Chris Chan and the Seven Deadly Sins: A Comprehensive Breakdown

 (Warning: Strong language and graphic description of sexual reference and filth ahead)

 

                        I can't believe that I've returned to this topic. If you think that the previous piece was not enough, well strap yourselves in and hold on to your stomach, because this is probably would turn your intestines inside out for its gross nature. It's been few weeks since I posted the original Chris Chan article, and since then, more and more information about this person keeps popping up, including the (alleged) sexuality of this person, who identifies as a lesbian transwoman. I know I've used masculine and feminine pronouns interchangeably in the previous work, but since I've came to my own conclusion that this is just a stunt for attention, and the fact that the person in question is currently inside the male prison confinement, I'll just stick to the masculine ones for the rest of this piece.

 

            Since there are so many sagas and incidents involving Chris Chan, born Christopher Weston Chandler, formerly Christian Weston Chandler, now known as Christine Weston Chandler, it's hard to pin down the more defining moment that showcase his gullibility and vulnerability towards the wider audience, and his high-functioning autism (in other words, Asperger's syndrome) could only make things even worse from him. As I mentioned before, this person is incapable to distinguish fantasy from reality. He was also enabled by his parents, his "white knights", and few of his trolls, practically preventing him from maturing mentally. I guess the Japanese term Hikikomori (ひきこもり) really suit this person right. 

 

            Then I remembered something. I first wrote about the legend of the Seven Deadly Sins while breaking down the woke culture behavior just shy of two months ago, and I wonder, could this topic still be relevant with the person in question? Thanks to one YouTube video and countless articles on CWCki, it is possible to link those vices with some of Chandler's antics. For simplicity’s sake, I'll be referring to the original order of the sins from the previous article.

 

            Let's start with the sin of Pride. As the sin suggests, it's about putting one's desires and importance above collective efforts. In this case, Chandler is prideful of his own creations, that being his Sonichu comic series, his artistic and musical prowess, and his extensive collection of toys. He is also infamous for his egotistical behavior. This aspect of him shines bright during another saga where another Sonichu rip-off comic were circulating, named Asperchu. The comic in question was created by someone named Alec Benson Leary. The comic itself garnered fans and followers, mainly disgruntled Sonichu fans who were fed up due to its increasingly disturbing content. The namesake character is described as a parody of Chandler, with his striped shirt, his overweighed posture, his glasses, and Sonichu medallion. The name itself is a play of the Asperger's syndrome, which Chandler himself hate, his reasoning being the condition, along with people who suffer from it stole the limelight from real autistic person like him. On one occasion, when Chandler and Leary had a phone conversation, Leary's digitally drawn comic was disapproved by Chandler, who prefers hand-drawn comics. Seriously, Chandler's ego got the best of him by saying that Alec's drawing looks "crappy" compared to his drawings. Even when he's behind bars, he routinely writes letters from incarceration. One of those letters even mention his current predicament being similar to that of Jesus Christ, even claiming himself as Jesus. If that is not self-importance, I don't know what this shit is that's been spewing out of his mouth.

 

            Let's move to the fire sin that is the sin of Wrath. His autism is the main factor of this sin, as he sometimes loses control of his emotions, particularly while being subjected to relentless trolling. For this case, let's dissect the Clyde Cash saga. It all started when Chandler discovered the Encyclopedia Dramatica page of himself, at first, he tried to beg the Internet to shut the page down. He then tried to edit it himself in what he described as "information overload", but what he did was provided the trolls with more embarrassing information. He then pledged to stop the Sonichu series as long as that page was still up on the Internet. And this is where Clyde Cash made his move. He then messaged Chandler informing that his brother Ryan committed suicide out of heartbreak that Sonichu is stopping publication. Chandler, being the naïve, egotistical ass that he is, made a video that came across as condescending to the grieving Clyde. From sadness, came revenge. Clyde then posed as various characters and personas to troll Chandler, even as far as to impersonate VIPs of the video game industry. This provoked Chandler's anger, posting shout-filled videos while making threats of violence. But this is not the saga that really defines his wrath. In 2011, Chandler and Barbara were arrested for hit-and-run, misdemeanor assault, trespassing, and attacking a police officer by allegedly trying to run over the GAMe PLACe manager Michael Snyder, whom Chandler himself bore intense hatred. To paint this into light, Chandler was once a regular customer at the game place but was permanently banned by Snyder in 2008 due to his inflammatory behaviors. He once sprayed an unfortunate GameStop employee all because of his one-sided complaint over the (then) new Sonic the Hedgehog game titled Sonic Boom. The game itself included a minor change to Sonic's arms, which were blue in accordance with his torso, instead of regular skin color. 

 

            There are few vices that perfectly describes Chandler in its full extent. One of them is Greed. Christorians are very familiar to this one aspect of his life, which is desire to collect material possessions. To Chandler, it's toys, video games, and comic books. Before his arrest, he is known to be that one person who is unemployed, refused to work for his penny, and for the most part, enabled by his surroundings to spend excessive amount of money on materialistic possessions. He was on disability payment and social security, but instead of using the money to sustain himself, he blew those cash for video games, toys, trading cards and lottery tickets. And due to his inability of reason, during the Julie saga, where BlueSpike, under the guise of Max hacked Chandler's PlayStation Network account and made him to choose between his video games and his "sweetheart". He chose Julie, with the assumption that he would also get his account back, but BlueSpike had other ideas. By choosing Julie, he elected to release his PSN account, and to be sold on eBay, something Chandler couldn't comprehend. 

 

            But greed isn't the only sin that is heavily associated with this person. Gluttony is also one of them. By looking at his posture alone, standing at 180.3 cm (5ft 11in) and weight in 92 kg (203 pounds), it is obvious that he is not the healthiest person. His main diet consists of fast food, soda and energy drinks, and microwaveable TV dinner. He alleges himself to be a good cook, making himself some nutritious meals 4 to 5 times a week. But with the state of his kitchen, and the fact that his parents are compulsive hoarders, makes the claim impossible to be true. His awful daily schedule also contributes to his poor eating habits. For one, he almost never has breakfast, due to his sleeping schedule. He is always awake during midnight, and only went to bed at 6 o'clock in the morning, and usually wakes up late during the day. For his lunch, fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King are his go-to spots. He could eat out up to 4 times a day, often with unhealthy portion size and deadly concoctions (French fries doused with soy sauce? Are you kidding me?). For dinner, since by this point, he's already worn out, poorly cooked, microwaveable TV dinner is what he has for dinner. His hydration level is also awfully bad, as he would consume about 1.8 liters of coke every day. That is about 195 grams of sugar, which in turn, makes about 800 calories per day. This alone could spell as a red flag on its own. This, in turn, left Chandler with health problems like obesity, and his inability to control his bowel movements. Coupled with the fact that he rarely (if ever) done some exercise, his poor hygiene habits and the fact that he once sliced his taint open in order to obtain a vagina, subsequently left infected, it's safe to say that Chandler is destroying his own body during that time span. 

