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I was acutely aware of SA since probably 2009-10 when I first got into Let's Play, but didn't actually read it until fairly recently.
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Dude named Zach showed me a Photoshop phriday in late 2002, in English class senior year high school. I specifically remember seeing fiesta cat and "this is the winter of our discount tents" meme, both of which were the height of comedy. Lurked until I left for college and bought an account in my dorm room mid 2003.
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Das Boo posted:I'm pretty sure it was i-mockery.com. Then I lurked for like, 5 years because I was flat broke and felt guilty spending anything on non-essentials. i definitely found SA through a link on i-mockery or one of those other ancient web 1.0 comedy / video game / "haha random!!" sites their old webring banner (lol) is permanently burned into my memory 
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Nov 17, 2021 21:29
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remember when everyone hated Fark.com i dont even remember what fark.com was haha good times
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Nov 17, 2021 21:32
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Thank you for asking. I found it to be something awful!
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Nov 17, 2021 21:40
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I love listening to podcasts like The F Plus and watching youtube videos but youtubers like Whang! who look at awful internet things. I had heard of the forums in passing a few times. Eventually decided to make an account cause I felt like I should.
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Nov 17, 2021 22:24
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I was aware of SA in the early 2000s, and enjoyed the stuff coming out of the photoshop thread and other image macros/protomemes. Didn't join because no credit card = no  Joined in 2012 so I could play Eve with people who weren't reddit. I said something dumb in the thread as a joke, got flamed, and my application never got approved. I stopped playing after my trial ran out. Mostly didn't lurk or post much until 2019, and now I usually hang out in Cspam and  all day.
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thelizzerd posted:I love listening to podcasts like The F Plus and watching youtube videos but youtubers like Whang! who look at awful internet things. I had heard of the forums in passing a few times. Eventually decided to make an account cause I felt like I should.
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Nov 17, 2021 22:34
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Jeffrey doing market research. Too hosed up to believe.
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Nov 17, 2021 22:37
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podcast are for advertising meal kits and email services. maybe SA could start offering those things, and then they could get some podcast ads
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Nov 17, 2021 22:42
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Have u tried posting flyers in the quad
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Nov 17, 2021 22:47
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Put out newspaper ads in NYC and chicago
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Nov 17, 2021 22:49
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:The reason I made this thread is because I am looking to promote the site. I would like to figure out how to effectively get new people to check it out, in particular people who don't care for "new-style" social media sites but don't really know that old-style forums exist. Whang is actually one of the people I was going to consider approaching. I'm not into youtube at all, I have no idea what's out there in terms of "old internet" content on youtube and I don't really like internet video content myself, but if people here have ideas for where to go, I'm all ears. It's really hard to promote SA. A lot of younger people when they think of forums think of the worst sides of 4chan or other bad things. A lot who don't care for newer style social media just choose to not interact with social media at all or only use discord. I think the best way most internet sites spread is by people just naturally linking to them on other internet places, but forums have less appeal to link to them than social media.
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Nov 17, 2021 22:57
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Methanar posted:Put out newspaper ads in NYC and chicago
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Nov 17, 2021 22:59
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Read Horrors of Porn swap.avi. Wiped the tears from my eyes and lurked the forums. Eventually dropped my when I realised I already had friends on the board.
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Nov 17, 2021 23:02
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PokeJoe posted:podcast are for advertising meal kits and email services. maybe SA could start offering those things, and then they could get some podcast ads I'm sure Goons with Spoons could come up with something.
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Nov 17, 2021 23:43
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I used to watch the Flash Tub and Articles on the Front Page. Would be great to have a forum front page that's actually relevant and funny again.
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Screenshot Let's Plays of JRPGs in the mid-2000s. Didn't look into any other subforums until 4 years ago.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:The reason I made this thread is because I am looking to promote the site. I would like to figure out how to effectively get new people to check it out, in particular people who don't care for "new-style" social media sites but don't really know that old-style forums exist. Whang is actually one of the people I was going to consider approaching. I'm not into youtube at all, I have no idea what's out there in terms of "old internet" content on youtube and I don't really like internet video content myself, but if people here have ideas for where to go, I'm all ears. Youtube trends older in demographics in comparison to tik tok and things like that, the average age is apparently something like 30-40 years old. Maybe some guys that fit that demo might be interested in talking about the site and do some cross promos?
