Containment Random Thoughts & Questions

[Tragi-Chan]

Why is Chris so fixated on blue arms as such a trivial detail, and yet would leave in glaring inconsistencies in his comic back when he actually enjoyed making it?

Hypocrisy.

 

[timtommy]

He never holds his his own work up to self-criticism because he thinks he's amazingly talented and everything he does is automatically great. I doubt he's even gone as far as to consider which Sonichu comic he is most proud of, because he thinks they are all equally phenomenal. Additionally, he completely refuses to absorb any criticism from anywhere else, completely closing his mind to the idea that he could be fallible.

Here's my own question:

The other day one of the Kacey calls came up in my iTunes shuffle. Chris is telling Kacey about all the trolling he's had to endure. Kacey feigns disbelief, saying "You really think there's a group of people dedicated to trolling you? Why would they do that?" Chris tells her that he has absolutely no idea. I got the impression that he thinks he's a pretty normal guy, and the reasons he's become a point of interest is a total mystery to him.

Does Chris still have no idea why anyone would target him, or does he now understand that his bizarre antics attract trolls?

I think he attributes the trolling to two things. The first is his general awesomeness and the awesomeness of Sonichu. That type of awesomeness is bound to attract a lot of negative attention and jealousy. All famous people have their detractors. The other factor would be a couple seminal events like Mimms/Lucas posting a picture online. He seesn trolls as a pack of evil animals wandering around the internet. A couple people he knew in real life dangled him in front of them. They attacked him just because he was dangled. It had very little to do with him.

At times he has acknowledged his naivete and some mistakes he has made about the trolls. But that is a minor contributing factor at best. The main reasons are bad luck and how awesome he is.

 

[CatParty]

i agree with his assessment of just a picture being posted online as the source of his trolling woes. times in the past, he's posted pictures of people who "gave him a hard time" (snyder, the mcdonalds black lady) in order to divert the attention from himself. however he has also gone so far as straight up doxing people in order to "sick his trolls on them" (pumpkinspice, the walmart manager)

 

[Honeyrabbit]

i agree with his assessment of just a picture being posted online as the source of his trolling woes. times in the past, he's posted pictures of people who "gave him a hard time" (snyder, the mcdonalds black lady) in order to divert the attention from himself. however he has also gone so far as straight up doxing people in order to "sick his trolls on them" (pumpkinspice, the walmart manager)

I like how Chris feels that s/he has so much influence that s/he can completely divert the attention of trolls simply by naming and shaming another person. Because Great Director Chandler is so powerful that even detractors will bow to the almighty word of CWC.

 

[Stud2Stud]

I think he attributes the trolling to two things. The first is his general awesomeness and the awesomeness of Sonichu. That type of awesomeness is bound to attract a lot of negative attention and jealousy. All famous people have their detractors. The other factor would be a couple seminal events like Mimms/Lucas posting a picture online. He seesn trolls as a pack of evil animals wandering around the internet. A couple people he knew in real life dangled him in front of them. They attacked him just because he was dangled. It had very little to do with him.

At times he has acknowledged his naivete and some mistakes he has made about the trolls. But that is a minor contributing factor at best. The main reasons are bad luck and how awesome he is.

It's also noteworthy to see how Chris imagines trolls would be like.
For instance, check out Chris' little Trollsona "JenkinsJinkies", the background Chris came up with made him not only some weird dudebro stud but also someone who happily experiments with gay sex (cause apparently, that's what trolls do). I'm most fascinated with the circumstance how overboard Chris went in depicting this imaginary person's sexlife.
Also apparently, trolls are mean bastards that abuse animals...

His Bill Riley trollsona wasn't nearly as elaborate, but he was a pothead.

It's not really surprising but his cartoon-inspired worldview makes any opposition rather 2-Dimensional villains who're just in it cause they are meanies.

i agree with his assessment of just a picture being posted online as the source of his trolling woes. times in the past, he's posted pictures of people who "gave him a hard time" (snyder, the mcdonalds black lady) in order to divert the attention from himself. however he has also gone so far as straight up doxing people in order to "sick his trolls on them" (pumpkinspice, the walmart manager)

I wouldn't be surprised if Chris thinks doxxing someone online will always cause them at least some trolling. Chris must be aware that he was getting an extreme amount of attention from trolls, but he still thinks just posting the image of someone has the chance to turn their lives upside down the same way it happened to him.

 

[Marvin]

His Bill Riley trollsona wasn't nearly as elaborate, but he was a pothead.

<SonichuClone> small sack, LOTS OF CUM

 

[Stud2Stud]

<SonichuClone> small sack, LOTS OF CUM

Ugh... yeah, then there's that.

