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Who would have ever guessed TB would lose the 'Being the last to be consumed by their cancer' race with SomethingAwful.
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KC Green is/was also a full-time goon at least around the time he was making Anime Club and his highly autistic semi-autobiographical comic series. If lowtax had set up a storefront, the goons buying up This Is Fine dog and Dickbutt merchandise would probably pay for his forums AND he could upgrade to Carlos Rossi
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THE SOMETHING AWFUL AD-POCALYPSE!
(NOTE: If you're a goon and you're reading this, just make an account and join in on the fun! Nobody hates you innately for being a goon, and we're just laughing at stupid goons with no sense of humor. If you're laughing with us, you might be a stupid goon, but at least you have a sense of humor!)
(ALSO NOTE: Unless you have an account, you'll be greeted with a loud video if you try to view a Something Awful direct link and are blocked by the paywall.)
LATEST UPDATE: The itty bitty baby meltdown and THE SUPER ULTRA-OMEGA FINAL (not final) MELTDOWN: TURBO EDITION
For the past decade or so, an old ad for the Goon sector of EVE Online had a spooky homophobic slur in it. Only recently did a goon actually notice it, and so they naturally posted a thread flipping out about it. Because the ads are integrated into the forum itself, they cannot be blocked by normal ad blockers unless each individual ad is manually blocked. Not only that, but both a moderator and an admin, in all their self-aware and tactful nature, inadvertently signaled for trolls by trying to appeal the screeching masses and revealing that they cannot identify who buys ads, nor could they remove them. Furthermore, it was revealed that only a down and dirty rewrite of the programming code for the forums would fix them not being able to do so, and if history has anything to show, that is certainly not going to happen.
As a response, an anonymous user added more offensive advertisements which linked back to the thread complaining about said advertisements. Despite it being blatantly obvious (and also conclusively proven) that the person buying the ads was listening, Goons continued to give the mysterious troll constant attention and hissy-fits. After about a week or so of tantrums, Lowtax stepped in to do about three minutes of work, deleted the ads, and disappeared off the forums again, and seems to be ignoring (or, more likely, obliviously unaware of) everyone's pleas. It's been theorized that he's struggling to choose between the now mutually exclusive choices of appeasing his userbase or appearing as a good advertiser.
Taking the opportunity, Kiwifarms is proud to announce our own new banner ad for Something Awful!
The best part? It's Lowtax approved! It doesn't violate any rules and, according to many complaining users, Lowtax refuses to remove the ad and will allow it to run until its completion!
Goons are now going into full meltdown and demanding the ad be removed, to no avail. Users are threatening to leave the site (some after over a decade of using it) because of this event.
TIMELINE OF EVENTS:
Below is the original post which raised the attention of the initial SA ad incident.
These banner ads lead to this thread.
(edit: thread is now moved to mod-only forum (word of mouth is because somebody referenced child pornography...for some reason), but the whining has been relocated to this thread and this thread. The paywall is active, so both links need an account to see. Screenshots of the new threads are here).
Some guy is just complaining because this ad for Eve Online had a slur in it, because nobody has ever read this specific organization of six letters on the internet before:
Needless to say, the ads were made in spite of him.
According to thread favorite FAU, mods can't see who buys avatars, titles, or banner ads, so I guess if you ever want to upset an entire cavalcade of goons, buy a banner ad since you'll be completely invisible to them.
Furthermore, apparently not even an admin can remove banner ads:
So it looks like the website is so masterfully coded that the only person who can remove an offensive banner ad is the Low T himself, mods are helpless to identify the user doing it, and all the users can do is panic as their precious eyes are forced to read a word.
Anyway, here are the reactions to somebody doing just that and buying banner ads with these naughty, naughty words:
You can always identify when a goon is mad when they stop obsessing over proper capitalization and start using abbreviations for their pseudo-snarky responses. My personal favorite is Botany trying to backseat mod without a hint of self-awareness.
(NOTE: If you're a goon and you're reading this, just make an account and join in on the fun! Nobody hates you innately for being a goon, and we're just laughing at stupid goons with no sense of humor. If you're laughing with us, you might be a stupid goon, but at least you have a sense of humor!)
(ALSO NOTE: Unless you have an account, you'll be greeted with a loud video if you try to view a Something Awful direct link and are blocked by the paywall.)
LATEST UPDATE: The itty bitty baby meltdown and THE SUPER ULTRA-OMEGA FINAL (not final) MELTDOWN: TURBO EDITION
For the past decade or so, an old ad for the Goon sector of EVE Online had a spooky homophobic slur in it. Only recently did a goon actually notice it, and so they naturally posted a thread flipping out about it. Because the ads are integrated into the forum itself, they cannot be blocked by normal ad blockers unless each individual ad is manually blocked. Not only that, but both a moderator and an admin, in all their self-aware and tactful nature, inadvertently signaled for trolls by trying to appeal the screeching masses and revealing that they cannot identify who buys ads, nor could they remove them. Furthermore, it was revealed that only a down and dirty rewrite of the programming code for the forums would fix them not being able to do so, and if history has anything to show, that is certainly not going to happen.
