Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, the founder of the now dying Something Awful has reportedly died at age 45.
Details about his sudden death are unknown, though an article I read claimed an account allegedly owned by his ex said he shot himself because he would not be able to afford debt payments.
It should be noted he backstabbed everyone who called out the regressive left in defense of those freaks, and it should also be noted he is a domestic abuser and got canibalised by the same subhuman animals he defended at the cost of his site's reputation.
Let's hope the now ruined Something Awful transitions into an archive.
What always tickled me was how 4chan was set up as a mod-free fun zone, and itself soon devolved into people begging moot to bring back Snacks, a mod who essentially did the same thing those SA mods did when it came to heavy-handed bans. Over-moderation of 4chan would eventually produce 8chan, and a slew of other less successful satellite chans.