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

[dance dance if you want]

Logan was in several of the same Facebook groups. It was a spectacular blowup when he went to visit and the groups found out. I think most of that was covered in the Lowtax thread.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

Bird left after helping Logan get out of Missouri. I don't know what her involvement was in covering up Ashli's situation

She approved and directly applied bans to people calling horse shit on the "kidnapped kid" saga, ironically blaming a lack of empathy for Lowtax.

 

[Ashen One]

Reminder that the punchsport pagoda mod Fatherdog, who I've seen posts in this thread talking about how great a mod he was, was a cosplaying furry who liked to LARP that he was 'a real fighter' but upon people finding his amateur record it consisted of two fights, both of which he was knocked out within seconds. When a notorious troll posted proof of all of it he was banned.

I didn't know Tonkasaw had been a SA mod.

 

[Brain Problems]

People will spend thousands of bucks on pictures in a mobile game. In my opinion Jeffrey's purchase is the same type of brainrot but on a bigger scale.

At least Jeff's particular exchange of hard currency for intangible assets allows him to physically enact the fantasy of ruling over a galaxy of miscreants equally as poor in financial literacy and social skills. Jeff should sell jpgs of fancier and fancier administrator positions to raise capital.

 

[Tanner Glass]

I didn't know Tonkasaw had been a SA mod.

I didn't know you could find a record of Tonkasaw showing up to a fight.

 

[AnOminous]

I still think its a true retard move to purchase SA for any price, never mind six figures. It's so stupid this has to be a scam somehow. No one who has that sort of cash lying around is stupid enough to actually do it.

You seriously believe a goon wouldn't do something this absolutely stupid or you're just doubting that they'd have the money? Because just so you know, goons are insanely fucking retarded, Jeffrey of POZ is a goon, the only real issue is whether he had the money, because if he did, he would be stupid enough to do it.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

And if Donald Trump wins the election, I expect things to become very interesting on SA in the days immediately following.

If the 2 scoops, 2 genders, 2 terms prophecy comes true I'm gonna dig up my old account and see how fast I can get banned for Joe-posting and rubbing it in. Just go around to random non-political threads like "c'mon man, that sounds like a load of malarkey jack"

 

[Pissmaster]

Maybe i ve been out of the loop on goon culture but perma used to be reserved for serious stuff like death threats, threats of sucide etc.

FAU went fucking nuclear with it during his last year as admin.

I am gonna go and say jeff is making the correct call as long as burt doesnt get re modded and mod abuse him its cool.


OR this is a plan to let burt become a mod again after a few months of hazing.

IIRC as of the late '00s they were only used for really troublesome posters. On top of death threats, they were handed out to people who were banned and reregged like over 10 times, SA-Mart scammers, generally understandable situations. They were rare and usually the ban reason was just "Permabanned User (username)". Just look at the permaban log for January 2010: we've got a three-time Secret Santa deadbeat, a guy who signed up just to shill his beer website, a repeat SA-Mart scammer, a failed Toxx Clause, but mostly just reregs who were permabanned before. 15 entries total.

January 2020 has 43, with shit like this:

But what's the context? Going backwards in the thread didn't really show much, it's not like he spammed a bunch or anything, even with the thread being largely a live reaction one. But later in the thread:

Apparently goons can't handle bantz to the point where bantz nets you a permaban. Yeesh. Also, if you want some free Steam games, just annoy Fungah! a lot. He won't block you or anything, no no no, he'll reward you for it and then sit there perplexed as to why giving someone a gift doesn't make them go away! What an idiot.

 

[White Devil]

I'm surprised they didn't pull some "violence against women" insanity on him for saying he'll beat down a female video game character in a fighting game.

 

[Uzumaki]

I just followed a link from here and read some of their forums for the first time in a decade... that is not the place that I would have expected would go super woke but here we are. This is the only place on the internet I frequent where I might run into a goon; can anyone give me a TL;DR of how this came about? It must have been some goddamn Ship of Thebes shit.

If people could keep their sperging about the relative merits of being super woke until after I get an answer that'd be greeeaaaaaaat.

Edit; This was moved here from a separate thread so apologies if this is covered elsewhere in this mountain of text.

 

[NerdShamer]

Lowtax was forced to leave his own site.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

Lowtax was forced to leave his own site.