 

            After reading some of his failed "love quest" stories, I can safely conclude that Chandler had also engaged with the sin of Envy. This is mainly represented by his "infinitely high boyfriend factor" theory that he believes wholeheartedly. He believes that all girls in general have boyfriends, for his love quest to succeed, he only needs to find himself a "boyfriend-free girl". This is evidently showed during the Liquid Chris saga, where Liquid, real name Christopher Duckworth actually has a girlfriend (now wife) named Kacey. Due to his resentment over this fact, Chandler, at the time was dubbed as Solid Chris, tried to seduce Kacey by pretending to be Liquid who pretended to be him. This backfired on Solid. 

 

            And departing from the love quests gone bad, we arrived at the sin of Lust. He is notorious for his lustful interactions with women who are genuinely close to him. Look at Megan Schroeder. She was constantly subjected to his rude advancements to the point of drawing himself and Megan on one of his Sonichu comics buck naked and having a steamy sex with one another. I can't say that he was an incel, but for most of his love quests, almost all the girls he met were either trolls or conspiring with other trolls to make him do embarrassing things on camera, and subsequently leak the footage to the internet. On one instance, during the early days of the Julie saga, Chandler once performed a sexual intercourse on a sex doll while yelling Julie's name, as per request of BlueSpike. This culminated in Chandler losing his virginity to a sex worker by the name of Mia Hamm. It is also worth noted that the incident he was arrested for was also a byproduct of the sin of Lust, by allegedly having a sexual relationship with Barbara, his own 80-year-old, dementia-ridden mother. 

 

            And to tie this with greed and gluttony, Chandler is known as quite a lazy person, hence the relevance with the sin of Sloth. He is notorious for this aspect, as he is a NEET, an acronym for "Not in Education, Employment or Training". His refusal to work mainly stems from his dad who encourage him to stay out of employment, believing that the Social Security Disability Insurance is enough to support him. This effectively enabling him to believe that despite his age, he can live like a child forever. This is only made worse by enablers who subscribed to his Patreon page, knowing full well that the money would not be used to sustain himself, but instead to be spent on video games, toys, and lots of unhealthy food and concoctions. His financial situation doesn't help the case either. Aside from his refusal to work, his own work, that being the Sonichu comics would also go unfinished, and if he managed to finish it, he finished it long after the deadline was supposed to meet, same with his paid commissions. He did (allegedly) hold some real-life jobs at Wendy's and Cutco Cutlery, supposedly the latter is a multi-level marketing specializes in selling overpriced knives. Both jobs didn't last long, with his employment at Wendy's terminated for being rude to the customers, and with the scam filled MLM knives company, according to his accounts, his boss "left at summer's end." Until his arrest, he is adamant that he will not work for a penny for the rest of his life, and for someone who merely suggest that he should get a job would be treated as someone who committed hate speech.

 

            There are endless stories and sagas connected to Chris Chan that can be explore, each with their own twists and turns, but when it comes to the behavior of the person in question, it is clear that his own behavior set him up for failure. It is of course, from these behaviors alone, Chandler ticks all the boxes regarding the Seven Deadly Sins. From failed love quests, rip-off works, fantasy and financial enablers, his own parental failure, and torments from trolls, Christine Weston Chandler would be remembered forever as the most documented person on the Internet, known for his detachment from reality and his excessive indulgence over his own fantasies. Stay safe, get those jabs if necessary, and keep your health as the top priority.

The Nikocado Avocado Saga: From Veganism to a Possible Early Grave

 (Warning: Strong Languages, fat jokes and gross description of filth and sexual references ahead)

 

            For the past few weeks, I've dug into some of the most heinous stories of all time, I almost had no time to pull myself back up to create more light-hearted stories for the readers to enjoy, to be laughed at, or at worst, to be offended. But as I look back on things that I wrote for this past three to four years, almost all subjects of my stories weren't Internet personalities (until that streak was broken by Chris Chan and his demented antics). And today, as the time of the writing, boy do I have a juicy one for you to indulge. This one is about an infamous YouTuber who was once a healthy, aspiring violinist who was sick of his vegan lifestyle, turned into a panzer-sized mess while doing nothing but mukbang videos (and his OnlyFans, this will be relevant later). I am doing this while also researching about that particular troll who ruined Chris Chan's life, aside from being a walking landfill herself. 

 

            Before diving in to the person of the story, many of you might be unfamiliar with what the word "mukbang" (먹방, meokbang) is about. The word itself is a result of two Korean words being fused together, which are 먹는 (meongneun, which means eating) and 방송 (bangsong, which means broadcaster). The practice itself defined as an audio-visual broadcast where a host consumes various quantities of food while interacting with the audience, most cases being a rather large meal instead of one or two dishes. It is said that the mukbang trend started to gain popularity in 2009, being first introduced on real-time internet TV service AfreecaTV. This is due to the fact that Koreans in general have strict culture consists of healthy eating and table manners. One article posted in The Economist contended that the popularity of eating shows can be attributed in part to the widespread anxiety and unhappiness in Koreans due to their country's long-term economic slump. There are few theories on why this type of content is so popular. It is reported that alleviating the feelings of loneliness associated with eating alone may be the primary reason for mukbang's popularity. Another reason for mukbang viewing could be its potential sexual use. There are arguments that supports the statement that mukbangs can be viewed to satisfy fetishes regarding women eating, further emphasizing why many mukbang hosts are traditionally attractive women. Other reason being that individuals who watch mukbang do so for entertainment, as an escape from reality, or to get satisfaction from the ASMR aspects of mukbang such as the eating sounds and sensations. Mukbang contents are also credited for allowing others to eat vicariously through hosts while they are on a diet and in need of satisfying cravings.

 

            The story centers around an internet personality with the name of Nikocado Avocado, real name Nicholas Perry. He was born on the 19th of May 1992 in Ukraine and was adopted shortly thereafter by an American family as an infant, consequently moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. There is very little info about his childhood life, but for one, he learned about his adoption relatively early, and in turn, struggling to cope with that fact. He then started acting out for attention. He received mental health treatment as early as 5 years old, and by the age of 7, was prescribed with antidepressants. He was later diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He attended Lower Dauphin High School and graduated in 2010. He majored in acting in college and is an aspiring violinist with impeccable skills. I have to admit, with my (mostly) limited skills on the guitar and a form of ring rust, he would have smoked me easily if we had a contest. He then moved to New York City in 2013 to pursue a career in music, working as a freelance violinist. By his own admission, despite his musical talent, it is hard to live in a city where competition is always constant. Before he became the famous (or infamous, depending on the angle of the opinion) Internet star we know today, his early days on the platform consists of solely video blogs, violin covers of popular songs, and contents about veganism. He even met his now husband Orlin Home, thanks to a Facebook group for vegan men. The two began communicating intensely before meeting up in New York. By Orlin's accounts, the two started out as friends, but their relationship evolved after their travelling trips together in Central America, subsequently married in 2017.

 

            Nikocado Avocado got his internet name from a video back when he was a vegan. He started posting videos in 2014, and one of those videos which gave the name we all know today was when he single-handedly ate 30 avocadoes in one sitting. He currently has just under 6 million subscribers across 6 YouTube channels, with the combine views of 1.15 million. His turning point was somewhere in 2016, where he posted a video declaring that he was no longer a vegan, citing health reasons and his distaste with the vegan community, which he viewed as "toxic". With his current life trajectory now, I see this as a deadly irony.  After 2016, he started uploading mukbang contents, garnered 50.000 views in a couple of weeks. He became the first ever American man to partake in this trend, as previous contents of this kind are mainly done by women. But the way he gathers his viewers is the one that grinds my gears. When he uploads a video, a melodrama is guaranteed. He can be seen crying, screaming, and losing his temper in front of a heaping pile of food, and once shave his head into a tray of fried noodle topped with eggs. As someone of Asian ethnicity, I must say that it's a cardinal sin to waste food like that, especially if it's a delicious plate of fried noodle. He admitted that his unusual antics and "clickbait" titles generate the highest number of views. 

