I’m outwardly a complete normal-fag and do my best not to discuss my fascinations with lolcows with anyone who actually knows me. So imagine my surprise when a group chat with very benign normies brought up this hellscape.
I haven't followed the Chris saga intently, but I'm way too online to not know the highlights. Still, this episode is deeply dark and deeply disturbing.
Based on the people I see discovering this, I feel strongly this is going to find a way to break into more mainstream news sources. There are at least a dozen reporters at various “reputable“ outlets who know way too much about all of this who I am confident are now trying to figure out how to cover the whole thing.
Of course, like Yaniv, the problem is that the more you try to give context to the whole thing, the more you have to dive into the mess of what got us to this point. And unlike Yaniv, this saga has 15+ years of weens and A-Logs and lore and utter autism that is just too much for normal people to care about. So when this breaks — and it isn’t if, it is when — I’m confident the framing will lose a ton of the nuance it needs. There might even be some places that are conned into being sympathetic to the autistic, bullied and stalked transwoman, rather than rightly examining the circumstances that let Chris become Chris and let an elderly woman be raped and abused.
