🐍 In the Clock Tower KingCobraJFS / Josh Saunders - Amateur musician, YouTube Streamer, wandmaker, and self-proclaimed "sexy goth badboy". Perpetually circling the drain.

[New & Improved Username]

That was heart breaking. God bless you Josh.

 

[Orkeosaurus]

So that Krystal stream snipe of the Celebration of Life with Warlord didn't happen, did it? Imagine thinking you could wrangle Warlord into following such concepts as space and time.

 

[Grift Garrison]

As amazing as the tribute was the one thing it missed was a speech from Darfliny. I check his Youtube every few days to see if posted a video and thought he'd be apart of this tribute.

 

[Sugriva]

Can we remove the "self-proclaimed" from the thread title?

 

[TheLastFrogger]

Really feels like it over now, and it was a beautiful way to end it.

 

[Duck Duck No]

Also
Did anyone else catch his sister say that she has a kid Cobra never got to meet?
That's fucked.

 

[anon101x]

Me and Josh are the same age. And I don’t know. I won’t say I knew Josh personally. But I did enjoy Josh. But what really hits me is the bitter sweet feeling of losing something I recognize.

This might sound cringe and gay but Josh…. I don’t know. Something about him just reminded me so much of being a feral teen in the early 2010s with unrestricted internet access.

The awkwardness, the being different, the something….. of being a misfit kid. It just feels so melancholy losing him. I don’t want to call him a relic. Because he was a living, breathing person. But I’m sure a lot of us here (esp on this community) knows what it feels like growing up weird and awkward and being online during that slip in time when the internet and real life were different places but we used one to help cope with the other.

I’m rambling but I just remember watching Josh and enjoying the cobra community in like 2014-2015 when I really needed friends.

And I’m a full adult now - like most of you.

And it just kind of really hits home that the magic of I guess you would say my awkward adolescence is truly dead and not coming back and that period of time is gone forever.

And well….. in that way it’s personal to me.
And it just hits weird, and sad, and bitter.
Life is different now.
Anywho I’m bad with words. But if you get what I’m trying to say. Thank you.

 

[Banquet Meal]

putting this here, in case it gets taken down....it was so sad to hear his poor father crying like that..he is so strong. (if someone already did this, im sorry!!)

 

[CobraAngel]

im passing down kingcobra to my kids 100%

naming my daughter Fay 100% if that ever happens

 

[readytopeach]

So that Krystal stream snipe of the Celebration of Life with Warlord didn't happen, did it? Imagine thinking you could wrangle Warlord into following such concepts as space and time.

In her most recent live she explained that she had to miss it due to work, and that it was probably for the best. Which, duh.

 

[JeffreyMaxwell]

Can't seem to edit. Sorry for double post.

Clint was all about himself and how hsr


That was just- idk. I can't be the only one that thought Clint made himself the center of it all.

C'mon, if that were true, he would've nuked the channel and been done with it. Yea, the first 10 minutes he was expressing why he was hesitant to do this at all, having been harassed to the point of people loosening the lug nuts on his vehicle...I mean that's some attempted murder shit right there. And seeing his son harassed for years, just for being different. Clint didn't need to do this, and I don't think he wanted to, but he knows it is what Cobes would've wanted.

Clint didn't ask for donations and advised people to give money to charity. And once he cleared the air about the horrific shit that made him hesitant to do a final live, the rest of the video was a celebration of Cobes; how he was offline, how he interacted in his own unique way with his family. We got some touching eulogies from his stepmom and stepsister. I mean hell, Clint has a touch of boomer era 'tism himself. I see nothing but genuine love from Clint and the Saunders family for Cobes, and I think this was an awesome sendoff that no one online deserved.

I am glad his family got to finally see the genuine fans expressing their grief and love for the boy and realize it wasn't just that vocal minority of sociopathic trolls sending him duster and Everclear in hopes he'd ruin his life; most of us really liked Cobes and were reminded of eccentric classmates or coworkers who were different but in no way malicious, and in some ways even reminded us of ourselves. For me personally, he was the only cow I can think of offhand I genuinely liked and would rage with at a bar, along with the Delray Misfits.

