A Nigerian Prince scam has been around long enough that anyone should be able to recognize it when they see it - even someone like CWC. So, it really makes me wonder how these people painted it in such a way that made it less obvious.
Here's hoping they face proper justice soon.
By "nigerian prince", I just mean generic internet catfishing with a financial component. Nothing specific.
@Mr. 0 got it right.
Honestly I'm kinda surprised this is the first time someone squeezed Chris for cash like that (if it really is the first time...), considering how well-known he is for his gullibility. (Probly he was saved by people assuming he'd be broke- I'm pretty damn surprised he had that much cash to get took for tbh)
Chris is
falsely known for his gullibility. Most of the Chris trolling over the years crossed lines of reasonableness, as far as what sort of incredulity Chris should've shown. He was pretty skeptical of much of the trolling, and people pulled out dirty tricks (like meeting him IRL) to get around that.
I think if people you know IRL are betraying you, they're putting their identities on the line and I think it's unreasonable to judge Chris that harshly for falling for it.
Another aspect of it is sheer perseverance. People just keep spamming Chris with nonsense emails. Even if he's super accurate at filtering out the dipshits, like 99% accurate, 99% of 5000 attempts is still 50 attempts that get by his screening. As we've seen in the
Kingsnake thread, he pretty much is super good at filtering out the bullshit, because none of these emails ever amount to anything. We're seeing failed trolling attempts, because Chris manages to ignore them. (Though now null's managing Chris' new email. And dipshits are still sending emails there.)
If people are offering him money, he still has to read some of the emails, and that means an avenue for that 1% to get in.
Chris a dumbass and believes dumb shit sometimes, but honestly, we left the range of "reasonable" years ago. As early as Ivy. (In fact, Chris had Barb verify Ivy for him. Ivy wasn't Chris' fuckup.)
But I'm most surprised some sick fuck would want to sexually assault Chris. Whatever this Ideafag character did must be pretty intense/degenerate/fucked up to be worse than getting Chris to shove busted-up bits of his medallion up his pooper, or shoot all the various fucked up sex videos people talked him into/leaked over the years. Dude sounds like he gives Josef Fritzl a run for his money.
When I talk about sexual elements, I mean they harassed him and the harassment had a sexual component. Like having Chris attempt to prostitute himself to men when he couldn't get enough money.
He tried, but IG was already in too deep. He pretty much set himself up as the Dungeon Master in CWCville, and Chris would say what he was trying to do, and IG would twist it around so it didn't work.
https://sonichu.com/w/images/7/7f/PerceptorSonichu.jpeg - This was Chris' attempt to make a new character that could fix everything
That "reincarnation" page which I can't find at the moment was also an attempt to hit the reset button.
Yeah, this shit was fucked up, and it kinda shows how deeply they got into his head.
Chris tried to resist them in his world. He tried to say "well, I'm the author, so I'm going to draw sonichu fixing everything" and then they'd say "nope, sonichu's powers got neutered, hitler is still running cwcville" or some shit.
And all Chris could say is "dang, I don't want to have to suck dicks to save cwcville".