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I don't remember it was 22 years ago, I remember I really liked the Jeff k comics and read the front page for a while before daring to engage with the forums. I was 14, I liked the porn forum.
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I used to read front page articles Shaggy Butte, fashion SWAT, trucker dad, I've forgotten a lot of em
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Pretty certain I happened upon SA through interactions with people on the Counter-Strike Off-Topic Forum.
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I think I found it through the Kali gaming network
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:The reason I made this thread is because I am looking to promote the site. I would like to figure out how to effectively get new people to check it out, in particular people who don't care for "new-style" social media sites but don't really know that old-style forums exist. Whang is actually one of the people I was going to consider approaching. I'm not into youtube at all, I have no idea what's out there in terms of "old internet" content on youtube and I don't really like internet video content myself, but if people here have ideas for where to go, I'm all ears. As much as people go "THERE'S A FRONT PAGE?!? LAWLZZZORZ!!!1!" the main thing that kept SomethingAwful on the radar for most of its life was the nonstop content. What kept me and the fellow fans I knew in person paying attention to the site was the weekly PhotoshopPhriday and articles where Lowtax and Pals knocked something hilarious out of the park. The forums were also way more active in those days as there were interesting things actually happening that dovetailed into that sort of thing. PhotoshopPhriday in particular was a weird, horrifying abomination made out of equal parts forums and front page. I know that the quality and frequency of those things going down was part of why I drifted away. There was a time when was definitely worth it to the point where people were buying accounts for their friends. Now it is...less so.On the internet content is king and you have to provide people something they actually want. Lowtax for all his faults could usually at least write a funny article.
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My Tank is Fight and Photoshop Phridaya
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ToxicSlurpee posted:the main thing that kept SomethingAwful on the radar for most of its life was the nonstop content. What kept me and the fellow fans I knew in person paying attention to the site was the weekly PhotoshopPhriday This was it for me too. I never even read the vast majority of it; I was only really interested in Photoshop Phriday and Comedy Goldmine and the regular updates form those were enough to keep me coming back. I originally discovered SA back in 2002 when I was looking for pictures of WW2 and a few images from the "World War Fun" Photoshop Phriday came up. I looked at some of the other photos for a while, then I left the site and went on with my day. Then, in 2003, I came across a link to the Terrible Secret of Space video from a different forum and I decided to visit a URL which I believe was either included in the video itself or was provided in the forum post. I decided to give it a try, and I remembered this was where I found the World War Fun pictures. After revisiting those photos again, I realized that Photoshop Phriday was (at that time) a weekly update, so from then on I would periodically come back to read each new update. Eventually I branched out to reading the Comedy Goldmine and some of the ICQ pranks, and eventually I discovered the forums.
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Early 2000s, I would kill time at my job on different messageboards. There was a thread about 'best websites to visit daily' on like Gamespot forums or something. That brought me to SA, Fark and Fazed.net.
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tmfc posted:i definitely found SA through a link on i-mockery or one of those other ancient web 1.0 comedy / video game / "haha random!!" sites The I-mockery forums were the first forums that I was able to see at its peak to essentially its death. At one point the owner removed the link to the forums and new members were effectively nil. New posts became few and far between several years ago and the forums are all but dead now except for a few OGs calling out into the wilderness. Sorta sad as I had posted there for years but it was always second rate compared to SA so it’s just kind of whatever, I guess.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Cliff Yablonski brought me here and now I can never leave 
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An online friend linked me to JeffK and Yablonski articles in 2003 or 2004, and that was the funniest poo poo as a teenager. Lurked in the forums for a few years until I got tired of hitting the page view limit.
