🪦 Deceased Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka - Deadbeat (emphasis on "Dead") founder of Something Awful, forced out of his own community, on his second divorce, stuck his dick in crazy, "Birth Giver"

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

Logan Day is Cascade Beta.

 

[Ilmseil]

Lmao that Logan is now going around the forums explaining to the little people (which she is not, she is only used to communicating with MAJOR STAKEHOLDER VIPs) that she is on the "business team" now.

 

[AnOminous]

Lmao that Logan is now going around the forums explaining to the little people (which she is not, she is only used to communicating with MAJOR STAKEHOLDER VIPs) that she is on the "business team" now.

In what reality does this not look like the absolutely pathetic shit it is? Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe "bringing your whore onto your site to insult your only source of income and call your wife in a shelter a cunt" just looks bad to me because I'm pure gooftroop. I'm sure Richard knows what he's doing.

 

[Something Awful]

So correct me if i'm wrong but this babble is truly difficult to follow. He hired a freelance marketing person to help him monetize the site better? How does that make any sense, he makes his money off Patreon right, so is she helping Lowtax market himself so people give him more money? Because its not working right now.

Well, here's the thing with Lowtax's Patreon. People in this thread have mentioned that he used to identify as a libertarian, and I recall him posting at some point that he's resistant to accepting "charity". He's also a narcissist, so he believes the early success of Something Awful was due to his inherent acumen and wit, and definitely not the result of simply stumbling into a profitable niche at the right time (conversely, its later decline is everyone's fault but his own).

With the Patreon, he is trying to recapture the lightning by focusing on the new web 2.0 hotness: streaming. He initially positioned his Patreon purely as an outlet for his "Gaming Garbage" content (videos of him playing bad games and presumably drunkenly ranting about them, idk I never watched it). Shockingly, no one on the wider internet gave a shit. Eventually he swallowed his pride and posted on the forums about his crumbling spine, with a link to the Patreon. You can see the exact point where it happened:

So, Lowtax is not really making money off Patreon in the intended way. No one gives a shit about his garbage videos or other creations (some kind of a podcast? lol). He's making money off goon donations given to cover his medical bills. He should have gone to GoFundMe instead. But, because his narcissist brain can't accept that, the Patreon gives him plausible deniability. Are these people just giving me charity? Well, who knows! They could just finally be appreciating my lame videos, right?

And I think he actually believes that. He believes his videos have value, and if he markets his streaming better on the SA front page or whatever, the money will really start rolling in. Plus, it gave him the excuse to trawl the internet for young "marketing experts". Finding Logan, a mentally troubled young woman who apparently first came accross SA as a dumb impressionable teenager, was the fucking jackpot for this creep.

 

[Tanner Glass]

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This got missed in the shuffle (because Logan Day is a terrible brand manager, homewrecker, and SA poster) but Lowtax was being snarky about his writers going twitter for "less money" than he was paying them.

I couldn't find the reference, but if I recall correctly - the going rate for Lowtax was less than $200/week for writers, which if you were employed full time would be less than $10,000/year. Shocking that SA's ex writers dared to go on to find bigger pastures. It's worth pointing out that SA paid so shitty that some writers took to Patreon (WTF D&D Facebook Post) to raise more money to write articles because Lowtax never thought that should be a sign "maybe I should pay out more for articles". Even when the site was (allegedly) making $40,000 - $55,000 a month, he never thought to spread that out.

What Lowtax can't seem to grasp is that while his writers (ex- and current) write on Twitter, none of them are "main" SA writers - they all have other jobs and none of them are true and factual SA employees - it's a pity side hustle for every one of them. He seems to think that part-time contractors need to buy into the "corporate message" of SA, even though they get 0 of the benefits. There's also the issue of website articles being a 100% dead format and all of the rage for the last decade has been video content, which SA still doesn't do as a business despite the fact that tons of people do it recreationally there.

