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"

Tanner Glass said:
That's how he killed himself, a zipline. He thought it would be zany.

He probably killed himself because fucking Voidburger is a bigger streamer than he was.
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Figuratively, literally or both?

My take is that it took 18 years but Eurononymous has finally gotten his revenge for his unfair permabanning from the Somethingawful.com online forums.
 
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Mixed bag of feels. On one hand it's been a delight watching him fuck himself over for years but on the other the little edgelord in me from better days has a bit of ache.

It'd be funny if it turns out he went out the same way as Mike from SteakandCheese/CJ did, though. Little bookends for weird losers of a certain time online.
 
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Glad I couldn't help said:
You, early 2000's, full of hope and optimism: watching a video on an exciting new Internet video site, laughs at of how Eric Bauman sucks and Lowtax will bang Bauman's mom and brand his ass with Something Awful.

You, late 2021, your hope and optimism gone: reading on a New Zealand agricultural forum about how Lowtax, the alcoholic, drug-addicted, twice-divorced ex-owner of Something Awful, has died under unknown circumstances. Eric Bauman is still alive, still has his money and is not a drain on society or a constant source of drama and bullshit to the people around him.

Really makes you think.
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Man, all the drama around Ebaumsworld and how they were content thieves feels so quaint in hindsight, now that reposting stuff other people made without attribution for money and clout is now basically the lifeblood of the modern Internet.
 
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Beautiful Border said:
Man, all the drama around Ebaumsworld and how they were content thieves feels so quaint in hindsight, now that reposting stuff other people made without attribution for money and clout is now basically the lifeblood of the modern Internet.
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The Internet is basically now a giant photocopying machine for the entire world, so nobody creates anything new anymore. Hence why we live in an age of cultural stagnation.
 
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Beautiful Border said:
Man, all the drama around Ebaumsworld and how they were content thieves feels so quaint in hindsight, now that reposting stuff other people made without attribution for money and clout is now basically the lifeblood of the modern Internet.
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There's also a well worn path of meme-makers going to court and getting real restitution now. So go ahead and have your meme stolen, you'll still be able to get money back on it if you aren't a fucking cave-in like Shmorky.
 
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I don't know if this is well known or not, but Eric Bauman is a big fan of MST3K and wrote in to the show and got his letter read immediately after a 1940s Coronet film about how cheating never leads to good things. Which is cosmically hilarious.

I think obscure vintage media is a shared passion of Rich and Eric. In another life they could have been friends.
Their lives would have taken immensely different paths.
 
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Im pressing a small X on the self-minecrafting. Only because LowTax is so spiteful that i'm pretty sure he would've left a long statement across all his socials or even livestream it.

Rip to him and his tho.
 
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I guess I'm in the "mixed emotions" crowd here. I stumbled across SA in its early years which happened to coincide with some of the formative years of my adult life. I'd just started college, got a job, got an apartment, and had DSL! Spending mornings in class, afternoons joking around with coworkers at my retail job, and nights endlessly scrolling threads on SA laughing at the stupid antics that seemed to be constantly happening there instead of doing my homework. So when I think about Lowtax, even though I'm well aware of his failings and the weird, bizarro-SA that the forums have devolved into (much like the world around it), it still reminds me of those good times. And I know it's easy to say "BUT ALL HE DID WAS MAKE THE SITE, IT WAS THE PEOPLE THERE WHO MADE IT GOOD". Yeah I know, but, he made the site. And those people went there. I've been basking in his schadenfreude like many others here, but his death still bums me out a bit. Not because he was a great person, moreso a reminder of how the old, carefree, anything-goes internet is just as dead as him and his forum. RIP I guess. Condolences to the family that is dealing with this shit.
 
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