It would have to be you and Marvin. You've both been there since near the beginning and Chris will actually talk to you irl.
TBF, the last thing that a good CWC documentary needs, is ironically an interview with Chris.
Not gonna powerlevel too much, but as someone with some experience with news media, Chris is literally an interviewers worst nightmare.
He’s dumb as a brick and virtually incapable of abstract thinking. Which is why questions like: “Where do you see yourself in 10 years?” invariably result in either a blank stare or a one sentence-platitude like: “Living my life and being happy!”.
On top of that, Chris has a personality that makes him utterly incapable of self reflection. Questions like: “What did you think about X” or “How did you feel when Y” would again either only result in a blank stare, or a predictable, one word answer like: “I was happy”.
On top of that, Chris is a rather unreliable narrator to his own life, but not so dumb that he wouldn’t try to spin things to make himself look as good as possible.
Now normally, the way to get around that, would be to do a more confrontational interview and explore some of that spin. But wait.... That’s right! Chris is also petrified of confrontation, and would use on of his usual three tactics to avoid it.
A: Run physically away. (“I’ve had a stressful day, I need to rest!”)
B: Run mentally away. (Basically sit and nod and agree with whatever.)
C: Try to make the conversation run off track with funny sounds, random access humor and things totally off topic.
(Try to watch anyone get confrontational with Chris, whether Kacey or Alec Benson Leary, and you’ll see him do one, or all, of the three.)
So nah, while I’d love to see Barb get grilled in an interview, talking with Chris for a documentary is literally a waste of time, like all of the interviews he has done proves.
But then again, that’s some of the charm and allure with Chris. The detective work a Christorian needs to do, and try to get to the bottom of things: Wrestle meaning out of Chris’s reactions, and interpret what he does say. And what he doesn’t say. Usually what he doesn’t say is far more telling than what he does prattle about.
Not anymore since he has finally been convinced I'm a troll, haha. Which, if I was ever so inclined, I could probably change his mind.
Most likely.
I’ve always wondered how much of Chris interacting with trolls is his naivety and how much is a fleeting awareness in Chris, of the fact that hanging out with trolls is as close to having normal human relations as he’ll ever get.
I mean, Chris is hardly the sharpest tool in the shed.
But surely, somewhere in those big, blue pools of autism that is his eyes, must be an awareness of the fact that hanging out with a kind and gentle troll like you, is far more interesting than the kind of asspatters and weirdos he usually attracts online.
