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1d4chan>Ow, My Sanity. at 17:09, 16 January 2022

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	[[File:SADoor.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\|The Penguin introduces Robin to Something Awful.]]		[[File:SADoor.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\|The Penguin introduces Robin to Something Awful.]]

	'''Something Awful''' is a "comedy" website and message board (formerly) operated by Richard Kyanka, better known to the Internet as Lowtax. It was founded in the late 1990s, with the forums appearing around 2000. It is most famous for the latter, with the front page consisting of random shit skimmed from the forums and a side order of blogging from the forums' moderators. [[Moot]] came from here, as did almost all of 4chan's original userbase, now long since vanished in favor of newfags. Much like any father of a mentally retarded crack baby, Something Awful doesn't like to talk about this~~. And~~ much like any son of a abusive deadbeat who keeps cutting himself for attention, 4chan doesn't like to talk about Something Awful either.		'''Something Awful''' is a "comedy" website and message board (formerly) operated by Richard Kyanka, better known to the Internet as Lowtax. It was founded in the late 1990s, with the forums appearing around 2000. It is most famous for the latter, with the front page consisting of random shit skimmed from the forums and a side order of blogging from the forums' moderators. [[Moot]] came from here, as did almost all of 4chan's original userbase, now long since vanished in favor of newfags. Much like any father of a mentally retarded crack baby, Something Awful doesn't like to talk about this; much like any son of a abusive deadbeat who keeps cutting himself for attention, 4chan doesn't like to talk about Something Awful either.

	SA forum members are called '''goons'''. To become a goon, you have to pay [[Meme\|10bux]] as a registration fee, not including the amount you have to pay on top of that to get basic features like access to old threads and forum searches. The justification for this is that it improves forum quality, as the paywall prevents [[4e\|underage idiots]] and drive-by [[troll]]s from shitting things up. In practice, it just selects for users with a "unique" combination of high disposable income, low dignity, and an unwavering belief that the Internet is [[serious business]] enough to pay actual money for it.		SA forum members are called '''goons'''. To become a goon, you have to pay [[Meme\|10bux]] as a registration fee, not including the amount you have to pay on top of that to get basic features like access to old threads and forum searches. The justification for this is that it improves forum quality, as the paywall prevents [[4e\|underage idiots]] and drive-by [[troll]]s from shitting things up. In practice, it just selects for users with a "unique" combination of high disposable income, low dignity, and an unwavering belief that the Internet is [[serious business]] enough to pay actual money for it.

	In early/mid 2020, it was revealed that Lowtax was a serial domestic abuser, and all-around piece of shit<ref>[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3984488&pagenumber=120&perpage=40#post519160186 Emphasis on 'was':] After a judge ruled in favour of his ex-wife in a divorce case in 2021, Lowtax decided to become an hero rather than provide for his kids.</ref>. In addition to being a wifebeater, he also routinely shortchanged the writers who bothered to cobble together "content" for the front page of the site, bullied mods/admins until they quit their volunteer position, scammed people into giving him '''$10,000 per month''' on Patreon to cover the hosting costs for Something Awful (which amount to somewhere under $2,000 per month), and spending said money on [[Meme\|Goldbelly cookies]]. He was pressured into selling the site to one of the admins - which means that goons who still browse the dead "comedy" forums at least have the peace of mind to know that throwing money at a mostly-defunct site isn't financing a wifebeater's cookie habit (or, at least, it's financing a ''different'' piece of shit's as-yet unknown criminal proclivities).		In early/mid 2020, it was revealed that Lowtax was a serial domestic abuser, and all-around piece of shit<ref>[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3984488&pagenumber=120&perpage=40#post519160186 Emphasis on 'was':] After a judge ruled in favour of his ex-wife in a divorce case in 2021, Lowtax decided to become [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/an-hero an hero] rather than provide for his kids.</ref>. In addition to being a wifebeater, he also routinely shortchanged the writers who bothered to cobble together "content" for the front page of the site, bullied mods/admins until they quit their volunteer position, scammed people into giving him '''$10,000 per month''' on Patreon to cover the hosting costs for Something Awful (which amount to somewhere under $2,000 per month), and spending said money on [[Meme\|Goldbelly cookies]]. He was pressured into selling the site to one of the admins - which means that goons who still browse the dead "comedy" forums at least have the peace of mind to know that throwing money at a mostly-defunct site isn't financing a wifebeater's cookie habit (or, at least, it's financing a ''different'' piece of shit's as-yet unknown criminal proclivities).

