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- Feb 4, 2013
When I was in college, before I even knew who Chris-Chan was or that lolcows were a thing, my friends and I referred to interacting with lolcows as "tard baiting". Only we didn't have the good sense to find these people on the internet, we went to school with ours. The guy who I still think of when Chris-chan stuff comes up, my first personal lolcow, was none other than Dave Henry: Champion of Justice. The parallels between himself and Chris are eerie, except instead of wanting to be a famous comic artist/video game player Dave wanted to be a famous comedian/demagogue.
His website has been down for years. I was hoping to use the wayback machine to take you with me on a magical journey through my memories back to 2005-2006, around there, but it turns out the best stuff wasn't archived.
Here's the main page anyway, a few of the pages were crawled but none of the good ones.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080124163046/http://www.championofjustice.ca/
I'm a little upset now, I thought I was going to be able to show examples as I explained (edit: although see below). I suppose I can just relay some "sagas" in anecdotal form.
The thing that stands out the most in my mind was the "Ask the Champ" section. Dave would take e-mails and post his replies to them. 100% of the e-mails on this page were written by my friends and myself, we would send him at least one a day. As we went on we kept getting bolder; I sent him at least three e-mails signed using different feminizations of my name, and one where my name was an anagram. Finally, in a move we would always attempt to top but never could, someone (I wish it was me) convinced Dave that Paula Zahn read out and commented on one of his "rants" on CNN. The person supposedly writing to confirm this information referred to Paula as "a wretched crotch-bleeder". Dave still bought it hook, line and sinker.
Another event with parallels to Chris was the "Jack Trenton Saga". In it this one a person, who I won't name but who was basically Dave's Clyde Cash, wrote Dave claiming to be a big-shot TV producer (with a free e-mail account, natch) named Jack Trenton. Jack asked Dave to write a pilot episode for a TV show, and he did. When I lost access to my old hotmail account the archives of these e-mails (and the script itself) were lost forever, but it was a thing of beauty. The premise of the show was that a bunch of roommates (Dave and his friends) would watch TV all day as a framing devices for sketches.It was the greatest thing in the world and the fact that none of us have copies of it anymore is a travesty. Holy crap I found it in a really old backup, uploading now. http://speedy.sh/9ctd7/Dave-s-sitcom-script.rtf Full length motherfu-
He was also a wiccan, believed in ghosts, and one time at a party refused to enter this public park because he said he could see all the spirits haunting it.
Well this kind of sucked. I just want to point out that when I started writing this I thought I'd have webpages to reference. Say what you want about me being boring, I'm no quitter!
Edit: Ooooh shit, he's not that good at deleting fucking everything: https://myspace.com/thechampofjustice/video/short-1/1020762
Edit Edit: Encyclopedia Dramatica page: https://encyclopediadramatica.es/index.php?title=Dave_Henry&oldid=452723
Edit Edit Edit: Really glad I did this now, I found a bunch of stuff I thought was lost.
His website has been down for years. I was hoping to use the wayback machine to take you with me on a magical journey through my memories back to 2005-2006, around there, but it turns out the best stuff wasn't archived.
Here's the main page anyway, a few of the pages were crawled but none of the good ones.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080124163046/http://www.championofjustice.ca/
I'm a little upset now, I thought I was going to be able to show examples as I explained (edit: although see below). I suppose I can just relay some "sagas" in anecdotal form.
The thing that stands out the most in my mind was the "Ask the Champ" section. Dave would take e-mails and post his replies to them. 100% of the e-mails on this page were written by my friends and myself, we would send him at least one a day. As we went on we kept getting bolder; I sent him at least three e-mails signed using different feminizations of my name, and one where my name was an anagram. Finally, in a move we would always attempt to top but never could, someone (I wish it was me) convinced Dave that Paula Zahn read out and commented on one of his "rants" on CNN. The person supposedly writing to confirm this information referred to Paula as "a wretched crotch-bleeder". Dave still bought it hook, line and sinker.
Another event with parallels to Chris was the "Jack Trenton Saga". In it this one a person, who I won't name but who was basically Dave's Clyde Cash, wrote Dave claiming to be a big-shot TV producer (with a free e-mail account, natch) named Jack Trenton. Jack asked Dave to write a pilot episode for a TV show, and he did. When I lost access to my old hotmail account the archives of these e-mails (and the script itself) were lost forever, but it was a thing of beauty. The premise of the show was that a bunch of roommates (Dave and his friends) would watch TV all day as a framing devices for sketches.
He was also a wiccan, believed in ghosts, and one time at a party refused to enter this public park because he said he could see all the spirits haunting it.
Well this kind of sucked. I just want to point out that when I started writing this I thought I'd have webpages to reference. Say what you want about me being boring, I'm no quitter!
Edit: Ooooh shit, he's not that good at deleting fucking everything: https://myspace.com/thechampofjustice/video/short-1/1020762
Edit Edit: Encyclopedia Dramatica page: https://encyclopediadramatica.es/index.php?title=Dave_Henry&oldid=452723
Edit Edit Edit: Really glad I did this now, I found a bunch of stuff I thought was lost.