Toby Radloff=Chris

[sick nick]

Chris has always reminded me of Toby Radloff from Ohio. He is an obscure figure so I was curious if anyone else here is aware of Toby and has made the same connection?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArBcCER63vk



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXxRnZ3Ih44

 

[sparklemilhouse]

Toby used to send emails to this site about dead retail my friend and I work on.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

Whenever I watched American Splendor he'd make me think of Chris if he had less fucked up parents.

 

[sick nick]

Whenever I watched American Splendor he'd make me think of Chris if he had less fucked up parents.

Yeah, That's the difference. I've met Toby a few times over the years and he's awesome. He doesn' t possess Chris' negative qualities.

 

[The Mackers]

He is also a better singer with good pitch, jusdging by the coke song! this guy is fucking hilarious!

 

[___]

Makes me wonder how Chris's life could change if he embraced his internet fame instead of hiding from it. He has a golden opportunity that he doesn't take advantage of. I'd love to see Chris as a member of Howard Stern's Wack Pack. Give me one in studio conversation between Miss Howard Stern and Chris. I know this Toby guy applied to be in the Wack Pack at one point.

 

[IcyHotWings]

He'd probably do pretty well, really. Wesley Willis had it WAY worse off than Chris and he always had cash on him, but then again Wesley had a very endearing, friendly personality so that's a variable.

I think Chris's best strategy for cash, honestly, would be to just be a complete jackass, have his ass handed to him every now and then, pmuch just be the guy everyone loves to hate. Sell shirts of some of his most embarassing moments, monetize his youtube videos, ... If he was smart enough he could probably afford to rent an apartment of his own off of it and he wouldn't have to work for a very long time.

 

[DangDirtyTrolls]

I think Chris's best strategy for cash, honestly, would be to just be a complete jackass, have his ass handed to him every now and then, pmuch just be the guy everyone loves to hate. Sell shirts of some of his most embarassing moments, monetize his youtube videos, ... If he was smart enough he could probably afford to rent an apartment of his own off of it and he wouldn't have to work for a very long time.

I think the problem for Chris is he has too many trolls that actually do hate him and want to see him come to ruin. This forum tends to keep A-logging in check but there are trolls out there that would do anything they could to spite Chris. I'd imagine if Chris were smart enough to put ads on his Youtube videos there would probably be a few trolls that would set up a bot and get him banned for inappropriate ad clicking or hack any site he'd try to put up to sell merchandise. Not to mention get the lawyers on the phone if he attempted to sell anything remotely copyright-infringing, which would be most merchandise.

 

[Marvin]

I think Chris's best strategy for cash, honestly, would be to just be a complete jackass, have his ass handed to him every now and then, pmuch just be the guy everyone loves to hate. Sell shirts of some of his most embarassing moments, monetize his youtube videos, ... If he was smart enough he could probably afford to rent an apartment of his own off of it and he wouldn't have to work for a very long time.

I think the problem for Chris is he has too many trolls that actually do hate him and want to see him come to ruin. This forum tends to keep A-logging in check but there are trolls out there that would do anything they could to spite Chris. I'd imagine if Chris were smart enough to put ads on his Youtube videos there would probably be a few trolls that would set up a bot and get him banned for inappropriate ad clicking or hack any site he'd try to put up to sell merchandise. Not to mention get the lawyers on the phone if he attempted to sell anything remotely copyright-infringing, which would be most merchandise.

Eh, people overestimate the significance of copyright when it comes to Sonichu. A few issues of the Sonichu comics are maybe copyright infringing. They're probably closer to trademark infringing, if anything. If Chris was a lot less stupid, he could probably clean up 7 or 8 out of 10 of his comics and they'd be completely fine.

Plus no large company is going to pursue someone like Chris unless they were doing something extremely fucked up, which Chris isn't.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Plus no large company is going to pursue someone like Chris unless they were doing something extremely fucked up, which Chris isn't.

