Something Awful Edit Meaning

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A comedy website run by Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka which is known for being the last bastion of completely irreverent humor. I mean, come on, face it, anything can be funny if you look at it the right way. Remember - tragedies kill people, laughing at tragedies doesn't.

Don't like people who will joke about anything? You don't ever have to visit something awful. No one's going to make you, I promise.

I was totally on the internet yesterday, man. I was over at those forums they got on that something awful, it was some serious business.

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somethingawful

A humor site. (in)Famous for ridiculing nearly everything else on the internet. Features include; daily front page articles, a large forum, 'Photoshop Phriday', and irreverent reviews.

Though everything is a fair game for the 'goons' of SA's humor, members of the furry and livejournal community seem to be prime targets.

"Haha, Something Awful is hilarious!"

"Man, Something Awful pisses me off."

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At least it's better than Maddox, right?

Something Awful is a website.

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An internet comedy site. Features Photoshop.. features, mockeries of other forums, movie/game/hentai reviews, email/ICQ pranks, legal battles, Fashion SWAT, Horrors of Porn and Untitled Document among others. Seems to drive certain people on slangdefine insane with loathing. Content fluctuates between mildly funny and comedy gold. Has fairly extensive forums. Also known for the sarcastic phrase 'the internet is serious business'.

Damn, a lot of people bash Something Awful on slangdefine.

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A funny site that obviously inspires quite a bit of hatred among those who were banned from it for being utter fucktards

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Something Awful is a sort of "hub" of the special brand of humor unique to the Internet. The target audience is males between the ages of 13 and 25.

Concerning the public areas of Something Awful: People typically either really love or really hate Something Awful. Reading the articles may lead you to notice a sort of formulaic writing style that pervades them. It's almost as if Lowtax created a Mad Libs sheet that has been declared the proper format for all articles until the end of time. This does not prevent some of them from being humorous, however, much of it is quite tired.

Concerning the forums, Something Awful initiates for all new forum members what can be percieved as a strange form of Internet hazing. While one might see this as entirely negative, it has a practical application. Via this "e-hazing" SAF creates and propagates an unusually strict social code which all goonsmust abide by lest they face ostracization by other users and perhaps even harassment by moderators, a phenomenon not typically seen on forums. The positive side of this forum management method is that the inevitable degradation of forum quality, while present, is dramatically slowed and even controlled to some extent. The negative qualities of this style of forum management are that the forum is full of unthinking sycophants and that while forum quality may not drop as rapidly as at other sites, it also cannot ever reach the peak of its potential. Think of it as a bright flame that quickly flickers out, compared to a long-burning flame that casts less light.

Another thing to note is that while Something Awful constantly berates its own members for the use (and especially overuse) of catchphrases, it is its own strict social guidelines which create the perfect environment in which popular catchphrases become an epidemic - goonsee, goony-goon-goon do.

My friend got shat on for mentioning his enjoyment of Naruto, but Something Awful advertizes J-List on their front page. What the fuck is up with that shit?

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The greatest webpage on the internet that is only hated by people with no open sense of humor or their sub-culture/music/mother is insulted and they cannot find a laugh out of the satire and sarcasm.

Me: Something Awful made fun of my favorite group, Rammstein. I laughed so hard.

Retard: THORPE MADE FUN OF SOAD. HE IS A FUCKING PUSSY AND I WILL KILL HIM!

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