As a response, an anonymous user added more offensive advertisements which linked back to the thread complaining about said advertisements. Despite it being blatantly obvious (and also conclusively proven) that the person buying the ads was listening, Goons continued to give the mysterious troll constant attention and hissy-fits. After about a week or so of tantrums, Lowtax stepped in to do about three minutes of work, deleted the ads, and disappeared off the forums again, and seems to be ignoring (or, more likely, obliviously unaware of) everyone's pleas. It's been theorized that he's struggling to choose between the now mutually exclusive choices of appeasing his userbase or appearing as a good advertiser.
Taking the opportunity, Kiwifarms is proud to announce our own new banner ad for Something Awful!
The best part? It's Lowtax approved! It doesn't violate any rules and, according to many complaining users, Lowtax refuses to remove the ad and will allow it to run until its completion!
Goons are now going into full meltdown and demanding the ad be removed, to no avail. Users are threatening to leave the site (some after over a decade of using it) because of this event.
TIMELINE OF EVENTS:
Meltdown #2:
Ad Bundle #1:
Meltdown #3:
Goons try to fight back:
Ad Bundle #2:
Goon Rage-Snark #1:
Goon Rage-Snark #2:
Lowtax does something (because it took minimal effort):
Kiwifarms takes in advertising space:
Evidence:
The first Kiwi Ad reactions:
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #1:
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #2:
Goon Props:
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #3
Market Research
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #4
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #5
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #6
The Ads Are Here To Stay!
Kiwi Ad Meltdown: Twitter Edition
Kiwi Ad Mega Meltdown
The Kiwi Ad Mega-Ultra Meltdown:
The itty bitty baby metldown:
THE SUPER ULTRA-OMEGA FINAL (not final) MELTDOWN: TURBO EDITION:
Ad Bundle #1:
Meltdown #3:
Goons try to fight back:
Ad Bundle #2:
Goon Rage-Snark #1:
Goon Rage-Snark #2:
Lowtax does something (because it took minimal effort):
Kiwifarms takes in advertising space:
Evidence:
The first Kiwi Ad reactions:
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #1:
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #2:
Goon Props:
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #3
Market Research
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #4
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #5
Kiwi Ad Meltdown #6
The Ads Are Here To Stay!
Kiwi Ad Meltdown: Twitter Edition
Kiwi Ad Mega Meltdown
The Kiwi Ad Mega-Ultra Meltdown:
Mind dropping a link? I'd like to take a peak for myself, too.
Edit: Found it!
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3869869
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Special request.
Anyway, hi goons! I'm the one doing most of the screenshotting, you should try it, it's a blast!
Speaking of which:
Some of my highlights:
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"That's some pretty gross, weirdo behavior." [makes avatar cropped transgender video game porn]
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"mad"
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I know this was posted before, but this perfectly epitomizes this entire endeavor. The ads were bought for a very specific purpose. It's obvious that it has a very specific purpose. The very specific purpose itself is incredibly transparent. But people still fall for it, and no sensible person can tell that to people without them getting demonized for thinking. Not even a mod.
Q.E.D.:
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While you're here reading this, join in on the fun! It's freee-eee~!
(P.S. it's spelled "doxing.")
The itty bitty baby metldown:
THE SUPER ULTRA-OMEGA FINAL (not final) MELTDOWN: TURBO EDITION:
Somebody in the GBS thread posted a gif of me seeing that our ad has inspired over 300 angry responses:
I will not tolerate being doxed so lightly.
From the GBS thread:
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The poster of the thread has now been branded as a heretic. Perhaps it was for spreading absolute lies about our perfectly civil forum for the discussion of kiwi crop yields.
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Special requests:
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*doxing
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Okay. But only since you said "please."
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Reminder: when a goon stops capitalizing and speaks in abbreviations, it's an obvious tell that they're angry and trying to hide it through thinly-veiled snark:
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People being sensible (and most likely ignored or insulted immediately afterward):
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Other highlights:
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@MidUSA
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@Anime is Blood
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@northstar747 and @Ghostse
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@Secret Asshole
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@Ron /pol/
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This guy whose username I already forgot also likes being doxed or something:
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This is the last post in the thread:
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Join usssssssss...
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Full page screenshots:
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Side conversation:
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Hello!
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Thanks for the advice. Gyazo is fast and I do generally use it, but Null says I have to do it this way. Oh well.
