Richard Charles "Lowtax" Kyanka was an American internet personality who created the website Something Awful.
11 Facts About Richard Kyanka
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Richard Kyanka was a very insane little man who legally changed his middle name to 'Low Tax'.
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Richard Kyanka moved the "Cranky Steve" personality in question to the site in 1999.
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Originally, the site was limited mostly to personal content, in which Richard Kyanka personally reviewed video games, movies, and comics which he felt were "something awful".
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Richard Kyanka later added Moofwear to this list, a second clothing line featuring drawings by SA frontpage writer and forums member Tom "Moof" Davies.
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In 2001, Richard Kyanka was entered into the Entertainment Weekly Entertainer of the Year online poll, and went on to receive the most votes.
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Richard Kyanka lectured about internet culture, beginning at Michigan Technological University in 2013.
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In October 2005, Richard Kyanka appeared at a seminar hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery at the University of Illinois and showed a presentation on maintaining an online community.
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On June 20,2006, Richard Kyanka announced that he had accepted Uwe Boll's challenge to a boxing match, which Boll had issued to all his online critics.
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Richard Kyanka subsequently claimed Boll had given assurances that neither were expected to actively compete, as it was a publicity stunt.
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In 2007, Kyanka joined former Mystery Science Theater 3000 host Michael J Nelson in an audio commentary mocking the film Troll 2 for Nelson's RiffTrax website.