Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by TomVDB on Thursday November 11, 2021 @03:26AM (#29185731)

This is not a memorial thread. And the fact that he shot himself a day after being judged a domestic abuser adds a lot of relevant context that readers on this forum deserve to know.

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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by lollowtax on Thursday November 11, 2021 @03:41AM (#29185824)

In case anyone is surprised to read this, it isn’t speculation. It’s deep in the thread but it’s indisputably there from someone who would know.

The circumstances surrounding this incident in the last 24 hours sound absolutely fucking abhorrent. I’m honestly shocked reading the firsthand accounts in that thread. Just wow.

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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by HamburgerEmoji on Thursday November 11, 2021 @03:38AM (#29185804)

Do you suppose anyone ever committed suicide after wrongly being adjudged an abuser?

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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by smt88 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @04:40PM (#29193541)

So you think it's possible this guy married three different women who all said he abused them, and at least one of them also tricked a judge into agreeing?

Which scenario do you think is more likely:

A) A man whose entire career and public persona was dedicated to being an asshole happened to be an actual asshole

B) At least three women loved this guy enough to marry him and then decided to make up stories about how he abused them, convincingly enough that a court of law agreed

Keep in mind that in both scenarios, we know that he did spend all of his most recent wife's money and had a substance abuse problem.

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