 

            Consequently, when you engage with mukbang contents, particularly if the food in question is mainly junk food, weight issue became the main focus. To paint this into the light, Perry started doing mukbang weighing somewhere between 72 kg (160 pounds) or lower. Nowadays, his weigh range is somewhere around the 163 kg (350 pounds) to 181 kg (400 pounds) mark, maybe even more. This, in turn, changes the viewers perspective from "my God, he's fucked in the head" to "holy shit, he's eating himself to death". In this stage, only Tammy Slaton, from the TLC series 1.000-pound Sisters who outweighs him, last updated sitting on 240 kg (530 pounds). From obesity, came a slew of health problems associated with it. he once said that his sex life took a toll from his content creating madness citing erectile dysfunction, although there is no scientific evidence to back this up. Other problems including diarrhea (he also has some instance across his videos and social media platforms of defecating himself), gas, bloating, and stomach pains, the latter in particular tent to exacerbate after he gorge on spicy noodle. Current updates revealed that Perry now suffers from sleep apnea and requires to wear oxygen masks to help with his sleep, and apparently broke three of his left ribs from "excessive, forceful coughing", which later confirmed by his medical diagnosis. The disturbing part of this whole ordeal is he used this to further boost his Internet popularity, declaring himself "disabled", and proceeded to upload series of videos under one title: "My New Diet as a Disabled Person" with various thumbnails ranging from funny to total cringe. And this is not limited to his physical health. His mental health reportedly deteriorates whenever he indulges himself to this dangerous part of YouTube, from declaring himself as Jesus (this is fucked up just on its own) to the point of jeopardizing his marriage with Orlin. The couple sometimes collaborated together, but not for a wholesome eating video, but a series of insults and putdowns involving calling each other fat, hitting one another, to some occasions where Orlin intentionally spills food to provoke Perry's wailing and crying. Hell, his mental breakdowns could also serve as meme materials. He also sparked feuds with other mukbang YouTubers, accusing him of being toxic. 

 

            And his online present could only expand to a more disgusting level. In late 2020, he officially set up an OnlyFans account, where he charged US$ 15 (around IDR 214.000) for subscribers to see pornographic materials of himself and Orlin. I won't dive into further details, but from all the information I've gathered, it is considered as the most repulsive OnlyFans the Internet has ever seen. It even birthed the "Nikocado Avocado Ass Pic" meme, used for posts with shock value in it. Seriously, if you have balls of steel, you can spend that huge amount of money to see two men with the size of a hauler truck fucking each other in the ass. But for me? Even if you offer me all of the fortune in the world, I won't trade my sanity for any wealth just to watch Nikocado Avocado flash his black hole of doom in front of the horrified members of the Internet. I might just spew all the contents of my stomach at best or going blind at worst. I said this with no intention of discrediting the LGBT community, consider that Perry and Orlin are members of said community, but even some people inside the spectrum would view this as disgusting materials and should be purged. 

 

            When we look at his condition now, one must have thought, "what a waste of talent". He could have easily made almost the same amount of money in music if he worked just a little bit harder. But instead, he sacrificed his own health and wellbeing as he fell into an endless hole of gluttony, burying himself with unhealthy food while at the same time, horrified the preying eyes of the masses with his other, more disturbing content. One YouTuber said it the best, that Nicholas Perry is eating himself to death. 

 

            I guess this story alone could sums up the reason why I'm not into mukbang contents on any platform. Although I could find it satisfying, people like Nikocado Avocado serves us as a warning of unfortunate implications not just for the physical health aspect, but mental wellness as well. I am genuinely hoping that he would find a much needed and well-deserved help sooner rather than later. Like I said before, I've lost too many people to weight-related issues, and this, quite frankly doesn't help the case at all. In the end, we can't make decisions on behalf of others, all it needs to do is for that person to see the error of his ways and correct it for the sake of his future ahead. Stay safe, get those jabs, and stay alert.

            

The Kyoto Animation Arson Case: From Rejected Ideas to Loss of Life

 I have to make a confession to officially open this piece. I am a total sucker for Japanese culture. From the food, their punctuality, their work ethics, and most importantly, its cultural heritages from dresses to Shinto shrines. But what made Japan well known the most, it's the animation industry. I started watching Japanese anime when I was in elementary school when Naruto first aired roughly around 2005. Since then, I fell into this seemingly endless rabbit hole of the Otaku life, to the extent of attending some events and festivals dedicated to the Japanese pop culture pre-pandemic years. But behind all those cheers, lies one case that one day would be viewed as the darkest days in the history of the Japanese anime industry, if not the history of Japan itself.

 

            By now, almost all anime connoisseurs are familiar with several anime studios currently existing, and one of those located in the city of Uji, just outside of the city of Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, appropriately named Kyoto Animation (Japanese: 京都アニメーション, Kyōto Animēshon, KyoAni for short). If we take a look inside their catalogue, some of the best anime ever produced came from this studio alone. From slice of life anime like K-ON! to series based on a visual novel like Clannad (not to be confused with the Irish band of the same name) to the more recent works like Violet Evergarden, Kyoto Animation established itself as one of the premier anime studios in Japan. The company itself first founded by a husband-wife team of Hideaki and Yoko Hatta in 1981. It then became a limited company in 1985 and a corporation in 1999. Prior to the company's formation, Yoko-san worked as had worked as a painter at another studio, Mushi Production before moving to Kyoto after marrying Hideaki. Inside the corporate structure of the studio, Hideaki served as president, while Yoko-san as vice president. In 2000, an affiliate company, named Animation Do. Co. Ltd. was established by Hideaki with main purpose to assist production at Kyoto Animation. It was established by the studio's Osaka office, before being incorporated as a limited company in 2000, then a corporation in 2010. During its operation, both companies are run by Hideaki and are run jointly as one. They produce up-and-coming works under the Animation Do label with Kyoto Animation as their main contractor and works where they work as one company alongside Kyoto Animation. They work on most Kyoto Animation projects and many of them have joint signatures. The company itself was fully absorbed by Kyoto Animation on the 16th of September 2020, which included all rights and associated properties.

 

            The studio has an annual Kyoto Animation Awards held every year since 2009. The award itself included three categories: original novels, manga, and scenarios. Some anime produced by the studio had either received an award or at least being included into the studio's honourable mentions. Among those titles included: Tsurune, Beyond The Boundary, Myriad Colors Phantom World, and Violet Evergarden, among others. The studio is regarded as one of the most recognisable studios for their high production values and "sensitivity to the wonders and quandaries of ordinary life". Most anime (at least those that I've watched) always has a "slice of life" element to it. Like Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions, where the story details a high school boy trying to escape his junior high years where he suffer from Chuunibyo (Second Grade Syndrome), where he fantasized himself for having supernatural powers, only to run into a girl with similar syndrome herself, and subsequently fell in love as the story progresses. The studio also known for their example of employee welfare, where the workers are on a salary payroll instead of freelance ones, and are trained in-house. They are also one of many companies that champions diversity and encourage more women to enter the industry. They were served with a Diversity Award by Women in Animation in 2020 for this practice. 

