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Orkeosaurus said:
I wonder why this is such a commonplace thought to new christorians. Most historical people are HIGHLY documented, especially considering how much people back in the day kept diaries or wrote shit tons of letters. Take any random founding father and with the right sources you could tell what they did a particular week or even day or what crop they were growing, and have someone writing a new book about them every year.

Chris is just an early vlogger. Now adays you have vloggers posting 30 minute vlogs every damn day.
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Finally someone said it. This thought has always been in the back of my mind.

Really, I think Chris is just known for being so uniquely weird. That's nothing special now, but back in 2007 it was, when the internet was just getting truly mainstream and you could now share the town idiot with the whole world. Chris being a weirdo was just as exciting as multimedia PCs getting on the mass market. And now both those things are a footnote in history.
 
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Orkeosaurus said:
I wonder why this is such a commonplace thought to new christorians. Most historical people are HIGHLY documented, especially considering how much people back in the day kept diaries or wrote shit tons of letters. Take any random founding father and with the right sources you could tell what they did a particular week or even day or what crop they were growing, and have someone writing a new book about them every year.

Chris is just an early vlogger. Now adays you have vloggers posting 30 minute vlogs every damn day.
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Which is why I corrected myself on my previous post, stating I thought Chris was one of the most well-documented, non-historical figures.

I think it's a common thought because there are very few examples of ordinary people being documented to the level Chris has. Where communities have sprouted up for over a decade, discussing and finding information out about an individual. And especially in Chris' case where he hasn't actively seeked most of the attention he has received. I don't think a good analogy is comparing a well-documented person like Chris to vloggers who more often than not put up a facade and only show their viewers what they want them to see. Whereas Chris' autism has shown us the true and honest details of his life.

I should have worded my posts better. I wasn't really making an argument in the first place. More-so just curious what others thought Chris' legacy would be in the future with the amount of information there is about him on the internet.
 
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Depression_Begins said:
I don't think a good analogy is comparing a well-documented person like Chris to vloggers who more often than not put up a facade and only show their viewers what they want them to see. Whereas Chris' autism has shown us the true and honest details of his life.
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I'd say it's a good analogy since, like those vloggers, the available info on Chris is skewed toward making him look a certain way. For the vloggers, they're the ones controlling their online image, making themselves look better than they really are. With Chris, it's the trolls who are doing it, making him look more exaggerated and cartoony than he really is.
 
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Depression_Begins said:
Which is why I corrected myself on my previous post, stating I thought Chris was one of the most well-documented, non-historical figures.

I think it's a common thought because there are very few examples of ordinary people being documented to the level Chris has. Where communities have sprouted up for over a decade, discussing and finding information out about an individual. And especially in Chris' case where he hasn't actively seeked most of the attention he has received. I don't think a good analogy is comparing a well-documented person like Chris to vloggers who more often than not put up a facade and only show their viewers what they want them to see. Whereas Chris' autism has shown us the true and honest details of his life.

I should have worded my posts better. I wasn't really making an argument in the first place. More-so just curious what others thought Chris' legacy would be in the future with the amount of information there is about him on the internet.
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The closest equivalent was Casey Konstantin Serin ("iamfacingforeclosure", legally re-named Casey Constantine in April 2016), whose real-estate misadventures were great enough to prompt a whole wiki about him, called CaseyPedia...that went under about five years ago: https://archive.fo/zRBUn
 
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Orkeosaurus said:
I wonder why this is such a commonplace thought to new christorians. Most historical people are HIGHLY documented, especially considering how much people back in the day kept diaries or wrote shit tons of letters. Take any random founding father and with the right sources you could tell what they did a particular week or even day or what crop they were growing, and have someone writing a new book about them every year.
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The difference is that historical people might have their every day documented, but Chris has had his every thought documented. You know, all 20 or so of them.
 
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Does Christine believe about his autisticc superpowers now? I seen the "electric hedgehog power" cosplay where he said "...if I actually had the superpowers". But recent tweets and updates seems to suggest he believes that he is an inter-dimensional overpowered Mary Sue hottie that has ALL THE SUPERPOWERS EVER. So here's my question: Is Chris getting better? Does he sincerely believe in his superpowers now?
 
Pickelhaube said:
Since Hurricane Florence is coming to Virginia, what would Chris do?
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He and Barb and the cats and those miserable little rat dogs will both drown. The hoard will absorb the first of the rising floodwaters, but eventually will start floating around and crushing everyone who lives there.

Then the entire house will come off its foundation and everyone will die.
 
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He’ll write another FB post on his own page to the local power company just like he did the time the tree branch knocked out their power and he couldn’t get air conditioning. Then he’ll ask for money because it’s raining Really Hard!
 
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Silent_Watcher said:
Does Christine believe about his autisticc superpowers now? I seen the "electric hedgehog power" cosplay where he said "...if I actually had the superpowers". But recent tweets and updates seems to suggest he believes that he is an inter-dimensional overpowered Mary Sue hottie that has ALL THE SUPERPOWERS EVER. So here's my question: Is Chris getting better? Does he sincerely believe in his superpowers now?
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Chris has to manually separate fantasy from real life, so I think sometimes he just forgets to do that.
 
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