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History Comes Inside! posted:
This was the one that made it all the way around the office when I worked at AOL  I had seen All Your Base and Do You Have Stairs in Your House and somehow found the Front Page. Reading Photoshop Phridays became a regular staple of my week. I finally bought an account when i figured out that the content was being generated in the forums so I could post in those threads. There was an excellent photoshop megathread back in the day that taught me everything I know about layers. This was the original update, it's still hilarious: https://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop-phriday/childrens-books/1/
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Pahilla the Hun posted:This was the one that made it all the way around the office when I worked at AOL Oh gawd i had forgot about those, utterly creasing myself. For how i got here, pretty sure it would have been planetquake and frags, came for the funny, then found the forums. as for ideas for promoting the site dunno if its been sugested but getting the old personalitys like cranky steve, the lawyer etc up onto twitter posting as their personas and linking back to the site and articals, or new personalitys to freshen it up might be a thing idk just spitballing.
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I came from ebaumsworld I think. They had a link on the front page and I clicked it and here I am 15 years later shitposting
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I somehow found a Photoshop Phriday - Video Games According to Grandma article around the release of Half-Life 2. I was in seventh grade and thought it was the funniest thing ever
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Nov 19, 2021 16:24
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I asked Jeeves for "some waffles"
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Alucard posted:Pretty certain I happened upon SA through interactions with people on the Counter-Strike Off-Topic Forum. Same, old OTF buddy. I lost track of how many goatse spam attacks I had to delete/ban for (that likely originated from here), sometimes pages at a time! So in a way, goatse unintentionally brought me here. Probably not good marketing material though, unless you can relate to the goatman. VVV I think a lot more people than we realize have connected here via various HL mod community off-topic sections. It was definitely a unique time for internetting. ianskate fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Nov 20, 2021 |
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ianskate posted:Same, old OTF buddy. I lost track of how many goatse spam attacks I had to delete/ban for (that likely originated from here), sometimes pages at a time! you jogged my memory and now I remember how I got here it was from firearms mod OTF
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Front page stuff. Photoshop Fridays. This was in 2000 and I was a child. Edit: The friend who showed me it originally also was the first person to goatse me, back when that image was actually upsetting Puppy Galaxy fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Nov 20, 2021 |
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i was on the periphery of SA from literally the first moment i started using the internet i think. i guess you could make the argument that virtually every corner of the internet in 2001 was SA-adjacent so maybe that's not terribly meaningful, but i just always hung out with people who were drawing on that SA energy and referencing stuff from here. i think my first real exposure to the source was the icq pranks. i didn't sign up for an account for a long time because i was a child with no credit card but i don't think i was ever really outside of SA's gravity well. the thing that sticks with me the most from those days is probably this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYulkD13D0 which owned, and still owns ToxicSlurpee posted:As much as people go "THERE'S A FRONT PAGE?!? LAWLZZZORZ!!!1!" the main thing that kept SomethingAwful on the radar for most of its life was the nonstop content. What kept me and the fellow fans I knew in person paying attention to the site was the weekly PhotoshopPhriday and articles where Lowtax and Pals knocked something hilarious out of the park. The forums were also way more active in those days as there were interesting things actually happening that dovetailed into that sort of thing. PhotoshopPhriday in particular was a weird, horrifying abomination made out of equal parts forums and front page. I know that the quality and frequency of those things going down was part of why I drifted away. There was a time when i mean there is still a lot of hilarious photoshopped content produced on these forums every day. we just don't have the theme days or any way of displaying them together outside of the threads they're posted in, anymore. i feel like the return of photoshop phriday and other "content from the forums" features would do a lot to renew people's interest in the site...we still produce content that is orders of magnitude funnier than your average poo poo-tier twitter or reddit meme. it just needs to go out into the world as "somethingawful content" like it used to, if the goal is to interest people in us as a community, instead of gradually being disseminated through individual people's twitters. as much as i hate to say it...maybe photoshop phriday needs a twitter account Jazerus fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Nov 20, 2021 |
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Photoshop Phridays linked from the g4tv.com forums.
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