I was going to post this all the way back on May 5, but I happened to choose to start composing it a few minutes before the farms started its weeks long comatose state. Just logged in via TOR for the first time. There's a chance that the TOR savvy users don't need me to tell this, but internet nerds in general have a skewed view of how violent the Western world irl really is, so I probably do need to share this.
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(written on May 5)
There is something that almost every extremely online person doesn't realize that needs to be said: the fact that in general, in the West, people in real life aren't as violent and confrontational as you'd think, even towards well known pariahs.
I believe that the following two factors - years of looking at Internet comment sections filled to the brim with Internet Tough Guys who talk about how violent they'd be if they met you in real life, along with consuming media where violence is portrayed as more frequent and more fun than it actually is for the sake of not being too boring to cons00m - has led those without much IRL experience to think that you're more likely to have violence done upon you for social violations.
This is also exacerbated by peoples' natural social anxiety, which itself is also exacerbated by the social conditions of the modern West. A lot of people think they have a larger risk of getting shot/stabbed/mugged/raped/punched/etc if they walk around at night than what the real risks actually are. It's like someone whose only exposure to the beach is watching scary movies about sharks, they will have this idea that beaches are much more dangerous than what reality will demonstrate.
Vast majority of those who pass by Chris Chan in the past month won't recognize him, and the majority of the ones who do aren't feral enough to straight up assault him because most Westerners are averse to committing violence. In fact, you can go out regularly to bars and clubs, hit on girls who are near their boyfriends, and I guarantee you there won't be violence unless you take the initiative to throw the first punch. There may be typical wannabe tough guy big talk, but the phenomenon of being sucker punched by those who aren't crazed hobos or criminal youths part of a subculture that encourages wanton violence, is more rare than many think. People who recognize Chris Chan are mainly not crazed hobos or criminal youths.
Now, I wouldn't be surprised if Chris has been subject to a few passive aggressive drive-by comments from a safe distance like "MOTHERFUCKER!" and "How's your girlfriend doing these days?". He probably has experienced that, but as far as I know it hasn't been recorded yet. And it's quite possible that most of the people doing those comments were too scared of confrontation to say them loud enough for him to hear.
This is why the only media (as far as I know) of Chris, post-release, are pics (maybe some short vids?) taken inconspicuously. Eventually you will see videos of people verbally accosting him, but videos of straight up unprovoked assaults are unlikely because the real world ain't like Grand Theft Auto.
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