Your first exposure to Chris

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Surfing ED not long after first discovering ED. I was a bit late to the party with Chris and I'm not entirely certain when in Christory I first encountered him. I do remember the ED article being a lot more acerbic and I believe it had been vandalised to make Chris out to be the ultimate evil in the universe.
 
I have a thing for listening to prank calls on YouTube so I came across some Bob calls. That lead to one with Chris and Bob talking to the police and BOOM. I was like - who the hell is this person? Now I just kinda hang around to see what he's going to do and say next. It's like my regular dose of drama that has absolutely nothing to do with me. :)
 
I was looking for video of this episode of "Wife Swap" with this screeching woman who was screaming "She's not a CHRISTIAN!" I came across Chris while looking and I saw a video, I forget what it was, but then I started scrolling the comments and I saw the wiki on ED mentioned. I knew of ED so I checked it out. I thought it was some elaborate prank at first, then I found the cwcki, then the forum they had then, and then 789chan.
 
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I was looking for video of this episode of "Wife Swap" with this screeching woman who was screaming "She's not a CHRISTIAN!" I came across Chris while looking and I saw a video, I forget what it was, but then I started scrolling the comments and I saw the wiki on ED mentioned. I knew of ED so I checked it out. I thought it was some elaborate prank at first, then I found the cwcki, then the forum they had then, and then 789chan.
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I remember that freak.

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Holy shit, I don't even know if I can remember how I found our beloved Chris. The earliest thing I can remember is browsing the CWCki years ago and thinking about what a complete goldmine I'd just found. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that I first learned of Chris on TvTropes, in the So Bad It's Horrible article.
 
I guess since I didn't properly introduce myself; I'll shoot the shit about my first exposure to Chris Chandler.

Sixteen at the time.

It was a picture of a man in a long-sleeved red sweater sitting on a pile of Beanie Babies and licensed toys from various games (Sonic, Pokemon). With closer inspection I found out that he had this medallion thing and I'm like "Okay? Typical con-frequenter", and that he had to have been thirty-something. Confused.

Until I read further into it. I wasted the rest of the day researching this person, the look on my face was of sheer embarrassment. This is a person that can kill my image as a child with autism (rate autistic since I mentioned it?). He isn't just an individual with a gluttonous addiction to Legos, Sonic, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-OH but a glutton for infamy.

I continued to subject my mental state to further warping.

His educational history which read like a script for an R-Rated Dexter's Lab episode, his family history which had gone to waste from the start of Barb and bob's existence, and teenage angst level violent fantasies. Scratch that, they weren't even teen-level depictions of anger, but more-so relative to an unstable eight-year old. I kept thinking "this has to be the worst stunt double of a shitty life I've ever read. Ever." Nope. This guy was a canker not only throughout his school life but was a hand puppet for a stereotypical Midwestern-Mom figure.

TL;DR, saw an image, did my research, holy shit moment this is real. Now I'm here.
 
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Probably 4chan in around 2008. The first CWC photo I saw would have been the classic, with him staring out into space like a retard while wearing the original Sonichu medallion. Someone also pointed out he actually went out in public looking like that. Funny, that's actually downright normal compared to what he looks like now.

Then I spent hours reading ED articles and boggling at videos and other weird shit he continued doing. I lost track of him a few years because it seemed he had gone dormant, until he popped back into my awareness after burning his house down.
 
Sometime in 2007-08, whenever it was /v/ found him. I wasn't sure if he was real then, because /v/ is a toxin cesspit. I remember The Classic and the Tale of the Crazy Pacer being reposted quite a bit, and the comic threads. I broke my brain thinking, surely, this comic makes sense somehow.

I worked the graveyard shift back then, so I had no social life or any meaningful human contact. After Rollin and Trollin came out, I stopped following until I discovered the CWCki and learned this shit kept going.
 
It would have been 2009 I guess. I had some friends who were into ED and 4chan. One day they were shouting JULAY at each other so I asked what that was all about. And thus my journey began.
 
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I think I found Sonichu on the Bad Webcomics Wiki couple of years ago and then stumbled across the videos on Webcomic Relief. In total disbelief I followed the trail through ED, the CWCki and finally here.
 
I only learned about Chris-chan during the spring of 2012. One of my online friends mentioned him and, although I was familiar with the basic story (autistic manchild who created Sonichu, trolled heavily, one of most well-documented nobodies out there, etc), I really wasn't familiar with the specifics. So I googled him and came across the Cwcki. I spent hours reading though the various pages, becoming more and more fascinated as my disbelief grew. It was like nothing I had ever seen before and I couldn't stop reading about the slow-motion trainwreck that is Chris-chan. During that time period, Chris himself was rather inactive, so I was able to catch up on all the old dramu within a week or so.

And yes, I made sure to thank my friend for leading me so far down the rabbit hole.
 
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The year was 2008 and I was enjoying a bout of Newgrounds (remember when that was the cool kids website?) and I saw a video titled 'Nicholas Cage wants cake'. Had a 2 second clip of Chris and Sonichu. It wasn't until 2012 I learnt who he was.
 
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I think someone posted a picture of him on another forum. The first thing I remember getting me interested was the Smell Yo Dick video though, after that I was hooked for awhile, forgot about him. Then the house fire resparked my interest for awhile. And of course the macing brought it up whence more.
 
Don't think I noticed this thread before, but I will honestly say I did not learn about Chris until almost a year ago. My first notices of Chris came from a podcast episode that dove into the issue of autism and the people often associated it with through online venues, with Chris specifically mentioned for the most-extreme case of someone I was glad not to have ever known before, but the whole thing intrigued me and I couldn't stop myself from going further, I just had to know! Of course had I stayed unaware of Chris, I would've still been a better person for that either way.
 
Hard to recall exactly, but I think it was a recommended video, or link, or something for bad fanfiction several years ago. I thought there could be nothing worse than My Immortal. I was so wrong.
 
Good old TV tropes! Found the Sonichu page initially and didn't take much notice... follow up readings of the page on TV tropes as I carried out further archive binges sparked my interest.

All in all if the article hadn't been locked for editing, Chris didn't make Sonichu fly off the handle for being mistaken for gay, he hadn't enjoyed slaughtering all of his foes for the most petty of reasons and overall didn't seem to just flagrantly disregard this thing called "civil rights" at a whim I probably wouldn't be here.

I figured Chris was like the "Time Cube" guy - turns out Chris was much more interesting to follow.
 
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I first found him via 1d4chan, I think it was. Was playing a lot of Warhamster at the time and there was some mention to him being the most disgusting being in known creation, and a link to the Fapcup page on the wiki, and just sort of got lost in the wiki from there
 
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