 

            But on the 18th of July 2019, Kyoto Animation studio 1 in Fushimi, Kyoto Prefecture caught fire, beginning with an explosion at around 10.31 JST. When the fire first started, the perpetrator walked into Studio 1 and set the fire with approximately 40 litres (11 US gallons) of gasoline. The fuel itself was bought 10 km (6.2 miles) from the building, and carried into the scene with a trolley. It was believe that the fuel was planted with the mixture of air, causing the explosion. As the fire spread further, more staff members were trapped inside the building. Along the way, there were 20 bodies found on the stairs from the third floor to the roof, indicating an attempted escape. Associate professor at Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University Tomoaki Nishino estimated that the second and third floors were almost filled with smoke within 30 second of the initial explosion. the fire was contained at 3.19 p.m., and was extinguished the next morning at 6.20 a.m. Total confirmed casualties from the fire were 36 dead and 34 injured from approximately 70 people inside Studio 1 and the perpetrator at the time of the incident, with approximately 20 of them were women, one of them was reported as a South Korean citizen. Among the deceased were directors Yasuhiro Takemoto, Futoshi Nishiya  and Yoshiji Kigami, as well as colour designer Naomi Ishida, and among the survivors were animation director Naoko Yamada. Some victims were difficult to identify, due to most of them had burned beyond recognition. Autopsy results released on the 22 July 2019 revealed that majority of the victims' cause of death were burn injuries rather than carbon monoxide poisoning. In addition, the fire destroyed most of the computers and materials , though small portion of keyframes were on exhibition in Tokushima at the time, so the keyframes were spared. On the 29th of July, the studio reported that they successfully recovered some digitalized original drawings from a spared server.

 

            The police then went on a hunt for the arsonist, and subsequently arrested Shinji Aoba, at the time a 41-year-old man. Before the attacks, he had prior criminal record in Ibaraki Prefecture, where robbed a convenience store with a knife, earning him a 3,5 years of incarceration. A day before the time of the incident, witnesses spotted a man resembling Aoba near Studio 1. He also reported to be visiting several places of interest related to the anime Sound! Euphonium around the city days before the attack. Aoba was reportedly shout "DIE!" while committing the attacks, and was one of the injured after fled the scene chased by the employees around 100 meters (330 ft.) from the studio. During his hospital trip, he confessed of starting the fire with revenge in mind, accusing the studio for plagiarizing a scene taken from his work. Hatta initially stated that there is no record of any light novels or other works submitted by Aoba to their writing contest. Further discoveries revealed that Aoba had actually submitted a draft novel, but was cut from the competition at the first stage assessment, later confirmed that the work in question bears no similarities to their other published works. Other revelations being the scene Aoba meant was a stereotypical scene used in Tsurune. The scene in question was included on the 5th episode, aired on the 18th of November 2018, where two characters named Minato and Nanao brought discounted meat in a convenience store. This practice is pretty common in Japan, as some goods might nearing its expiration date, so the store chopped the prices, making said goods a lot cheaper, as it would be consumed on that same day. And scenes like this has been used countless times dating decades and seasons of anime.

 

            After countless treatments included skin graft surgery and rehabilitations in Osaka and back to Kyoto due to the severity of his injuries, on the 16th of December 2020 Aoba then charged with multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, arson, trespassing, and breach of the arms-control law, as unused knifes were discovered to be in his possession. Due to his history of mental illness, he had to undergo psychological evaluations. One article revealed that long before the attack took place, Aoba's relatives, his father, grandfather, and sister had all committed suicide for multitude of reasons. Due to this fact alone, it is speculated that the maximum penalty would decrease from death penalty to life imprisonment. 

 

            In the aftermath of the attacks, some projects were delayed and even cancelled. A month after the attack, most employees returned to work at the other studio owned by KyoAni. As of October 2019, the number of employees decreased from 176 to 137, 27 of the 33 survivors returned while several others decided to take extended breaks to cope with their conditions. Tributes flooded from around the world, from then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to voice actors and actresses like Aki Toyosaki (Yui Hirasawa from K-ON!), and Aya Hirano (Haruhi Suzumiya from The Melacholy of Haruhi Suzumiya), as well as tributes from world leaders like Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada), and Tsai Ing-wen (President of the Republic of Taiwan). The building in question were subsequently demolished, completed on 28 April 2020, with no major plans for the site revealed. In an earlier interview, Hideaki expressed a plan for a memorial at the Ground Zero of the attack, but the it was the neighbourhood who didn't wish for the memorial to be build fearing the destruction of the peaceful lifestyle of the local residents. 

 

            When the incident took place, I was made aware by some of my fellow hobbyist friends by their social media posts on my timeline. Then my mind spiralled out of control in disbelief on how dare someone had the mind and the audacity to commit such heinous crime, considering that the target was one of the best and established anime studios in Japan, if not the world. During the next weeks after the incident, I made several tributes of my own (unfortunately, those images were lost). Hell, I've even binge-watched all two seasons of K-ON! and Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions out of respect during those times. 

 

            The story of the Kyoto Animation arson attack is quite an unbelievable one. Regarded as one of the premier studios in Japan, they offered aspiring writers to submit their own original stories with the hopes of being adapted as an anime work. Some of them succeeded, some of them missed the mark. But among those who were unfortunate, one of them falsely accused the studio of plagiarism, and set off to burn the studio out of revenge, his past criminal record and mental illness didn't help the case for him either. For now, he is awaiting punishment for his actions. And to close this piece, I want to state my utmost admirations for the men and women working at Kyoto Animation, for all their works over the years. may those souls claimed during the fire rest in peace, and the survivors could find their own peace and move on from this event. Stay safe, get those jabs, and stay out of harm's way.

When a Town Got Away with Murder: The Story of Ken Rex McElroy

 (Warning: Strong languages, explicit description of gore and sexual references ahead)

 

            I know that these types of stories could only be juicier and juicier as we uncover it deeper and deeper. I know for a fact that from one story to another, there is one similarity: these stories happened at some point and made their own marks in the pages of history. This time, it's a small town who was fed up with the erratic town bully's potentially deadly shenanigans. From petty crimes, statutory rape charges, to intimidation with deadly weapons and attempted murders, the townsfolk retaliated in broad daylight. From that fateful day until this very moment, the killer was never found, and the case went cold.