Technically speaking, every fanfic and recolor on the internet is a copyright infringement, even though they don't make their authors any money. My Asperchu was a copyright infringement on every property I used. But yeah, Sega and Nintendo would never pursue Chris or anyone else like that because they're insignificant.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

Plus no large company is going to pursue someone like Chris unless they were doing something extremely fucked up, which Chris isn't.

Technically speaking, every fanfic and recolor on the internet is a copyright infringement, even though they don't make their authors any money. My Asperchu was a copyright infringement on every property I used. But yeah, Sega and Nintendo would never pursue Chris or anyone else like that because they're insignificant.

Yeah, but you and everybody else who does fanfiction knows what it is. Chris genuinely thinks that he's created an original I.P and could make millions from it.

But that point is completely moot because the biggest barrier between Chris and his Sonichu fortune isn't copyright, it's the fact that it's fucking awful... I mean really awful, it's just not a threat to the franchises Chris has pillaged to cobble it together.

And on the point of Chris embracing his e-fame, well that's based entirely on him being laughed at for his idiotic actions, sky-high life expectations, and extreme gullibility. If he changed any of that, then he wouldn't be "Chris" and wouldn't be worth watching. His ego won't allow him to play the fool despite the fact he unintentionally does it anyway, he wants to be taken seriously as a creative genius.

 

[Bgheff]

Plus no large company is going to pursue someone like Chris unless they were doing something extremely fucked up, which Chris isn't.

Technically speaking, every fanfic and recolor on the internet is a copyright infringement, even though they don't make their authors any money. My Asperchu was a copyright infringement on every property I used. But yeah, Sega and Nintendo would never pursue Chris or anyone else like that because they're insignificant.

This. Unless someone is costing you more money then you would spend in court against them, it's not worth attacking someone for copyright violation.

 

[Marvin]

Plus no large company is going to pursue someone like Chris unless they were doing something extremely fucked up, which Chris isn't.

Technically speaking, every fanfic and recolor on the internet is a copyright infringement, even though they don't make their authors any money. My Asperchu was a copyright infringement on every property I used. But yeah, Sega and Nintendo would never pursue Chris or anyone else like that because they're insignificant.

Nah, copyright applies to specific works. Like, if I drew a picture of a dog, I have copyright on that picture. If you drew a picture of Sonic, you have copyright on that picture you drew of Sonic.

Now, some works incorporate prior copyrighted works, like fanart. But even so, you still have copyright on your fanart. You can forbid people from distributing copies of your fanart, because they're still your copyrighted works.

If your work incorporate some prior work, which fanart does by definition, your work is considered a "derivative work." When it comes to derivative works, anyone who has rights to whatever you incorporated can forbid you from publishing your work.

As far as the Sonichu comics go, Chris does have a valid copyright on all of them. Although, he is a dipshit and fucks up how he declares his copyright (plus, declaring your copyright hasn't been required for a long time). The Sonichu comics that incorporate Sonic himself are probably derivative works. Well, plus Sonic is probably also a trademark, and there are separate laws involving trademarks. But I think the rest of the Sonichu comics are probably OK if he clears out any mentions of Sonic. They all have their own plots that could be disconnected from anything Sega might have rights to. Chris could probably legally publish them.

Now, as people have said, it's not worth it for Sega to pursue Chris in court. But! If they did want to pursue him, even if they didn't have a good case for some of his comics, I bet it wouldn't be worth it for Chris to defend himself. They could probably win, even if Chris had a good case for some of his comics.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Is da Chris'tard "too famous" to be a Wack Packer?

Of course not. Outside of a few thousand folks who hang out on chan boards and somethingawful, nobody knows who he is.

 

[waffle]

Asperchu and sonichu are probably fair use mostly. Because fair use depends in part on context and also on if they are making money/costing the "original" sales they probably wouldn't be if they were sold, especally with Chris' explicit mentions of Pokemon. Its like Marvin said though, I could probably rewright all ten comics to be non-copyrightinfringing. The bigger problems really is that they are libelous against people like Mary lee Walsh.