	== What Something Awful gave to 4chan ==		== What Something Awful gave to 4chan ==

1d4chan>Ow, My Sanity.: Corrected tense, added footnote explaining why for the newbs.

2021-12-27T10:36:18Z

Corrected tense, added footnote explaining why for the newbs.

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	[[File:SADoor.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\|The Penguin introduces Robin to Something Awful.]]		[[File:SADoor.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\|The Penguin introduces Robin to Something Awful.]]

	'''Something Awful''' is a "comedy" website and message board operated by Richard Kyanka, better known to the Internet as Lowtax. It was founded in the late 1990s, with the forums appearing around 2000. It is most famous for the latter, with the front page consisting of random shit skimmed from the forums and a side order of blogging from the forums' moderators. [[Moot]] came from here, as did almost all of 4chan's original userbase, now long since vanished in favor of newfags. Much like any father of a mentally retarded crack baby, Something Awful doesn't like to talk about this. And much like any son of a abusive deadbeat who keeps cutting himself for attention, 4chan doesn't like to talk about Something Awful either.		'''Something Awful''' is a "comedy" website and message board (formerly) operated by Richard Kyanka, better known to the Internet as Lowtax. It was founded in the late 1990s, with the forums appearing around 2000. It is most famous for the latter, with the front page consisting of random shit skimmed from the forums and a side order of blogging from the forums' moderators. [[Moot]] came from here, as did almost all of 4chan's original userbase, now long since vanished in favor of newfags. Much like any father of a mentally retarded crack baby, Something Awful doesn't like to talk about this. And much like any son of a abusive deadbeat who keeps cutting himself for attention, 4chan doesn't like to talk about Something Awful either.

	SA forum members are called '''goons'''. To become a goon, you have to pay ~~<s>$10</s>~~ [[Meme\|10bux]] as a registration fee, not including the amount you have to pay on top of that to get basic features like access to old threads and forum searches. The justification for this is that it improves forum quality, as the paywall prevents [[4e\|underage idiots]] and drive-by [[troll]]s from shitting things up. In practice, it just selects for users with a "unique" combination of high disposable income, low dignity, and an unwavering belief that the Internet is [[serious business]] enough to pay actual money for it.		SA forum members are called '''goons'''. To become a goon, you have to pay [[Meme\|10bux]] as a registration fee, not including the amount you have to pay on top of that to get basic features like access to old threads and forum searches. The justification for this is that it improves forum quality, as the paywall prevents [[4e\|underage idiots]] and drive-by [[troll]]s from shitting things up. In practice, it just selects for users with a "unique" combination of high disposable income, low dignity, and an unwavering belief that the Internet is [[serious business]] enough to pay actual money for it.

	In early/mid 2020, it was revealed that Lowtax is a serial domestic abuser, and all-around piece of shit. In addition to being a wifebeater, he also routinely shortchanged the writers who bothered to cobble together "content" for the front page of the site, bullied mods/admins until they quit their volunteer position, scammed people into giving him '''$10,000 per month''' on Patreon to cover the hosting costs for Something Awful (which amount to somewhere under $2,000 per month), and spending said money on [[Meme\|Goldbelly cookies]]. He was pressured into selling the site to one of the admins - which means that goons who still browse the dead "comedy" forums at least have the peace of mind to know that throwing money at a mostly-defunct site isn't financing a wifebeater's cookie habit (or, at least, it's financing a ''different'' piece of shit's as-yet unknown criminal proclivities).		In early/mid 2020, it was revealed that Lowtax was a serial domestic abuser, and all-around piece of shit<ref>[https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3984488&pagenumber=120&perpage=40#post519160186 Emphasis on 'was':] After a judge ruled in favour of his ex-wife in a divorce case in 2021, Lowtax decided to become an hero rather than provide for his kids.</ref>. In addition to being a wifebeater, he also routinely shortchanged the writers who bothered to cobble together "content" for the front page of the site, bullied mods/admins until they quit their volunteer position, scammed people into giving him '''$10,000 per month''' on Patreon to cover the hosting costs for Something Awful (which amount to somewhere under $2,000 per month), and spending said money on [[Meme\|Goldbelly cookies]]. He was pressured into selling the site to one of the admins - which means that goons who still browse the dead "comedy" forums at least have the peace of mind to know that throwing money at a mostly-defunct site isn't financing a wifebeater's cookie habit (or, at least, it's financing a ''different'' piece of shit's as-yet unknown criminal proclivities).

