Wait...he swerves to deliberately hit things and is easily distracted?
I'm amazed he hasn't been pulled over more often.
He's been known to do it. Probably not very often, but even doing it once doesn't imply very good driving judgement.
He swerved once to hit a snake in the road because "snakes are evil" or some shit.
You're saying that you've published misrepresentations of Chris, but you're upset because you think people believe these never-specified misrepresentations?
I believe people should read the cwcki more critically.
And that Chris's behaviour didn't attract trolling, but he was exceptional enough for you to run a wiki documenting him, and for you to have trolled him yourself?
Chris' behavior provided the very initial germ. Two months of Chris' behavior led to ten years of trolling and harassment.
(But that was Ok because it was before The Day Trolling Chris Became Unacceptable.)
It's been getting gradually more unacceptable the whole time. For example, the main group of trolls disbanded when Bob died. That was in, what, 2011?
We felt that continuing to troll Chris when Barb was elderly was a very tricky proposition. What if you're pretending to be a girl when Barb does? Chris will come to you for comfort. How would you feel if Chris is blubbering about his mother's death and you know that his life is ruined, and you're not really a girl but some neckbeard in California?
We felt it was time to get out.
And that Chris's trolling could really happen to anyone- if we got enough emails we, too, would be convinced to send strangers video of us farting on cakes or cooing in diapers, or to believe that our imaginary hedgehog-world was invaded by nazis?
The specific way the trolling would manifest itself would be different, of course. Hedgehogs or cakefarts probably wouldn't work on a normal person. However wearing diapers? Solid chance that would work.
If you played it off as some sort of kinky fetish the girl is into, many guys would go great lengths to get laid.
But as far as the "you just think that because of the CWCki" stuff goes, Chris's exceptionalism stands on it's own. There's dozens of hours of primary audio or video evidence of Chris's retarrdation, as well as the chatlogs, emails, facebook, twitter, etc.
It's what the cwcki doesn't tell you that's missing. All the background that went into justifying and explaining why Chris should do something is completely absent. And there was a lot of it. There's at least 100 hours of phone calls that's not recorded, for example.
Ivy's whole saga was unrecorded as well. We ultimately did a retrospective with her and recounted what we remembered. And of course, memories can be fuzzy.
Besides, even if the cwcki didn't exist, jokes about Chris's gullibility and insanity (which I assume is what the "don't believe the cwcki" stuff is about) would happen anyway, because that stuff is the natural response to the way he's acted, which is kinda my point.
Again, it's like an iceberg. 10% above water, 90% below.
I'm just saying that his trolling was a result of Chris's own behaviour (whether or not it snowballed out of control afterwards).
I'd say 10 years is a pretty long lasting snowball.
Not sure why that's controversial unless you think people just randomly selected an internet user and happened to pick Chris.
It's not that Chris isn't weird or funny. He's definitely a lolcow.
But he's ripe for branding and marketing. His distinctive fashion, his funny way of talking, the medallion, "cwc". Hell, Clyde was great at marketing himself as a big troll villain. Liquid too. The whole thing became a performance where Chris' natural behavior didn't really matter, because people could manipulate him behind the scenes into performing properly regardless.
Like Chris didn't always take the bait, for example. We had to invent reasons why Chris had to make a certain video. Like "hey chris, he's saying he created sonichu! y'know legally he can take control of the copyright if you don't openly challenge him, you gotta make a video to set the record straight! trust me, my dad's a lawyer."
Without the scripting, sure, Chris would still be a lolcow, he'd just have a single, slow moving thread. Not, y'know, multiple forums, an extensive wiki, multiple amateur documentaries, screaming fans at conventions, etc.
Back in the day, the main group of trolls was the only thing keeping him online. When they disbanded, Chris went offline for three years. Complete silence. He's back online now because he gets paid to be. If Chris didn't make money off of patreon et al, Chris would have no reason to go online and we'd just get occasional bigfoot sightings of him around Charlottesville.
