My experience with Christian (featuring a new original art piece)

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I got a lot of lols out of Sonichu and Chris too, but I don't want to get one because I'd probably end up hiding it anyway, simply because I don't feel like explaining to my friends why I bought a crayola magic masterpiece off a fat autistic manchild. Just not something I could do with a straight face.
 
I got a lot of lols out of Sonichu and Chris too, but I don't want to get one because I'd probably end up hiding it anyway, simply because I don't feel like explaining to my friends why I bought a crayola magic masterpiece off a fat autistic manchild. Just not something I could do with a straight face.
I'd display it and if anyone asked, I'd point them to the first Sonichu comic and the CWCki, and tell em to enjoy the fascinating trainwreck
 
Sorry, have to disagree. I checked his ebay feedback and found about 100 Sonichu-related sales. Unless half his customers don't leave feedback, I doubt that he has made 200 sales.

If you count the 100 autographed pics he is over 200. He has 100 autographed pictures, 25-30 drawings, and 30 medallions listed as sold. Since he relisted the medallion after selling 50 or so, I think he has sold somewhere between 205 and 210 things.

As for whether the business has hit its peak. It depends whether or not he launches a new product. If he doesn't, he is probably be down to 1 or 2 sales a week which will slow to a stop in a few months. If he launches a new product which captures people's interest he will have another flurry of sales and then it will die off again.
 
If you count the 100 autographed pics he is over 200. He has 100 autographed pictures, 25-30 drawings, and 30 medallions listed as sold. Since he relisted the medallion after selling 50 or so, I think he has sold somewhere between 205 and 210 things.

As for whether the business has hit its peak. It depends whether or not he launches a new product. If he doesn't, he is probably be down to 1 or 2 sales a week which will slow to a stop in a few months. If he launches a new product which captures people's interest he will have another flurry of sales and then it will die off again.
I wholeheartedly agree and this is something that Marvin and others have been saying since the beginning. Unfortunately, unless it's bundle deals or he lowers his prices, there's really nothing else Chris can sell that people will buy... two or three people might buy it but it won't be a flurry rush like it has been before. He's done pictures, he's done autographs, he's done medallions. There's not much left to Chris unless he's selling used items of his.
 
I wholeheartedly agree and this is something that Marvin and others have been saying since the beginning. Unfortunately, unless it's bundle deals or he lowers his prices, there's really nothing else Chris can sell that people will buy... two or three people might buy it but it won't be a flurry rush like it has been before. He's done pictures, he's done autographs, he's done medallions. There's not much left to Chris unless he's selling used items of his.

I am not sure I agree.

Custom videos, skype interview time, comic book content all jump to mind as things he could sell, assuming he could get over logistical problems.
 
His ebay career has definitely hit its peak, one way or another. The fact is, he has a very limited customer base. It consists solely of a minority of the people on this forum willing to give some money in exchange for a christorical artifact. All things considered, it's not that many people.
Not true. I follow someone on Tumblr who ordered a medallion from Chris and filmed themselves opening it. I know tons of people who aren't part of this forum that follow Chris-Chan or at least have a casual interest in him.
 
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I got a lot of lols out of Sonichu and Chris too, but I don't want to get one because I'd probably end up hiding it anyway, simply because I don't feel like explaining to my friends why I bought a crayola magic masterpiece off a fat autistic manchild. Just not something I could do with a straight face.
Really? I use Chris as a conversation starter. It's a pretty cool story, after all.
Most people find it amusing and are actually interested in Chris when I talk about him.
 
I am not sure I agree.

Custom videos, skype interview time, comic book content all jump to mind as things he could sell, assuming he could get over logistical problems.
These are all things people have already told Chris he should do and he's shot it down. All these things means he has to keep a schedule, something he's already shown he can't or at least hates to do. And of course, he would but such a constraint on it that only a handful of people would actually be willing to pay for it. A skype call for him would be like $15 for a 5 minute call in which you can't talk about certain things; $50 would be for a 5 minute video in which he would only talk about certain things, and fuck comic work, Chris has already said he's not doing that; but it'd probably be something like $250 for actual comicbook content. And that'd be like 2 pages...
 
These are all things people have already told Chris he should do and he's shot it down. All these things means he has to keep a schedule, something he's already shown he can't or at least hates to do. And of course, he would but such a constraint on it that only a handful of people would actually be willing to pay for it. A skype call for him would be like $15 for a 5 minute call in which you can't talk about certain things; $50 would be for a 5 minute video in which he would only talk about certain things, and fuck comic work, Chris has already said he's not doing that; but it'd probably be something like $250 for actual comicbook content. And that'd be like 2 pages...

