I can picture an H-game visual novel starring Chris (Think School Days, Katawa Shoujo, Saya No Uta, Bible Black, etc.) where you're the tall, thin loveable loser wandering around Manchester High School in 1999, surrounded by a harem of heroines with stereotypical anime personalities (Megan is Tsundere, for example) when suddenly the game goes all NTR and JERKS steal your gal-pals one by one. You vow revenge on them, heroically confronting them with the fabled CURSE YE HA ME HA...
At which point, the perspective suddenly shifts to that of one of the so-called jerks ("Ordinary High School Student" archetype) and the art takes on a more realistic/grimdark style as you witness a realistcally-proportioned Chris throw a bitchfit at a bunch of normal guys like you in an epic deconstruction. The game ends with a satisfying round of kick the autistic followed by a barrage of H-scenes.
/A-Log, runs
Before this, Chris's POV is presented, somewhat jokingly, without obvious flaws. From Chris's singular warped, myopic perspective, You wouldn't know something's screwed up about him unless you really between read the lines. It becomes... To use insistent TV tropes terminology, both harsher and hilarious in hindsight on your second playthrough.
There's no question that Chris has been milked dry for a while now. In a span of about five years, an internet community centered around him arose and died out. Really, who can blame them? Chris
is a work unto himself, a miracle of unintentional comedy. I think the fact that the surreal drama was all too real, the fact that you could participate almost dislodged Chris from the realm of reality. As Spongebob would say, Chris was a two-dimensional cartoon character lost in our three-dimensional internet world. For a while, all the stops were pulled as people had free reign to insult and invent fantastic theories about your average town crazy. But sometime in 2010-11, he crossed the line from adorably-crazy to realistic-disturbing-crazy. His abandonment of Sonichu, CWCipedia, clown shirts marked the end of a sort of golden age of connectedness, of feeding trolls. Audience participation, contact with Chris was now limited to a few select PVCC members struggling to keep Chris's interest. In the absence of new content for a while, the CWC community began to grow aware of its own flaws, of the ethical dilemma of bullying an autistic man on the internet for fun. His especially-disturbing behavior during the whole Jackie, Tomgirl, 10/28/11 sagas ironically served to humanize him. (Not to mention, Bob died, which pretty much universally elicits sympathy.) The extreme vocal minority, the A-Logs really kind of shattered the whole sense of community. Trolls were often trollshielders, psychological projection to hide personal flaw and insecurity. Thus, the CWC community has been reduced to what it is right now. All good things come to an end. So dawn goes to day, nothing gold can stay.
Chris has proven to be one of a kind. Intentional efforts to "find other lolcows" (/cwc/, etc.) have devolved into a sort of witch-hunting. Like I said, Chris was a miracle of
unintentional comedy. His grand saga began when one of his friends uploaded cell phone pictures of him to 4chan. On /b/, you can never be sure what will catch on. It just sort of happens. At the rate of new posts there, you have like, 30 seconds for your thread to be noticed on the first page. Even then, you can never be sure if something like that isn't going to just devolve into "NYPA faggot sage goes in all fields". Chris was unprecedented in 2007. A new CWC would have precedent, a history of sagas, knowledge of trollshielding/A-Logging. If you posted pics of your typical village idiot who plays vidya all day in /b/, there's no denying someone would make the connection and call out the forced meme. Despite the fact that Chris is one of a kind, Chris is not unique. I'm sure a fair number of people on peopleofwalmart.com are almost exactly like Chris: Jobless, deluded people with mental issues. The difference is that Chris spoke out, Chris regularly produced content, Chris didn't just walk away or realize the error of his ways after anonymous people on the internet called him out for his shit. He engaged his "fanbase", gradually opening up his warped mind for all to see the disturbing secrets within.
Let's say /cwc/'s wishes were granted. Let's say it all happened again, a clean slate. An autistic manchild in his mid-twenties (Let's call him C
XC, pronounced "Sexy") makes a big enough fool of himself on the internet to gain a dedicated troll following. CXC regularly produces disturbing videos, art, and writing, leaving a clear paper trail of his activities. He makes a big deal out of anonymous empty threats and snide comments and longs to "get noticed" for his talents. He is easily fooled. Put two and two together and you've got sagas, trolling plans, a CXC[k?]i as CXC transcends sympathy to become a work unto himself. Many veterans of the CWC community, coupled with late-bandwagon-jumpers like me who were too late to join PVCC and weren't around for most of Chris's glory days flock to the place.
I realize that this could be vaguely interpreted as some kind of hypothetical meta-trolling plan, but would the CWC saga have a large effect on how this would play out? I mean, right off the bat, people would recognize the "A-Logs" and call them out, at a loss of a sense of camaraderie. There'd be a "been there, done that" feeling, limits from the get-go. You'd have white knights linking CXC to the CWCki as a sort of warning of what not to do.
So I ask you, CWCki Forums, how would things play out? What would be different this time around? Could there even be another CWC?
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EDIT: Holy shit that is a fuckton of bombastic parellelism/asydeton. AP English made my writing
so pretentious... apologies if it came out that way.
