I have a confession to make. My account is not even quite a year old yet and I have only been watching and interacting with this thread for half of that time. This thread, its subject being active on it, and all the rest is 14 times older than my engagement with it. Still, its one of the highlights on this hellsite. Possibly THE highlight for me since poor dead Albert Temple's revelations come in at a post-mortem trickle.
My confession is that despite this recent engagement, I never much looked at most of what was in the thread after page ~30 or so and before 6 or 7 months ago. I got everything I needed from Cynthia's youtube channel and the real time wrangling occurring here as its partner exhibit. Because of this ignorance on my part, while I found Cynthia deeply amusing I truly until filling in the gaps of my knowledge tonight on a deep dive, did not understand why people were so (apparently) mean to her.
But, being surprised by her gullibility in thinking that people here *literally believed the Daily Fail image was her*, I knew I had to deep dive into the past to learn more. I had clearly missed something.
Now I do understand. JFC the rageposting about past grudges with strangers over nothing, the Simeon Saga, everything. The sheer amount of times she naturally bristles at people mocking her yes but also legitimately giving her good advice and warning her about scams. It happens over and over and over again. And she keeps coming back. Almost never a thank you, even after Null did the homework to expose the (obvious and literally Nigerian) scam. Even after many people literally helped her find new animation programs and helped her touch up videos.
She might not be very clever, in fact I have just confirmed the situation upstairs is even worse than I first assumed, but she is doing one thing right even if subconsciously: she knows on some level this thread is making her output better and pointing out things she could improve on and fix. In some minor ways she has improved as an....''''artist'''''..... since engaging with the thread. She might see us all as her enemies but she must know that its at least a constructive rivalry to have. After all, even after everything her true hate is reserved for the Oz fandumb still.
Very early on, I forget exactly where now as my eyes are crossed and I went through too much, she admits she has no real life friends and her socialization comes entirely from the internet. Shes got actual fans now, maybe even more than five, but I think its fair to say that the vast majority of her social interaction since 2014 if not in life has been with this thread, with Kiwis.
@Picklechu likes to joke around with her and at her expense but its been happing long enough now that
Picklechu is unironically one of the closest things Cynthia has ever had to a long term friend. ...At least in a sense.
I also now have a serious question along the lines of the 'What happens when Barb dies?' thread in the CWC sub-section...what on Earth is going to happen to Cynthia when shes the last living Hansonchu? Mommy won't always be there to answer the Forbidden Door.
And you know what? Despite the vindictiveness and selfishness constantly on display by the subject I do not change my unironic opinion that I want her, somehow, to succeed. It would be the funniest possible option as well as the most interesting. I don't think she will, but I want her to. And even if she doesn't she'd still be a great subject for a documentary on her quixotic and spergy mission. That type of production very well could succeed and is probably the best chance shes got at spreading her fame too.