Thread 718244350

Why did they become so gay?

>>718244350 (OP)
Women.

Newgrounds tax.

>>718244350 (OP)
Trolls remorse. also women

>>718244554
I thought Lowtax was SomethingAwful.

I dipped when they no longer wanted to make fun of bad LPs; shit must be like 10+ years sgo. They been gay for a hot minute.

>>718244350 (OP)
they realized middle aged men making fun of teenagers and autistic people was actually gayer

Go woke or end up dead like Lowtax

>>718244675
But Dark Seed 2 was their greatest feat

>>718244350 (OP)
They were always literal forum jannies seething about people playing videogames "wrong" on the internet

>>718244350 (OP)
All goons went gay.

if you make a business making fun of people, make sure you don't look like dysgenic trogs irl

tracker track bombs

>>718244762
this
>>718245505
and this

it's like how lolcow threads on kiwifarms spawn lolcows in their own right.

Everyone they ever made fun of recovered and moved on, aside from that one guy on /v/ who will still be crying about them on his deathbed for not supporting Trump.
Some poor nursing home employee will have to listen to them wailing about Mighty Number 9 in the middle of the night or some other stupid shit the whole world moved on from.

this is going to make sense to precisely no one, but I just realized that Retsupurae and VBW are basically the exact same shit
>two dudes
>the nasally sperg who's actually a chad
>the mellow chad who's actually a sperg
>one got started making fun of bad let's plays
>the other got started making fun of bad academic papers
>both transitioned into directly giving commenting on media
>tons of off-color jokes
no wonder i ended up listening to this

>>718244350 (OP)
Bullies getting what bullies deserve. Happens to internet wannabe bullies all the time. Eventually their onions peaks through and become far worse than anything they made fun of.

>>718244350 (OP)
They were always gay.
The channel was literally dedicated to shitting on pewdiepie making too much money for let's playing wrong.
Most people just grew up past 15 y/o except the 30 y/o men running the channel.
Look at this fucking seethe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFbVKL-Meo0
And when they weren't doing that they were making fun of literal children for let's playing wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayeMqizulX0

>>718244350 (OP)
Troll's remorse.

>>718245831
I still think it’s wild that they’re just streaming with their faces now after years and years and years of them being a complete mystery. Although when I found their real names and Facebook pages in 2011 I did get to see before anyone else. Slow beef didn’t make any attempt at making his Facebook private, I saw his wife and her page and everything. I didn’t do anything weird and I respected their privacy though.

>>718246929
Beat me to it.
Slowbeef and Diabetus were getting older. Most of the SA oldfags were either killing themselves, becoming dads, fucking off to twitch to do their own thing, turning trans or SJWs or all of the above. The few who still wanted to be edgelords migrated to kiwi.
Eventually the only thing they could do is make fun of bottom of the barrel shit or obscure shit nobody caries about.

They might be shit now, but their Deep Fear retsuprae was pretty good. Absent some of Slowbeef's autistic ranting about PewDiePie.

>>718244350 (OP)
somethingawful edgelords turning into gay leftists is one of the biggest tragedies of the internet

>>718244350 (OP)
they grew up and stopped having fun shitting on people

What is SA like now? There's no way anyone younger than 35 posts there.

>>718244350 (OP)
Standard case of GenX/early Millenial troll's remorse.

>>718247761
Slowbeef was like 30 when he started Retsupurae.

>>718245505
I don't remember if Diabeetus ever got on camera
I think it was just slowbeef that looked like a golem

>>718244762
This

>>718244350 (OP)
>why did the group that started on Something Awful, ground zero of internet woke become gay
You want to know a secret? They were always gay. Anything that comes from that site is gay. This site is gay for being spawned from it

>>718247852
I assume completely dead. Just a hub for 40-50 year olds to gather. Everyone of note killed themselves or became pariahs.

>>718244350 (OP)
What happened?

