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Who is Konjuro? It's a goon, isn't it? Which one of you clowns made this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjgcY81dlao
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Valko posted:Who is Konjuro? It's a goon, isn't it? I just saw that about an hour ago for the first time. Was going to post it here, but figured it had been posted 1000 times in the lowtax death thread.
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where is this front page post of lowtax going ape poo poo about his ex wife?
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teen phone cutie posted:where is this front page post of lowtax going ape poo poo about his ex wife? don't know, but someone linked it in the yikesaroo thread. the documentary took lowtax's side about it
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ChubbyChecker posted:don't know, but someone linked it in the yikesaroo thread. the documentary took lowtax's side about it Are you telling me that a bunch of people who knew about lowtax because they liked him first took a pro lowtax angle? For this? The product they made about lowtax?
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wesleywillis posted:I watched it and the tweet or whatever the gently caress that lowtax made from 2018 right at the end was kind of ironic. The is for grabbing that, I kept fat fingering the pause button trying to read it and couldn't listen to that song any more. I've been an SA member since before my reg date and this community has really been a foundational part of my life in many ways. I remember being confused in the late 00s as to why lowtax seemed so hostile and disinterested in the place he had built. This documentary filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge and really illustrated his character and personality well. I think the point made towards the end about how SAs users and moderators managed to evolve with the time but lowtax could not was well stated. I loved the edgy, nihilistic tone of this place as a teenager. Today I'm in my late 30s and about to be a dad and have come out the other side of my own battles with depression and anxiety and while I'll always love the absurd, ironic, and subversive tone of this place, the misanthropic anger and chaos Lowtax embodied (spiced with low periods of pathetic victim good when things were going badly) just lost all of its appeal. Glad to see this documentary made and I hope other serious dives into the long history of this site pop up before the darkness takes us all...
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lol @ 200K/yr revenue being "wealthy" but overall good doc thanks for sharing
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i dunno 200k a year is like 3 times what i make and i spend a lot of money on stupid bullshit so if i had 3 x as much money i think i would consider myself wealthy tbqh
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Fiddler on the Reef posted:lol @ 200K/yr revenue being "wealthy" -- posted from my trust fund
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Fiddler on the Reef posted:lol @ 200K/yr revenue being "wealthy" 
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Fiddler on the Reef posted:lol @ 200K/yr revenue being "wealthy"  I mean 200k revenue doesn't necessarily mean one is wealthy, no, but we know SA didn't exactly benefit from a lot of reinvesting in those days, so...
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revenue isn't profit. ( i didn't watch the documentary ( only the blooper reel with spinz eating it on the slip and slide))
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Fiddler on the Reef posted:lol @ 200K/yr revenue being "wealthy" no normal person makes that kind of money and lowtax made more, that number included only the  regs, and nothing else
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ChubbyChecker posted:no normal person makes that kind of money in 2008, that was only 96th percentile, and 200K was his peak reg earnings: average was a good bit lower. and it doesn't take into account costs. I would call it well off or affluent, but def not wealthy. wealthy *starts* at $200K/yr from passive investments alone, and that's like a poor man wannabe level of wealth. e: source: I've been surrounded by wealth my entire working career (finance or FAANG). My boss's boss is a billionaire. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Fiddler on the Reef fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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The Bloop posted:So it's just the Lowtax was a Bad, Sad Man show more than an SA docu Yeah, it's only about Lowtax. EPG / Fistgrrl never showed up and they were very strong supports during the early days. I also feel really bad for Frags, who stayed by Lowtax's side for so long but didn't know the troubles.