	== What Something Awful gave to 4chan ==		== What Something Awful gave to 4chan ==

1d4chan>ElderThingApologist: Updated Fatal & Friends archive link.

2021-10-03T18:25:23Z

Updated Fatal & Friends archive link.

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	== External Links ==		== External Links ==
	*[https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Something_Awful Encyclopedia Dramatica's article on Something Awful.]		*[https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Something_Awful Encyclopedia Dramatica's article on Something Awful.]
	*[~~http~~://~~projects~~.~~inklesspen~~.com/~~fatal-and-friends~~ A homestuckfag's archive of FATAL & Friends threads] so you don't have to get goon on yourself. See what your favorite [[sup/tg/]] mods say when they think nobody's watching!		*[https://writeups.letsyouandhimfight.com/ A homestuckfag's archive of FATAL & Friends threads] so you don't have to get goon on yourself. See what your favorite [[sup/tg/]] mods say when they think nobody's watching!
	[[Category:4chan]]		[[Category:4chan]]

68.34.36.55: Updated to include details on how big a piece of shit Lowtax is/was, and the sale of the site.

2020-11-12T14:12:45Z

Updated to include details on how big a piece of shit Lowtax is/was, and the sale of the site.

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	SA forum members are called '''goons'''. To become a goon, you have to pay <s>$10</s> [[Meme\|10bux]] as a registration fee, not including the amount you have to pay on top of that to get basic features like access to old threads and forum searches. The justification for this is that it improves forum quality, as the paywall prevents [[4e\|underage idiots]] and drive-by [[troll]]s from shitting things up. In practice, it just selects for users with a "unique" combination of high disposable income, low dignity, and an unwavering belief that the Internet is [[serious business]] enough to pay actual money for it.		SA forum members are called '''goons'''. To become a goon, you have to pay <s>$10</s> [[Meme\|10bux]] as a registration fee, not including the amount you have to pay on top of that to get basic features like access to old threads and forum searches. The justification for this is that it improves forum quality, as the paywall prevents [[4e\|underage idiots]] and drive-by [[troll]]s from shitting things up. In practice, it just selects for users with a "unique" combination of high disposable income, low dignity, and an unwavering belief that the Internet is [[serious business]] enough to pay actual money for it.

			In early/mid 2020, it was revealed that Lowtax is a serial domestic abuser, and all-around piece of shit. In addition to being a wifebeater, he also routinely shortchanged the writers who bothered to cobble together "content" for the front page of the site, bullied mods/admins until they quit their volunteer position, scammed people into giving him '''$10,000 per month''' on Patreon to cover the hosting costs for Something Awful (which amount to somewhere under $2,000 per month), and spending said money on [[Meme\|Goldbelly cookies]]. He was pressured into selling the site to one of the admins - which means that goons who still browse the dead "comedy" forums at least have the peace of mind to know that throwing money at a mostly-defunct site isn't financing a wifebeater's cookie habit (or, at least, it's financing a ''different'' piece of shit's as-yet unknown criminal proclivities).

	== What Something Awful gave to 4chan ==		== What Something Awful gave to 4chan ==

2A02:AB04:2EC6:9100:5D55:E3F4:AC1E:518E at 19:48, 15 March 2020

2020-03-15T19:48:51Z

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	[[File:SADoor.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\|The Penguin introduces Robin to Something Awful.]]		[[File:SADoor.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\|The Penguin introduces Robin to Something Awful.]]