>>718244350 (OP)
They were always shit. Not because of the concept, but because they were unfunny as fuck.

>>718247852
it's unironically filled with trannies.

>>718247852
Still costs money for an account and they still ban you for wrong think so you give them more money.
Any actual discussion will be killed by 30-50 y/o diaper furries. Just like it's always been.

The Indian vertical slice videos were fun but that was the last thing I remember laughing at

All the let's players I watched back then either disappeared or started streaming and that's just not the same.
The days of snes9x etc. were very fun. I don't regret watching them back in the day.

>>718247990
shockingly there was still something of value coming out of it in the last ten years or so
this guy, Brunom made some translation LPs of SRW games on the SA LP forum. Those LPs are still the best way to experience every game he covered in English since none of them except W got patched

>>718247990
You wish it was dead.

>be me
>old
>make a SA account in 1999 when it was free
>site is funny and edgy for the time
>take a break for a couple years
>come back in 2007
>see a political thread about Obama
>say I don't think he is good
>100 replies calling me evil
>someone pays money to change my banner and name to mock me
>some guy says "what are you doing you have a 90's account you are going to ruin it"
>get banned for wrong think
liberalism is a mental disorder

>Retsupurae dead and ProtonJon is a woman now

What the fuck is happening

>>718248339
Oh no, so it's sad 40 year olds talking about high school level media literacy

>>718248452
say what you will about all the 10bux dogshit being able to pay money to grief someone elses avatar and title was genius
monetized spite

>>718248725
I often wonder if this site did that if people would pay. I think people would pay money to show a posters flag or ban them or delete threads

They were always gay and lame, just like the rest of SA. It's just that they become gay and lame but on the side you don't like.

>>718248859
The schizos here would 100% pay to delete threads/posts and ban people.
Imagine if you could pay money to see all the posts in a thread from the same person.
That alone would print money from retards having people do it to themselves just to prove someone wrong(After phone posting of course.)

>>718244605
RIP lord of the MangoSteen

Billymc still has his channel up.

>>718249556
Unless this is a different guy and I'm just retarded.

>>718248452
I went there after Lowtax's suicide to check what they were saying. They were all glad he was dead because he wasn't pro tranny enough.

>>718248725
I'll defend that model forever, kept average post quality nice and high during its strong years.

>>718249726
yea that was the only thing he did bad

>>718249726
Lowtax is a retard for not selling the site when he could have gotten millions for it

>>718244350 (OP)
Because they're all like 45 now.

>>718249825
He should've invested all his worldly possessions into mangosteen, he'd still be alive.

>>718247852
If it's anything like GameFAQ's LUE pretty fucking bleak.

>>718248339
>Remember they have a book forum
>Go check it
>See a cosmic horror thread oh sick
>It's all cthulu posting with John Carpenter movies mixed in
I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't the most poser surface level shit imaginable they saw from their favorite video essays.

Something Awful single handily is the cause of what many refer to as "Millennial Humor" with no other better example than this fine piece of history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdUHDDj7fhk
It's got it all. Wacky zany random comments. He is completely detached from what should be a major situation from him. Deadpan delivery for everything. Terrible over use of satire. This was the dominant style of "humor" for much of the 2000's. I hate my generation

slowbeef was always obnoxious

>>718250202
You're just a faggot.

>>718250284
him probating khad for 9999999999 hours was funny but yea
did you know he was the one that did that slot machine game for jerma

>>718250379
imagine defending this type of humor

>>718250202
>I hate my generation
"le wrong generation" ironically being a classic millennial sentiment

>>718247359
>autistic ranting about PewDiePie
timestamp?

>>718244350 (OP)
Pewdiepie, getting wives, gamergate, and just being old and unable to make video of any higher quality than anyone they made fun of. It seems every SA chick had other goons by the balls and turned each one of them into a social justice faggot, even ProtonJon trooned out.

