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I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

There's a lot more active users than that, and I did not spend that much. Sorry to disappoint.

the real worth is the friends we made along the way.

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Blue Raider
Sep 2, 2006

Cool Dad posted:

I wish he had been a better person. I feel awful for his kids and ex-wives, and anyone who is going to be swept up in internet drama because of this.

It's such a strange sensation, having this figure who has taken up so much space in my mind die, and knowing that nearly everyone I know would be absolutely baffled if I tried to explain who he was and why it matters. It's like I'm from a different dimension where we have different celebrities.

Idk about anyone else, but to me lowtax involvement with the site was entirely incidental. He hasn’t had much to do with anything in 15 years from my perspective. He was just a guy who would come into threads occasionally and gently caress them up until he left again.

I won’t miss him from a posting perspective because he was never around significantly enough to be missed. I never even thought about him unless he was loving stuff up, and then I only wanted him to go away.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

change my name posted:

Kiwifarms spawned from making fun of Chris Chan, who was absolutely brought to public attention on SA first.

Chris Chan was discovered in a Ulillillia thread, someone posted "Hey here's this guy at my college"

Looking back on it I'm surprised it didn't result in someone dropping money on an account

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

I saw one of his YouTube streams a while ago. Only watched a little bit of it. He seemed pretty zonked out and didn't look healthy. I said sup and he said hello. Welp RIP Taxman sucks it ended this way.

Norry
Mar 1, 2005

You gonna get raped...tenderly.


rip in peace

i will eat a fancy cookie in lowtax's honor

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

pillsburysoldier posted:

I dare you to make it $510

im gay

gently caress you got me, I didn't say no dares. Just threw in another $10

Okay no dares starting nnnnow.

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

The Cooler King

Fashionable Jorts posted:

Not gonna lie, this kinda feels like the end of an era. Handing over ownership of the site was big, but this is different.
dude could have died anytime after 2006 or so and the outcome would have been the same just so long as someone else had admin access.

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

Blue Raider posted:

Idk about anyone else, but to me lowtax involvement with the site was entirely incidental. He hasn’t had much to do with anything in 15 years from my perspective. He was just a guy who would come into threads occasionally and gently caress them up until he left again.

I won’t miss him from a posting perspective because he was never around significantly enough to be missed. I never even thought about him unless he was loving stuff up, and then I only wanted him to go away.

I remember he would post in a thread and it was like walking on eggshells until he left the thread alone again. No one wanted to touch it for fear of setting him off. He would ban everyone who made a post he didnt like no matter whether or not that made sense, and 99% of the time he overreacted. Lowtax was completely radioactive.

Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT

change my name posted:

Kiwifarms spawned from making fun of Chris Chan, who was absolutely brought to public attention on SA first.

Chris Chan ending up arrested for raping his invalid mom. Shmorky being a squeaky-voiced diaper-wearing furry pedophile. Lowtax blowing his brains out to avoid child support. Lo, these titans of SA internet fame, for all the good it did them.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Hometown Slime Queen posted:

Chris Chan ending up arrested for raping his invalid mom. Shmorky being a squeaky-voiced diaper-wearing furry pedophile. Lowtax blowing his brains out to avoid child support. Lo, these titans of SA internet fame, for all the good it did them.

Dan Quinn's still alive

Baggot
Sep 9, 2009

Hail to the King, baby.

Shame Boy posted:

It's SA's "fault" in a butterfly effect causality kinda way I guess

https://twitter.com/synoisia/status/1458632558753853447

my perspective on this is that the causality of SA to 4chan and neo nazis is how it played out in our universe, but the modern rise of neo nazism, the Trump presidency, and the Jan 6 riot was inevitable and would have eventually happened regardless of the specific circumstances and actions and players that led to it (Lowtax and moot etc)

Barnum Brown Shoes
Jan 29, 2013

I'm sorry Ambien, I hope you and the kids can start healing

Beffica
Apr 6, 2009

by Azathoth

The General posted:

We did spawn kiwifarms and 4chan, so story checks out.
Besides Something Awful, there were other websites that did the internet safari thing before 4chan was a thing like Portal of Evil and The gently caress Society/The Friend Society. Assholes would have found a way without hentai being banned from here. Also, lmao at the thought of thousands of people seeing the weird avs I made because everybody and their dog is posting

Mysterious Jim
Sep 7, 2021
at least ullillillia seems to be doing alright for himself

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
I wonder if you told 2006 Lowtax how 2021 Lowtax killed himself what he'd say.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Baggot posted:

my perspective on this is that the causality of SA to 4chan and neo nazis is how it played out in our universe, but the modern rise of neo nazism, the Trump presidency, and the Jan 6 riot was inevitable and would have eventually happened regardless of the specific circumstances and actions and players that led to it (Lowtax and moot etc)

Pepe the frog would have been spared in another universe at least.

5er
Jun 1, 2000


I really, really hope the kids make it through ok on this. Goodness only knows they're not getting any help from their grandmother.