There's no reason to think this would ever change as Lowtax is now suggesting that him, his McMansion, his leased sports car, his 3 week "business trip" and the resulting ongoing "business trip" for Logan Day, his 100% automated website that generates profit on the backs of a volunteer staff, his $9,000/month patreon to help maintain his website, his $1,000 chair, his $50 delivery pies, are all signs that he could, in no way, ever have enough money to pay anyone (not a SysAdmin, not regular Admins, not a Forum Manager/Business Manager, and not a Brand Manager).

Imagine the balls that Lowtax has to say shit like this - these guys he used to (or still does) pay pennies on the dollar to bring tremendous visibility to his website - the nerve of them finding other means of getting paid or god forbid thier own audience instead of taking thier bread crumbs and thanking him for the opportunity. This is what he actually seems to think.

 

[Rotogravure]

A perfectly legitimate and not at all an angry ban...




Ah, Now I see, He's just following sage advice.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I think it's just a cover-up story when both came off whatever drugs they were on and figured out that the shit-slinging is really bad optics for lowtax and his pending divorce. The cover story really is crackhead-beggar-sob-story bad tho. What surprises me is that he seems genuinely not able to see how this looks just as bad. All that stuff he's taken over the years must've really fucked up his brain, he used to be a bit more clever with his lies.

Lowtax was always a thin-skinned faggot who'd ban for the slightest back-talk, that's not really something new. That's also why he ran off the kiwifarms, was never able to maintain professional relationships and also a good indicator that he's indeed probably abusive in relationships. Dude can't meet other people on the same level. I mean really.. does he even have any friends? Normal, IRL ones? Facebook followers don't count.

How goons still suck up to him is beyond me. He isn't even charismatic.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Lol "hey Lowtax piss off the remainers on your gay forum to reap more money."

It's always more money. Dude could get a check for a million right now and he would be still be whining about how he cant find the time to fix his gay forum and that he needs more cash because he has fibromyalgia in his butthole.

Dude straight up is mooch and unfaithful dipshit. Nigga straight up has no empathy whatsoever and is only capable of whining.

 

[Sabrina]

No one ever claimed that Lowtax ever hit anybody (including Uwe Boll). We know he broke a baby gate (photograph + text screenshot), is an asshole and his wife and daughter probably are legitimately afraid of his temper, but the general consensus is that he most likely did not actually strike them.

However, in my unfortunate experience with unrepentant pieces of shit, they start screaming about things no one accused them of because they actually did it. I'm starting to believe he did. Good job Lowtax you absolute retard

 

[Ningen]

Finding Logan, a mentally troubled young woman who apparently first came accross SA as a dumb impressionable teenager, was the fucking jackpot for this creep.

Painting Logan as a victim in this situation instead of painting her as a perpetrator is extremely retarded.

You're being bullied here

Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Cyber Bullying Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Screen Like Nigga Close Your Eyes Haha

3) They rereg, buy plat and a new avatar and you've $25 to spend on the forums

I cannot believe these absolute morons are still believing LowT's lies after all this time, how much do they think it cost him to run SA? Get real niggers.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Even if we took Logan Day at face value (ex - not his new girlfriend, but an actual brand manager). On what fucking planet do you think that anyone invests in SomethingAwful.com considering the two full decades of bad optics associated with it ("Your poision womb", the piracy and porn subforums, the shooter, the drama, the site full of jokes you can't make in 2020, FYAD being closed for being too racist) instead of investing in literally anything else. It's a website with no business plan, no paid staff, and a gigantic lack of leadership.

If you were a businessperson and looked at SA from a business perspective - SomethingAwful (near it's peak) was alleged to be making $500,000/year, possibly more. Meaning that Lowtax wasted millions of dollars and has nothing to show for it (not even modern forum software) but somehow we're expected to look past that and invest in SA? The website pays for itself and Lowtax is paid $10,000/month on top of that but they still can't make a profit, what is investing expected to help the site achieve? Is she really going to take this to investors with a straight face - She's going to ask investors to invest in a website that consists of a few articles, a remarkably outdate message board full of anti-ad and communist leaning users, with the world's biggest financial liability in @Lowtax at the helm - who of course has a costly divorce coming up that he looks to be handling really well right now.