>>718250559
There's nothing wrong with it. Infinitely better than the reference humor that replaced it. Also, retard, deadpan sarcasm is older than you. Brits have been doing that since before radio.

>>718247852
That's a good thing, if that was the case.
I need to move to forums where under 30s don't post.

>>718251028
The heart of millennial humor is cowardice because if someone is critical of you you just say "what? I am not even trying"

>>718248471
>ProtonJon is a woman now
I forgot about that. What a weird world we live in.
He's already insufferable as a man, I can't imagine how insufferable he will be as a woman.

>>718251189
>because if someone is critical of you you just say "what? I am not even trying"
That was the case in the mid-2000's.
They since cocooned and evolved into
>Let people enjoy things!!!
Millenials were so repressed in the 2000's and early 2010's that now in the late 2010's and 2020s they completely overcorrected and started being pic related.

>>718249556
Billy won

>>718249556
>>718249694
that is him i'm pretty sure

>>718250057
Holy shit I was just thinking about LUE the other day, had no idea it still existed. Also doesn't look too bad to me, it's in a better state than /v/ at least.

>>718244350 (OP)
goons can be traced back to many of the internets (and consequentially modern societies) problems, one great tumour of the cancer that killed the internet

I will be playing as nothing but Luigi.

>>718244350 (OP)
They didn't, if anything it ended right when it needed to
>Every LP became a scarecam shit that caused a ton of strikes for them so they moved to long plays
>Got kino shit like Cobra, Darkseed, King's Quest, Ambition, etc
>They tried the Kickstarter thing after they bored of that and it was alright. Hit or miss.
>By this point they've been doing it for 10 years and have actual lives outside of it so they end it
No issues with Retsupurae. Also A Way Out was the funniest shit theyve ever done

I appreciate they said they're keeping all the videos up and won't remove them (and before some retard says "BUT THE BILLYMC VIDEOS!!!!" They've always said their policy was if the person who got RP'd doesn't like the videos they remove it no questions asked)
Unlike Chip Cheezum who nuked his entire channel because "MUH CAREER MIGHT BE LINKED TO IT"

i was going to post but
>>718244762
>>718245123
it's youtube backseat jannying because some spergs didn't pay 10bux to provide free dvd commentary for video games

>>718252973
wish I still had those fags watching Garzy's Wing and japanese Spiderman

>>718249825
lowtax and goons, by extension, are deathly afraid of success and are irony poisoned to the max

>>718250202
Millennial hate these days seem like it comes from men who are pissed off that we aren't as right-wing as the other generation's males.

>>718252585
this includes us. moot won btw

>>718244350 (OP)
This was one of the few actually funny channels.

>Dies cause the guys are busy

Sucks. All we have is trash now.

troll's remorse, plus somethingawful was going through its "no fun allowed " era at the time.

>>718249537
i remember shmorky's schizo ex brought up mangosteen when she first met lowtax and he had a huge spergfit. god lowtax was a faggot

>>718253501
It's a shame Shmorky outlived Lowtax

>>718253303
Yeah I'm sure that's it.

>>718253501
shmorky's schizo ex was unironically very funny during her moments of clarity

>>718248471
Maybe not my proudest fap.

The FF13 RP where the camera was constantly zooming and Slowbeef started losing his shit was my favorite one.

>>718253303
It has nothing to do with politics holy shit

Would a modern version of Retsupurae even work
Who would you commentate over

>>718244350 (OP)
>Person talks a lot
>They make fun of him for never shutting up
>Person doesn't talk much
>Call him a mute

>Person is knowledgeable about the game
>Call him a no-lifer, nerd, loser, autist
>Person doesn't know much about the game, playing blind
>"This guy sucks, why would you record this?"

>Person doesn't cut out his deaths or setbacks
>Calls the video a waste of time, says they should do more cuts
>Person edits or cuts
>Points out and makes fun of every cut they see, "I wonder how many times he died there"

They were always gay. Despite what they claimed, it's obvious they don't actually care about the quality of the LPs and are just looking for excuses to feel superior to others.

