FB 2/7 - Chris mourns Bob

This. The internet quite literally ruined Chris's life. I mean, he was sort of fucked from the beginning, but were it not for Sonichu gaining attention online and attracting trolls, he'd probably be just that harmless Sonic-obsessed sped kid weirdo that nobody really pays much attention to and he'd be in relative peace and obscurity (his friendship with Megan would have most likely still ended badly, but probably at a slower rate).

At worst, he'd have been a mere a local legend/town nuisance.

 

That is sort of the thing here, had he not had the internet, hardly anyone outside the Greene County/Charlottesville area would've known him anyway unless by chance or someone who went to his high school or PVCC and told someone else this (which was how Chris was discovered via 4chan). Chris is really a lesson on how NOT to be 'exceptional' online.

 

True. Thanks to the internet, we have more documentation on Chris than we do on Thomas Jefferson.

That's actually kind of sad when you think about it, that there is more things known about the life of an unemployed and dimwitted manchild than there is on one of our Founding Fathers. But that's life in the digital age, I suppose.

 

So if there were no Sonic (and no sweepstakes), no Pokemon, and no internet, Chris may have been in a better situation now?

 

Heh, Christ tweeted that show "The Internet Ruined My Life" last fall trying to get on! They never replied though.

https://sonichu.com/cwcki/Twitter#21_October_2016

 

He'd be in a ditch with no one to donate to him and no Sonichu to warm his heart.

 

Not exactly. Chris's life would still be shitty, but he wouldn't be stalked or harassed for years, so I guess his situation would be marginally better.

He'd still alienate Megan and get banned from The Game Place, so the Snyder drama would probably still happen, although I could see him still working on Sonichu to this day without troll interference to "kill his creativity".

 

Would tomgirl have happened without the internet? Or would Chris still be "STAY STRAIGHT" and Bob would never have "thrown the fag card" at him?

 

I think Tomgirl would have happened anyway, as the trolls didn't have any hand in that as far as I know. While it's easy to call Chris a transtrender, I think he probably does have some deeply repressed LGBT tendencies that he's just now starting to explore. I mean, he was big into MLP several years before bronies existed, and had to stare at a Sailor Moon poster just to "Stay Straight", and his brand of homophobia is typical of a closeted homosexual (and was greatly exacerbated by Bob's conservative worldview), so I would not be surprised if Chris was deep down a gay man (and horribly discombobulated due to a mix of autism, stupidity, and parental influence) or has legit gender confusion or gender dysphoria, but said gender issues are muddled further by his autism, mental illness, and stupidity in general.

Just my personal view on the matter though.

 

If he didn't have access to those things, I think so

 

Still, it took someone on the internet to tell Chris to "get in touch with his feminine side" to get the tomgirl ball rolling. Without the internet, it's doubtful Chris would've heard of transgenderism.

On the other hand, if "get in touch with your feminine side" was all it took to get Chris to go full tomgirl, sooner or later he might've started identifying as female even without hearing about transgenderism.

Either way, even without the Internet, Pokemon, and Sonic, Chris probably would still have a tense relationship with Bob, like when he was getting in trouble with the "Love Quest."

 

CWC showed some gender confusion as early as his Future Message video, so the tomgirl stuff may have still happened.

 

See I don't understand this at all. Why does Barb get shit on more than Bob in the pre 2000s ancient Christory? Bob cared in his own way, but so did Barb. Not trying to defend either but the same light could be cast on Barb too, she threw Chris that birthday party and was probably the one who at least knew what Chris liked, Bob probably didn't know the difference between Sonic and a donut. As gross as it sounds, Barb at least made sure Chris didn't go to the prom alone. Bob basically paid off teenage girls to hangout with his son, that's like the Degrassi Jr. High equivalent of prostitition.

This isn't to say who was or wasn't a worse parent. They both were equally awful, but after Bob died people had this notion he was the better of the two, they both had their shit parent qualities and I think had their good qualities. Barb now is most certainly the obvious detractor in Chris' current state, but I don't see why she gets so much shit? Why? Because you have Cole's most likely over exaggerated attention grabbing story? He's just as bad as Chris at hamming shit up, go look at his Twitter and the way he talks. I think the Chandler family is always in a state of perpetual chronic lying and over exaggerating and anything they say should be taken with a grain of salt.

Bob was a shit parent, but no better or worse than Barb, they're both equally bad and equally responsible for the amazing cow they helped raise.

 

You do bring up a few good points, and there's no denying that Bob was a failure of a parent, but I still think he was the marginally better of the two.

Plus I don't trust Cole's word for anything, most of my low opinion of Barb comes from how she practically treats her own son as part of her hoard, rather than what some ignorant hipster says about a gunfight that likely never happened.

 

I think there's just a general consensus that Barb coddled Chris a lot more than Bob did, and that if either of them were ever going to force him to live more independently, it would have been Bob.

 

What would it have been like if Barb was the one who passed away in 2011?

 

Tomgirl would still likely be a thing, but I don't think Chris would have gone full transgender lesbian. Also, the Snyder incident in October of 2011 probably wouldn't have happened, so no legal issues like in 2012. That being said, Chris would still be quiet for most of that year.

Chris losing his virginity to the hooker may or may not happen either way. I'd say it'd be 50/50 either way. Chris was getting desperate for china at the time, but part of what made him so proactive was his fear of going to prison as a virgin. So who knows?

 

Tom girl maybe full out trans Chris does seem to do media, so his net time would be replaced with talk shows and now transgenderism is talked about, he'd watch one episode of that Jazz thing and go.. Sold, this will get me china. I know it sounds strange but in the recent push of LGBT stuff on tv it's went from nothing to transgenders while online fluid things like tom girl etc, is/was more discussed online.

With Synder I think barb was a bigger influence than the net, so I'd chalk up to either way that would have unfolded about exactly the same, and also that would push the actions with his escort. So probably that too.

 

Wasn't part of his motive for going after Snyder some notion that the game place had orchestrated all the trolling, though? Or am I thinking of another incident?