Something Awful administrator says founder Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka has died at 45; founded in 1999, SA's influence over the contemporary web has been huge
monumentally important. Photoshop Friday spawned a million memes https://twitter.com/... Josh von Milton Bradley / @jesawyer : not sure what to say about lowtax (according to frags) dying. wow. https://forums.somethingawful.com/ ... @qanonanonymous : rip lowtax, our podcast wouldn't exist without something awful, and I don't mean that in a good way Cmrn Knzlmn / @ckunzelman : lowtax. hugely important. complete asshole in most measurable ways. influential clown man. 50/50 chance this is some kind of weird con. @aliceavizandum : Lowtax's shitty website basically created the modern internet, and a lot of the addled young men on there are now flourishing women. Also you could buy drugs on there David Gilbert / @daithaigilbert : Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, founder of the Something Awful forum, has reportedly died. Lowtax & SA had a profound impact on internet culture, paving the way for 4chan etc He was also a horrible person. Here's an oral history of the site from 2017: https://www.vice.com/... Alex Hern / @alexhern : Can conceivably argue that if Lowtax hadn't banned hentai from the anime subforum in 2003, there wouldn't have been the US Capitol insurrection in January 2021 Caylen / @caylenb : ngl, since he was an unapologetic multiple time spousal abuser & did a lot of terrible shit (including stuff people don't really even know about) I don't feel even remotely compelled to mourn that asshole. condolences to his children, & may everyone else find peace in his death Robert Evans / @iwriteok : Rich “Lowtax” Kyanka, domestic abuser and founder of the Something Awful forums, appears to have died. As Jason says, you can't really exaggerate the impact he had on modern digital culture. Some of the best and most of the worst things about the internet today started on SA. https://twitter.com/... Jason Pargin / @johndiesattheen : It is hard to overstate how different the internet today would look without Lowtax, the guy who founded Something Awful, which helped invent modern internet comedy and forum culture (as well as spinning off 4chan). Apparently he went off the rails over the last few years? https://twitter.com/... Shaun / @shaun_vids : lowtax dead. dude sucked imo Grug Stan / @grugstan : lowtax has apparently died. He was by all accounts a horrible man and a domestic abuser. He also completely reshaped the internet and his website was the crucible for most 21st cen alt-comedy and alt-journalism. A giant of internet culture, remembered by history as a cunt. https://twitter.com/... Alex Hern / @alexhern : Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, the founder of Something Awful, has died. Strong case for him being one of the most influential cultural figures of the internet age. Rev. Poppy Haze / @poppy_haze : one of the weird things is realizing that lowtax flapping his wings by banning hentai probably lead directly to Qanon and Jan 6 storming of the Capitol Shirts Cobain / @synoisia : Lowtax banning hentai on the SA forums was a real assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand moment and understanding this will haunt me forever.
.@Motherboard on the death of Lowtax: “Kyanka's legacy is woven into the soul of the internet, for better and for worse. He hated the internet, the internet hated him back, and it's not clear anyone has learned anything from what he helped unleash.” https://www.vice.com/...
Some good lines in this Lowtax obituary: “Kyanka's legacy is woven into the soul of the internet, for better and for worse. He hated the internet, the internet hated him back, and it's not clear anyone has learned anything from what he helped unleash.” https://www.vice.com/...
Advertising on Something Awful helped Request-A-Song get off the ground in 2002. That usually involved emailing Lowtax, who was always nice. I know he had issues. His site was a wild cultural stew back in the day—monumentally important. Photoshop Friday spawned a million memes ht…
Lowtax's shitty website basically created the modern internet, and a lot of the addled young men on there are now flourishing women. Also you could buy drugs on there
Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, founder of the Something Awful forum, has reportedly died. Lowtax & SA had a profound impact on internet culture, paving the way for 4chan etc He was also a horrible person. Here's an oral history of the site from 2017: https://www.vice.com/...
Can conceivably argue that if Lowtax hadn't banned hentai from the anime subforum in 2003, there wouldn't have been the US Capitol insurrection in January 2021
ngl, since he was an unapologetic multiple time spousal abuser & did a lot of terrible shit (including stuff people don't really even know about) I don't feel even remotely compelled to mourn that asshole. condolences to his children, & may everyone else find peace in his death
Rich “Lowtax” Kyanka, domestic abuser and founder of the Something Awful forums, appears to have died. As Jason says, you can't really exaggerate the impact he had on modern digital culture. Some of the best and most of the worst things about the internet today started on SA. htt…
It is hard to overstate how different the internet today would look without Lowtax, the guy who founded Something Awful, which helped invent modern internet comedy and forum culture (as well as spinning off 4chan). Apparently he went off the rails over the last few years? https:/…
lowtax has apparently died. He was by all accounts a horrible man and a domestic abuser. He also completely reshaped the internet and his website was the crucible for most 21st cen alt-comedy and alt-journalism. A giant of internet culture, remembered by history as a cunt. https:…
Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, the founder of Something Awful, has died. Strong case for him being one of the most influential cultural figures of the internet age.
one of the weird things is realizing that lowtax flapping his wings by banning hentai probably lead directly to Qanon and Jan 6 storming of the Capitol