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

[AA 102]

lol

Not gonna lie I found this at least somewhat entertaining.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Not gonna lie I found this entertaining.

I skimmed for like 10 minutes and didn't find him saying a single funny thing he said aside from it taking four years to come out because he wrote one line of code a year

But then his reaction 58:00 in made it all worth it

Seriously

 

[AA 102]

I skimmed for like 10 minutes and didn't find him saying a single funny thing he said aside from it taking four years to come out because he wrote one line of code a year

But then his reaction 58:00 in made it all worth it

Seriously

The operative word is "somewhat".

 

[Internet War Criminal]

The operative word is "somewhat".

The beginning where he calls Wu a Sasquatch-type creature, the line i quoted and the end is definitely worth it tho

Seriously jump 57 minutes in and stick with it until he quits and checks the menus

 

[AnOminous]

You have a little bit of semen dribbling from your chin there. Need a tissue?

If you eat mangosteen it makes your cum taste really great.

 

[AA 102]

The beginning where he calls Wu a Sasquatch-type creature, the line i quoted and the end is definitely worth it tho

Seriously jump 57 minutes in and stick with it until he quits and checks the menus

lol I know that was pretty great. In all fairness LowTax played it longer than I would have.

 

[AnOminous]

you really aren't

http://somethingsensitive.com/index.php?topic=7592.msg330989#msg330989

Lol what a passive aggressive bitch.

 

[Null]

Lowtax sounds like fucking Kermit the Frog and I love him now

 

[AnOminous]

Seems like a touched a nerve with the pedo comment. Not surprising given that you have an unhealthy interest in anime. Just remember, the peak achievement of your life is moderating a rule34 anime porn image board. LOL

>tard says tarded shit
>gets negrates
>pulls standard "i touched a nerve" tard move

Got anything else?

Nah I don't care get the fuck out of this thread you moron.

 

[HG 400]

Seems like a touched a nerve with the pedo comment.

I realise that you joined exclusively to angrily slap your keyboard at Lowtax, but holy shit. This is not Something Awful and we are not Something Awful moderators.

We get accused of being pedophiles by a British Member of Parliament on a near-weekly basis. The site owner had school shooting and anthrax threats called on him and insane trannies armed with crossbows show up to his front door. We get called literal murderers and psychopaths by liberal clickbait publications. I had an elected official put out a £5,000 bounty on my dox trying to sue me in the High Court of the United Kingdom. We've had mentally ill dregs of humanity falsely report the members here to the police for everything from child rape to drive-by shootings. Oh, and when I personally doxed @Meowthkip right down to her street address to the army of Social Justice otherkin spastics who hate her, her response was literally "lol good one".

We are laughing at you for being incredibly angry and dumb, and the game you're bringing is weak and soft and shameful. I get it, you're used to triggering dangerhaired spastics who get blown the fuck out by 13-year-olds on twitter. That's fine. But you've stepped out of your safe little cocoon of dangerhair gets and circle jerks now. You chaps are welcome to hang around and keep desperately trying to attract Lowtax's attention so you can all yell at him for being a money-grabbing faggot or whatever I guess, but if you want to go hard on us you really need to step it up a few levels, because I am honestly trying my best to protect you and keep the locals from eating you salty little boyos alive, and I am struggling.

 

[Meowthkip]

You're an ass kisser, autistic, have a love of nigger cock and you probably have pedophilia fantasies.
Now what you doing to do? Plex me? Faggot.

Somebody's a cranky boy.

 

[Graffiti canvas]

You're an ass kisser, autistic, have a love of nigger cock and you probably have pedophilia fantasies.
Now what you doing to do? Plex me? Faggot.

Seems like a touched a nerve with the pedo comment. Not surprising given that you have an unhealthy interest in anime. Just remember, the peak achievement of your life is moderating a rule34 anime porn image board. LOL

Aww how cute; playing dumb

You're a delightfully exceptional individual. What's your favorite ice cream?

 

[Bubbacat]

Just stopping by to say long time lurker of the farms and member at SS. I wanted to say it sucks to see any kind of friction between our sites. I would like to apologize for any sperg outs you have had to absorb during this whole shit pile. And I wanted to speak for the silent majority of SS who are not posting here or even in SS threads. The overwhelming majority of us did not rush the thread and only followed it closely for answers and content. Please keep in mind that the outspoken voice of a few do not stand for the many. A lot of our member base comes from our anti sjw stance and never even went to SA or care a thing about the past drama.

I think this went bad because it was a chance for some people to get to speak to lowtax for the first time ever. In some cases, there was a explosive decompression of sorts based on the fact that many people remember the hey day of SA and took it personally when Catladies destroyed one of the greatest humor sites on the net. Just look at all the spin off sites that came from SA. Some straight up trolled.