 

            From the tragic story of the Pan household killings caused by parenting gone wrong in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, we move to a small town in the USA called Skidmore, Missouri. And in this small town, lived a man by the name of Ken Rex McElroy. he was born on the 1st of June 1934 as the 15th child of a 16-children household of migrant tenant-farming couple Tony and Mabel McElroy. By the time he was 15, he dropped out from school in eighth grade, some records even suggested that he is illiterate altogether. He started his criminal career by hunting racoons for fun, not for food. Along the way, he allegedly involved in some petty theft cases of stealing grain, livestock, alcohol, gasoline, and even antiques. And what's even more egregious, is in almost every case, he always got off scot-free, mainly for some factors like the police's response time deemed too slow since the town itself doesn't have a police force of its own, a mafia-caliber lawyer who stood by his side, and despite being totally illiterate, found his way to weasel out of the justice system through the means of intimidation. Remember, during his prime, he was over 182 cm (6 foot) and weighing about 122 kg (270 pounds). It made absolute sense for him to intimidate the townsfolk and even the police officers with that type of frame, accompanied with some form of a weapon, mostly a shotgun. During his lifetime aside from his criminal hustle, he actually held an honest job as a construction worker, but then quit because of an accident where a building material fell onto his head. This incident being the prime source for his life of crime is still debatable to this day.

 

            There are total of 21 indictments aimed towards McElroy, but as I said above, he almost always got acquitted. One of them is statutory rape. To paint this into a context, McElroy was always had some taste for young women. But the disturbing part was those girls that he was interested in were inside the 12 to 15 years range, in short, he was into schoolgirls. He married four times and fathered 10 children, but it was said that his marriages overlapped each other, due to the disturbing facts above. He also abuses them in daily basis, either physically, mentally, or sexually. He met his final wife, Trena McCloud when she was 12 years old, and his way to convince her parents to let him marry her was a typical Ken McElroy intimidation tactic. He repeatedly raped Trena, burning the McCloud house, and even killed the family dog, before the McCloud household relented and both Ken and Trena were married. During this time, he already lived with two other girls, one of them being his third wife, Ashley Woods. When Trena became pregnant when she was 14, she dropped out to live with Ken and Woods. Even with her pregnant condition, she wasn't spared from McElroy's daily beating to the point when her first child was born, she and other girls fled to Trena's mom and stepfather's house. But alas, McElroy managed to track them down and brought them back to his house, not before he burned the house down again and shot the family dog. Based on her story, in June 1973, McElroy was indicted for the charges of arson, assault, and statutory rape for his fling with Trena, and his marriage was actually a plot for him to escape conviction, while divorcing Ashley in the process. He was arrested, booked, arraigned, and released with a US$ 2.500 bail. Trena and her child was put on a foster care in Maryville, Missouri. But this plan also thwarted by McElroy's "trade" of girl-for-girl, as he knew the foster parents' biological daughter's school location and what bus she took. 

 

            McElroy was also brandishing his beloved shotgun wherever he goes and didn't hesitate to use it to intimidate others. One of them was a local farmer Romaine Henry, who on the 27th of July 1976, was shot twice by McElroy in Romaine's own property. He was responding to two shotgun blasts fired by McElroy on his property, where he accused the farmer of stalking. After making such bewildered allegation, Henry responded with a bewildered statement of his own. And that was the time when McElroy aimed his shotgun to Henry's stomach and fired two shots. He managed to drive away to safety while his wounds weren’t life-threatening. McElroy then faced another criminal charge, this time with assault with the intent to kill. This time, he had a mafia-caliber lawyer by the name of Richard Gene McFadin of Galatin, Missouri in tow. By the time the court trial was held, Henry and McElroy each brought two witnesses. The defining moment from this trial was when McElroy's two witnesses, which happened to be his racoon-hunting buddies, provided an alibi that put McElroy with them by the time of the shooting. McFadin also managed to seal McElroy's acquittance by forcing Henry to confess to the court that he had concealed his own petty criminal conviction from 30 years ago. 

 

            In McFadin's own accounts, he represented McElroy and defended him in three to four felonies a year, describing him as the best client he ever had. Furthermore, he described McElroy as someone who was "punctual, always said he didn't do it, paid in cash and kept coming back". McFadin's tactic for his client's trials was to get each case run as a separate trial and constantly delay the court date and venue, while at the same time, McElroy continued his harassment of his victims and jurors in order to prevent them from testifying against him. During the Trena McCloud trials, McElroy exploited a loophole that would deny him conviction by marrying Trena, something that McFadin actually applauded. When his case with Romaine Henry went to the trial stages, McFadin pushed back dates while McElroy continued his harassment of Henry. He even said that he saw McElroy parking his truck in front of his house approximately 100 times. His tactics were exposed by a writer named Harry MacLean in his book In Broad Daylight, where he detailed every single dirty, but legal tactic McFadin used within the legal boundaries to keep McElroy out of jail. McFadin himself, instead of denying it, quickly embraced the hate, and actually got signed copies of the book from MacLean.

 

            With yet another acquittance, McElroy seemed emboldened to further tighten his grip to the town of Skidmore. But one case inexplicably set up his own downfall and death without him ever noticed it. It started in 1980, when one of McElroy's kids got on an altercation with the grocery store clerk. The store in question was owned by The Bowenkamps, Ernest "Bo" and wife Lois. The altercation happened because the McElroy kid allegedly stole some candy. In a typical Ken McElroy fashion, he began stalking the old Bo Bowenkamp, and eventually threatened the elderly with a shotgun at the back of the store. McElroy then shot Bowenkamp in the neck during the ensuing confrontation. Bowenkamp survived the encounter due to the blast grazed part of his neck, instead of taking the full brute force of the shotgun. He was again arrested and charged with attempted murder. Only this time, McElroy was successfully convicted thanks to the new prosecutor attorney David Baird, who succeeded the previous acting attorney, allegedly bullied by McElroy, but only for second-degree assault, and handed a two-year jail sentence, but freed on bail pending appeal. It is worth noting that despite numerous reports to the police, there were no records of McElroy's crimes. During this time, McElroy, armed with an M1 Garand rifle with a bayonet attached, went to the local bar named D&G Tavern, and proceeded to describe in perfect but disturbing detail, of things he would do to Bo Bowenkamp. From shooting the old man to disembowelment of Bowenkamp. This led to some patrons deciding on legal steps to prevent McElroy to harm everyone else. With yet another delay on McElroy's appeal hearing, the townsfolk met at the Legion Hall on the morning of 10th of July 1981 with Nodaway County Sheriff Dan Estes to discuss how to protect themselves. Around the time of the meeting, Ken and Trena McElroy arrived at the D&G Tavern for some drinks. With the news travelling fast, other patrons were instructed to not engage McElroy directly, but to consider forming a neighborhood watch program. The citizens then travel to the bar en masse, filling up the tavern to its maximum capacity. Sheriff Estes drove back to his station after the meeting. After finishing his drinks, McElroy bought six pack of beer, and walked to his truck with Trena in tow. As he sat down to the driver seat and light his cigarette, he was shot several times from the back with two different weapons, hit twice, and quickly slumped over the steering wheel, already dead with a horrified Trena at his side. There were approximately 46 to 60 potential eyewitnesses by the time of the murder including Trena, yet no one called an ambulance. His official cause of death was blood loss due to multiple gunshot wounds. An ensuing investigation then revealed that the weapons used to end McElroy's life were a n 8mm Mauser rifle, which is a World War I era rife, and a .22-caliber Magnum. It was also revealed that there were two shooters at the time of the crime. Almost every witness, except for Trena weren't able to identify the shooters, despite being present around the scene of crime, which happened in broad daylight. The investigation involved the State and Federal Criminal Investigators lasted for one year, and involving 35 primary leads and 100 interviews, where 60 of them were of the townsfolk. And every single one of them said the same sentence: "I didn't see who shot him". Hell, some of them even had the audacity to say "shooting? What shooting?" Trena however, managed to name one person she believed to be responsible for the death of her husband, named Del Clement, although Clement was never charged, due to the lack of evidence. In 1982, there were no other choice by the investigators but to close the case without any indictments or convictions.

