Richard Kyanka (born May 11, 1976), better known by his nickname Lowtax, is an Internet personality, and owner and operator of the humor website Something Awful.
The nickname "Lowtax" is a reference to Tennessee politician Byron (Low Tax) Looper, who achieved national notoriety at about the same time Something Awful was being launched. In Kyanka's own words,
Kyanka started Something Awful after he was forced to resign from his job at PlanetQu...
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Richard Kyanka (born May 11, 1976), better known by his nickname Lowtax, is an Internet personality, and owner and operator of the humor website Something Awful.
The nickname "Lowtax" is a reference to Tennessee politician Byron (Low Tax) Looper, who achieved national notoriety at about the same time Something Awful was being launched. In Kyanka's own words,
Kyanka started Something Awful after he was forced to resign from his job at PlanetQuake for writing a derogatory website update about a fellow employee. He moved the "Cranky Steve" personality to his own site, which he called "Something Awful", in 1999.
Originally the site was a largely personal one, in which Kyanka personally reviewed video games, movies, and comics which he felt were "something awful". However in recent years the site has grown greatly, and now features numerous writers and columnists, putting Kyanka's own writings in the minority. Kyanka is the creator of the characters Jeff K. and Cliff Yablonski,...
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