poor Chris Chan

[paloftoon]

Too Many Games - CWCki

I was at this convention on Sunday only, so I missed all the craziness.

I had no idea who Chris Chan was until this people started mentioning it. I see at least a few people know who he is (I don't know what pronoun I should use, so I will use "he" for now.) He is certainly not representative of our community.

A lot of people are bad mouthing him. A few feel slightly sorry for him, but not really. If you encounter him and feel uncomfortable, just be direct, honest, and try to tell him 1-1 or in a small group. Not in front of a bunch of people. This best thing to do at this point is not to continue bad mouthing, but to show support, and to help heal and move on.

You'd think with all the publicity out there about sexual harassment and groping, he'd know better at least after warning(s). It's ashame his parents were total enablers and he was not able to grow from that. We can blame his parents and we can even blame him. We can blame the people who purposefully treated Chris Chan badly. It's not really one person's fault. If anything, it's kind of "everyone's fault who interacted negatively on his life and his own fault" and ultimately his own responsibility too. Life is not easy. No matter what happens, outside of physical abuse like rape or murder or something like that, we can all heal and learn how to be virtuous human beings.

 

[paloftoon]

An acquaintance "had to go online to find out about this PoS yea this guy's gonna burn in hell first he bashes homo sexuals and says men should only be with women and women should only be with men then claims to be "a Lesbian Identified Man and a Cross-Dressing Tranny" I'm straight but my best friend is trans and I have other friends that are gay and lesbian and I'm, not buying Chris Chans BS"

 

[Dillon]

I watched a documentary last week about his whole life up until now.
It was pretty sad to hear about his experience growing up. The way I see it he never got any help or guidance as a child from anyone so that’s why he’s kind of messed up despite him having autism.
Do I agree with what he said or did, absolutely not. I also don’t agree with the people who bullied him badly online especially someone who has special needs.
This is just my though but mainly it just shows how we failed as a society in humanity, in how people should treat others in a positive manner and learning what is right and wrong.

 

[Ezra]

I've only watched a little of chris chan a while back ago and he just looked to me like someone putting on an act. Internet identities, bios and reality tv must be easy enough to fake because it's been done a lot. Though most don't become "famous".

 

[WildCat]

The ultimate combination of flaky parenting, negative experiences and his own shortcomings that he couldn't help are what led to this. Many have tried to help and guide him in the right direction (including the same people who subtly and/or not so subtly harassed and bullied him), that is true, but he refused to learn from his mistakes every time. If this is an elaborate ruse on the other hand (and with all the background information on him, unfortunately I doubt it)...well, let's just say a sucker is born every minute

It does irk me just how much abuse he's gotten, really says a lot about society as a whole but not much can be done anymore. Again, plenty of people have tried, but he's an impenetrable brick wall at this point. Don't know about his fanbase, but I've got other things to do besides obsessing over and stalking a harmless internet eccentric.

 

[paloftoon]

. . . If this is an elaborate ruse on the other hand (and with all the background information on him, unfortunately I doubt it)...well, let's just say a sucker is born every minute

It does irk me just how much abuse he's gotten, really says a lot about society as a whole but not much can be done anymore. . . .

Well I'd say he is real as several conventions have had him as a guest live. To be kicked out of a convention the way he was only proves how real he is in a very bad way sadly.

 

[oregano]

Bob and Barbara Chandler were narcissists, apparently, and really didn't care about him. They left him alone for hours so they could go out bar crawling when he was a little kid. Greene County wanted to send him to a special school for kids like him, but his folks fought tooth and nail because they apparently thought he would be locked away forever in an insane asylum like in the movie One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Chris couldn't do the assignments in a mainstream high school, he couldn't handle college, and then after college 4chan attacked him and suddenly he was e-famous, but he was still like 8 yo mentally. Bob was so ignorant about the internet that he thought his son could simply "unload" the house tour video from the internet. By now his email inbox must seem like the bedroom of the devil possessed girl in The Exorcist, a horror movie of trolling that never ends.

Barbara is dying, and he is being forced to care for her when he can't even care for himself. He is retreating further and further into a bizarre fantasyland ("CPU Goddesses"?) because he can't cope. When his mom dies he will either play "vidya" while she rots in the next room until he starves to death and the sad scene is only discovered like three years later, or the house is foreclosed and he wanders into the woods and is never heard from again. Definitely a really sad tale that could have been 90% avoided.

 

[BrokenBoy]

I've made some really bad choices in my life. And after being introduced to Chris and learning about him on the wiki dedicated to his antics, I started to see a couple of parallels between him and myself. And for a while I started stressing out over the thought of me being even worse than him. This contributed to my already low self esteem and I felt really bad about it until a friend of my also familiar to Chris convinced me that even though I done some things similar to him, I can still change for the better. I now wanna try my best to prove my friend right...