Re:AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities
by ishouldstayaway on Thursday May 07, 2026 @06:10PM
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We bringing back Something Awful, now?
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It never left.
No it's Something IS awful.
Sorry, they did an interview about 20 years back were they kept correcting the host to 'Something is awful' I have just called it that ever since.
Re:AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities
by quickthrowman on Friday May 08, 2026 @10:18AM
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Jeffery of YOSPOS bought it before Lowtax overdosed on mangosteen and it’s still operating.
Re:AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities
by RankingMember on Friday May 08, 2026 @10:37AM
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The :10bux: requirement did seem to do a good job of weeding out the lowest-level trash/spammers and encouraged people to toe the (sometimes very blurry) line. I remember how absolutely godawful some of the no-signup-fee SA-offshoots were (remember TheGunOwner's spin-off site "LivingWithStyle"?), to say nothing about 4chan.