Apparently Lowtax's long slide has only accelerated, with health issues, substance abuse issues, and multiple allegations of domestic violence.
SA was a huge source of early internet culture, for the uninitiated. Groverhaus came out of it, Goonswarm, as well as many NSFW things (swap.avi anyone?).
The purchaser is a longtime SA user, apparently. I haven't had an active account there for over a decade, so I'm locked out of a lot of the details, but that's the overview.
Yep. By virtue of being only barely an utter clownshow, he has outlasted his opposition. Remember when he ran for governor of KY?
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Exactly. It's a website frozen in amber, forever in a different timeline than the rest of humanity. Even the memes are fossils.