	'''Something Awful''' is a "comedy" website and message board operated by Richard Kyanka, better known to the Internet as Lowtax. It was founded in the late 1990s, with the forums appearing around 2000. It is most famous for the latter, with the front page consisting of random shit skimmed from the forums and a side order of blogging from the forums' moderators. [[Moot]] came from here, as did almost all of 4chan's original userbase, now long since vanished in favor of ~~a newer set~~. Much like any father of a mentally retarded crack baby, Something Awful doesn't like to talk about this. And much like any son of a abusive deadbeat who keeps cutting himself for attention, 4chan doesn't like to talk about Something Awful either.		'''Something Awful''' is a "comedy" website and message board operated by Richard Kyanka, better known to the Internet as Lowtax. It was founded in the late 1990s, with the forums appearing around 2000. It is most famous for the latter, with the front page consisting of random shit skimmed from the forums and a side order of blogging from the forums' moderators. [[Moot]] came from here, as did almost all of 4chan's original userbase, now long since vanished in favor of newfags. Much like any father of a mentally retarded crack baby, Something Awful doesn't like to talk about this. And much like any son of a abusive deadbeat who keeps cutting himself for attention, 4chan doesn't like to talk about Something Awful either.

	SA forum members are called '''goons'''. To become a goon, you have to pay <s>$10</s> [[Meme\|10bux]] as a registration fee, not including the amount you have to pay on top of that to get basic features like access to old threads and forum searches. The justification for this is that it improves forum quality, as the paywall prevents [[4e\|underage idiots]] and drive-by [[troll]]s from shitting things up. In practice, it just selects for users with a "unique" combination of high disposable income, low dignity, and an unwavering belief that the Internet is [[serious business]] enough to pay actual money for it.		SA forum members are called '''goons'''. To become a goon, you have to pay <s>$10</s> [[Meme\|10bux]] as a registration fee, not including the amount you have to pay on top of that to get basic features like access to old threads and forum searches. The justification for this is that it improves forum quality, as the paywall prevents [[4e\|underage idiots]] and drive-by [[troll]]s from shitting things up. In practice, it just selects for users with a "unique" combination of high disposable income, low dignity, and an unwavering belief that the Internet is [[serious business]] enough to pay actual money for it.

1d4chan>LGX-000 at 13:41, 10 June 2019

2019-06-10T13:41:44Z

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	~~{{stub}}~~		{{Topquote\|The Internet makes you stupid.\|Something Awful motto (They got the "stupid" part right at least.)}}
	{{Topquote\|The Internet makes you stupid.\|Something Awful motto (~~they~~ got the "stupid" part right at least)}}
	[[File:SADoor.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\|The Penguin introduces Robin to Something Awful.]]		[[File:SADoor.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\|The Penguin introduces Robin to Something Awful.]]

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	* Creative image editing for [[lulz]] generation, motivated by the weekly "Photoshop Phriday" threads.		* Creative image editing for [[lulz]] generation, motivated by the weekly "Photoshop Phriday" threads.
	* [[Loli]] as a distinct concept from child pornography, and a morbid fascination with CP in general; many of the CP posters from 4chan's early history were in fact SA goons who openly bragged about wanting to fuck children and got banned (possibly several times) for threatening Lowtax's moneymaker.		* [[Loli]] as a distinct concept from child pornography, and a morbid fascination with CP in general; many of the CP posters from 4chan's early history were in fact SA goons who openly bragged about wanting to fuck children and got banned (possibly several times) for threatening Lowtax's moneymaker.
	* Burning hatred for [[Furry\|furries.]] [[Fail\|Note that several of SA's most privileged contributors turned out to be diaper-wearing fursuiters.]] Such is the wonder of Something Awful.		* Burning hatred for [[Furry\|furries]]. [[Fail\|Note that several of SA's most privileged contributors turned out to be diaper-wearing fursuiters.]] Such is the wonder of Something Awful.
	* [[/a/\|Unjustified elitism.]]		* [[/a/\|Unjustified elitism.]]
	* A style of humor built on shock value, nerd [[rage]], and gratuitous profanity, intended for those bored with conventional social norms.		* A style of humor built on shock value, nerd [[rage]], and gratuitous profanity, intended for those bored with conventional social norms.

