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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Somethingawful.com, better known as Something Awful, is a popular comedy/parody website that's been around since the heady days of 1999. Its Main Page features articles ranging from parody, to self-parody, to the downright surreal. Originally, the articles were all written by site founder Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka, but over time it has built up a large rotating staff of writers of varying quality. The site allegedly exists to chronicle and mock the worst things in existence, but has branched out a bit since its founding and now has a number of features and articles that defy all characterisation, as well as extremely active forums.The Something Awful Forums are the source of much of the site's notoriety. Its members, known as "goons," have to pay $10 (US) to join, and even more if they want to get avatars, access the archives, or use the Forums' "search" function. In spite of the cost of entrance, there are over 100,000 registered goons (and who knows how many Lurkers and banned users). In part this is because of the cost of admission: No one wants to spend their ten bucks just to get banned for trolling the next day. When you add in zealous moderators, you get one of the more controlled Message Boards out there.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })If goons are relatively subdued on their own forums, however, the opposite is true elsewhere, and they are renowned for being some of the most sophisticated and organized Trolls to stalk the internets. Or at least they used to be. These days, they still do some active trolling on the side, but the Troll torch has passed to newer websites.For the flash animations hosted on the site that is made by Dave Kelly, see The Flash Tub. The folks here were also responsible for Doom House and Gaming Garbage. | |
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Gone Horribly Wrong | |
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Gone Horribly Wrong: The few goon projects that are actually finished tend to be the ones that never should have been. | |
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How Do I Shot Web? | |
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How Do I Shot Web? | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Taken to the absolute extreme. | |
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Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For | |
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Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For: An AwfulVision column once highlighted a pair of videos where a kid who downloaded a The Smashing Pumpkins album illegally destroys the CD copies he made in a fit of rage after reaching the conclusion that he doesn't like the music. | |
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Orphaned Series | |
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Orphaned Series: Goon projects have quite the history of never actually being finished, the best known example being a hilariously bad "electropunk" RPG called Zybourne Clock. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Like 4chan, the Goons have done a few acts of vigilantism when they see fitting. However, comparing the two, both on- and off-board, is usually answered by an obligatory "I am offended by that comparison! At least we don't [insert questionable act here]!" | |
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A Darker Me | |
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A Darker Me: It's a joke on Something Awful that every goon is a nerdy, overweight "neckbeard" in Real Life. Individual goons, however, tend to make up obvious lies about how awesome they are for the fun of it. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Goons tend to throw invective around for kicks. Especially the hilariously sacrilegious "what the Christ." However, the word filter replaces "fuck" with "gently caress", "fucking" with "loving", "shit" with "poo poo", "shitty" with "lovely" (which makes actual, sincere uses of the word "lovely" hilariously ambiguous for casual readers: "My grandma is a really lovely person, she gave me her old car!") and "rape" with "surprise sex," along with other Unusual Euphemisms if you're not logged in. At the same time, anyone not logged in is able to see, with no censorship, that the general forum is called "General Bullshit", and people who edited their posts "fucked around with" them. | |
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Let's Play | |
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Let's Play: It began as something a few weirdos did on the Games forum, but later gained its own subforum (and recently its own moderator), and has spread across the internet. Retsupurae was made in response. Lowtax and Shmorky have also gotten in on the act, playing Game Maker/Unity games of dubious quality (and Cry of Fear) as part of Gaming Garbage. | |
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Griefer | |
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Griefer: Goons are (in)famous for joining online games not to play them but to find ways to destroy them. | |
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Auto-Incorrect | |
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Auto-Incorrect: An amusing depiction of the Cupertino Effect, a character called "Jeff K!!!!" who attempts to spellcheck his aggressively incorrect English. | |
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Internet Jerk | |
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Internet Jerk: Goons are, generally speaking, not known for their manners. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In a Your Band Sucks article, David Thorpe gives several reasons he doesn't like Ted Nugent, including his off-center soul patch. | |
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Feigning Intelligence | |
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Feigning Intelligence: Played for laughs.(along with technobabble) | |
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Rule 34 | |
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Rule 34: The "Horrors of Porn" reviews. | |
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Get Out! | |
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Get Out!: The GET OUT Frog. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: The general reaction when a Goon made swap.avi, one of the most disgusting shock videos ever. | |
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Accentuate the Negative | |
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Accentuate the Negative: Much of Something Awful's early content was composed of scathing, vitriolic, and incredibly funny reviews of bad movies, games, and, later, hentai. The score system was unusual—instead of 0 to 100, they had 50 to -50, in practice almost always 0 to -50. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Do not compare them to 4chan. Don't do this on 4chan either. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: Some of the animations on the site make absolutely no sense. Then again, that's sort of the point. | |
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Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You | |
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Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: This was from one of the site's Photoshops. | |
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Schmuck Bait | |
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Schmuck Bait: "Your Band Sucks," which mocks popular bands and then posts the most incoherent responses from fans. | |
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Satire/Parody/Pastiche | |
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Satire/Parody/Pastiche: The site has turned mockery into an art form. | |
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Spin-Off | |
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Spin-Off: The infamous Image Board 4Chan was originally founded by former Something Awful users as an Anime image board based on popular Japanese community 2chan. They've regretted it ever since. | |
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