Not to mention that videos or pages generated through commissions won't be the same as the community expects.
 
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Really? I use Chris as a conversation starter. It's a pretty cool story, after all.
Most people find it amusing and are actually interested in Chris when I talk about him.
"Oh and here's this Sonichu medallion I bought off this infamous fat autistic tranny, I follow a forum dedicated to his life"

Not true. I follow someone on Tumblr who ordered a medallion from Chris and filmed themselves opening it. I know tons of people who aren't part of this forum that follow Our Pet Lolcow or at least have a casual interest in him.
Link?
 
Not to mention that videos or pages generated through commissions won't be the same as the community expects.
Exactly. The best Chris content is at least semi-spontaneous. The videos you'd get from this would be, at best, like the ones from the Jackie saga where she basically dictated them to him and they just weren't that funny. The only reason he did them was because he thought there was china to follow - he won't be as willing to make an idiot of himself if there's no sexing at the end of it. If you let him do whatever he wanted, you'd probably just get some boring video of him sitting there playing vidya. Maybe you could ask him to do a shout-out or something, but really how interesting would that be?
 
Exactly. The best Chris content is at least semi-spontaneous. The videos you'd get from this would be, at best, like the ones from the Jackie saga where she basically dictated them to him and they just weren't that funny. The only reason he did them was because he thought there was china to follow - he won't be as willing to make an idiot of himself if there's no sexing at the end of it. If you let him do whatever he wanted, you'd probably just get some boring video of him sitting there playing vidya. Maybe you could ask him to do a shout-out or something, but really how interesting would that be?
I guess if he ever chose to do videos for money (and the chances of that are incredibly slim at best), the outcome would be boring. It's a bit like :story:... after the cult-status of his Movie "The Room" he apparently tried to make movies that are intentionally bad and just come off as phony and lame. It's the same with Chris Videos. If someween asked him to do an angry rant or whatever the outcome would be boring as fuck and 90% of the requests would be denied for being "offensive". Most likely it would be just him saying hello to random people. "Hello Uh.. Ben. This uh this uh i made this video for you..." And that's about it. He could sell some of these videos but it wouldn't sell like the medallions.

If he started doing vlogs about stuff that happened to him or stuff that annoys him and asked for patreon money, I could see him get some income out of it... But I doubt the content gathered from that would be that much better and it's highly unlikely for OPL to ever pick up something like that.
 
If he started doing vlogs about stuff that happened to him or stuff that annoys him and asked for patreon money, I could see him get some income out of it... But I doubt the content gathered from that would be that much better and it's highly unlikely for OPL to ever pick up something like that.
According to Marvin, Chris is pretty boring most of the time. Vlogs would be "Hmm, so I uh, I went to the McDonalds... then I played Super Smash Brothers... uh, and dayt's - that's how my day went, uh, pretty much. Hmm."
 
These are all things people have already told Chris he should do and he's shot it down. All these things means he has to keep a schedule, something he's already shown he can't or at least hates to do. And of course, he would but such a constraint on it that only a handful of people would actually be willing to pay for it. A skype call for him would be like $15 for a 5 minute call in which you can't talk about certain things; $50 would be for a 5 minute video in which he would only talk about certain things, and fuck comic work, Chris has already said he's not doing that; but it'd probably be something like $250 for actual comicbook content. And that'd be like 2 pages...

I am not convinced that he will ever do interviews, videos, or comic book pages. I was just saying there is demand for it.

He would have to swallow his pride to do them, but desperation is a powerful motivation, so it doesn't strike me as impossible. He would also have to figure out the logistics. I think a venue like Kickstarter might be a better outlet than eBay, since he would be releasing a public good.

Overall, I agree that we shouldn't be holding our breath. But I don't think Chris has tapped out his e-fame, if he wants to keep moving in that direction.
 
Only they would go for maybe half an hour of him droning about nothing

Half an hour? That's far too much effort for Chris. He gives single word answers in interviews devoted to him. He'd give it two minutes tops, unless he has something to say about Sonic's arms being blue.
 
Half an hour? That's far too much effort for Chris. He gives single word answers in interviews devoted to him. He'd give it two minutes tops, unless he has something to say about Sonic's arms being blue.
Not interviews. Just letting Chris talk.
 
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