Twitter 9/15 - CWC Funko Pops

Don't forget to mention that you could create much better Funko Pops in a fraction of the time. Oh, and you're happily married and have great sex while Chris is totally still a virgin, right guys???
Back on topic, I wonder if Chris chose the "past self" figure because its arm is in a certain pose. Maybe it's the closest he could find to his "astral projection" gesture? Maybe it'll be the next Sanic Totem and someone will buy it for $1600? Who knows?
I think he's banking on that to happen. He already knows people will over pay for items in his house simply because those items just happen to sit at 14BC for any amount of time.
 
Jeebus, that "past Chris" Funko looks like it has a botfly in the middle of it's face. How can Chris honestly look at that and think he did a good job? What lazy, shoddy work. I thought Autistic people were supposed to be...Autistic...about details? Oh well. Since when has Chris ever made anything that looked decent?
 
Jeebus, that "past Chris" Funko looks like it has a botfly in the middle of it's face. How can Chris honestly look at that and think he did a good job? What lazy, shoddy work. I thought Autistic people were supposed to be...Autistic...about details? Oh well. Since when has Chris ever made anything that looked decent?
This is just my opinion from what I have read and having autistic family myself, but apparently that work looks perfect to Chris. No joke. Like where we see something that a toddler would be proud of, an autistic person's perception would lead them to believe it to a perfectly sculpted and canon version of whatever it was they were trying to make. A saying that still haunts me to this day from my military days "Perception is Reality". And boy, when I think of CWC, does that saying show up a lot...
 
This is just my opinion from what I have read and having autistic family myself, but apparently that work looks perfect to Chris. No joke. Like where we see something that a toddler would be proud of, an autistic person's perception would lead them to believe it to a perfectly sculpted and canon version of whatever it was they were trying to make. A saying that still haunts me to this day from my military days "Perception is Reality". And boy, when I think of CWC, does that saying show up a lot...

"Perception is reality"...that's a terrifying notion in regards to CWC.
 
I think he's banking on that to happen. He already knows people will over pay for items in his house simply because those items just happen to sit at 14BC for any amount of time.

I think what is skeeving me out the most about this Funko thing is that I get the impression he hasn't even thought that far ahead yet. He just gets his nuts off super hard on.. him. It's his main defining characteristic. It transcends narcissism. His entire gig is eye-fucking himself in one medium or another. He thinks his visage is just sacred.. sacrosanct.

I see these little plastic abortions in their quarter-assed scribble boxes & my mind interprets it as some kind of 9th-rate Post-Resurrection Ret.ard Jesus sitting around making little models of his own corpse on the crucifix out of paperclips & play-doh.

It's like he's building a shrine to his God, except his God is him. All 33+ almighty versions of him. Sure maybe down the road he'll sell them for some explosively fucktarded 4-figure amount, & many will REEEE.. but right now he made them because.. "WOULD U FUCK ME? I'D FUCK ME"..

Honestly I'd be less skeeved out by skin lampshades.
 
This is just my opinion from what I have read and having autistic family myself, but apparently that work looks perfect to Chris. No joke. Like where we see something that a toddler would be proud of, an autistic person's perception would lead them to believe it to a perfectly sculpted and canon version of whatever it was they were trying to make. A saying that still haunts me to this day from my military days "Perception is Reality". And boy, when I think of CWC, does that saying show up a lot...
I don't think Chris thinks it's perfect. Chris doesn't think he's as hot shit as people believe.

It's more like... Chris senses there's something off about his ugly creations (or how he himself looks), but he can't put his finger on what's wrong.

Chris went through the process of creating this, doing his best at each step. And the end result is nice enough, but... something's wrong. Oh well, post it and he'll do better next time.

Chris' perception is very fuzzy. (Or, well, he probably can spot the fuckup in this funko pop, but he's probably unsure about how badly it affects the overall results. He's not good at balancing conflicting inputs.)

Chris' perception is very fuzzy.

It's like when people draw Sonichu really well. Chris really likes fan work because it looks way better than he can do. He can't explain why (clean lines, pleasing gradients and shading, better texture, etc), but it gives him way better feelings than his own work does.

But he chimps out when people fuck up small details (like the proper color of Sonichu's shoes) because individual details catch his eye very easily.

Autism affects your ability to handle subtlety.
 