 

            Approximately three years after McElroy's demise, McFadin, on behalf of Trena McElroy filed a US$ 5 Million wrongful death lawsuit against the Town of Skidmore, Nodaway County, Sheriff Estes, and Del Clement. The case was later settled by all parties outside the court for US$ 17.600, with no parties admitting any guilt, fearing if they would proceed with the lawsuit, the legal fees would be proven costly. Trena remarried and relocated to Lebanon, Missouri, where she spent the rest of her days until her death of cancer on her 55th birthday on the 24th of January 2012. In the end, McFadin said it best, that the town of Skidmore, Missouri got away with murder.

 

            This story is, quite frankly a story where a collective bunch banded together to stop a terror from an individual not by trusting the legal system, but to resort to outright killing in the name of revenge. I know some other cases with conspiracy to commit murder, but never, was an entire town who witness the killing and failed to report it. And for the community of Skidmore, Missouri, Ken McElroy simply was a town bully who got his brutal comeuppance after years and years of evading the criminal justice system. And until this day, more than 40 years later, the murderer was never found, and the small town in the state of Missouri never broke its silence. This story alone should belong in the subreddit r/nuclearrevenge, if not r/supernovarevenge or r/blackholerevenge due to the nature it was carried out. I guess when some people are already fed up and upset due to some bully's shenanigans, any acts of revenge, even if said acts use deadly force is justified. And to end this piece, Ken McElroy, rot in hell you deranged cocksucker. Stay safe, get those jabs, mask up if necessary, wash yourselves, and two meters apart always.

The Case of Jennifer Pan: When Tiger Parenting Went Downhill

 (Warning: Graphic description of gore ahead)

 

            As I am currently contemplating about another surge of confirmed cases caused by the pandemic, I dug deeper into the depths of the Internet just to find some inspiration for maybe another story. And just like the last one, it's another true crime story. This time is about a child of an Asian immigrant family, who settled in Canada. She was expected to be the straight-A student, often resorted to means of restricting her movement to achieve their desired future for her but ended up managed to turn her into a killer/liar. Every household with Asian heritage is familiar with the concept of "Tiger Parenting", and what the method is about. While in most cases it would shape the future generation as the most educated one, this method is also susceptible for straining the kids' mental well-being if it's being forced to them without consent.

 

            But for those of you who are not familiar with the concept above, it’s basically a more restrictive form of parenting, where parents are heavily invested into the child's future. Compared to a more permissive-style western parenting, this method is more like the parents' total, almost militaristic control over their children in terms of discipline, academic and intellectual achievements, and their overall contribution to the society. This method is both famous and infamous for its narrowed perspective of what are the things that can be considered as an achievement. Success and achievement are generally determined if the child in question have only A (or even A+) grades on their report cards, or even some sporting achievements or a well-rounded ability with classical instruments. Anything below perfect is considered a cardinal sin and doesn't deserve tender, love and care. Some parents can be so strict, they would ban their children to participate in trivial activities that has nothing to do with academics, like a mere sleepover with their peers, or a small treat of video games one hour per day. This will even escalate as far as setting some forms of punishment if the kid fails to fulfill their supposedly and allegedly impossible high targets being set upon them. They are also not a fan of complimenting children on public premises either. One of which was detailed by an Asian American author Amy Chua in her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, where she detailed one occasion where she reportedly yelled at her daughters, calling them 'garbage'. If you ask me what tiger parenting is, I have to answer that question with: A narrowed mindset of how the kids should do with their lives, fueled by their own fears instilled by their parents from the moment they were able to crawl, walk, speak, write, and read. Sure, some kids have nerves (and balls) of steel and thrive under pressure, but for others, when getting an average grade is hard enough for one reason or another, setting the highest target possible would be a total impossibility for them. 

 

            With the definition out of the way, let's travel to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where the story took place, and meet the Pan Family. Huei Hann Pan and Bich Ha Pan first came to Canada from Vietnam as political refugee in 1979. They later married and settled in Scarborough. Along the way, they welcomed daughter Jennifer (born in 1986) and son Felix (born in 1989). The Pans worked at an auto parts manufacture in Aurora, Ontario, where Hann worked as a tool and die maker, and Bich worked as car part maker. They worked themselves hard enough to save money with the hopes that their children would have the opportunities they've missed out. 

 

            When raising their children, the Pan household adopted the 'tiger parenting' strategy, with Hann acted as a 'classic tiger dad' while Bich acted as the 'reluctant accomplice'. They often emphasize this on Jennifer, as recounted by her high school friend Karen K. Ho, stating that the Pans always picked her up when classes ended each day and monitored her extracurricular activities very closely. They enrolled Jennifer into a piano class at the age of four, as well as figure skating class where she trained most days of the week. She once had hopes to be an Olympic caliber figure skater and won few piano competitions; but her dream of making it into the Winter Olympic Games went up in flames after she tore a ligament on her knee. during her lower school years, she managed to get top grades. But, instead of excitement, her parents seemed to demand perfection above perfection from Jennifer, straining her mental health as it went on. During high school, her grades averaged about 70% except for her strongest subject being music. It wasn't a bad grade overall. In fact, most parents in this case would say, "Well, it's better than failing altogether". But not the Pan household. If they found out about her failing grades, it would be hell to pay. But the one that broke her the most was when her early application for a top university was rescinded after failing her calculus class in grade 12. Bear in mind, her grades began slipping from grade 8. Fearing her parents' wrath, she began forging her report cards to convince Hann and Bich that she actually earned top grades, instead of average ones. This then evolved to a full-on lie to evade her parents' scrutiny. What she told in front of parents were lies about accepting scholarships, to the extent of accepting an admission from the University of Toronto, claimed to be majoring in pharmacology program. But what goes on behind their backs is she worked part-time in a restaurant as well as teaching piano classes. Remember those restrictions tiger parents often put their child into in order to fully focused on their academics? One of those restrictions was she was not allowed to see or even date the opposite sex. During her grade 11 days, she started dating Daniel Wong, another Asian descent, in this case being Chinese-Filipino, and stayed with him during her "college days", with the excuse of not wanting to endure commutes to campus. During this time, she "worked" as a volunteer at a hospital to further impressed her parents, but they became suspicious for the lack of hospital ID. When the cover was blown, she finally worked to finish her high school and applied for university, as well as keeping her piano-teaching job, but barred from seeing or contacting Wong. Nevertheless, they kept contact in secret until Wong himself fed up with the state of their relationship, with Jennifer basically being locked inside an imaginary cage by her parents.

