I think more people have heard of Sonichu than Chris. Sonichu is a much bigger meme in the scheme of things, but the actual history of Chris goes pretty unnoticed for a lot of people until they stumble down the rabbit hole.
I can personally say I had heard of Sonichu well before I knew about Chris Chan as a person. I knew he was the guy that made Sonichu and that was it. Then one day I found some YouTube video which was a parody 'lecture' on Sonichu which went into a little bit of Chris' history and it opened my eyes to the absolute shitshow that surrounded him. I mean honestly, just finding out more about the Sonichu comics was incredible, I just thought it was 'lol sonic and Pikachu together how original" until that video let me deep dive into the lore

I think after that I found the original comprehensive history videos, which at the time were only up to like episode 3 or 4.
IMO Chris is like baby's first lolcow. You start going down that rabbit hole starting with the strange self inserted, badly drawn comic book and then find an entire cave system of shit that leads to more and more bullshit, before you then arrive at this thread and start learning about ghost fucking and poo pop pee pee rituals and wonder how looking at the history of an autistic man, who probably should never have been online unsupervised, has lead you to this moment.