I don't think Chris thinks it's perfect. Chris doesn't think he's as hot shit as people believe.

It's more like... Chris senses there's something off about his ugly creations (or how he himself looks), but he can't put his finger on what's wrong.

Chris went through the process of creating this, doing his best at each step. And the end result is nice enough, but... something's wrong. Oh well, post it and he'll do better next time.

Chris' perception is very fuzzy. (Or, well, he probably can spot the fuckup in this funko pop, but he's probably unsure about how badly it affects the overall results. He's not good at balancing conflicting inputs.)

Chris' perception is very fuzzy.

It's like when people draw Sonichu really well. Chris really likes fan work because it looks way better than he can do. He can't explain why (clean lines, pleasing gradients and shading, better texture, etc), but it gives him way better feelings than his own work does.

But he chimps out when people fuck up small details (like the proper color of Sonichu's shoes) because individual details catch his eye very easily.

Autism affects your ability to handle subtlety.

I guess it kind of goes hand in hand with his facial blindness. He can see details, he understands all the features are there, but he can't actually put together the whole picture. He's so enamored with every meticulous detail he puts into his work and so proud of himself when he beholds them, exactly like a child would. But he can't actually step back and see "wow I just made this funko pop look like it got bad plastic surgery to cover up a gunshot wound"
 
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These versions (by jmlakin74 on reddit) will always be superior IMO.
 
Oscar Wilde once said he put his genius into his life but his talent into his art.

The same could be said of Chris. Except the genius ran out around the time he won that $1000 shopping spree back in 1994, and the talent... well, the less said about that, the better.

The most upsetting aspect of the whole thing for me isn't the Funko Pops themselves (as hideous as the 'past Chris' one is - resembling a cross between 'straw of fail' Chris and one of Lucio Fulci's zombies - the 'present Chris' one is at least halfway serviceable if you squint a bit), but those damn boxes he made for these 'collectibles'.

The slavish yet autism-drenched attempts at replicating the original packaging. The shoddy colouring job. The dogged 'first time lucky' approach to draftsmanship that makes everything look like a junior school art project. The spidery handwriting and lettering. Look all the way back to the very first issue of Sonichu and you'll notice that Chris's art hasn't improved even slightly since then.

Even kids who don't practice their drawing tend to gradually improve over time simply because they've been doing it for so long. It's an almost imperceptible level of progress, but it's there. They slowly learn what looks good and what doesn't. This isn't the case with Chris, and I find that truly painful.
 
The slavish yet autism-drenched attempts at replicating the original packaging. The shoddy colouring job. The dogged 'first time lucky' approach to draftsmanship that makes everything look like a junior school art project. The spidery handwriting and lettering. Look all the way back to the very first issue of Sonichu and you'll notice that Chris's art hasn't improved even slightly since then.

Even kids who don't practice their drawing tend to gradually improve over time simply because they've been doing it for so long. It's an almost imperceptible level of progress, but it's there. They slowly learn what looks good and what doesn't. This isn't the case with Chris, and I find that truly painful.

It might be due to the incredibly weird and unusual way Chris learned to hold a pencil, etc. with a 'claw' like grip instead of a normal finger orientation. That, and Chris never makes rough passes or takes actions that would not be seen in the final product unless he wanted the space occupied by something else - the moment it lands on paper, it's final unless he decides to change a character's pose or something. To him, he's already some kind of art god so everything looks good at the first pass, proportions and everything, so he's never seen the need to improve aside from that time he was trying to impress Megan with his art and thus tried shifting to a more 'anime' style (though he's regressed back to his original 'style' since then). Combined with how unusual his pen grip is and how it's ingrained into his brain, the means of improvement purely by repeated action over time virtually doesn't exist.

That said, it doesn't really explain how other cows that actually have normal pen grips also exhibit a lack of improvement with their art over time, like Jay Geis (though with him he, amazingly, is EVEN WORSE at drawing than Chris because he tries so hard to replicate PPG/South Park style characters and not normal proportioned ones.)
 
A saying that still haunts me to this day from my military days "Perception is Reality". And boy, when I think of CWC, does that saying show up a lot...
And that's why this "Dimensional Merge" nonsense will likely follow Chris until his dying day: w-e-e-n-s found a way to alter his perception of reality, which was already tenuous at best.
 
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