They are talking about Lowtax/SomethingAwful because 4chan was a direct outgrowth of the ADTRW/SADCHUB/RaspberryHeaven communities that discovered 2ch and world

They are talking about Lowtax/SomethingAwful because 4chan was a direct outgrowth of the ADTRW/SADCHUB/RaspberryHeaven communities that discovered 2ch and world2chan around 2003. Its OP was edited in 2007 and I assume the original is lost, but here's the 82-page 4chan announcement thread on ADTRW originally posted in September 2003: https://forums.somethingawful.com//showthread.php?threadid=724028 https://forums.somethingawful.com//showthread.php?threadid=7... A lot of 4chan's initial userbase and staying power came from SA banning a big chunk of that community earlier in 2003 over differing cultural standards between their subcommunity and the SA admins: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=429748 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=42...