Something Awful is an extremely cynical humor website based in the United States. It houses a variety of content, such as instant messaging pranks, digitally edited pictures, intentionally bad webcomics, and humorous reviews of pornography, but it is best known for its online message forums.
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The Something Awful Forums are a limited-access message board system. It costs $10 to register; this money goes directly to the webmaster, Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka. Other forum features also cost $10 each, such as gaining permission to search the forums, putting an image under your username, putting custom text under your username, or putting custom text under someone else's username (often to demean them). A frequent user of the forums spends roughly $100 on such features.
Frequents of the Something Awful Forums call themselves "S.A. goons", or simply "goons". However, they are not all alike. The forums are divided deeply between different camps, represented by a few main forums.
FYAD frequents hate GBS with a passion, because it is one of the sort of communities that they love to mock. When someone is not funny enough for FYAD, they will be told to "go back to GBS".
For reasons quite unknown, the webmaster Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka is a frequent of FYAD, despite the fact that he destroyed the forum early on and did not resurrect it until they attacked GBS with shock sites.
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The Something Awful Forums community has many in-jokes, including
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GBS (General Bullshit)
General Bullshit, almost always abbreviated to "GBS" to save time typing and be less offensive, is very similar to any of the "Off Topic" forums found on virtually every message board system on the Internet. GBS is usually slightly more mature than the average "Off Topic" board, simply because people on the Something Awful Forums are rich, mature, and old enough to purchase an account. GBS frequents can start a thread on any random thing, usually without getting dismissed by the rest of the community. Something Awful's weekly Photoshop competition is held in GBS.FYAD (Fuck You And Die)
Fuck You And Die, almost always abbrieviated to "FYAD" for the same reasons described above, is unique to Something Awful. In FYAD, all posts are nonsensical and mock the common, teenage Internet user. Chatspeak and message board jokes are taken to ridiculous extremes, and often whole catchphrases are invented, some of which are described in the section below. Something Awful's weekly Weekend Web articles, a compilation of stupid things said on message boards, are put together in FYAD.Something Awful Forums Culture
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