1d4chan>LGX-000: Fucked as it is, it's not QUITE FATAL-tier compared to other shit

2019-03-16T11:01:56Z

Fucked as it is, it's not QUITE FATAL-tier compared to other shit

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	* Creative image editing for [[lulz]] generation, motivated by the weekly "Photoshop Phriday" threads.		* Creative image editing for [[lulz]] generation, motivated by the weekly "Photoshop Phriday" threads.
	* [[Loli]] as a distinct concept from child pornography, and a morbid fascination with CP in general; many of the CP posters from 4chan's early history were in fact SA goons who openly bragged about wanting to fuck children and got banned (possibly several times) for threatening Lowtax's moneymaker.		* [[Loli]] as a distinct concept from child pornography, and a morbid fascination with CP in general; many of the CP posters from 4chan's early history were in fact SA goons who openly bragged about wanting to fuck children and got banned (possibly several times) for threatening Lowtax's moneymaker.
	* Burning hatred for [[Furry\|furries.]] Note that several of SA's most privileged contributors turned out to be ~~[[FATAL\|~~diaper-wearing fursuiters.]] Such is the wonder of Something Awful.		* Burning hatred for [[Furry\|furries.]] [[Fail\|Note that several of SA's most privileged contributors turned out to be diaper-wearing fursuiters.]] Such is the wonder of Something Awful.
	* [[/a/\|Unjustified elitism.]]		* [[/a/\|Unjustified elitism.]]
	* A style of humor built on shock value, nerd [[rage]], and gratuitous profanity, intended for those bored with conventional social norms.		* A style of humor built on shock value, nerd [[rage]], and gratuitous profanity, intended for those bored with conventional social norms.

1d4chan>OriginalPrankster: /* Why the hell should I care? */

2018-08-09T21:23:28Z

Why the hell should I care?

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	One of the few things from Something Awful that /tg/ has reason to care about is [[FATAL]] & Friends, a set of writeups on RPG books posted by forum members dedicated to both the obscure (in relative terms; usually it's just old shit like [[Rifts]]) and the terrible segments of the industry's output. These writeups are usually in-depth, covering both [[fluff]] and [[crunch]], with examples of character generation where appropriate. While some controlling for the... colorful views of SA's userbase is necessary, if you find an old rulebook or something at a bookstore and /tg/ doesn't know anything about it, there are worse places to look for a second opinion.		One of the few things from Something Awful that /tg/ has reason to care about is [[FATAL]] & Friends, a set of writeups on RPG books posted by forum members dedicated to both the obscure (in relative terms; usually it's just old shit like [[Rifts]]) and the terrible segments of the industry's output. These writeups are usually in-depth, covering both [[fluff]] and [[crunch]], with examples of character generation where appropriate. While some controlling for the... colorful views of SA's userbase is necessary, if you find an old rulebook or something at a bookstore and /tg/ doesn't know anything about it, there are worse places to look for a second opinion.

	The other reason why /tg/ might conceivably care about SA is that a disproportionately large number of indie RPG writers are goons, or are close enough friends with a goon to give them free stuff that they then shill for in the aforementioned F&F. This may be surprising until you remember that two of the primary goon talents are sucking cock for brownie points and [[/tg/ gets shit done\|wasting large amounts of time and effort on shit nobody cares about]].		The other reason why /tg/ might conceivably care about SA is that a disproportionately large number of indie RPG writers are goons, or are close enough friends with a goon to give them free stuff that they then shill for in the aforementioned F&F. This may be surprising until you remember that two of the primary goon talents are sucking cock for brownie points and [[/tg/ gets shit done\|wasting large amounts of time and effort on shit nobody cares about]]. A disproportionate number of [[White Wolf]] employees past and present are also goons, surprising absolutely nobody who has had the misfortune of interacting with both groups.

	== External Links ==		== External Links ==