• Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Who would have thought that Twitter would become the new Somethingawful forums, and that Musk would take the role of Lowtax.

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            2 years ago

            The blowtax shock-site days are long gone. With occasional exceptions in containment areas like the pink forum and the debate forum, SA’s culture is acceptable-to-laudable these days. Effortposts on the leftist board are a life-changing force for personal betterment, and goons remain some of the most charitable nerds anywhere.

            And despite all of that, it is still funny.

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      2 years ago

      I’ve seen web writers claim that the original brain trust of Weird Twitter started from a Something Awful clique