Even if we took that at face value (that SA will get investor money) - where could they possibly put it? They can invest in front page articles, but most article based websites are fucking dying by the hundreds (Vice, Kotaku, any newspaper, etc) so why would any think that's a good plan - to literally invest in a dying medium? Or even if they shift to hosted video content (you know, all content generated in the last decade) - every video site that isn't YouTube.com struggles immensely and suddenly dies, is that going to be their focus moving forward?

Honestly - I don't see a viable plan for them to move forward and I'd be shocked if anyone with significant investment capitol could see one either, unless it's a top to bottom rebrand that does not include @Lowtax - even then why not just start something new? SomethingAwful.com is not a name you really want to be associated with.

EDIT - I'd rather fucking invest in stormfront, at least they make content that you don't really find a lot of places.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

Why does he insist that he only gets half if his patreon money? What are these mysterious taxes that only seem to be such a burden to him?

 

[Rebel Wilson]

Probably IRS garnishments and he likely includes the fact he has to pay income taxes because he's already been busted once for not paying them. I'm sure the IRS goes over his return with a fine-toothed comb every single year, if they don't flat-out audit him.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Why does he insist that he only gets half if his patreon money? What are these mysterious taxes that only seem to be such a burden to him?

It's all bullshit. Pateron at most takes 15% - right?

 

[Questionable Ceviche]

Why does he insist that he only gets half if his patreon money? What are these mysterious taxes that only seem to be such a burden to him?

Good fucking question, because the 1099 calculators online are saying that he would be paying roughly $15.5 to $16.5 thousand dollars a year on an annual income of $108,000, assuming that his Patreon makes $9,000 a month. Patreon takes 5% on founder accounts, plus a few other fees. They don't take out that much. His net income after Patreon fees and 1099 taxes is looking like it would be around $83,000 to $86,000 a year. I would guess about $80,000 as a safe low end. He has also stated that the forums are self-funded, too, so he doesn't have extra associated cost for running them. That is 100% profit for him.

EDIT: To clarify, Patreon Founder accounts are accounts created before they switched over to a more aggressive fee model in return for more tools for powerusers. Lowtax's account is old enough that he could still be operating under the old fee schedule.

 

[Ningen]

When Richard talks about taxes what he's really talking about is "idiot taxes". Comprehensible misunderstanding.

 

[Back me up!]

Good fucking question, because the 1099 calculators online are saying that he would be paying roughly $15.5 to $16.5 thousand dollars a year on an annual income of $108,000, assuming that his Patreon makes $9,000 a month. Patreon takes 5% on founder accounts, plus a few other fees. They don't take out that much. His net income after Pateron fees and 1099 taxes is looking like it would be around $83,000 to $86,000 a year.

EDIT: To clarify, Patreon Founder accounts are accounts created before they switched over to a more aggressive fee model in return for more tools for powerusers. Lowtax's account is old enough that he could still be operating under the old fee schedule.

When in doubt assume laziness: Lowtax is probably not funneling the funds through a LLC and instead straight to his bank account. If it was a LLC it would still need payroll taxes, etc but its not straight raw income.

 

[Slur Slurry]

I thought he paid off the tax lien?

 

[Questionable Ceviche]

When in doubt assume laziness: Lowtax is probably not funneling the funds through a LLC and instead straight to his bank account. If it was a LLC it would still need payroll taxes, etc but its not straight raw income.

Even then, it's a joke and a lie for him to say that he has no money. He's still making a healthy salary for sitting at home doing zero work. Any financial trouble he's in is purely of his own making.

 

[Back me up!]

Even then, it's a joke and a lie for him to say that he has no money. He's still making a healthy salary for sitting at home doing zero work. Any financial trouble he's in is purely of his own making.

Ha ha , no in Lowtax mind Notch should have split the profits of Minecraft with him since it was the SA forums that help make Minecraft popular.

Still waiting on that article @Lowtax