I don't use Something Awful but why is it hated?
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Leonard Helplessness
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It used to be the community that made fun of furries and other weird degenerates throughout the internet. Now they're the weird degenerates. Like just a week or so ago I ran into this fucking post:
It got taken over by wokesters like everywhere else. Also, Lowtax has the unfortunate distinction of being Lowtax.
I haven't heard anything about Something Awful in years, but back in the day people hated SA because they were faggots and Lowtax charged people money to use his forum. Then Lowtax got beat up by a German filmmaker, Uwe Boll, and after that I think they all turned into troons or something.
SA gave us funny memes, like "gently caress", and some classic threads, like that one thread about the Bee Movie where the autistic bee scientist lady nitpicked Bee Movie for a month. But all good things must pass.
SA gave us funny memes, like "gently caress", and some classic threads, like that one thread about the Bee Movie where the autistic bee scientist lady nitpicked Bee Movie for a month. But all good things must pass.
It was the early aughts version of the farms that ended just as disastrously as the aughts did.
Leonard Helplessness
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They used to like to make fun of people. Back when Let's Plays were first becoming a thing in 2006-2007, practically every "Let's Play" video on Youtube was camcorder shit, Unregistered Hypercam 2, or occasionally both with terrible commentary or none at all. The Something Awful group "Retsupurae" would take those videos and reupload them with their own commentary brutally mocking the Let's Player, which was hilarious and pissed off a lot of people. In general they mocked everything they came across; back in 2010-2011 when bronies were becoming a thing a fuckton of goons became bronies, then got banned, then the remaining goons set about ruthlessly mocking bronies until all the bronies trooned out and it wasn't okay to mock them anymore.
Goons were also known for being the villains in a fuckton of online games. The "BMW" group became infamous for invading Rust servers en masse and laying waste to everything. Similar shit happened with EVE Online ("We're not here to play EVE; we're here to play Goons In Space) and so on. Now they've rebranded as being woke and sensitive but nobody wants them around anyway.
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Richard Kyanka is a retard and let the site become over grown with libtards.
This post mentions things that are pretty instrumental to why SA was such a shithole.
Goons rarely made fun of things because it was funny. They made fun of things because they got incredibly mad about them.
For instance: In Retsupurae, Slowbeef wasn't making fun of silly kids because it was funny. He was making fun of them because they weren't following a set of Let's Play rules he'd made up on a site they'd never heard of.
Since they weren't on this site, Slowbeef couldn't ban them with a snarky message to show his superiority and extremely important rules for internet videos.
This made him fucking livid and he didn't once try to hide it.
TL;DR: They were ALL the autistic bee movie lady
Oh so like Tumblr and Twitter?
Sort of. Only you have to pay $10 to post, it's more heavily moderated, and there's no character limit.
Why do you have to pay $10 to post?
Leonard Helplessness
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Back in the early days of the forum, there was some crazy person called Triangle Man who kept evading every single ban including IP bans and shit. Lowtax eventually instituted a $10 registration fee just to keep Triangle Man out. It unexpectedly made him a fuckton of money.
The paywall was never removed. They like it because it means that when they ban someone, that person has to give something up to post again.
Photoshop Phriday was wonderful (I still have some great memes saved from some of those), but it sounds like it fell from grace and became the opposite of everything that made it awesome.
Troonologist PhD
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Do you have archives of those classic threads?
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