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I've laughed at a lot of Richard's jokes and his website almost justifies the existence of the internet. Thanks for that.  ultimate webmaster
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Lowtax, you truly were something awful. Thanks for the laughs and this site.
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my first memory from this forum was someone posting about professional starcraft  a couple months after registering was the HELLO.JPG (what happened to him) massive thread on the second Iraq war, I even remember it was titled "air raid sirens are going off in Baghdad" or something similar
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TrixRabbi posted:So by banning them it effectively just stopped SA from being the place where that kind of monstrosity could fester. Kiwi Farms, 4chan, all that, that negative energy was going to go somewhere and the bans and paywall just ensured it wasn't here. Unfortunately, it is only with the wisdom of time and the gift of hindsight that we have learnt that rather than banning them and causing the trumpocalypse, We instead should have executed them behind the chemical sheds and fed the bodies to the perverts.
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its funny to me seeing all of the old small avatars in ITT. yall should post, as stupid as it can be here, this place is still better than most of the rest of the internet to discuss any topic
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there is something about something awful that is very stonecuttersesque, in it’s role in history.
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TrixRabbi posted:Like, that domino meme about Lowtax banning hentai leading to the Capitol riots is in effect true, but also he can't really be personally blamed for what happened outside of his responsibility on 4chan and 8chan. Like if you kick a guy starting fights out of your bar and they then go beat someone up down the street. It's like if at the end of Back to the Future, 1985 ends up being a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and we find out it's all because Marty didn't shout racial slurs at future Hill Valley mayor Goldie Wilson when he saw him in the diner back in 1955. Like, what lesson should I be learning from this? Reality is stupid.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Maybe it's optimistic of me but to me, the obvious reason to turn it down is because it's this beautiful thing you've created and you don't want to see it compromised by some corporate owner. I wish beyond measure that he had put the money the site earned back into it instead of letting it languish, but I'm glad he didn't sell out personally. I think, when you create something, the reasons for it have a big impact on whether you find it palatable to sell it. Something like this, where a community has sprung up around it, far beyond the front page content, there's a different kind of attachment. Taking a big buyout and losing control of the creation (last year's events notwithstanding) would probably feel like abandoning it. I probably would have done the same thing in that situation. It's really been unfortunate to see the decline of the founder of something that's been a big part of my life for the last many years. I'm really happy you stepped up and were able to take the reins when things were very much in danger of disappearing. It loving sucks that anyone's life turns out the way his did, for any and all reasons. Many of us had written him off over the past year or so, and for good reason, but that doesn't mean the whole situation hasn't been lovely. I feel for his exes, but most of all for his kids. Nobody should grow up without a father (at least a father figure, it doesn't matter who it is), and I hope someone is able to step up into that role for them. As a child of a single parent, there are many things I missed out on, but also many things other people stepped up for. And for those people I am forever grateful. In closing: gently caress you, Lowtax, for making me leave my bookmarks and actually go to GBS.
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Mr. Fix It posted:i can't believe i read the whole thread
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TrixRabbi posted:Didn't it lead them to go to 4chan though, giving the site a significantly larger and more active userbase that started the momentum? I mean, I agree that if it wasn't SA -> 4chan -> 8chan it probably would've been something else to fill those roles, but this is the way it happened and the form it took. If 4chan had never become a thing maybe Qanon would have started up on some other website, or maybe some totally different conspiracy theory would have formed instead. But this is what we got. I suppose that the pedo and hentai bans must have resulted in goons posting more on 4chan because they couldn't do post about these topics on the forums, but 4chan also quickly attracted non-goons so I don't know how significant those bans were on 4chan's growth. I agree that Qanon wouldn't have existed without 4chan, but I'm pretty sure that similar conspiracy theories would have formed regardless. For example Pizzagate, which was similar but had preceded Qanon, had started on Twitter.
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TrixRabbi posted:I think about this a lot too and in a weird way it's the thing that gave SA staying power and kept the site from becoming an unusable pile of poo poo, but at the same time I think the riff raff had to go somewhere. So by banning them it effectively just stopped SA from being the place where that kind of monstrosity could fester. Kiwi Farms, 4chan, all that, that negative energy was going to go somewhere and the bans and paywall just ensured it wasn't here. If they didn't gather (and then get expelled) from here it would of been from somewhere else. Their is an alternate universe where Stile Project gets the blame for incubating the alt-right.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:what was lowtaxs last post here Lowtax posted:Okay I'll shut fyad back down again, I opened it up and got poo poo on, I'll close it back
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The Kins posted:Pretty sure that was Zack Parsons, a long time front page writer and slightly less long-time admin. yes, elpintogrande, the "your poisonous womb is making heaven too full"
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posting to sign the guestbook. peace be until you all. welp, bye
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:what was lowtaxs last post here
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Segaholic2 posted:posting to sign the guestbook. peace be until you all. coward
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teen witch posted:there is something about something awful that is very stonecuttersesque, in it’s role in history. Who laughs at dead baby jokes? Who fills your internet with leftist folks? We do, we do!
