(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.
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