A couple things in response to a lot of the perceptions I have seen in the threads...

Most of us have our SA accounts. Many are still active posters. At SS, we have an extremely strict do rule of no contact irl. Period. Anyone who breaks it is banned. No exceptions. There has been absolutely no members of our website openly contacting any SA mod, admin, or Lowtax. Especially family. That is the only thing that bugs me in Lowtax's recollections here. We have absolutely never participated in any death threats, accustations, or irl harrassment. If for some reason we were named the culprits, it was based entirely on assumption or a troll, the same way 4chan would blame 9gag. The only single exception to irl contact was when a confirmed pedo was found to be working with children. And I cannot even say who it was or if it was a member of SS. I just know that even that contacted wasndebated over hundreds of posts, discussing if we should violate our golden rule. Anyone who does irl harassment or posts contact info is banned. I cannot stress this enough. SS doxxnet members have even pulled doxxes off of SS due to hearing about irl contacts, even when it was not people from our site doing the contacting.

Most of this is pointless to cover anway because Doxxnet is dead. The ironic mods and cat ladies have all moved on and pedos were ousted. There is no desire because we don't even know who anyone is over there anymore.

I just wanted to come here to stress that in all my years at SA, SASS, TNE, or SS, not a single member has come forward as doing any of the accused horrible irl contacts. There is zero tolerance for it. And not only would they be banned, they would be ostracized because it is just not cool. /Sperg

You guys really are doing gods work here. And I hope this is not the start of bad blood. SS is essentially in slow downward spiral and will ultimately end up as a bunch people who pay hosting fees to keep the dysfunctional but decent friendships we formed over the years intact. There are some seriously funny people at SS. Don't form any misconception that we are a hate fueled machine that exists only from feeding on SA drama and ironic racism.

And seriously Lowtax, no one at SS did any of the irl contacts you refer to. The only connection I can piece together is when KIR did something messed up and he only cane to TNE at the time because he was he'll banned or something at SA. We never claimed him as our own either. He was harassing you long before he chose other offsites.

 

[PostRegretStressDisorder]

Just stopping by to say long time lurker of the farms and member at SS. I wanted to say it sucks to see any kind of friction between our sites. I would like to apologize for any sperg outs you have had to absorb during this whole shit pile. And I wanted to speak for the silent majority of SS who are not posting here or even in SS threads. The overwhelming majority of us did not rush the thread and only followed it closely for answers and content. Please keep in mind that the outspoken voice of a few do not stand for the many. A lot of our member base comes from our anti sjw stance and never even went to SA or care a thing about the past drama.

I think this went bad because it was a chance for some people to get to speak to lowtax for the first time ever. In some cases, there was a explosive decompression of sorts based on the fact that many people remember the hey day of SA and took it personally when Catladies destroyed one of the greatest humor sites on the net. Just look at all the spin off sites that came from SA. Some straight up trolled.

A couple things in response to a lot of the perceptions I have seen in the threads...

Most of us have our SA accounts. Many are still active posters. At SS, we have an extremely strict do rule of no contact irl. Period. Anyone who breaks it is banned. No exceptions. There has been absolutely no members of our website openly contacting any SA mod, admin, or Lowtax. Especially family. That is the only thing that bugs me in Lowtax's recollections here. We have absolutely never participated in any death threats, accustations, or irl harrassment. If for some reason we were named the culprits, it was based entirely on assumption or a troll, the same way 4chan would blame 9gag. The only single exception to irl contact was when a confirmed pedo was found to be working with children. And I cannot even say who it was or if it was a member of SS. I just know that even that contacted wasndebated over hundreds of posts, discussing if we should violate our golden rule. Anyone who does irl harassment or posts contact info is banned. I cannot stress this enough. SS doxxnet members have even pulled doxxes off of SS due to hearing about irl contacts, even when it was not people from our site doing the contacting.

Most of this is pointless to cover anway because Doxxnet is dead. The ironic mods and cat ladies have all moved on and pedos were ousted. There is no desire because we don't even know who anyone is over there anymore.

I just wanted to come here to stress that in all my years at SA, SASS, TNE, or SS, not a single member has come forward as doing any of the accused horrible irl contacts. There is zero tolerance for it. And not only would they be banned, they would be ostracized because it is just not cool. /Sperg

You guys really are doing gods work here. And I hope this is not the start of bad blood. SS is essentially in slow downward spiral and will ultimately end up as a bunch people who pay hosting fees to keep the dysfunctional but decent friendships we formed over the years intact. There are some seriously funny people at SS. Don't form any misconception that we are a hate fueled machine that exists only from feeding on SA drama and ironic racism.

