Something Awful

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'''Something Awful''' (also known simply as '''SA''') is an Internet community owned and operated by [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka]]. Forum members range from teens to adults, talented artists to talented writers, and also very avid gamers.

* '''Address''': http://www.somethingawful.com
* '''Founder''': Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka
* '''Ran from/to''': 1999 - present
* '''Motto''': ''The Internet Makes You Stupid''

Some of its users hold up the percieved SA tradition of mocking the [[furry fandom]], including pranks, organized [[trolling]], and individual harassment of users themselves in places such as [[LiveJournal]], message-boards, and various furry websites. This includes [[WikiFur]] itself, which was vandalized on various pages with defamation toward the furry fandom or repetitions of the phrase "SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM." While the administrators of the SA forums do not officially condone the actions taken, and that they almost never take any action unless legal action could be directed towards SA itself, many [[goon]]s take it upon themselves to invade websites, forums and LiveJournals when they are linked on or off the forums. (Examples of off-forums organized invasions includes the now defunct [[SALJ]].) There are three instances where goons "infiltrated" a furry [[convention]]. 

It should be noted that since the meme of Trolling furries has become somewhat Passe, there have been increasing numbers of Furry fans that have taken to participating in the SA forums themselves. their motives are unknown, but considering the primarily humorous nature of the site itself, one can only guess that it's for entertainment. When pressed about their choice to participate, most users tend to respond with "it's just an internet forum." Furries that are discovered are usually called out in "Helldump", Something Awful's version of The People's Court. Helldump is the only forum to have a "confirmed kill".

==WikiFur==

===August 15, 2005===

On August 15, 2005, WikiFur was invaded by goons from Something Awful only a few days after the project had been announced. Despite the disclaimer contained in the (archived, archives account required for view) [http://archives.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1642602 initial thread] in the Something Awful Forums ("''DISCLAIMER: DO NOT INVADE THIS SHIT YOU FUCKERS. YOU KNOW THAT'S AGAINST THE RULES. JUST POINT AND LAUGH''",) vandalism ramped up when the link to the site was chosen as the SA ''Awful Link of the Day'' on the same day.

At one point, pages were being maliciously edited every 45 seconds. However, the actions of Something Awful increased the visibility of WikiFur. This attracted more legitimate users than SA vandals.

:''[[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]]: As they say, the only bad publicity is no publicity!''

===Random acts of vandalism===

Since then, WikiFur has been the target of [http://furry.wikicities.com/index.php?title=WikiFur:Community_Central&action=history sporadic acts] [http://furry.wikicities.com/index.php?title=WikiFur&action=history of vandalism] from one or more goons or [http://furry.wikia.com/index.php?title=WikiFur:Comic_of_the_Week/Week_49%2C_2006&diff=prev&oldid=104195 people claiming to be SA goons].

==Something Awful and furry==
=== The "Furry Concentration Camp" ===
[[Image:FurSACCold.jpg|thumb|right|Initial badge design]]
[[Image:FurSACCnew.png|thumb|right|Final badge design]]
In January 2003, [[JJcoolJ]], a now ex-forum member and somewhat excommunicated from the furry community, organized users from the now defunct #safurs channel on FurNet to spam an internal forum called "FYAD," or "Fuck You and Die" with furry porn.

[[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka|Lowtax]], after getting rather annoyed with having the obtuse-humored sub-forum filled with even more horrendous furry spam, created the Furry Concentration Camp, a sub-forum which acted much like FYAD, but disconnected furries from the main forum, with the apparent intent to discourage furries from spamming the site with unrelated and offensive images and other memes.

The furries who spammed -- and many others who didn't, but were labeled anyway for humorous effect, such as user Procrasturbator -- were placed in this sub-forum if deemed to be incredibly annoying. It also proved to be a place where members of FYAD could come in and ridicule other furries for their own humor. For identification purposes, a "Furry Badge" was tacked to their "Sigs." Many non-furry and furry members of the forum found this highly amusing as, as expected, there were endless pages of funny, dramatic and venting posts.

However, after a few months, the furry goons took the forum for themselves and turned it into their own "Furry FYAD." Much to the disturbance of SA forum regulars, [[Sibe]], under an alias on an account purchased by JJcoolJ and several other furries began to post their collections of furry porn there. In mid-summer [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka|Lowtax]] deleted the forum. Sibe and several of the furries participating in the furry concentration camp were later banned for being both spammers and annoying, disregarding moderator warnings and administration rulings against such behavior.

=== #safurs ===
<nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> was an [[IRC]] channel on [[FurNet (IRC)|FurNet]] started by a [[furry|fur]] named [[Jazzy]] around 2002. His SA forum handle was JJcoolJ, which is a play on the name of a famous rap artist, [[Wikipedia:LL cool J|LLcoolJ]]. While on the SA forums, on various occasions-- mainly in the [[furry porn game]] when it came around in FYAD-- he would advertise the [[IRC]] network as well as the channel.

The channel became popular and well-known among the SA community when the Furry Concentration Camp (see above) was created. Many [[trolls]], [[goon]]s, other furries and [[anti-furries]] alike began to visit, stick around to chat, harass the users for being furries or use the channel as a make-shift portal to troll other channels on the IRC network.

In late 2003/early 2004, [[Snowpony]], an administrator of FurNet deemed Jazzy unstable and therefore unable to keep administrating his channel. Forcibly, ownership was passed on to [[Bobby]] (aka [[Squnq]]). After getting bored, Bobby passed the channel on to [[Verix]].

At this point, the FurNet administration stated their belief in other users utilizing <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> as a doorway to [[trolling]] other channels on the network. Snowpony began monitoring the channel by idling and logging. Annoyed, the users of <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> took on a rule of "no idling," which was typically only enforced on Snowpony, and [[Wikipedia:kickban|kick-banned]] Snowpony from the channel. Flustered, Snowpony used her administrative powers to unban herself and rejoin the channel, only to have it happen again. She then proceeded to ''akill'' those who had removed her from the channel and rejoined.

For a few days after this, <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> began to mock and taunt Snowpony constantly, perpetually kick-banning her every time she joined the channel, causing another round of [[Wikipedia:akill|akills]] and rejoins to occur. Another admin, [[Simba (person)|Simba]] caught wind of this and began to look into the situation between Snowpony and this IRC channel. Believing that Snowpony was out of line with her actions, in a rather infamous display of quitting her administrative job of FurNet, turned the tables and akilled Snowpony.

The channel is now inhabited and run by furries from South Australia, [[SAFurs.org]]

=== Furry "Goons" ===
A "[[furry]] [[goon]]" is someone who is actively involved with both the Something Awful Forums and the Furry Community. Being a furry is technically a bannable offense on SA, but enforcement is uneven. Several older SA furs have been given official immunity to being banned for it, the most well-known example of which is [[Doodles]]. Other open furries who post on non-furry topics are very seldom banned. Closeted furries who are outed by others are sometimes banned depending on the subforum, mod whim and degree of perceived deviance. Open furries who spark drama about it are always banned, as are closeted furries who out themselves.

== See also ==

* [[Anthrochat]]
* [[Wikipedia:Something Awful|Something Awful]] on Wikipedia

== External links ==

* [http://www.somethingawful.com Something Awful]
* [http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php SA's SAclopedia] Built dictionary, with many terms related to furry fandom. (Registration required)
* [http://sassclopedia.info/index.php/Main_Page Something Awful Sycophant Squad - SASSclopedia] - An SA-related site and forum for users who wish to say things that might get them banned on Something Awful

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