Internet 'celeb' Chris Chan arrested for going Alabama on his ma

[Coola Yagami]

Yeah, he was sent to a mental hospital. His last letter he mentioned he thought he was going home. Like it started with 'by the time you read this I'll be back home", but this was before he was sent to the mental hospital.

[neatoman]

Well, we don't know for certain if Chris is in a mental hospital but it does seem like the most likely scenario.

[ZariusTwo]

Chris news has dried up, a combination of his usual contacts breaking off with him and the result of his recent move.

[Coola Yagami]

I mean it's to be expected. There won't be anything out of Chris for a good long while.

Makes me wonder how Chris is dealing with a bunch of people that will not put up or play long with their delusions.

[superstaff]

Originally Posted by sdp

^^^^
That's quite ironic counting that it's constant bullying and trolling that has lead to Chris Chan to ruin his life and make horrible decisions through out the last two decades.

I think if you don't know who chris chan is or know just a little then you don't have enough background of the situation to really comment, we're talking about an autistic kid who for some reason became "cool" to mess with and had people egg him on to put him in situations where he would obviously make the wrong choice.

For the people who have trolled him and tried to make his life miserable they're truly horrible human beings. For the people who would be entertained by the so called "christory" they're just sick individuals. I first found out about Chris on 4chan back in the mid 2000's when they discovered him, we all laughed, but they kept at it until one time they made him send his most precious posession to a "girl" who he thought he was going to marry, it was a troll who just broke it and sent him the pieces. To me that was just meanspirited and felt bad for the guy and stopped following to not enable that harassment.

That however was only the beginning of the "chris saga" as they call it and things would continue on for years. People kept messing with his life, sexual frustration, a busing his autism, a person who is obviously not equipped to deal literal thousands of trolls and intelligent people setting up things to watch him fail or do stupid things that would get him in trouble.

If the internet had never discovered him it's likely he would live a much more peaceful life. It's truly a "making a criminal" type of thing. I'm not defending anything he might have done if he did do it but I can't see how anyone would say his life would've been the same without him having thousands of people documenting every single thing of his life and trolling him day in and day out for the past 15+ years.

This is mostly my take on it as well. Except I never found the harassment against him amusing ever. Back in the 2000s when I first heard of him, I just shrugged because I despise internet bullying and trolling, and I just thought Chris-chan was a weirdo that made terrible fanfiction. I agree with you that the harassment is very likely a huge part of what made him unhinged. As someone who gets harassed online regularly, I can attest that it takes a toll on you mentally eventually. Most people have the mental fortitude to take it (at least until it becomes extreme), Chris-chan didn't.

[Leo656]

I think it's kinda weird that "Just don't engage with the internet" doesn't pop up in peoples' minds more often. Although in the cases of someone with autism I can kind/sorta see how that might be easier said than done, but whatever. Any good therapist will tell you "Don't linger where vipers dwell." I mean if your sources of stress are environmental or external, literally one of the things they'd say during your very first therapy session is, "You shouldn't be engaging with that environment. If you stay in that environment, your stress will only continue and worsen." That's Day One stuff.

Therefore, to a mind like mine, if you're being trolled and harassed on the internet, my logic would be, "Okay, do literally Anything Else with your time and now the problem corrects itself." Once more, I can somewhat see how an autistic person might not reach that conclusion, but still, Logic is Logic.

So I mean, I can empathize to a point but never feel altogether too sorry for people like that; you always have the option to disengage. No, you shouldn't "have" to, "people should just Be Nicer", all that stuff... but hey, that ain't the world we live in. If it's snowing outside and you know that, don't wear shorts and say "Man, if ONLY it could be 95 degrees and sunny out!" Yeah, "if only", but it ain't like that. Asking anyone, anywhere, to "just be nice" is asking far too much of most people. ESPECIALLY on the internet.

I fall into it sometimes too, obviously. Sometimes my wife will notice I'm typing especially hard, and she'll be like "Which idiot is it this time?" And I'll give her a brief rundown, maybe she'll read something over my shoulder, and she'll always inevitably be like, "You realize these people are Actual Retards, right? There's no reason to even talk to them, but especially not if they've got you hitting the keys so hard I can hear it over the TV. Go play a game or something, they're not worth it." And I mean, she's right, what can I say? Every circle-jerk I've ever gotten into on this board was on some level My Own Fault because I really ought'a know better by now.