>>718253889
its funny because they loved boring autismcore LPs on SA

>>718250202
honestly not noticing a difference from my nephew's teen humor, other than the lack of black slang mixed in.

>>718253592
The thing is I would not call these gen x/zoomer guys particularly masculine. They are just jocks who don't work out for the most part. Like Tim Dillon, Theo Von, all those sorts of fags are about as weak muscled as any onions lib.
>>718253739
It has everything to do with politics.

>>718253303
Or maybe, just maybe it's intense hatred for the last generation that got to own anything posting online about how they just bought new DLC game codes continuing to ruin shit for everyone.
Bonus points if you remember DLC(Downloadable Content) not being full games.
Then deflecting any criticism of being an irresponsible consumer with "Just let me enjoy things bro"

>>718253593
I have talked to Mandy both in her clear and schizo moments. When she's on her meds she genuinely is a fun chick to talk to, good sense of humor (even about having an abusive diaper fetishist troon ex) and good taste in retro games. Lot more fun than Lowtax who always came across as unbearably smug and buries everything in 20 layers of "irony". I think Mandy went off the rocker again and does hypno porn now or some shit, it's kinda depressing.

>>718253845
People don't really do true let's plays anymore. People want to watch someone play games for the first time live and interact with chat.

You would have to shift through all that and look for people who upload only on youtube

>>718254108
Get a actual hobby and personality that isn't politics. You are projecting

>>718253845
It's just Asmongolds channel.

>>718254078
I am not sure how that makes it better?

>>718254169
she always did weird hypno porn. she did some set to the carnival night zone music. seems fun otherwise though.

>>718254348
it doesn't, makes it worse actually.

>>718253845
lps are barely a thing anymore, especially ones with commentary

>>718248339
Jesus fucking christ lol this is what SA has become?

Bleak...

I feel sorry for KJH having to deal with these people forcing this shit into his work too lol.

>>718254381
Yeah but it seemed she doubled down on it even though it doesn't seem to make much money. But I haven't checked in a while.

>>718244605
Lowtax got fat and killed himself

>>718251530
This is happening again to gen-Z with the age-restriction/IDverification.

>>718254042
I liked that Uplink LP on SA that was basically a weird sci-fi story about an AI.

>>718254431
I mean there are countless videos on youtube of people talking over gameplay, but it definitely has started to feel like it's all advertisements and fake reactions.

>>718249726
They were glad he was dead because multiple wives accused him of physical abuse, they took his side and paid his legal bills the first 2 times. Also he stopped contribiting to the site for over 10 years because of his drug/alcohol problem. Also he had a daughter, fuck him and I will miss him

>>718255073
daughters who disowned him and let shmorky hang out with btw

>>718253845
Shitty video essays

>>718250728
Don't remember. It was just an occasional bit in the first or second episode. I think it was screeching about how PewDiePie was making rape jokes or something.

>>718255073
>they took his side and paid his legal bills the first 2 times
What? The faggot didn't make enough money from the membership payments? He also had to get donations from his userbase?

>>718255239
he was infamously bad with money from having never worked a real job

>>718244350 (OP)
Their longplay commentaries were better than their RPs, I wish they still did them. Slowbeef has a knack for finding shitty games with a lot of entertainment value.

>>718255239
good coke ain't free, buddy

>>718248339
It's amazing. Go back to any epic thread from before 2010, you can see 75% of the posters have since been banned for transphobia

A major drive of it's downfall were the election toxx threads. In 2008 users could "bet" their account on which candidate would win. If their man lost, they got permabanned.

So a wave of McCain backers got permabanned in 2008 while the Obama supporters stayed. More got banned in 2012 for backing Romney. So what happened to the Hillary toxx supporters in 2016?

They screeched and threw a fit to the mods to make an exception, and they caved.

