From ED:
Something Awful, an unfunny comedy website owned by Lowtax, and traces its roots back to the good old days of Web 1.0, where Goatse was the pinnacle of shock and the LJ in "LJ drama" did not yet exist. The whole point of Something Awful is to make jokes only self-hating nerds find funny. SA also attempts to pick on internet sub-cultures even more pathetic than they are. SA readers feel threatened by clown-like furries, tropers and juggalos, as they are all members of these subcultures themselves and fear exposure for the human detritus that they are.
As you all know, many faggot nerds view the internet as very serious business, and, as a result, other, slightly more useful nerds realized that mocking their only slightly-more pathetic ways was a good way to relieve stress caused by the fact that no one likes them at school, the site became very popular very quickly. The community dynamic at Something Awful changed significantly over the years, …
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The cancer did not start with 4chan.
The cancer was there back at SomethingAwful.
The cancer became unmistakable by the time the goons went to 4chan.
But moot was cancerous even before he started 4chan.