Like Lowtax put any effort into the site after 2008.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

I would guess that the fee to join the website is the reason. Anyone vaguely normal would see that and say WTF, I'm not paying to sign up for some forum. So who does is weird people, the kind of people who become commies and troons.

 

[Thumb Butler]

I noticed a major change around the time when posting in the very funny fat and ugly people threads suddenly was a thought crime. I left soon after, so maybe 2015-16?

 

[Uzumaki]

I would guess that the fee to join the website is the reason. Anyone vaguely normal would see that and say WTF, I'm not paying to sign up for some forum. So who does is weird people, the kind of people who become commies and troons.

But that's the thing: they've had that forever and they used to be pretty edgy, relatively speaking, and gave zero shits about people's feelings. Now they're running around having the vapors about everything. The current SA forums would have had a thread mocking them in the old SA forums.

Something changed.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

Something changed.

Into something awful.

 

[Pissmaster]

I noticed a major change around the time when posting in the very funny fat and ugly people threads suddenly was a thought crime. I left soon after, so maybe 2015-16?

It was a very slow burn that had been happening for ages, but my breaking point for where I was just done was sometime around '13-'14. Goons had all sorts of derangement syndromes long before Trump announced his candidacy, and every goon and their grandma trooned out.

And don't forget the time back when LowT lived in Seattle and went to a goon meet and got caught sucking on Fawnette's toes while she was passed out. I'm pretty sure unconsensual toe suckin' would be considered sexual assault in some jurisdictions!

lmao

 

[Leonard Helplessness]

It was a very slow burn that had been happening for ages, but my breaking point for where I was just done was sometime around '13-'14. Goons had all sorts of derangement syndromes long before Trump announced his candidacy, and every goon and their grandma trooned out.


lmao

One thing I found interesting was Slowbeef mentioning at one point that occasionally, he'd go into the Let's Play Dangan Ronpa thread, read the early pages of the thread, and get nostalgic for how the forums used to be.

For those not familiar with that thread, Dangan Ronpa was a stupid anime game for the PlayStation Portable, a game console that nobody outside of Japan cared about. Back in 2011 the game had not been translated from Japanese to any other language, but it was wildly popular in Japan. One Something Awful user, orenronen, decided to do a Let's Play of the game as part of his studies of Japanese and English, neither of which was his first language. He played through the game a bit at a time, presenting the game in the form of screenshots and videos and shit accompanied by his English translations of the dialogue. He did a pretty good job explaining what the Japanese dialogue had been and why he made the translation decisions he did (since the game's writing was full of obscure Japanese pop culture references that not even most weeaboos knew nor cared about). His Let's Play of the game quickly became very popular, and a lot of people on the SA forums found the game's story quite engaging even though it just was about a bunch of Japanese high schoolers killing each other in a Japanese high school like every other fucking Japanese anime that ever existed.

Tellingly, people on the SA forums were not the only ones who ended up following the thread. After all, it was the only possible place on the internet for a non-Japanese speaker to get the Dangan Ronpa experience. The thread became particularly popular on Tumblr, which was already a cesspool by then. What I remember hearing is that somewhere partway through Chapter 2 of the game, the thread's culture began to shift. New users kept appearing and acting weird and retarded, and the cancer soon spread to the rest of the forums -- even after the Let's Play had concluded and the game and its sequels had been fully translated and released stateside.

The Dangan Ronpa thread wasn't the only plane to hit the tower as far as I'm concerned (you had the bronies popping up everywhere before then as well), but goddamn did it fuck up the forums a lot.

 

[Ilmseil]

Maybe i ve been out of the loop on goon culture but perma used to be reserved for serious stuff like death threats, threats of sucide etc.

FAU went fucking nuclear with it during his last year as admin.

I am gonna go and say jeff is making the correct call as long as burt doesnt get re modded and mod abuse him its cool.


OR this is a plan to let burt become a mod again after a few months of hazing.

Yeah bro, check out my fuckin hot teeny daughter, check out her thong bikini guys isn't she fuckin' hotttt???

 

[repentance]

I noticed a major change around the time when posting in the very funny fat and ugly people threads suddenly was a thought crime. I left soon after, so maybe 2015-16?

It started with the cat lady era and certain demographics being put under the protection of the mods/admins and it snowballed from there.