At the end of the day, I hope this is a wakeup call for how people interact with other "lolcows." For example, someone like WorldOfTshirts pisses me off in that he (ineffectively) assaults people and talks down to others as a defense mechanism, but what I'd really like to see is for his "handlers" to genuinely shift into being positive influences in his life; help get him sober, help him realize he has a very rare opportunity to make a living never having to work a dull, monotonous factory job. There are other cows I think are beyond redemption...you know, the ones cooking HRT in bathtubs to send to the minors they groom. But other than those really twisted horrorcows, no one deserves to be bullied into crisis or eventual death because they're a bit weird or different.

 

[Gene Sinclair]

Goodbye Josh. I'll see you on the other side.

 

[unjackable]

I always assumed Josh did food hacks and drink combos emulating his favorite YouTubers. To hear that he’d been doing them since he was like two is amazing. I don’t care what anyone says, he lived live more on his own terms than anyone out there. An actual true original.

 

[Ponzo]

Cobra has fangirls cry on facebook, troles could never

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

In her most recent live she explained that she had to miss it due to work, and that it was probably for the best. Which, duh.

Krystal is still around? What's her channel name?

 

[The Southwest Strangla]

For anyone who missed the dedication stream for Josh it was incredible and very heartfelt. Clint did a fantastic job and so did Josh's sister. The IRL harassment was so bad trolls literally went to Clints house and loosened the blots on his tires to try and get him in a wreck. Just insane level of harassment Josh and his family had to endure. So fucked up.

For years, I’ve seen weens going around posting videos of them going to the college clint worked at, so trying shit like going to his home doesn’t surprise me

 

[Quandale Octavius Dingle]

Had a cold Coors and Sam Adams for cobes. Loved the deep cuts from the stream.
As much as Clint's photography gets ribbed on, this one was fucking icy. Absolute kino.
Fuck sickos, Fuck the troles, Long live KingCobraJFS. TWU.

 

[RL Steinbeck]

Genuinely grateful for Clint and his family putting that together and taking the risk of putting it out there. It was a very touching tribute.

I'm going to miss Josh.

 

[Slim Boglim]

I wish he could see how many people are missing him all over the world right now. I wasn’t always nice in the way I talked about him, calling him a retard and such. I spent as much time laughing at his misfortune and mocking his fuckups as I did celebrating his wins. I wish I was nicer about how I spoke about him here. But I hope if he’s out there and can see it all he knows without any irony I was always a fan at the end of the day. I miss you so much Josh, if only you knew just what I’d give to see “chillin” pop up in my notifications.

Eventually this thread will die down like the wind. People might pop in on the obligatory big days to reminisce about cobra like Christmas, valentines, his birthday etc and then eventually those days will go quiet. Life will go on. But all you true cobra fan, the real ones who didn’t buy the bullshit people made up, the fanfiction, the slander. The ones that were here just for the wild ride, to laugh at and with Josh through the years. You’ll remember Josh Saunders, just like I do.

Anonymous internet strangers who crossed paths by chance to watch the unbelievable antics of a unique oddball all sharing a bizarre bond as we move through life. 10, 20, 30, 40, maybe even 50 years from now, when the threads and toobs are long gone, when the backups and backups of backups have been taken offline we’ll still have that. Maybe we’ll cross paths by chance in that far off future, however it may look by then. Maybe it’ll take an innocent utterance of “that’s what’s up” for somebody else to overhear, to stop what they’re doing and share a knowing look.

Rest easy Josh.
The cool cobras you left behind can’t wait to catch you later.

 

[Mister Uno]

He walked around looking the way he did. He could have changed how he dressed and been left alone but he chose not to.

Cobra dressed weird sure but it was inoffensive. There is literally zero reason to fuck with him unless you're fucked in the head especially as an adult. If you heard him speak you'd immediately know he probably has some kind of mental issue. The dude was being a nigger.