>>718255442
>All the clips they're using look like they're edgy 15-16 y/o teenagers
>Somehow the 30 y/o men running the channel don't realize the irony in this
>Continue to never show their troglodyte mugs because they know they'd get mocked by the same teenagers and will no longer be an authority figure on let's playing to them
Honestly the funniest thing about the channel.

>>718255648
>So what happened to the Hillary toxx supporters in 2016?
>
>They screeched and threw a fit to the mods to make an exception, and they caved.
That's the gayest thing I've ever heard.

>>718244350 (OP)
SomethingAwful's environment produces this exact kind of smug fuckwad
just be glad neither of them trooned out

>>718255704
even at the start they were like late 20s/early 30s

>>718254156
People are going to spend their money the way they want and you're an idiot for thinking there should be some kind of morality attached to it.

>>718255726
Well yeah what do you think happens when you ban both halves of your userbase.
You run out of users.

>>718255648
of course they did. Liberals are sociopaths and the rules never apply to them just ignore anything deflect to the right

>>718244350 (OP)
They grew up, touched grass, and had sex, while you coped, seethed, and malded.

>>718252973
They removed the dahir inshat videos though because they were scared of being sued

>>718255442
That video aged like rotten milk left out in the sun. Completely unimportant internet drama nobody cared about a year after the video came out

>>718255796
It's an issue of voting for shit like 9 different streaming services with your wallet.
The problem is you're allowing retards to vote again and they vote for retarded shit because they're retards.
>Wow I wanna support this large mega corporation for making a game I like by buying every map pack it's forcing me to buy to be able to play every game mode!
>REEEE THIS JEW ASS WEBSITE I USE EVERYDAY IS ASKING ME TO DONATE $1 TO HELP PAY SERVER COSTS FUCKING JEWS REMEMBER WHEN FLASH GAMES WERE FREE?!?! THESE FAGS REALLY SOLD OUT HUH

https://youtu.be/FXTSx0RvwEM
Not that I can see

>>718255791
Yeah I'm saying all the clips they got reacting to PewDiePie were of edgy teenagers and they didn't realize the irony in this being 30+ y/o men seething about the same thing.

>>718244350 (OP)
Because I'm a terrorist!

>>718247926
Betus uses a facecam on his streams

>make fun of the most trivial shit sometimes
>in their darkseed 1 video diabeetus is hiccuping almost nonstop for the entire second half and they just didn't bother re-doing it even tho most of it was scripted

>>718256291
on Slowbeef's streams he has constant issues with not knowing how to configure his audio interface and spending hours troubleshooting desync and distortions

>>718256291
There was a lot of boring bullshit they could've cut out of most of their wrongpuraes

>Nooo, you have to be psychopaths who relentlessly attack people forever.
It just meant they didn't grow up to be conservatives and get devoured by that shit show community.

>>718255073
Meanwhile the worst thing moot did was abandon us to rapeape. We got off easy again amazingly.

>>718256537
The longplay they used for Dark Seed 2 being done by a guy that bruteforced the game by going to every location and re-going through every dialogue option with every character after each story event was kino

>>718248471
>All of RSJGaMeRPrO stopped making content and privated all of his videos
>AVGN lost all his passion
>Machinima scene slowly died out after Fallout 3
>TGWTG devolved into in fighting and most of the reviewers have become woke
>JohnZoidberg1417 never completed any of his let's plays
>Egger3rd trooned out
>Martialhorror retired
>Spoony became an alcoholic recluse
>JewWario killed himself

>>718256291
Hey that's the grandfather of let's plays you're bad mouthing they can do nothing wrong.
How old is your account even mines older so I'm allowed to decide what quality is and those are quality hiccups that only add to the retsupurae.
Is that PewDiePie making a RAPE joke???? Good heavens the baseless humor these retards will laugh at.
Now here's a joke about looking at fridge magnets, did you know the writing for this game was made in the clinton years and this in game character is a caricature of Bill Clinton? He did a lot of sex things haha sex sex is really funny *Bill Clinton impression about him raping women* haha Bill Clinton rape is actually really really funny now that I'm doing it because I transitioned into it like how half my viewers transitioned to women.

