Your first exposure to Chris

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I first heard of Chris while exploring the glory of Encyclopedia Dramatica. I saw the article for him and the page didn't interest me that much. I just kinda glossed over it. But I noticed that every other ED article mentioned Chris at least once. So I to read most of the article and I was floored. BLACKBusterCritic's video about Chris also really sparked my interest in OPL.

I thought to myself, "there cant possibly exist someone THIS pathetic...".
 
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I was 99.9% oblivious* to CWC's existence until the house fire. Someone posted about it in the random news section of a forum I frequent, and the first response was a pithy "his dildo must've caught fire." So began my investigation!

*it was only afterwards that I realised, I'd seen the infamous JULAYYY video back when it was new. I'd dismissed CWC as a random internet retard, little knowing he was in fact the internet retard.
 
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Like many people here, I started following Chris from my EDiot days in around 2008-2009 and then followed him on/off on 4chan and ED and when I found the CWCki, I pretty much ditched ED for that.
Only started lurking the forums sometime last year, though.
 
The earliest thing I remember seeing from him was his Animal Crossing documentary, which I think I found on ED? It was around 2008-2009 at any rate, back when he was still active on YouTube. Once he became quieter I only tuned back in when I heard something big had happened, like the arrest and the housefire. I recently started reading the CWCki again out of boredom and joined the forums today.
 
Heard about him because I discovered ADF first, but what really got me was when the guys from Retsupurae had this segment on SomethingAwful referred to as 'webcam ward' and I saw a video labelled 'Sonic the Hog'. I clicked and gave it a watch only to be completely stunned; their commentary was hilarious but unnecessary. I searched for additional content relating to this guy and obviously I found it. I've never wanted to troll or antagonize Chris myself but found reading of his various habits, watching his videos, reading his comics and listening to the audio book (especially the Old Narrator) incredibly hilarious.
 
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My first exposure to Chris was the May 2004 issue of Nintendo Power with the article on the Animal Crossing Documentary. Me being 8 at the time, did not really see how having your villagers wearing your patterns (which weren't impressive looking to begin with) or having the Island made his town so special, since I'm pretty sure that everyone had done the same. Because of this I assumed that the editor wrote the article like that because he was a little kid who had put the effort into filming a whole documentary on it, and wanted to make the kid really feel proud and accomplished. I mean really who the heck thinks cwcville sounds like something an adult would think is a name, its sounds like whenever you slap on your keyboard in The Sims so you didn't have to think of a last name.

When I found this child 4ish years later on ED, I was horrified to see that he was still a child, a man-child.
 
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My first exposure to Chris was the May 2004 issue of Nintendo Power with the article on the Animal Crossing Documentary. Me being 8 at the time, did not really see how having your villagers wearing your patterns (which weren't impressive looking to begin with) or having the Island made his town so special, since I'm pretty sure that everyone had done the same. Because of this I assumed that the editor wrote the article like that because he was a little kid who had put the effort into filming a whole documentary on it, and wanted to make the kid really feel proud and accomplished. I mean really who the heck thinks cwcville sounds like something an adult would think is a name, its sounds like whenever you slap on your keyboard in The Sims so you didn't have to think of a last name.

When I found this child 4ish years later on ED, I was horrified to see that he was still a child, a man-child.
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My first experience was also through Nintendo Power, albeit the issue that featured his letter praising Sprung, a reviles DS dating sim. I thought it was a prank. Now I kinda want to play the game to see if it steered him while making his analingus-happy dating profiles.
 
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It was back in 2010 or 2011 (Sometime before Chris and Barb were arrested). I was watching a video by Linkara where he mentions he'll never review Sonichu. Out of curiosity I googled the name and found his ED page. I never looked back since....
 
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Sometime around the end of the Chop Chop Master Onion's Rap Showdown, so late 2007 or early 2008. From there I got absorbed into the dang, dirty ED page. I remember watching his contest entry with the pathetic stock effects and lack of rehearsal and thinking it was funny as fuck. Later, when I found out he had stuffed the ballot box, acted like a baby on the forums, and mentioned trying to get in Megan's pants, I realized that he wasn't just an innocent manchild, but an epic jerk.
 
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Like others, it was when Linkara did his "Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review" episode. "Sonichu" was the number 2 comic on the list, actually. He described it as (paraphrasing here), a, "weird Sonic The Hedgehog/Pikachu hybrid by a man named Christian Weston Chandler, or Chris-Chan, for short." Linkara went on to say he didn't want to review it because not only is it bad fan fiction, but the creator is autistic and reacts extremely harshly to even the slightest criticism or critique of his work.

That was 2010. I just shrugged it off, since during my high school days in the early 2000s, I was an active member of FanFiction.net and DeviantArt, and had seen my share of monstrosities and lived to tell the tale. I went on with my life and pretty much forgot about it. In early 2014, I was re-watching some Channel Awesome videos and watched Linkara's video again. This time I was intrigued, and a simple Google search for "Sonichu" brought me to the CWCki and then these forums. This was just maybe a week before the fire.

As a bonus, I stuck around reading the articles and lurking the forum because I was intrigued by OPL. I knew plenty of socially awkward people with varying degrees of tard rage and fanboyism, but this was a whole other level.
 
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For me it was a late summers night I was browsing flash animations on /f/ came across this animation titled JULAY.... I clicked on it and I saw this man... his voice made me feel sorry for him... i think looked up the phrase on google and it came up with the encyclopaedia of dramtica page on him.. continued to read and the more I read the less I felt sorry for him... I then got onto the wiki lurked more... and then joined the fourms .... I guess mine is not really that special
 
My first exposure to chris was back in 2010 when i found the Vivian Gee audiobooks. My assumption was that Chris was a socially awkward 12-year-old boy who spoke English as a second language. He intrigued me. Not to a point where I would go out and research him purely on my own accord, but I did take note every time somebody said "Christian Weston Chandler" or "Sonichu". Then I read on some website that Chris committed a felony, dressed as a woman, and lost his own father all in the same year and thought to myself, "Shit! This guy's an adult!" I Googled his name and tried to gather as many sources as I could in order to find out his problem and if his entire life was like that one year.
 
I remember stumbling upon him on 4chan. Then I watched my first Chris-Chan video. It was him with Kimmi, but with Ivy's face. I watched confused and in disbelief as he sung and slobbered all over the sex doll. From then on I was hooked.
 
My first exposure to Chris? Thankfully I have never exposed myself to him.

I first read about him on Encyclopædia Dramatica, became hooked after finding the dedicated wiki, and by how every faucet of his existence was on display to the world and analysed in minute detail.
 
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I only really paid any attention to chris post 2012, so after the best sagas. The cwcki and I then had a torrid but strictly physical relationship. I think I read it for probably 5 hours a day for almost a week. After that I would check back at least once a month to see what was new, usually not much. My life has never been the same since. Chris is a real life Truman Show. A trainwreck of a human being, and I can't look away.
 
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Leafing through Encyclopedia Dramatica last year. It took me quite a bit of reading to get up to speed on this trainwreck...
 
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