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having money is not the same as being wealthy didn't you guys see that chris rock routine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZWeFtgEAEk
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It was decent, but yeah some stuff people mentioned that was left out like EPG, Fistgrrl, Dr David Thorpe and tons of others that kept the site relevant also lol fuckin mangosteen
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How come none of these things ever mention that the forums were brought down by hurricane Katrina, that's how I got involved with the IRC and all that poo poo
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bagmonkey posted:How come none of these things ever mention that the forums were brought down by hurricane Katrina, that's how I got involved with the IRC and all that poo poo Radium wasn't mentioned, just the fact that this forum is still VBulliten and kept together by spit, tape, and load bearing slurs. Oh the load bearing slurs weren't mentioned. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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Fiddler on the Reef posted:in 2008, that was only 96th percentile, and 200K was his peak reg earnings: average was a good bit lower. and it doesn't take into account costs. your penis is very large
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CannonFodder posted:Radium wasn't mentioned, just the fact that this forum is still VBulliten and kept together by spit, tape, and load bearing slurs. see, it's absolutely egregious that this wasn't included in an entertainment piece
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bagmonkey posted:How come none of these things ever mention that the forums were brought down by hurricane Katrina pretty sure that was when we lost somethingsawful and somethinglawful, too the true victims of hurricane katrina, really
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Cubone posted:oh yeah that sucked it really feels like when the site started to take a turn towards the "dying gay comedy forum" it is today
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Fiddler on the Reef posted:lol @ 200K/yr revenue being "wealthy" Ban this rear end in a top hat What a fuckin post I'm serious Lol at 200 thousand loving dollars a year, one earner, NOT being wealthy
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Fiddler on the Reef posted:in 2008, that was only 96th percentile, and 200K was his peak reg earnings: average was a good bit lower. and it doesn't take into account costs. Cool story bro
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Spinz posted:Ban this rear end in a top hat When I win the lottery, I'll be pulling like 300k a year for 30 years 
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lol if you think being a billionaire makes you rich. i grew up next door to mansa musa.
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I'm rich. in waifus.
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How did this not make it into the documentary? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdUHDDj7fhk
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lil poopendorfer posted:I think it was the forums outgrowing him and his sense of humor. Lowtax was always epic monkeycheese style humor and I think he never got over the fact that people stopped finding him funny. He never posted much and I got the sense he didn't read or lurk either. It was just something he kept going for money He was also really into Gamer Words and random vulgarity well past the point most of us realized they weren't really appropriate and didn't automatically make things shocking and funny like in the early years of Internet edgelord humor. And you're right, he would disappear for long periods of time then suddenly re-emerge in what can only be described as manic posting over some perceived slight in his personal life or on the forums. I'd never seen that video of him throwing himself headfirst into the SA strip mall headquarters, but it was pretty unsettling how the dude clearly had a ton of mental issues he never took care of or grew out of. I can't believe the doc didn't mention the Hurricane Katrina saga
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Scam Likely posted:How did this not make it into the documentary? haha i remember that lmao epic i'm not being ironic that was pretyy epic
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Scam Likely posted:How did this not make it into the documentary? There was a screenshot of it.
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teen phone cutie posted:where is this front page post of lowtax going ape poo poo about his ex wife? Are you talking about this? Technically an ex-Fiancé (Integral) but either way yikesaroo! https://www.somethingawful.com/news/what-learned-last/
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One thing this kind of covered but didn't really focus on was how much goons seemed to rag on lowtax a lot, even in the good times. Like with the mangosteen, I didn't think it was a big deal that he talked about it and had some referral links, but he did get ripped apart for it. I seem to remember him posting that one of the reasons he didn't upgrade vbulletin sooner was because he knew it would change the look of the forums and people would complain. Goons complained about the change to the front page's layout when that happened. There was the whole SASS board that hounded him for years. And he would have absolutely been eviscerated by this community if he had ever sold out the site to a corporation when it was at its peak. I don't know if it's the situation where his mind chose to focus on the negative voices most and then felt like that's all that there was. Maybe he had a mental issue of always framing himself as a victim even when there wasn't much of a problem or if it was actually his fault. But it does make me think about how the toxic element of these boards really did get under his skin and he wasn't able to ignore it like some public figures can.
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