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was on SA ages ago when AYB and Goatse jokes were still fresh, from
early 2001 up until about mid-2003 when my original account was banned.
Never bothered shelling out the 10bux for another account when I could
just lurk and leech from NMP3s and DPPH. SA (the articles and the
forums) was great. It was pretty much the primary source of Internet
memes and catchphrases prior to 4chan. I think Lowtax was a lot funnier
back when he was angry, bitter, and struggling to keep the site running
on its various hosts. What attracted me to the forums was the fact that
it was full of bitter, funny, and intelligent Internet geeks from the
late 90s/early 00s. After a while, though, the humor got stale and
predictable (including the articles), and the original posters moved on
and were replaced by boring normalfags and flat-out unfunny losers who
were only funny in how pathetic their lives were. The forum drama,
popularity contests, circlejerking elitism, and overbearing rule-crazy
mods and admins got in the way of the fun, random atmosphere in which it
originally thrived. The first Gooncon pretty much marked the end for
me. FYAD was great in its original incarnation (and as FYAG), but
when Lowtax started mucking around with it circa 2002, the irony got so
dense and obscure that it wasn't funny anymore and became more like a
"cool club" for people who were constantly in on the joke. I am,
however, grateful to the site for introducing me to a lot of awesome
music and movies I probably would not have discovered otherwise, as well
as a great sense of humor.