 

            From her frustration of her parents' restriction being imposed on her, Jennifer made the unthinkable thought at the time: killing her own parents. She first contacted someone by the name of Andrew Montemayor, who (according to her claims) had boasting about robbing people at knife point (denied by Montemayor). He then contacted Ricardo Duncan, who alleged by Jennifer that she gave CA$ 1.000 to kill her father in his workplace parking lot. He alleged that Jennifer gave $ 200 for a night out, later returned, and rebuffed when she asked him to kill his parents. By this time the two lovebirds were back in contact and came up for an idea to hire a professional hitman. Wong then introduced her to Lenford Roy Crawford who in turn contacted Eric Shawn "Sniper" Carty, who in turn, contacted Montreal-born David Mylvaganam. On the 8th of November 2010, there was a home invasion incident took place at the Pan residence in Markham, Ontario. It started as a simple invasion/robbery before the assailants took Hann and Bich to the basement and started a hail of bullets. Bich died instantly for gunshot wounds to her head, while Hann suffered multiple wounds to the chest, once slipped into a coma, but somehow survived. Jennifer claimed at the time that she was tied up and blindfolded but managed to free her hands and called 9-1-1. During her interrogation stages however, her story kept changing, until during one of those interrogations, she confessed to be the mastermind of the incident. In fact, when she went to bed, she unlocked the front door of the house and contacted Mylvaganam. Shortly afterwards, Mylvaganam and other two gunmen entered the house through the unlocked door and proceeded with the assault. Jennifer was arrested on the 22nd of November 2010, while the remaining accomplices were arrested in 2011, Mylvaganam was arrested on the 14th of April, Carty the day after on his own cell block at the Maplehurst Correctional Complex, Wong on the 26th of April, and Crawford, who was the last to enter custody, on 11th of May. 

 

            The case then entered the trial stage on 19th of March 2014 and would last for 10 months. All suspects pleaded not guilty for first-degree murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit murder. More than 200 exhibits and 50 witnesses were presented during the trial, including countless text messages (in fact, there are over 100 texts in the space of six hours before the murder) between Jennifer and Wong, evidence detailing the irregular nature the "break-in", "robbery", shootings, and the constant revision of Jennifer's testimony, as well as the recovering Hann Pan's recount of the incident, which greatly differs his daughter's story. Almost all of them, apart from Carter, were convicted of the crime and received life sentences without parole for 25 years. In a separate trial in December 2015, Carter received an 18-year sentence with parole eligibility after 9 years for pleading guilty for conspiracy to commit murder. He was due to be tried alongside other convicts, but his lawyer fell ill, and the case was declared a mistrial sometime during summer 2014. He unfortunately died on his cell in Kent on the 26th of April 2018. In addition, Hann filed a court order, which was granted despite objections of the defense lawyer to ban Jennifer from speaking to any surviving members of the Pan household ever again. She was also banned to ever contacting Wong again. As of the time of the completion of this article, Jennifer is still serving her sentence at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario, and would be eligible for parole in 2039, her only chance she would ever get. By then, she would be 53 years of age.

 

            After finishing the Chris Chan story (which is quite disturbed and demented in its own right), I instantly recalled this specific story while researching about an arson case in Japan (spoiler alert: If you ever watch some anime like Clannad or K-ON! along the way, then you know exactly what I am talking about), and another murder case in the name of romance (I've talked about this briefly in my incel-related article). This case is intriguing based on the fact that a certain form of parenting can actually cause more harm than good, if the child in question doesn't have the mental strength or support that they desperately need. It's okay to guide them towards a better life, but don't turn their life to a living hell just because you want them to have a better life. As members of the generation that one day would become parents themselves to the next generation, it's imperative for us to learn how to recognize the child's needs, and simply not to follow one's ego for the sake of their future, just because you never achieved something. Let this be a lesson that a child is not a property of their parents to brag about, but a gift from The Man Above to be loved and cherished for the rest of their lives. Stay safe, wash yourselves, get those jabs, and stay vigilant. 

The Tragic Story of Chris Chan: Through Online Trolls and Mental Destruction

 (Warning: Strong languages and graphic depiction of sexual references and filth ahead)

 

Notes: 

 

-In order to better understand the context, some highlighted words throughout this article are actually links to specific contents and topics regarded the case at hand.

 

-Due to the person's gender transition, I am using masculine pronouns for events before 2016, and feminine pronouns for events from 2016 onwards prior to the arrest.

 

 

            Usually, I'm not a big fan of true crime stories. In fact, I actually avoid it at all costs due to some of them being so graphic, I almost wanted to spew. But I've been hooked up by this one story about an autistic person who clearly lives in his own fantasy, turned into a monster by the trolls of the Internet just for their own benefit. This, in turn, broke this person's mental health. I am aware that this person is the most documented person in history of the Internet if not the world. From failed love quests, terrors from internet trolls to a disgusting act to their own flesh and blood. Yes, I'm writing this while trying to hold my breakfast from spewing out and ruining my computer in the process.

 

            This story started in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA on the 24th of February 1982. A baby boy by the name of Christopher Weston Chandler was born from his parents Barbara Anne Weston and Robert Franklin Chandler Jr. Now bear in mind, the couple are in the middle to late ages when baby Christopher was brought to the world. Barbara was 40 years old, and her husband was 54 years of age. During his early childhood, he was mute until the age of 7, and was diagnosed with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (Asperger's syndrome) when he was 5. By his own accounts, his autism was first triggered when he was locked up inside a dark toy room by an abusive babysitter when he was merely four months old. His education experiences did not help the case either. He first attended Greene County Primary School until third grade, being enrolled since kindergarten. He then switched to Nathaniel Greene Elementary School, where he experienced many forms of abuse from pinning him to the ground to audio taping his cries. He then home-schooled in fifth grade, and then attended Province Middle School, where he would graduate in 1996. He then enrolled to Piedmont Virginia Community College, majoring in Computer-Aided Drafting and Design, and graduated in 2006.

 

            Since he has high-functioning autism, like most autistic kids in general, he has imaginative mind and tend to live on his own fantasies, and he was socially awkward. In 2000, he created his own original character Sonichu. You might wonder what Sonichu is. In short, he fused two characters from two different series to form a hybrid fictional character he could call his own, those two being Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu from the Pokémon anime series. He did this for his computer graphics class. He had to design a CD album cover, but with one condition: he was not allowed to use copyrighted characters. He circumvents this rule by creating Sonichu. Appearance-wise, Sonichu retains the original Sonic appearance, but added more details from Pikachu like yellow skin with black streaks instead of blue, and the electric Pokémon’s tails and ears. around 2005, specifically in March, he released his first Sonichu comic web series. He then solidified Sonichu's existence by releasing more comics and some merchandise and memorabilia like his Sonichu Medallion made from (supposedly) crayons. The comic was discovered in 2007 by 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica, making Chandler something of a celebrity on the internet circle. But due to his childish drawing style, and the solemn fact that he cannot distinguish the distorted lines between the internet and real life (a byproduct of autism), he became the prime target for trolls.

