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I frequented Something Awful Forums and Television Without Pity between 2000-08 and it's interesting to see the contrast on the type of users that posted there.
While SA was into a lot of racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic humor (that admittedly I found funny), TWoP's "woke" (I mean that in a good way) outlook confused me at the time. Nowadays, TWoP is how the internet (well, mostly) conduct themselves and SA adopted that too over the years. I too find my SA antics (that I carried over to other forums and social media) shameful.
That said, it's no surprise that when the more recent Lowtax fiascos happened, he never received any sympathy from the forums and they quickly moved to oust him. Compared to when the first instances of his bad behavior bubbled up the surface (how his engagement with Emily ended) from 2002 wherein he got plenty of support. He even wrote a lengthy piece about it despite proclaiming his hatred for what he calls E/N.
He and a lot of dudes on that forum were the older creeps that hang out with teenagers then get pissed off when those teenagers grow up and suddenly are no longer into calling everything gay
One of them wrote a book about how the culture of “ironic”homophobia, racism, sexism, etc in places like fyad ultimately was a key contributor to the current climate. Basically something like everyone was doing ironic stuff but eventually the group grew too large and people stopped getting the joke + you had nefarious actors like weev that would use the pretext to groom and recruit people
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