Slippery
May 16, 2004


Muscles Boxcar
died as he lived, an rear end in a top hat.

The General
Mar 4, 2007


Beffica posted:

Besides Something Awful, there were other websites that did the internet safari thing before 4chan was a thing like Portal of Evil and The gently caress Society/The Friend Society. Assholes would have found a way without hentai being banned from here. Also, lmao at the thought of thousands of people seeing the weird avs I made because everybody and their dog is posting

Yeah, but that's not the way it went down. :colbert:

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


zetamind2000 posted:

Chris Chan was discovered in a Ulillillia thread, someone posted "Hey here's this guy at my college"

Looking back on it I'm surprised it didn't result in someone dropping money on an account

Man I haven't thought about Ulillillia in years. I think last I heard he was doing well and I hope he's still doing ok

spacestronaut
Dec 7, 2010

Demon Of The Fall posted:

i boned 2 hot goonettes over the years thanks to this website, thank you richard

i became a hot goonette thanks to this website, thank you richard (for subbing to my onlyfans)

General_Failure
Apr 17, 2005
The end of an era or something? Although the lowtax years really ended ages ago.
I don't wish death on people. Well, not many. Usually a long life with a painful or debilitating problem. I guess he got greedy and wanted a bit of both.

change my name
Aug 27, 2007

Legends die but anime is forever.

RIP The Lost Otakus.

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

Man I haven't thought about Ulillillia in years. I think last I heard he was doing well and I hope he's still doing ok

He can't work because he gets crippling panic attacks when he sees a mask, but has set up a patreon and is actively looking for remote jobs. Wish him well

space-man
Jan 3, 2007
a man, like any other... but in space!
i was in this thread.

Sioux
May 30, 2006

some ghoulish parody of humanity
RIP lowtax

Luitpold
Aug 2, 2009
Talking of excrement ...
https://i.imgur.com/JRWYOZD.mp4

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

Shame Boy posted:

Yeah idk, the whole "we didn't do that, those were people we had to ban" kinda ignores that they originally concentrated here in the first place before having to be banned. SA's culture and userbase used to be real, real fuckin' lovely, even if everyone only remembers the good times or w/e.

It's not as clear-cut as some people are saying but it's not like the site is blameless either, idk.

It's kind of judging old stuff by new. Yeah it took a while for them to get kicked off, and they were attracted to the site by the lovely actions of people here, but at the same time its not like reddit where they had to have Anderson goddamned Cooper run a special on the site to make them ban kiddy porn.

SA is poo poo but it's the gold standard, which is not a point in SA's favor but instead a damnnation of everywhere else

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Blue Raider posted:

Jeff paid 450k for the forums? I didn’t know that no loving way

I've never seen a specific figure, I think that was pulled out of the air.

Wes Warhammer
Oct 19, 2012

:sueme:

Mysterious Jim posted:

at least ullillillia seems to be doing alright for himself

Yeah, he's come a long way :unsmith:

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004


lmao

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

LadyAmbien, I'm sorry this happened to you and your family. May you find healing and better times ahead.

Stanley
Aug 24, 2000

PERCOCET
RIP

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


change my name posted:

He can't work because he gets crippling panic attacks when he sees a mask, but has set up a patreon and is actively looking for remote jobs. Wish him well

Ah man that's a shame, he was working in a wallmart or something last I'd seen. Just looked at his patreon and it seems to be doing alright, hopefully the pandemic will eventually pass and he can get a job again.

Schweinhund
Oct 23, 2004

:derp:   :kayak:                                     
It wasn't $450,000. It was $450,000 worth of bitcoin.

Blue Raider
Sep 2, 2006

I said come in! posted:

I remember he would post in a thread and it was like walking on eggshells until he left the thread alone again. No one wanted to touch it for fear of setting him off. He would ban everyone who made a post he didnt like no matter whether or not that made sense, and 99% of the time he overreacted. Lowtax was completely radioactive.

He was utterly unpredictable, and this went back years and years. Any interaction with him that wasn’t very blatantly sucking him off was basically flipping a coin with your account. Even agreeing with him in a way that wasn’t completely deferential ran the risk of a ban.

My memories of this poo poo aren’t completely perfect, but what I’ve described was constant in that it was always present, but it wasn’t always at the same severity. Sometimes he would just wreck and thread and ban half of it, and sometimes he would just bitch about goons and leave. I guess this tracks with eating pills constantly and drinking his rear end off.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

lol

Booga
Aug 20, 2007

An rear end in a top hat in life, an rear end in a top hat in death. gently caress him.

timmporary
Jun 18, 2004

hello
welcome home goons of yore

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



zetamind2000 posted:

Chris Chan was discovered in a Ulillillia thread, someone posted "Hey here's this guy at my college"

Looking back on it I'm surprised it didn't result in someone dropping money on an account

Ulillillia is like the only one of these people who improved his life. I’m friends with him on Facebook and his posts make me proud.:unsmith:

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Jaur
Jun 5, 2005

uguu~
this forum loving sucks

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