If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), or Lifeline (AUS). Everybody was talking about how the internet was going to revolutionize everything and everything was going to be great, but nobody ever talked about how shitty the internet could also be." Parodies of wonks who were saying the internet was the future without saying, 'Well there could be a possible downside to the internet.' I'm obviously not a visionary, but I predicted that the internet would be shitty back in 1999. I would find a page on horrible, scary dolls and I would review the dolls. Parody, satire, stuff about…I don't want to say current events, but crappy internet things. Most of the time it would be dumb, but it would be stuff that entertained me," Kyanka told Vice in 2017. "I would wake up and instead of going back to sleep like a normal person I would start writing. Kyanka in his later years became disillusioned with what he'd had a hand in creating, and the internet more generally, looking back on Something Awful's early years as something of a golden age. "Thread went from funny jokes to returning goons getting upset at the jokes to intense furry/monstergirl debate to qcs handwringing in just 150 pages," wrote GrimGypsy in one of the final comments, "and now nothing is funny or satisfying and the whole thing just feels annoying. The Something Awful thread announcing Kyanka's death has now been locked. But he was our shmuck, so seeing that he's passed away is like finding out the stupid dog that used to bite your ankle 1 out of 5 times you'd see him, but you still associate feelings of home and nostalgia with him, was hit by a car and died." "That isn't some platitude to make him seem like a divisive genius he was a shmuck. "I can't comment on the sordid stuff I have read about Rich in the years since I left the site, but he was never a stranger to controversy" writes redditor Vertigo3PC. Or, as SA poster Breetai put it: "It's like lowtax definitely belongs on the Mt Rushmore of the internet, but also he would be wearing a confederate general's uniform and then be immediately dynamited."Īs you might guess, a lot of the responses to Kyanka's death come in the form of black humour: which, at least in this case, we can say the man himself would have enjoyed. Back in the days when people still shared memes by email, I'd swear most of the ones I got originated on that site.
If you were interested in games and the internet in the early 2000s, like I was, SA was simply an omnipresent part of the experience: this was where you went to see the jokes and stupid pictures and rant about Sonic Adventure. Kyanka's legacy is thus both undeniable and extremely mixed.
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