Hard to imagine now, but SomethingAwful was the funniest site on the web from 1999-2005 and laid the groundwork for future humor sites. Lowtax was also the epitome of the devil-may-care carefree Gen X attitude that was all over the web in that era. It’s also credited with producing the first memes, a completely playable RPG (Awful Fantasy), popularized bad video game reviews, and was the source of many funny photoshops that originated on their forums. It was worth the $10 paywall to join their forums in the mid 00s, which was unheard of at the time.

However....

Before SJW term was even coined, they were on all over their forums. And they were really bad. Like 2021 bad only in 2009, that’s how extreme they were. It only got worse as time went on. Many of their posters were the vanguard of movements such as OWS, Antifa, the Young Turks, Reddit and other leftist trash.

It’s legacy is mixed, to put it mildly.

Hard to imagine now, but SomethingAwful was the funniest site on the web from 1999-2005 and laid the groundwork for future humor sites. Lowtax was also the epitome of the devil-may-care carefree Gen X attitude that was all over the web in that era. It’s also credited with producing the first memes, a completely playable RPG (Awful Fantasy), popularized bad video game reviews, and was the source of many funny photoshops that originated on their forums it was worth the $10 paywall to join their forums in the mid 00, which was unheard of at the time.

However....

Before SJW term was even coined, they were on all over their forums. And they were really bad. Like 2021 bad only in 2009, that’s how extreme they were. It only got worse as time went on. Many of their posters were the vanguard of movements such as OWS, Antifa, the Young Turks, Reddit and other leftist trash.

It’s legacy is mixed, to put it mildly.