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AlexDeGruven posted:I feel for his exes, but most of all for his kids. Nobody should grow up without a father (at least a father figure, it doesn't matter who it is), and I hope someone is able to step up into that role for them. As a child of a single parent, there are many things I missed out on, but also many things other people stepped up for. And for those people I am forever grateful. It's also just so lovely because you would have hoped he maybe could have gotten straight and corrected himself and grown, but instead it went down like this. It's truly terrible and I do wish them the best.
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TrixRabbi posted:It's also just so lovely because you would have hoped he maybe could have gotten straight and corrected himself and grown, but instead it went down like this. It's truly terrible and I do wish them the best. Exactly. I tend to hold hope that everyone can be redeemed if they just get what they need (help, counseling, a punch in the face, whatever). Unfortunately, it happens far less often than it should.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:what was lowtaxs last post here I don't know about lowtax the account, but lowtax the man made an alt and came into the thread that exposed him beating his women and attempted to defend himself anonymously. It was crystal clear what he was doing, and he threw a tantrum when people laughed at him. Then he tried to cozy up to FYAD, who he had just thrown under the bus in an interview with Vice. I think that's how it went down.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:what was lowtaxs last post here It wasn't this one but it's the one that made me laugh harder 
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Annie Chickenstalker posted:In like 2006 lowtax used one of my posts as an example of the kind of lovely posts that would no longer be acceptable in that thread. Well, I'm still here making bad posts, bitch
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actionjackson posted:yes, elpintogrande, the "your poisonous womb is making heaven too full" Kuros posted:Who laughs at dead baby jokes?
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DamnitGannet posted:Remember when lowtax put a woman on blast for the crime of having miscarriages? I was an idiot pre teen when I laughed at that poo poo, lowtax was a grown rear end man, what was his excuse?? The "poison womb" quote was elpintogrande
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Factor_VIII posted:I suppose that the pedo and hentai bans must have resulted in goons posting more on 4chan because they couldn't do post about these topics on the forums, but 4chan also quickly attracted non-goons so I don't know how significant those bans were on 4chan's growth. davecrazy posted:If they didn't gather (and then get expelled) from here it would of been from somewhere else. Regardless of if the pedo and hentai bans were the big trigger or not, 4chan is an evolution out of SA anyway given that moot posted here and recruited users here and it was a direct influence on the site. But like, I totally agree there's way bigger societal and political forces at hand that led to all this bullshit and SA really is just a footnote in all of it anyway. But like I said earlier, even if it would have happened anyway whether it be on Stile Project or eBaums World or fuckin' Neopets or whatever, this is still the particular shape it took at the end of the day. That's to say nothing of the rest of SA's influence on and weird intersections with mainstream culture from launching early memes, Let's Plays (Twitch doesn't exist without them), Slenderman, the fact that Vilerat died in Benghazi, dril and Weird Twitter which eventually became the way everyone talked on Twitter and then TV and real life. It's weird man. TrixRabbi fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Nov 12, 2021 |
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Hand Knit posted:The Vilerat Memorial Fellowship for Forums Contributions to Global Politics +1 If some weirdo doesn't do a PhD thesis on this sort of stuff they're missing out. BYOB and The Late 2000s Shift Away From Irony: Or, How I Learned to Stop Doing it for the Lolz and Instead Did it For Others
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actionjackson posted:yes, elpintogrande, the "your poisonous womb is making heaven too full" It was "your poison womb is making heaven too loving crowded"
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I drunk posted once back in 2007 and Lowtax approved the 1 day probation. Thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow, dead man.
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Guys I'm selling rare Pepe NFTs all proceeds to me. This scam is in honor of the lump of poo poo who created this website forum.
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Jumping on the "what this site made" bandwagon, Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards name-drops SA from time to time, and he mostly credits SA and his MMORPG days with helping him be a better human because it forced him to interact with people he normally wouldn't and without his normal prejudice because....it's the internet, right? And I actually totally agree. I loving grew up in the cesspool of South Texas, so SA and the like really helped me meet people of different colors, gay people, trans people, WOMEN...and I mean, I still probably suffer from being a bit rear end-backwards still, but this site has helped me learn to interact with people I'd never get the chance to otherwise, and I'm a better person for it I think. So, that's a thing.
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TrixRabbi posted:That's to say nothing of the rest of SA's influence on and weird intersections with mainstream culture from launching early memes, Let's Plays (Twitch doesn't exist without them), Slenderman, the fact that Vilerat died in Benghazi, dril and Weird Twitter which eventually became the way everyone talked on Twitter and then TV and real life. It's weird man.
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TrixRabbi posted:Regardless of if the pedo and hentai bans were the big trigger or not, 4chan is an evolution out of SA anyway given that moot posted here and recruited users here and it was a direct influence on the site. But like, I totally agree there's way bigger societal and political forces at hand that led to all this bullshit and SA really is just a footnote in all of it anyway. But like I said earlier, even if it would have happened anyway whether it be on Stile Project or eBaums World or fuckin' Neopets or whatever, this is still the particular shape it took at the end of the day. I'm pretty sure no where else on the internet would have existed where my Hot Takes on the New York Mets would make someone so mad they would spend  on a customer Avatar for me, so in that case SA is irreplaceable.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:This reminds me of something i can share now. Lowtax told me he got a buyout offer from a media company for $13 million in 2006. He was still having fun with the site and turned it down. He expressed lament at this to me during our own negotiations. jfc
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