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Without taking the time to mega massive effort post I will say that the feeing of being on the ground floor of a thread that ended up producing something special is a truly unique internet experience. Like I’m specifically thinking of the retard masturbator thread and like the 2nd post was “So you work from home, OP?” and then then just like 3 pages of empty quoting it because we were witnessing a nuclear burn in real time. Slenderman was similar because nothing else in the thread got that much of response and even in the moment posters were getting severely disturbed by the images like right away.
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Something Awful. Com has produced a number of demons, but LoL if you haven’t figured out that oxballs.com is literally the devil of GBS The key to his power is just to read all of his posts in David Spade’s voice. Trust me
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Spinster posted:You still can here, it's just not done much. I did a big multistory autobiographical type thread in GBS because that's what I had read and enjoyed the most while lurking. Amazingly I wasn't flamed at all, it was a miracle in retrospect, but I wasnt. The difference, Spin, is that while you pop up in lots of threads, you tend to just post original content, ask questions when you plainly don’t get a reference, and aren’t jumping up and down figuratively screaming for attention. If your thread had been “who is ready for this crrrraaaaaaazy wild ride that is my cuckoo life!” then yeah you’d probably get poo poo on, but the trigger is almost universally “acting like you are special”. Behaving as though you are more important or special than anyone else is like the cardinal sin of SA forums politics and that’s honestly why it’s the only website I frequent on the internet. Something Awful is in many ways a digital Mecca of smarm, sarcasm and sass. I began lurking in 2003, roughly 9th grade or so, because of Fashion SWAT, Hentai Review and Cliff Yablonski. These jokes were funny but vicious and mean-spirited at their core. Like a nerd whose only defense was to make fun of the bullies’ alcoholic loser parents until he cried in gym class, Something Awful appreciated anyone’s ability to detract or take something down, pull it apart, and show us how stupid it was. We were all watching in silent horror as our species unlocked and refined the ability to process, store, and access all of history, information, and science onto the internet and it was absolutely making everyone stupider in very real time. Something Awful’s community surely leaves plenty to be desired, but it had always struck me as the most genuine atmosphere of “hanging out at the nerd store with your nerd buddies” that the internet had ever produced. The audacity of someone coming into this equalized, median nerd space and asserting that they were funny or interesting enough for us to give them our attention is like leaving a hot pie to cool off on a windowsill, it just drags us out of the woods because Something Awful (and by extension most of nerd culture) has to be an even playing field to work at all. The modern day SA Super Stars are more often than not simply high-volume, low impact posters who show up in every thread and just kind of do their own thing as consistently as possible, but what determines their longevity is how they respond to the initial brunt of goons taking them to task. My favorite examples from recent times are probably Dad Gay, So What and Pick. At times in the last year they seemed virtually omnipresent across GBS with their identities intact in their posts, so even after a few self owns they still keep on truckin’ and then once that happens you become a member of the team, you’re in. We have these highly illustrated caricatures of our personalities (known colloquially as ‘gimmicks’) and as long as everyone excepts that it doesn’t matter if you’re funny or cool as long as you don’t demand we acknowledge how funny or cool you are, then you’re fine. I have never wanted a Lowtax effort post more in my life than I do for this thread. (Dad Gay, So What is my favorite poster of all time if only because I recognize them as a meme more than a poster, and I always like Pick and her threads because she understands the humor in selectively triggering extremely fragile cracks common in internet male psyche and exposing super dumb poo poo all over the forums, but in a way that is both funny and also kind of a massive self-own because she has no problem breaking herself down as much (or usually much harder) than anyone else can take them down. Part of the culture of Something Awful is and has always been “If you can’t laugh at yourself, we will absolutely do it for you.” and the people who show up and try to impress without getting that are dead in the water before their “jokes” get off the ground.
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