years. So, of course, what do you do? Isolate her like you did your ex-wife, leave liquor around the house for her to drink while on her psych meds and beat her like you did your last 2-3 partners. You try to do damage control by going on an edgy podcast and try to cater to the shitlords by talking about how you like to beat women while eating cookies, forever alienating the SJWs, and then reverse course the next day and try to cater to the SJWs by calling the podcast host a white nationalist MRA, forever alienating the shitlords. The girl is back in Utah, your ex-wife is still in a shelter, your Patreon is bottoming out, your website is in flames and the only thing to keep you company is the sound of a breeze blowing through your empty McMansion, as it blows an empty bottle of Ativan across the floor. To quote yourself in the possibly illegal recording you made, "you've burned every bridge that you've had".

The phone rings. It's your lawyer mom, not calling to tell you she misses you or to ask how her grandkids are doing, but to remind you that you have a Zoom meeting with the lawyer she's arranged for you to help with your brand new round of legal problems in the morning. She sounds distant. Cold. The conversation is terse. She hangs up without saying goodbye, let alone that she loves you. You have disappointed her. Again. Worse, she no longer thinks of you as her son who did something disappointing, but her son that IS a disappointment. You roll over in bed and fumble for your bottle of Ambien. You clumsily knock it off. It hits the floor with a hollow thud. Empty. Just like the McMansion. Just like your Patreon. Just like your life. If you close your eyes hard enough, you can almost see the calendar on the wall with the date marked "2000", as Fragmaster shows you his latest idea: some ironic MSPaint comics about firemen or something. But then, just as quickly, the calendar is gone, the comic is gone, Fragmaster is gone. You are alone again, 20 years on. "Oh well," you think, "just a quick nap and then I'll finish off those Goldbelly cookies". You end up sleeping for 12 hours and missing your appointment with the lawyer.

You either die a Web 1.0 e-celeb, or live to see yourself become the GOOFTROOP.

TL;DR Lowtax is as competent at being an abuser and manipulator as he is at everything else in his life.

dear Richard,
 
Lol. This is America, don’t fat shame! (Obviously if he had real back pain he would lose 150 lbs and be doing physical therapy/exercise.)

He just wants to eat pills and lay around. Back pain for men, fibromyalgia for women, the diagnosis of choice for those who want chronic pain pill scripts filled in America.
It's hard to be mad at Lowtax when you realize he fucked up his back carrying home a box full of XenForo.
 
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A) Who keeps the package insert for a medication? Especially one that Logan would have been taking for a while.
B) If I was an internet wizard who until recently was making 8k/month and before that was making 15k/month on top of untold fortunes, I'd probably be willing to spring for a maid to cleanup rather than my aging mother
C) Logan being drunk/bipolar does not negate what Lowtax is being accused of. I'm not fancy-pants city lawyer, but it seems like the penalties for beating a drunk, bipolar person would be similar to beating a sober, non-bipolar person.

I find these slights of hand that Lowtax tries frustrating. It's like saying he was exonerated from his domestic abuse charge regarding his first wife. No, he was not exonerated, she didn't show up and the case was dismissed. This is not the same thing as a court making a ruling on the facts of the matter.
 
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