# Richard Kyanka

> Richard Charles Kyanka, known by his username Lowtax, was an American internet personality who created the website Something Awful in 1999. He dropped out of college his junior year and was hired by GameSpy to run PlanetQuake, a news site for the Quake video game series.

*American Internet personality (1976-2021)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/richard-kyanka

## Identity
- **Profile type:** YouTuber ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15222076))
- **Category:** YouTubers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1976-05-11
- **Died:** 2021-11-09
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 68.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 9.6 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 6.3 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 22.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Total followers across platforms:** 30,100

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/richard_kyanka (@richard_kyanka)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/richkyanka (@richkyanka)
- **LINKEDIN**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-kyanka-a73b429/ (@rich-kyanka-a73b429)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1857215/ (@nm1857215)
- **TWITCH**: https://www.twitch.tv/GamingGarbageLIVE (@GamingGarbageLIVE)
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPoSHO-OOTb0rqZr6bJlMkQ (@@gaminggarbage, 30,100 followers)

## Sources
- [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/4542490)
- [Richard Kyanka](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552129)
- [Richard Kyanka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kyanka)
- [Richard Kyanka](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kyanka)
- [Richard Kyanka](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kyanka)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Kyanka)
- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/26f90c60-a953-4c2c-9e25-9d277244b541)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48335939)

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