Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died

Re:Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has ... by jfax on Sunday November 14, 2021 @09:14AM (#29217257)

4chan hardly had any responsibility for Qanon. Q poster was banned very early after most recognised it as a larp. It is overwhelmingly the legacy of infinity chan.

This is not withstanding who was eventually revealed to be one of the people behind it all, but I hate to overexplain this because the bottom-line is that this whole idea that lowtax was some kind of Gavrilo Princep is over-the-top and kinda dumb. The 4chan-qanon connection is tenuous, only more tenuous than the idea that a "hentai ban" caused 4chan, which only happened much later after 4chan was founded.

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Re:Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has ... by Apocryphon on Sunday November 14, 2021 @11:06AM (#29218000)

4chan was influential in many other ways, from all of Anonymous’s ops, to playing a role at Occupy and other protests. SA led to the rise of the Dirtbag Left, to Brown Moses and bellingcat, to r/wallstreetbets culture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29185381

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