(link to original post with timeline)
Below is the original post which raised the attention of the initial SA ad incident.
These banner ads lead to this thread.
(edit: thread is now moved to mod-only forum (word of mouth is because somebody referenced child pornography...for some reason), but the whining has been relocated to this thread and this thread. The paywall is active, so both links need an account to see. Screenshots of the new threads are here).
Some guy is just complaining because this ad for Eve Online had a slur in it, because nobody has ever read this specific organization of six letters on the internet before:
Needless to say, the ads were made in spite of him.
According to thread favorite FAU, mods can't see who buys avatars, titles, or banner ads, so I guess if you ever want to upset an entire cavalcade of goons, buy a banner ad since you'll be completely invisible to them.
Furthermore, apparently not even an admin can remove banner ads:
So it looks like the website is so masterfully coded that the only person who can remove an offensive banner ad is the Low T himself, mods are helpless to identify the user doing it, and all the users can do is panic as their precious eyes are forced to read a word.
Anyway, here are the reactions to somebody doing just that and buying banner ads with these naughty, naughty words:
You can always identify when a goon is mad when they stop obsessing over proper capitalization and start using abbreviations for their pseudo-snarky responses. My personal favorite is Botany trying to backseat mod without a hint of self-awareness.
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Realtalk from synthy in the faggot banner thread.
DONGS.EXE
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So.......the only one that can remove banners is LowTax? That MUST be true, because there's no way the Faggot ads would still be up otherwise.
Man, this little quirk could have been used pretty well for some good laughs, and some really creative content. Plus, unless I'm mistaken, it's only 8 bucks for a month long ad, so long as you're not selling anything.
Of course, the way things are now, the only thing needed is the word "Faggot" with a psychedelic backdrop to get people to make a thread and spaz out. Lame.
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I wondered (read: not considered) what the reaction would be if somebody bought a banner ad that just led to this thread. I wouldn't advise it since it would cause more harm than good and this thread would become a mess, but I still like imagining people freaking out about it on Something Awful seeing as we're considered internet boogymen. Mods would probably panic-ban suspected Kiwis just out of a frenzy.
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Anti-tranny banner when?
Anime is Blood
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I think if people started using the only part of the forum that is safe from thought policing to do things like that then something would definitely be done. The word "Faggot" is probably a low priority thing but if you make one that says "TRANSGENDER PEOPLE CAN BE MENTALLY ILL. GENDER DYSPHORIA IS A MENTAL ILLNESS" there would be so much screeching that Lowtax might pull himself out of the closet he is watching his wife get fucked from and actually do something.
Poop A Loop
kiwifarms.net
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It's the funniest defensive behavior response to things they don't like. I can't help but lose my shit anytime I see someone on that forum types something up with no punctuation or capitalization like that because it's like some weird textual expression of a goon pouting. I wonder, do they type like that on their Facebook pages or to their families in text messages when they're triggered?
That strange behavior has to be one of the best examples of the cargo cult hugbox that SA has cultivated. Do that anywhere else and people would just think you're an idiot who failed English, but on SA it just means you're buttmad about something someone said.
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If he
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I'm more surprised there are still people without adblockers, but on SA it's permanently 2008 I suppose. Also SA had tons of downright malicious (as in- tries to hijack your browser) Ads in the past and the general response to it was very slow and uncaring.
I could understand Lowtax taking out more offensive stuff, not because he cares (he doesn't care about anything besides his bloated ego) but because it could reduce his permatriggered userbase which he is very dependent on.
I could understand Lowtax taking out more offensive stuff, not because he cares (he doesn't care about anything besides his bloated ego) but because it could reduce his permatriggered userbase which he is very dependent on.
robobobo
kiwifarms.net
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No shit mods can't take down the ads, they're money for Lowtax. If anyone thought for a second that he'd have set things up to allow a mod to directly crimp the ambien money flow, well. Think again. Unfortunately for him, he didn't think ahead enough to realize that allowing the mods to chase off half the userbase is effectively also hurting his money flow.
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IIRC, you can block the shitty highjack-type ads with a forums upgrade (but lots of people leave them off, to 'support the forums') but the banner ads are just images and cannot be blocked. I don't think anyone's ever bothered trying to adblock them because they're completely innocuous. This latest bout of trolling might be having the easily triggered changing that.
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Its been a year and a half now since the great Trooncaust. Shame that so many of those doxes were fake.
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I don't bother blocking the banner ads because they're so far down the page that you only see them occasionally by chance.
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Ten years ago Lowtax personally approved and posted the banner ads. He's definitely too lazy and stupid to have automated that function, so I'm gonna guess he supports the faggot banner. Good on you, Lowtax ya loser.