I think he was trying to match the behaviour he assumes a troll would have.
Also according to this Bill Riley sock puppet, he hated Chris for giving him a computer virus.

Chris didn't come up with a better reason on the spot, I guess.

 

[Honeyrabbit]

I'm most fascinated with the circumstance how overboard Chris went in depicting this imaginary person's sexlife.
Also apparently, trolls are mean bastards that abuse animals...

His Bill Riley trollsona wasn't nearly as elaborate, but he was a pothead.

It's not really surprising but his cartoon-inspired worldview makes any opposition rather 2-Dimensional villains who're just in it cause they are meanies.

I always liked the theory that Chris's overblown depiction of this person's sex life was some latent homosexual fantasy. I think the real reason is that Chris sees everyone as "good" and "bad"; someone must be infallibly perfect (Chris, Sonichu, the rest of his Mary Sues) or irredeemably bad (Clyde Cash, MLW, all men except Bob). Nothing in between. Even when trying to create a realistic person to be used as an alias in real life, he can't escape his comic-book mentality of "this person is on the BAD TEAM, so they're a BADDIE and must be represented as such".

 

[Stud2Stud]

I always liked the theory that Chris's overblown depiction of this person's sex life was some latent homosexual fantasy. I think the real reason is that Chris sees everyone as "good" and "bad"; someone must be infallibly perfect (Chris, Sonichu, the rest of his Mary Sues) or irredeemably bad (Clyde Cash, MLW, all men except Bob). Nothing in between. Even when trying to create a realistic person to be used as an alias in real life, he can't escape his comic-book mentality of "this person is on the BAD TEAM, so they're a BADDIE and must be represented as such".

I agree.
He basically views this through the looking glass of cartoon-logic.
He's the protagonist, the hero, the infallible prodigy of righteousness and there's the forces of evil who oppose him who embody all that is bad.
There's big villains and their mooks, like the Shredder has Foot-Ninjas, there's a group of people working on making Chris miserable and their mooks are Jerkops, Manajerks, Trolls, you name it.
It seems Chris thinks everything is connected via the Greene County Board of Education. And like with any uninspired, generic villain, there simply is no sensible motivation (outside of hating Chris, of course) to warrant such attention.

 

[BillRiley]

Why is Chris so fixated on blue arms as such a trivial detail,

Well, the thing is that it's not a trivial detail to Fat Dummy. His fixation is largely a result of equal parts autism and circumstance. People with autism often fixate on things that catch their attention to an absurd degree. Sonic gave young Christopher $1000 in games and toys, plus as much attention as a poor autistic boy could possibly want because, yep, he's on TV!

Another thing about people with autism - all change is bad. I mean, REALLY BAD. They generally have to put a lot of effort into remembering what things look like, so when something changes they have to memorize that thing again. Add an emotional attachment to the object being changed and you'd better get ready for some major arm-flailing. Or, in this case, all-caps facebook posts.

and yet would leave in glaring inconsistencies in his comic back when he actually enjoyed making it?

As others have mentioned, Chris-Tran comes from the 'good-job-high-five' school of art. It's been so ingrained in his personality that he has amazing artistic skill, it would never occur to him that he might possibly be less than perfect.

 

[Silver]

I am a Pokémon sperg of the ages, so I know that these images on here are from the N64 game, Pokémon Snap. Pokémon Snap has almost attained cult classic status among the Pokémon community for its sheer WTFery. It is a game where you take pictures of Pokémon and Professor Oak judges them on their quality. It's about as fun as it sounds... which of course is why my best friend and I bought it off eBay a few years back and promptly spent six hours beating it when it arrived.

The interesting thing to me was the fact that Chris used these images on this cover. I thought, did he take pictures of his TV screen and use those? They look too clear and consistent to be camera photos, though.

Which leads me to a tidbit I found today:

"For a period of time after Snap's launch, Pokémon Snap Sticker Stations were available at Blockbuster, which would print out stickers of pictures which were taken in the game for three dollars."

I don't know if the style of the resulting print-outs is documented anywhere due to the nature of the game, but it wouldn't exactly surprise me if these pictures were products of that. The game was released stateside in July 1999, so it would definitely still be in Chris' mind two months later, I think.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

It's years since the first time I saw that and it still cracks me up. That's a cover page for a seinor in high school!

 

[normankrasner]

I am a Pokémon sperg of the ages, so I know that these images on here are from the N64 game, Pokémon Snap. Pokémon Snap has almost attained cult classic status among the Pokémon community for its sheer WTFery. It is a game where you take pictures of Pokémon and Professor Oak judges them on their quality. It's about as fun as it sounds... which of course is why my best friend and I bought it off eBay a few years back and promptly spent six hours beating it when it arrived.