 

            There is another side to the story that might be contradicting between this person's early life and current life. One of those is before his gender transition, Chandler was known as Christopher Weston Chandler, then legally changed to Christian Weston Chandler. He was raised in a strict conservative household and shaped his mind with various opinions like homophobia and racial superiority. To add to this, he never received any therapies regarding his autism. Hell, he hated pickles due to the shape that reminds him of a penis, because of his homophobic views at the time while proclaiming himself as straight. During this time, Chandler have been engaged with a love quest to find himself a "boyfriend-free girlfriend". He once had a real-life female friend named Megan Schroeder, whom he befriended in 2005. He once tried to woo her by entering a competition called ChopChop Master Onion's Rap Showdown, with the winner received a PlayStation Portable version of PaRappa the Rapper. But his advancements failed, as another entry, submitted by someone named Adam Stackhouse on behalf of his sister won the prize instead. This infuriated a dejected Chandler, and to make things worse, Megan herself expressed her relief for his loss, while also stated her discomfort towards his behavior. He once got suspended from his college for an attempt of soliciting female students via a sign seeking for a romantic partner, and supposedly did indecent acts towards them. This in turn lead him to Mary Lee Walsh, later depicted by his Sonichu comic as the main villain.

 

            Along the way during his love quest, in 2008 he met someone online by the name of Blanca. But in reality, it was a troll assuming the Blanca identity. They initiated a deep communication culminating to "Blanca" requested Chandler to send his prized Sonichu medallion, which in turn, the troll blew their "Blanca" cover and proceeded to record themselves destroying the medallion by cutting it into pieces, burning it, urinating on it, and to rub more salt to the wound, dump it inside a jar full of pickles. Another instance was at the same year, when "Julie" came along. The reason why I put quotation marks is because "Julie" was another troll created by someone under the name of BlueSpike. Julie was portrayed as a girl interested in Chandler. Over the course of the relationship, "Julie" asked Chandler to send her clips of him performing sex acts on an inflatable doll while yelling Julie’s name. BlueSpike then added more fuel to the fire by creating another persona, this time named "Max", posed as the younger brother of "Julie" while maintaining the previous persona as a separate character. Under this guise, he hacked into Chandler's PlayStation Network account and threatened him to sell it on eBay and putting their relationship to a stop, unless Chandler fulfilled his request of saying that "Billy Mays is the mayor of CWCville" and told him to "shove that Sonichu medallion up his ass". One instance of love trolling happened in real life. It started when Chandler met a girl named Emily. Unlike previous two instances (from countless others), this time, Emily is a real-life girl. they went on a date together, with Chandler's dad in tow, doing most of the talking. After some time, Robert Jr excuses himself so that his son (at the time) and Emily could have some time together. And this was the time when a man in a pickle suit came and snatched her away from Chandler's hands. It was later revealed that Emily and the pickle suit man were co-conspirators to troll Chandler further. 

 

            The trolling didn't stop at Chandler's love quest either. Many of those involving Sonichu. One of them happened around the same time as the "Blanca" saga when a troll, under the guise of English football personality Jimmy Hill, claimed that he is the real creator of Sonichu, and that he successfully turned the series into a franchise in the UK. The depiction for this troll's version of Sonichu was miles away from Chandler's depiction. One defining difference being that Sonichu on the troll's side was depicted as gay (supposedly an effort to upset him), and Chandler himself was described as an evil robot. Impersonation seems to be the trolls' primary weapon in this scenario, as another one, this time by the name of Clyde Cash, posing as Nintendo game director Shigeru Miyamoto and president of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime to break the (fake) news to Chandler that a Sonichu game was considered and rejected. The more prolific case was in late June 2009, when "Liquid Chris" came along. This sparks a "CWCivil War" between Chandler, at that time dubbed as "Solid Chris" and "Liquid Chris", trying to proof themselves as the real Chris Chan. In this context, Liquid Chris, who is the obvious impersonator, accused Solid Chris (Chandler) to be an impostor. 

 

            Some paragraphs ago I mentioned about Encyclopedia Dramatica's discovery of the Sonichu series. And after said discovery, Chandler was mocked relentlessly for the contents inside it, which was filled with homophobia, ridiculing women and narcissistic and manipulative behavior. In 2011, he began identifying himself as a tomgirl, and (this is where the pronouns changed) came out as a transgender woman in 2016, now known as Christine Weston Chandler. Her reasoning is because of high frequency videos she watched that eventually lead her to get an orchiectomy. She then further identifies herself as a lesbian transwoman. By this time, her father had already passed away, leaving her with Barbara. Her identity was disapproved by her family. 

 

            The most infamous troll saga post-transition done by a group called The Idea Guys happened from late October 2017 until their ousting on April 2018. During that time, they allegedly exploited the fact that her Sonichu universe also doubles as her own coping mechanism and proceeded to tear it limb-to-limb with various absurd and outright disgusting ideas. The first one was to alter the CWCverse to suit their ideas instead of Chris' by posing as her imaginary friends, pitching absurdities such as switching Sonichu's birthday to 20th of March, in reference to Adolf Hitler's birthdate and to marijuana (4/20), crazy characters like Bundychu, which is a character based on rapist and murderer Ted Bundy, to purposely played the role as Nazis convincing Christine to destroy the Christine Doll, convinced to have been bugged. They also managed to extort US$ 6.000 worth of gift cards, video games and other accessories by constantly threatened to destroy the fictional universe of CWCville. Their ousting began when the first one revealed to be Joshua Allen Wise, was doxed on 22nd January 2018. This followed by another doxing of Stephen Boyd, who allegedly was partnering Wise, and picked up where he left off two days after Wise had been ousted. 

 

            And the mother of all cases caused by aggressive online trolls happened on the 30th of July 2021, when a phone conversation was leaked by someone named Bella, known as Isabella Janke, probably Christine's most infamous and demented troll she ever encountered. In this phone conversation, she managed to extract a confession by Chandler about her sexual relationship with her 80-year-old, dementia-ridden mother. She detailed on how an old lady, suffering from a degenerative condition, made her first move on her own daughter, and proceeded to fuck her. A snippet of the conversation revealed that the alleged sexual assault happened since June. There were also text messages where Chandler confirmed this. There are also videos where Christine put a camera to a confused Barbara in order to promote her Patreon page, by telling her mother, who is not mentally present, to advertise said page. First of all, I want to stress that incest in any shape or form is illegal and morally demented. But to rape your own mother with dementia is another level of "what the fuck is this fucker doing" insanity. Seriously. You must be so mentally demented to do it. But then again, Christine's behavior stems from decades of endless troll she was subjected to. She was arrested on the 1st of August and charged with one count of incest, classified as a Class 5 felony in the state of Virginia. 

 

            When I first became aware of this story, I have a bit of a curious mind to see just what transpires all these events mentioned above. At first, I think of it as "this person is quite messed up in the head", but after those stories, videos, and other disgusting details, I am now appalled by all those trolls and all the parental failure that eventually shaped Chandler to be this monster that she is today. What she did to her elderly mother cannot be justified, but what those trolls did to her in the first place is more fucked up. 

 

            To close this, Chris Chan, known as Christine Chandler, born Christopher Chandler was another kid with autism who just want to live a normal life in real life and her own fantasy. She was raised in a heavily conservative family, but later transitioned into a woman. Her comic series was created by fusing two characters from two different series to create a new character and in turn, her own universe. She was subjected to many trolls that took advantage on her autism. From failed love quest to the mental destruction and dismantling of her fantasy world. She currently charged for sexually assaulted her dementia-ridden mother. After this, I don't know if I want to do another true crime story, this piece alone is pretty demented as it is. But I don't know, I might counter another story similar to this, and in turn, maybe I would turn them into another piece. And until then, stay safe, get your jabs, wash your hands, stay out of crowds, and always two meters apart at all times.