BEWARE ALL TOXIC HATERS, SINNERS, AND DARKEST DEMONICS, FOR I AM Jesus Christine Weston Chandler Sonichu, the Goddess Blue Heart, and your lord and god. AND I BRING, PERSONALLY, THE SECOND COMING.
Christine Weston Chandler, also known as the infamous Chris-chan, might be the most surveilled person in history. A website named the CWCki is dedicated to documenting her every move and aspect of her life. The front page of the CWCki has multiple data counters ranging from the last time she was seen in public (3 days), her last job application(5265 days), and an illustrated guide to her wardrobe since 2004. Kiwifarms, the forum dedicated to doxxing and harassing lolcows, originated on CWCki forums. Chris-chan has been online since the 1990’s, and was discovered by users of 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica in 2007. Chris-chan is the creator of Sonichu, a comic about a Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu hybrid that is mostly based off of Chris’s real life. She believes that a dimensional merge will occur that will blend reality with the Sonichu universe, where she will ascend into godhood since she was the creator and prophet of Sonichu.
Chris-chan is a public spectacle. She is no longer considered a human, but public domain. Through both her own actions and her trolls she has been completely alienated from any sense of private life. Her every move is now determined by how her surveyors will acquire and perceive the information.
Christine Weston Chandler and other so called lolcows are embodiments of the spectacle in a capitalist society as described by philosopher Guy Debord’s 1967 Society of The Spectacle. “In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.” There is no sense of offline for Chris - her inescapable online presence follows her from Walmart to Central Virginia Regional Jail. Her life revolves around capitalism due to her apocalyptic proselytizing of Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokemon coming to life. She has financially struggled due to her online shopping habits, and only makes money off of her brand as a lolcow.
Society of the Spectacle describes the alienation and exploitation that capitalist societies utilize in order to pacify and control the masses.
The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation. The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living .
Chris-chan’s offline life is a simulacrum of an internet forum. In her attempt to gain in real life attention from women during her Love Quest in 2003, she became popular in online communities instead. The more vulgar Chris-chan became while interacting with trolls in order to prove her values and identity, the more attention she gained.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
Chris-chan’s Christory is documented solely through social relations. Her life prior to encountering trolls is documented through leaked e-mails. Her life is seen through her YouTube videos and Skype logs. People are not encouraged to approach or interact with Chris-chan in real life, her life is only to be observed and discussed on forums and her image is to be preserved on the CWCwiki. Chris-Chan: A Comprehensive Documentary, is an 84 part (and counting) YouTube series by Genosamuel2.1 is solely dedicated to Christory. Chris as a spectacle becomes a discussion among the anonymous masses. Her past, present, and future is dictated by these social relationships developed between her and her trolls.
Despite coming from a low-to middle class background, Chris-chan is a symbol of the ruling capitalist economy. Chris and her parents are hoarders. They are obsessed with acquiring material goods insofar putting their home and health at risk in order to maintain their possessions and continue shopping. Chris’s life revolves around brands to the point of wanting them to become real through the Dimensional Merge. Consumption of goods pacify Chris’s difficult reality and struggles as an autistic person. Any negative life events experienced by Chris-chan are only processed through a capitalist lens, whether it be through a Sonichu comic or a custom Little Big Planet level.
As a spectacle, Chris-chan has been at the whim of her trolls as a signifier of a failure of capitalist society from all aspects (social, mental, physical, etc).
The economic system founded on isolation is a circular production of isolation. The technology is based on isolation, and the technical process isolates in turn. From the automobile to television, all the goods selected by the spectacular system are also its weapons for a constant reinforcement of the conditions of isolation of “lonely crowds.” The spectacle constantly rediscovers its own assumptions more concretely… The spectacle originates in the loss of the unity of the world, and the gigantic expansion of the modern spectacle expresses the totality of this loss…
The dedication of her online communities are examples of “lonely crowds”. Anonymous users gather together in forums in order to view and perpetuate Chris-chan’s spectacle. Every trolls actions are guided by their own individual sense of morality and are able to protect themselves behind a profile. The trolls are as alienated from society as Chris and reinforce the capitalist ideology of individualism and power. They take turns exploiting Chris monetarily, sexually, and mentally in order to gain whatever each troll is personally seeking. Chris-chan’s reactions towards the trolls thus continues the cycle of the spectacle.
The need to imitate which is felt by the consumer is precisely the infantile need conditioned by all the aspects of his fundamental dispossession… “the abnormal need for representation here compensates for a tortuous feeling of being on the margin of existence.”
An example of the trolls’ desire to imitate the spectacle can be seen in 2007 with Liquid Chris. Liquid Chris, aka Christopher Duckworth, was a troll that impersonated Chris-chan’s likeness in order to receive negative attention from her for the lulz. Despite having no intention of legitimately stealing Chris’s identity, the desire to mimic Chris-chan displayed a need of trying to bridge the gap of alienation. Liquid Chris attempted to seek representation in Chris-chan’s Christory in order to fulfill his own capitalistic desires of attempting to own a piee of the commodity that is Chris-chan.
Without Chris-chan, Kiwifarms and contemporary trolling methods and terminology would look very different. She is the epitome of an online spectacle. Christine Weston Chandler’s humanity is martyred in order to become the image of a failed society.
The agent of the spectacle placed on stage as a star is the opposite of the individual, the enemy of the individual in himself as well as in others.
Please, just forget about me in total; please, disband all online groups and individual hatreds against me; please, remove everything about me off of the Internet, your minds, and your hearts.