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- Feb 9, 2013
There basically is none. For that specific reason, I only distinguish "funny" and "not funny". My criticism of newer trolling is that it isn't very funny.
Well ideally, anyway.
The theatrics of Clyde Cash and Liquid made it less about experimenting with Chris' behavior (actually, not at all about experimenting with Chris' behavior) and using him as a comedic actor in a scripted movie. Like getting Robin Williams to voice the comic relief in your disney cartoon.
I think I still have the most accurate understanding of Chris out there.
But again, I must emphasize this is not because I'm particularly clever. It's because I literally have just listened to more chris material than probably anyone. That's it. To me, Chris has essentially been a podcast (one of several) that I've left running in the background for years.
You can't help but notice some patterns. Chris is incredibly repetitive.
I've described moments where my predictions have failed. My big one was that my "Chris can't be trolled online" prediction depended on Chris not having a reason to return to the internet. I never foresaw Chris' bullshit becoming so financially lucrative, that he'd be constantly exposed to a stream of dipshits wanting to pay for the privilege to whisper sweet nothings in his ear.
That threw me for a loop.
I don't remember ever denouncing trolling itself. If I did, or if I gave that impression, that was really not my intention.
I'm pretty careful to phrase my critiques about new trolls in terms of why they aren't funny. Because that's really what's important to me.
Personally, I don't like people trolling Chris for various reasons, but that's obviously not an argument to use here, especially not coming from me.
So I focus on things they fucked up.
I think it's important to consider the stakes are substantially different.
When this all started, Chris was a spry young man in his late twenties. Both his parents were alive. They weren't poor. Chris was fed and taken care of.
It's still mean to fuck with an autistic, but there's a big difference when you're fucking with a vulnerable person in a vulnerable situation (like Chris nowadays), compared to fucking with a vulnerable person (who, at the time everyone believed was full of himself and an asshole) in a very comfortable situation.
I think people expect hearty laughs to justify it nowadays. Because of the issue of hypocrisy, few people are willing to outright say "fucking with Chris is wrong", but it's just been getting more and more pathetic.
Kinda like how activist groups leech sane members when the big goals are accomplished. Women's groups win the vote and equal pay, and then everyone normal goes home and only the crazies are left.
Extortion. Heh, and you make it sound like it's a small line item tacked onto the end. Like idk, you burglarized someone's house, oh, and here's a parking ticket too.
It's certainly not equally criminal, if you define "equally criminal" in terms of severity of crime. If you only operate on a binary illegal vs illegal, then yeah, I guess they're equally criminal.
When we're talking about old Chris trolling, most of it was questionably legal or in the gray area. Even if something someone did crossed into actual illegal territory, I think the expense of dealing with a small crime across state lines, without money being involved, makes politics a huge factor in whether prosecutions would go forth. It'd take a very politically savvy prosecutor to justify pursuing what could be described as nerdy kids screeching at other nerdy kids online, like on youtube.
I know it was much more than just nerdy kids screeching on youtube, but I think it'd be harder to sell the reality of the situation to a normal person.
When chunks of money come into the picture, especially when you can conjure up images of little old ladies getting fleeced by nigerian princes, I think that makes the politics easier to navigate.
I believe it.
You've got a really weird perspective on my opinions on Chris.
It's a local mental health center. They have like therapy and shit. I think they're rolling out an in-patient treatment center, but it's not long term. It's like for drug addicts or maybe people undergoing mental breakdowns in the moment.
If Chris shows up, act cogent, jabbers at the therapist for a bit, he'll walk right out.