The interesting thing to me was the fact that Chris used these images on this cover. I thought, did he take pictures of his TV screen and use those? They look too clear and consistent to be camera photos, though.

Which leads me to a tidbit I found today:

"For a period of time after Snap's launch, Pokémon Snap Sticker Stations were available at Blockbuster, which would print out stickers of pictures which were taken in the game for three dollars."

I don't know if the style of the resulting print-outs is documented anywhere due to the nature of the game, but it wouldn't exactly surprise me if these pictures were products of that. The game was released stateside in July 1999, so it would definitely still be in Chris' mind two months later, I think.

Blockbuster had kiosks where you could print sticker photos from the cartridges

http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/Pokémon_Snap_Station

 

[Silver]

Blockbuster had kiosks where you could print sticker photos from the cartridges

http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/Pokémon_Snap_Station

That's literally what I said in the post dude

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Also according to this Bill Riley sock puppet, he hated Chris for giving him a computer virus.

Chris didn't come up with a better reason on the spot, I guess.

I think there was also an element of ego in play here (isn't there always?). He couldn't talk about Ryan Cash's suicide or his plagiarism or anything like that, because he is the good guy. Giving a legit reason, even coming from the mouth of a fictional character, would be essentially admitting to being in the wrong. So, fictional computer virus it was. That and Chris hating males, which is something he's fine admitting to.

I always liked the theory that Chris's overblown depiction of this person's sex life was some latent homosexual fantasy.

Yeah, I wondered about that. I don't think Chris is gay, but the level of detail in that story was quite astonishing. Chris devoted more detail to Junior's gay experimentation than he did to any other aspect of his life, including heterosexual experiences. I wonder if maybe this was one of those unwelcome thoughts that popped into his head now and again and had to be destroyed with stomach acid.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

Why is there still no CWCki page for Blue Arms/Sonic Boom?

Even though i've been pranting on all year about the "CWC Renaissance of 2014" even I never expected the amount of Tard rage brought on by this. I need an article for it!

 

[CatParty]

Why is there still no CWCki page for Blue Arms/Sonic Boom?

Even though i've been pranting on all year about the "CWC Renaissance of 2014" even I never expected the amount of Tard rage brought on by this. I need an article for it!

his posts are on facebook, they are reflected in the facebook articles. unless one would wish to write an article

 

[Anonimo]

One thing I didn't get about CWC and his JenkinsJinkies video was that he thought in order to become a troll he had to file an application like it was for a part time job or part of some kind of initiation. I may not be well versed in the trolling game, nor do I really wish to be, but I'm fairly certain trolling doesn't work like that. At least, if you're not a Ween or something it doesn't.

Also, while I may get a down rating(or 10...thousand) for asking this, I was looking at the "Weening" page, these specific points caught my attention...I've bolded these ones specifically.

• Elaborate trolling plans.
• Facebook stalking
• Breaking the law in pursuit of lulz, such as vandalizing Chris's property, illegally recording telephone conversations, or dishing out death threats. We shouldn't have to say this, but for fuck's sake people, DON'T DO THIS.

Now, we post updates about his facebook posts whenever he updates it. Skyraider91 went out posting pictures of the house while it was under construction. The CWCVille library has whole playlists of Chris's phone calls that I doubt he himself would've agreed to have uploaded on the Internet. And what Clyde Cash and Blue Spike did? Are they not considered weens for tricking Chris into having phone sex with a minor? Hell, wouldn't that mean Clyde essentially groomed a minor to do this? What makes us "kiwis" any better than the weens? I'm not trying to ask us to do some soul searching, but I thought it was something worth bringing to our attention.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

From Chris's perspective, this "transgender lesbian slut"-thing is completely logical. He probably understands that a young woman who is sufficiently pretty usually has little difficulty finding a sexual partner (finding someone to love and care about is difficult for everyone, but Chris doesn't realize this). He has always felt more comfortable around girls than around men, but his quest for hankypanky has so far been largely unsuccessful. So, his little brain just adds two and two:

• "I prefer females to men, I like girly stuff"
• "but for some strange reason girls won't hankypanky me"
• => "so I should become a Tomgirl/Transgender/Lesbian. That way I can be girly, plus attract girls, because pretty girls have little difficulty attracting sexual interest, and I am very pretty."

 

[P-Logic]

What makes us "kiwis" any better than the weens?

Absolutely nothing. It's a completely arbitrary distinction.

"Ween" is a word with a lot of definitions, but for most people it just means something that is lame, overly harsh, and unfunny. Obviously people have their own interpretations of what is lame, too harsh, or unfunny. There are some things that almost everyone agrees on, but some things are a bit more contentious.