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I would also add all of the stuff people like the Idea Guys spoonfed to him, to the point where they were controlling what plot points were being put into his comics.I don't know, the only reason I think he bought into that Jesus stuff because he lost the internet and mass media that caused him to glom onto those things. No more tranny stuff, no more ponies, and I don't think Chris even mentioned Sonic once in his letters. It's like his entire self image has to be based on mass media he consumes, and if he loses access to whatever media, he really does lose a part of himself. It makes sense when you consider MLP changing over to the teenage girl version, and why Chris was so angry.
Chris isn't really alone in this way of operating though, at least in the US. He just is an extreme example of people who project their identities into stuff like Disney, weeb shit, or [insert brand here]. We operate in such a "statement-necessary" culture, that people will buy a product based purely on the fact that the product is the product, take for instance clothing such as that made by Supreme, which often just has the word "supreme" on it. Some people claim it as a biological or psychological urge, others blame the lack spiritual identity and the decline of religious importance in mainstream culture, some experts even make the audacious claim that many in the population are, in fact, retarded.
It makes it difficult to really discern, I think, to really figure out what is going on in Chris' head. Because how much of it is what Chris actually feels, and how much of it is what he thinks he is supposed to feel?