Someone as "sensitive" as this person seems to be, though... well, the nicest thing I can say is, they probably shouldn't be using the internet at all without some kind of oversight and supervision in the first place.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Sometimes my wife will notice I'm typing especially hard, and she'll be like "Which idiot is it this time?" And I'll give her a brief rundown, maybe she'll read something over my shoulder, and she'll always inevitably be like, "You realize these people are Actual Retards, right? There's no reason to even talk to them, but especially not if they've got you hitting the keys so hard I can hear it over the TV. Go play a game or something, they're not worth it."

"Who is this clown that keeps calling you bloodbath barbed wire champion? you know he's an idiot right? turn off the computer and play more Batman or something."

Chris Chan was an odd one but he was doing odd things even before the internet. Stuff like his 'attraction sign' and getting too touchy-feely with any female friend he'd get cause he's always assume they wanted to be more than.

The internet made things worse, no doubt, the constant trolling, the ED page, the catfish schemes he would always, always, ALWAYS fall for, etc

But I still feel if the internet came along later in life, or if the family just flat out couldn't afford a computer or if they just didn't want 'that darn internet' in their household, things would have turned out somewhat different, possibly less crazy, but he still would have been doing crazy **** in his neck of the woods, we just wouldn't have heard about it.

My understanding is one of the first traces of him on the internet was a random blog article by some girl working in a store in the mall that noticed him and decided to write an article about this odd fellow. I mean the girl didn't even know his name.

Had Chris Chan never gotten hold of the internet himself, that article would have been it. Sure he'd still be bugging people in the mall with his signs and maybe he would have eventually try to transition or whatever, but none of us would have ever heard about it.


Another thing to factor is for a lot of people, mostly the Chris Chans and Basement Dwellers of the world, the internet is all they have, sadly. They got no friends or family or much access to the outside world. While it makes sense to just 'turn the computer off' when **** gets too crazy, a lot of these people just don't see that as an option. But then again, with the rise of social media... a lot of people, friends or no friends, hell, even celebrities, just don't or can't see 'turn off the computer' or 'close that social media app' as an option. They feel compelled where they simply MUST reply.

It's sad, really.

[The Deadman]

Apparently people on social media are saying Chris Chan has escaped from a courtroom bathroom and is currently on the run from police
https://twitter.com/ibismojo72/statu...51543199227907

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by The Deadman

Apparently people on social media are saying Chris Chan has escaped from a courtroom bathroom and is currently on the run from police
https://twitter.com/ibismojo72/statu...51543199227907

I heard that too. I have some doubts. Apparently they crawled out of a window or something? Chris has always been in horrible shape, I can't imagine how they would ever accomplish that, or even run away fast enough without getting caught.

Then there's the fact that they literally have nowhere to go. If there were dumb enough to go back home, they would have been caught by now. No one would want that nutjob to hide in their home and bring all that drama to their doorstep, especially the crime of 'aiding and abetting a fugitive'.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by The Deadman

Apparently people on social media are saying Chris Chan has escaped from a courtroom bathroom and is currently on the run from police
https://twitter.com/ibismojo72/statu...51543199227907

When you gotta go, you gotta go fast!

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

When you gotta go, you gotta go fast!

lmao

Sonichu legs, don't fail me now!!!!

[Zulithe]

While it would be hilarious if Chris escaped like that... c'mon, obviously BS.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

While it would be hilarious if Chris escaped like that... c'mon, obviously BS.

Seems fitting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjjRWd5EfsM

[neatoman]

Too bad the Sonic one is taken... Eh, I'll let you decide which one of these is more fitting.

[Mad Dog McMutt]

That is crazy. Lets hope that's not true. I didn't even know what a lolcow was until a year ago. Now I am hooked on Cyraxx content.

[Coola Yagami]

Ok what the ****??? WHAAAAAT???

Attention all incels. The rules have changed. If Chris Chan of all people can get a woman knocked up, what the **** is wrong with the rest of you? You officially have zero excuses now.

[ZariusTwo]

Well at least we now know who fathered the anti-christ

[Coola Yagami]

I like the over-exaggeration of the comments online like 'OMG WE ARE SO COOKED'.

Uh no guys. Maybe the child in question is 'cooked' but we, as in the greater we will be just fine.

[Bahamut810]

Originally Posted by sdp

Update: Chris Chan is going to be a dad

uhhh...with his mom?

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Bahamut810

uhhh...with his mom?

I think his mom is way too old for that and is probably at the age where child birth would kill her if it was even possible that late into life.

It's probably that new caretaker lady (or whatever she is) that has been seen hanging out with Chris some months ago, some times even kissing in public and whatnot.