KIRBY SUPERSTAR FUCK YOU MOM

>>718248471
>RSJGaMeRPrO stopped making content and privated all of his videos
>AVGN lost all his passion
>Machinima scene slowly died out after Fallout 3
>TGWTG devolved into in fighting and most of the reviewers have become woke
>JohnZoidberg1417 never completed any of his let's plays
>Egger3rd trooned out
>Martialhorror retired
>Spoony became an alcoholic recluse
>JewWario killed himself

>>718246231
This

>>718244350 (OP)
Feels like they were running out of material. They were really reaching for shit towards the end. One of their last series was literally just Dark Seed 2 but with the Japanese dub

>>718256909
that honestly made the whole thing twice as funny

Goons were always faggot retards. Especially moot.

>>718246231
Funny you bring that up, I just went to some old community I haven't touched in ages and a guy I had a falling out with almost 2 decades ago is still there and still hates my guts and first thing he did was rage after me.

>>718252973
>I appreciate they said they're keeping all the videos up and won't remove them
That's what Digibro said...

>>718244350 (OP)
they went after the Giant of Let's Plays

>>718258550
>MLP anime troon YouTuber
Yeah I think Retsupurae is fine

>>718258624
>disappears to Oregon to marry his waifu and live happily ever after
EB won.

>>718244445

This. Marriage + trolls' remorse

>>718244350 (OP)
all of somethingawful got troll's remorse when they saw leftism as an exit ramp for gen x irony as an excuse for their awful behavior, unfortunately saying words like fag and retarded go against the new fad they've latched onto so they have to performatively apologize a lot

>>718247723
They just changed their stripes with the times. Lots of the people on SA who were bullying people into suicide for sport are still doing it but from within the confines of pink programmer socks and hiding behind leftist identity politics.

>watch one of their videos
>they have a guest
>it isn't dave_o or proteus
No thanks.

>>718250057
holy SHIT i haven't thought about LUE in like 15 years

>>718259272
>>718259337
We're still cool, though.... right?

>>718258624
BillyMC and Lime Popsicle shattered the last vestiges of irony poisoned gen x snark they had. You could hear them re-evaluating their lives in some of those videos.

>>718258624
Jolteon*

>>718259491
Just a little bit. If only for 4chan having it's origins in the weeb pogroms on Something Awful. So this place gets points for turning on SA earlier than most.

>>718244350 (OP)
Metokur did it better.

>>718253845
People stream these days, so no

>>718259562
That may have been the peak of the channel's second wind, Lime is absolutely fucking hilarious. Shame he never got to marry Kat Dennings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TW2PfwxMQ
don't mind me just posting the best RP

>>718260072
For me, it was King's Quest 5 and 6

>>718244350 (OP)
They're goons, they were born faggots.

>>718260130
I was always partial to this one just because it has so many unanswered questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAsihgpbpsc

>>718260072
That's quitter talk. Lime will cuck Andrew WK.

Has any community hit a midlife crisis as hard as the Goons?

>>718260130
I can quote every line of this by memory. Easily one of my favorite videos on the internet.

>>718260570
It's Lime Lime time, Liiiime time

>>718260847
4chan

God I miss it, I miss those days, even that time period was pretty shit for me. I had no money and a horrible job with horrible hours. Yet I still look back with fondness to getting off work at 3 AM, going by McDonald's or Taco Bell to treat myself, and then sitting down to watch some long Retsupurae videos (or Spoony). I still have a yearly tradition; every autumn I make a pot of soup and on a cold evening I watch their "Space Adventure Cobra" video.

man I used to watch their shit, that's embarrassing to admit