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{{quote|''"The internet makes you stupid"''|Something Awful's motto.
Somethingawful.com, better known as [[Something Awful]], is a popular comedy/parody website that's been around since the heady days of 1999. Its [http://www.somethingawful.com/ Main Page] features articles ranging from parody, to self-parody, to the downright surreal. Originally, the articles were all written by site founder Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka, but over time it has built up a large rotating staff of writers of varying quality. The site allegedly exists to chronicle and mock [[So Bad It's Horrible (Darth Wiki)|the worst things in existence]], but has branched out a bit since its founding and now has a number of features and articles that defy all characterisation, as well as extremely active forums.
The [http://forums.somethingawful.com/ Something Awful Forums] are the source of much of the site's notoriety. Its members, known as "goons
If goons are relatively subdued on their own forums, however, the opposite is true elsewhere, and they are renowned for being some of the most sophisticated and organized [[
For the flash animations hosted on the site that is made by Dave Kelly, see [[The Flash Tub]]. The folks here were also responsible for ''[[Doom House]]''.
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* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Much of Something Awful's early content was composed of scathing, vitriolic, and incredibly funny reviews of bad movies, games, and, later, hentai. The score system was unusual--instead of 0 to 100, they had 50 to -50, in practice almost always 0 to -50.
* [[A Darker Me]]
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In a [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/worst-rock-stars.php Your Band Sucks article], David Thorpe gives several reasons he doesn't like [[Ted Nugent]], including his off-center soul patch.
* [[Berserk Button]]. Do ''not'' compare them to 4chan. Don't do this on 4chan either.
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* [[Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For]]: An AwfulVision column once highlighted a pair of videos where a kid who downloaded a [[Smashing Pumpkins]] album ''illegally'' [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awfulvision/grizzly-adams-vlog.php?page=5 destroys the CD copies he made in a fit of rage after reaching the conclusion that he doesn't like the music.]
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]], taken to the [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/were-all-gonna.php absolute extreme].
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]. Like [[Image Boards|4chan]], the Goons have done a few acts of vigilantism when they see fitting. However, comparing the two, both on-
* [[Feigning Intelligence]]. [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/icq-pranks/icq-transcript-big.php?page=1 Played for laughs.] (along with technobabble)
* [[Get Out!]] - The [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3261431 GET OUT Frog.]
* [[GIFT]]
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: The few goon projects that are [[Vaporware|actually finished]] tend to be the ones that never should have been.
* [[Griefer]]
* [[Let's Play]] began as something a few weirdos did on the Games forum, but later gained its own subforum (and recently its own moderator), and has spread across the internet. [[Retsupurae]] was made in response.
* [[Mind Screw]]: Some of the animations on the site make absolutely no sense. Then again, that's sort of the point.
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