Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield

[The Fatriarchy]

Let's check in on the Simpsons shitposting/meme thread.

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(This one is so retarded that maybe I'm missing the Poe here but it's current year SA so who knows)

All this started because someone mused about re-watching some old cartoons. Lowtax is spinning in his dead, gay, grave.

It's almost like people use things that are considered bad in some way to describe things that are bad in the same way.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

It's almost like people use things that are considered bad in some way to describe things that are bad in the same way.

That’s unpossible!

 

[Muskcarpone]

Goons convinced themselves that they need to apologize for once upon a time having used inappropriate and outrageous words and humour precisely because it was inappropriate.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Goons convinced themselves that they need to apologize for once upon a time inappropriate and outrageous words and humour precisely because it was inappropriate.

There are vanishingly few original goons left, the cat ladies and troons ran them all off.

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

Goons convinced themselves that they need to apologize for once upon a time inappropriate and outrageous words and humour precisely because it was inappropriate.

Hard to believe this place once harbored people who put 9/11 footage to Yakity Sax.

 

[Dafuqisdis?]

Would have been better if you had learned not to be a gay faggot. That was the real lesson life was trying to teach you.

 

[Big Nasty]

the word gay is gay.

Isn't that a Anal Cunt track?

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Isn't that an Anal Cunt track?

Mmmmmmaaaaayyybe…

 

[SwiftBucks]

There are vanishingly few original goons left, the cat ladies and troons ran them all off.

Plus they're all old as shit. The first wave goons were in their 20s in the very early 2000s. Some were older, a not insignificant amount were usenet oldheads.

I like to think no one is pushing 50 and still arguing about r words and marxist praxis

 

[AnOminous]

No relation.


Imagine telling a 2000 reg date that using the word gay is gay.

Imagine having a fit of the vapors at someone saying faggot when you're the kind of performative online liberal whose immediate go-to insult is to accuse someone of being secretly gay.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Plus they're all old as shit. The first wave goons were in their 20s in the very early 2000s. Some were older, a not insignificant amount were usenet oldheads.

I like to think no one is pushing 50 and still arguing about r words and marxist praxis

Considering the general idiocy, lack of good judgment and poor impulse control of many paleolithic goons, I would also guess a lot of them died off over the years.

Remember the dude who made the Lord of the Rings Elf dildo? that thread was strangely educational and the level of Tolkien scholarship in the conceptual stage and design was hilariously deep. Dude even came up with a linguistically-accurate elvish slang term for penis.

 

[The Grognard]

Plus they're all old as shit. The first wave goons were in their 20s in the very early 2000s. Some were older, a not insignificant amount were usenet oldheads.

I like to think no one is pushing 50 and still arguing about r words and marxist praxis

You can think that but those olds are on Bluesky and still simping for Zoe Quinn while also being extremely bitter about the internet not clamping down on Gamergate hard enough.

 

[Beavis]

WTF there’s a front page?

 

[Tanner Glass]

WTF there’s a front page?

Ironically it looks like there isn't. I went to see how out-of-date it was but somethingawful.com now just redirects to forums.somethingawful.com instead. The articles can still be found via https://www.somethingawful.com/news/ and the last entry was 6 years ago.

Jesus Christ how hard is it to just post a few articles a year to keep up appearances. Not even a funny article about Lowtax blowing his brains out.

 

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

Jesus Christ how hard is it to just post a few articles a year to keep up appearances. Not even a funny article about Lowtax blowing his brains out.

The last article (now redacted) was an apology to furries. You can't make this shit up.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Ironically it looks like there isn't. I went to see how out-of-date it was but somethingawful.com now just redirects to forums.somethingawful.com instead. The articles can still be found via https://www.somethingawful.com/news/ and the last entry was 6 years ago.

Jesus Christ how hard is it to just post a few articles a year to keep up appearances. Not even a funny article about Lowtax blowing his brains out.

Regardless of not being hard, it would take effort, which we all know is frowned upon in goon culture.

 

[Troon Petty and the 41ers]

There are vanishingly few original goons left, the cat ladies and troons ran them all off.

A lot of the original (pre-2012ish) goons became the troons, didn't they? Though trooning out is essentially having a lunatic pervert demon replace the original person. So that still works.

Actually, anyone older than me know about the breakdown of trooning out-was it mostly confined to the Let's Play and politics goons like I think?

Ironically it looks like there isn't. I went to see how out-of-date it was but somethingawful.com now just redirects to forums.somethingawful.com instead. The articles can still be found via https://www.somethingawful.com/news/ and the last entry was 6 years ago.

Jesus Christ how hard is it to just post a few articles a year to keep up appearances. Not even a funny article about Lowtax blowing his brains out.

"load bearing slurs in the codebase"

 

[The Grognard]

Regardless of not being hard, it would take effort, which we all know is frowned upon in goon culture.

I think it's more that whatever will be posted will be relentlessly mocked and there's nothing these people hate more than being mocked.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I think it's more that whatever will be posted will be relentlessly mocked and there's nothing these people hate more than being mocked.

Most likely it is a combination of both.