And seriously Lowtax, no one at SS did any of the irl contacts you refer to. The only connection I can piece together is when KIR did something messed up and he only cane to TNE at the time because he was he'll banned or something at SA. We never claimed him as our own either. He was harassing you long before he chose other offsites.

Thanks fam.

And no harm no foul, @Dynastia had the last say on things but you may have occassional spergs thinking they can yell at the posters from SS even though their posts are a few pages back.

No friction intended, we'll just shoot back if we're fired at.

Still love ya.

@Lowtax, follow @Super Collie 's advice!

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

Other than @Bubbacat, I feel embarrassed for the SS crew who showed up here and acted like total spastics

 

[PostRegretStressDisorder]

 

[Pickle Inspector]

Well maybe it shouldn't have become white noise. You've become "house blind"--you need to step back and look at what kind of community you've got. Sure, a lot of people will rebel against any and all authority. But you did have some shitty mods from the beginning. Dude, I was there for Rainbow Blight and fucking Al. From the very beginning you seem to have a "set it and forget it" goal with managing SA. When shit goes bad, you step in, make some wacky zany posts, engage with the forums, then you appoint a new administration and delegate out everything while you write comedy, make electronic music, go grocery shopping, raise your kids, or whatever.

Time and time again we had "new management" in the forum of Rainbow and her gang, Zach Parsons and Fistgrrl, Fragmaster, Ozma, Ralp, and now Zen Death Robot. These guys run the place with little to sometimes zero input from you (once I recall Ozma bitching she couldn't get in contact with you at all). They appoint other admins, who in turn appoint other mods, and set the tone. And often the tone is shitty. Arbitrary bannings, cults of personality inside subforums, bannings for politics and capitalization, etc. Every time we doxxed one of your mods and admins, we laid out WHY we did it. And we never doxxed the ones that were good. We presented all the horrible shit they did to wreck YOUR community. Take out the lurid stuff we threw out there about their personal lives and there was always a solid case as to why they were shitty mods. I know we're a "NO CLICK ZONE, SORRY" but I'd be more than happy to post some TLDR highlights here.

My tiny 2500 person forum takes up a few hours of my day every day, and I have a full time job that's way more than 40 hours a week. SA is your livelihood. Managing it and shepherding the community should be at least a 40 hour a week job for you. Ofc it's too big for one person to get a handle on, but you should overall know what's going on, put good people in charge, closely monitor them and be responsive. You should be posting and active and set the tone.

You're still making stupid amounts of cash from new users, if the numbers are correct that we can see, plus reregs and titles and shit--it would make some Gen Y on a Pateron jealous. But it won't last forever if you don't do something to stop the forums from dying. You have a huge legacy--a lot of sites on the internet wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you including places like 4 chan and probably here. I'd say a lot of what you see on Reddit and other places owes a debt to SA. And there's good news--there's way stupider stuff now online to mock than in 2000. More than ever. Of course, you'd have to have the balls to hurt some feels to do so.




At least you want to try. But instead of wracking your brain to churn out funny articles, why not just post on your own forums and try to encourage the kind of talent and humor that the users themselves had in the past? That isn't a 2AM kind of thing.

By the way, you do realize that if I said any of this to you in QCS, I'd be dogpiled by sycophants and an admin who regged 10 years after me would put a target on my back?

But from what you're saying Lowtax is making a bunch of money and not having to do much, how is that a bad thing from his perspective?

Changes are a risk that might not make things better and could alienate current paying members.

If you see a gap in the internet forum market you should go for it like moot did with the 4chan imageboard.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Other than @Bubbacat, I feel embarrassed for the SS crew who showed up here and acted like total spastics

Spoiler

I'm fairly sure that like at least half of their userbase are contributing members here and just don't want to associate their accounts with SS, especially after the tards were let out of their cage tbf

 

[HG 400]

look, he was only pretending

 

[Internet War Criminal]

But from what you're saying Lowtax is making a bunch of money and not having to do much, how is that a bad thing from his perspective?

That's why its a bad thing:

The SJW catladies were in full swing after Obama but especially after LF closed and they swarmed the whole website. To the point where half the userbase just left in a couple of years (and it keeps dropping off). Right now there are 5,800 users logged in, a few years ago that used to be the peak number of people in only one of their subforum (GBS). There are 650 users in there right now which used to be the deader subforums.

The most active threads right now are on top of the page are:

- Remember the good old days? Post your favorite shit from a decade ago
- Its not ok to say nigga when singing along to rap music if you're a white girl
- Lol MRAs
- Lol Gamergate
- Lol Ann Coulter
- Lol reddit


That's why he should care. That's his livelihood and his future daughters' college funds. Having your traffic drop to a quarter in four years is a really really worrying sign. Especially that youtube now stops monetizing "problematic" videos.