Not sure where to post this but the American prison system is pretty fucked so this comm will do. Cool/weird thread to read. Highlights:
youtube does look cool. i have used it a little but i get a lot of suggestions that i don't like, like right wing stuff and i dont know why.
my cousin told me to check out the reddit site but i didn't like it. he said this place might be better and i've been readind a little here and i like the conversation form here more than the reddit thing.
honestly though and many of you might not believe it but i am a happy person now. and after many years of not seeing a single tree i can enjoy sitting on my mom's porch and watching the birds. i like that a lot and it brings me peace.
What is SA? I've heard the name but I know nothing about it
Something Awful - the forum the OP linked.
It's just an old internet forum that used to be a big deal. It's quiet now but it originated a lot of what you'd call "internet "culture"". 4chan was started by SA users, dril (the candle budget guy) was an SA poster, the "this is fine" dog was from a webcomic by an SA poster, Yahtzee (Zero Punctuation) was a SA poster. The old owner, Lowtax, had a boxing match with German schlock film producer Uwe Boll. They were the first site to host Let's Plays of games. They invented putting impact text captions on silly photographs.
It's all very silly stuff, but you can't go anywhere online without seeing their influence.
ShitRedditSays, the first subreddit to get treated like the boogey man, was SA posters. We imported a bunch of emotes from SRS :freeze-peach: :cissues: :darwin: :keytar: and that includes some they got from SA :negative: :get-in: :get-out:.
I am glad we got the get out frog. I often wonder how many (ex-)goons are on hexbear - I have a feeling there are more than average.
Found the site in 2005-2006 and mostly read the Let's Play Forum(while i was supposed to be working :get-in: ). Made an account at one point but never actually posted anything. Motherfuckers just shut the forum down periodically to get people to pay up. :negative:
Yeah, the paywall. I remember when a goon was LPing Danganronpa and basically translating the game into English at the same time which got a stack of traffic so Lowtax put the paywall up and people got so mad someone went to comicon dressed as the paywall.
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I'm disengaging.
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Wow. I don't normally feel that young but learning about all this makes me feel like I'm a baby :blob-no-thoughts:
Thanks for the info comrade! :meow-hug:
Every time SA ejected a subgroup of its own, there was a significant chance that those banished people would make something worse somewhere else. 4chan was banished weebs that were banished for posting cartoon child porn, for example.
When they banned doxxers they set up Kiwifarms.
That stain never fully washed away. SA's been associated with K!w!farms type nazis ever since.
:what-the-hell: If only we could go back in time to stop the SA admins banning them to prevent the creation of the chans
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Probably right, although I think it couldn't have been worse so I still say we would still try lol
If they were mercilessly dunked on by the rest of the community for long enough, I don't know, maybe they'd have shutted the fuck up instead of finding an exile hideout to become worse. :bloomer:
:stalin-approval: No worries, I was a pretty late comer to SA myself and I found it in 2010! It's interesting to see how the internet evolves into what it is now.
Oh and :mcmansion: is from an SA thread too, an absurdly incompetent DIYer posting his home renovation project.
Only thing I did online in 2010 was use like google and wikipedia, and play MMOs, I think :meow-melt: . I just constantly read books instead (honestly I should go back to that, my mental health would probably be better :sadness: )
The truest thing ever posted on SA is the site tagline:
The internet makes you stupid
Too right, but is life worth living without shitposting? :garf-troll:
:party-sicko: (that's based on a SA emote too)
why are they all so insufferable.
Because they're power posters who never moved on from a 25 year old internet forum started by an edgelord I suppose.
A lot of Bethesda devs were SA posters, even posting entire articles like the now-ancient one about "asshole physics" in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, specifically about the capability of being an asshole with the physics engine.
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i think the idea is just that you had to pay like 5 or 10 dollars to make an account at all, but they were very liberal with bans because they essentially saw it as like a small fine.
that might have been it. either way it was too rich for my blood at the time.
One time 10$ fee. It kept the worst of the worst internet people out. Most of the time anyway.
I always forget the front page, I found it funny at the time but I have a feeling if I looked at it now I'd cringe till my face split in half.
it wasnt the fine layer cake of nihilistic meta irony that we have today, that’s for sure.
I mean it was a lot of slurs and other edgelord shit - it was the 2000's. I'll take the post-ironic nihilism over that at least.