I was betting on a mental institution but this is America and everyone that should be in a mental institution is now either homeless or in prison.

The internet is disgusting.

Didn't mean to make that a reply.

@Rodents of Unusual Size

The depressing thing to me about this is that Chris-chan is the by product of a lack of exposition to autism, not just knowledge wise, but day to day living. If I were to say anything on the subject and how to find your way through it, I would have to say two things. 1. Understand addiction. A therapist I had didn't give the full disclosure, but their response to my one beer a month or less sounded like my condition was very susceptible to psychological/emotional addiction. 2. Being able to reveal the person's own emotions and intent to them in relation to everything else. That's no doubt the biggest difference between Chris and any other person with autism/asperger's. I believe there is a stage where everything is fine and you have a lot of energy, then you get into a situation that tells you something is wrong with you. If I recall correctly, they got a diagnosis, but left it up to faith to deal with him. So that's just a lovely box to put Chris-chan in with the thought that some how he WOULDN'T retain some horribly marred personality trait, as if he were to immediately understand where faith even applies.

It depends on whether we're talking voluntary treatment or involuntary treatment. Involuntary institutionalization is itself a form of imprisonment, only without the same moral justification or the legal safeguards guaranteeing the prisoners' rights.

It would be nice if Chris could get treatment, and to the best of my knowledge, he *has* been getting it, ever since he was a child. But mental health providers can only do so much, and are only effective when the patient is willing; Chris is who he is, and it's up to him to decide how he measures his own quality of life.

I guess an argument could be made at this point that Chris is a danger to himself and others, but really, he scribbled on a poster and spritzed mace on a guy's chest. It may or may not be *legally* considered assault, but come on - it's not like he's walking around stabbing babies and punching old people.

Yeah.. assault's assault though. If this had happened at a bar, well shit like this happens all the time, and of the two, a shot of Bacardi 151 to the eyes hurts a lot more than tear gas or mace. So technically, it's the location. I reluctantly had to go to the mall over the holidays and saw a few things that would constitute assault even if nobody was hurt. Things like a lovers' quarrel ending in someone soaked with Orange Julius, technically that's assault on private property. Even going up to someone you didn't know and flicked their ear or something is still assault.

It's difficult to say what will happen, given that it's doubtful anyone involved in the case knows what the fuck this debate is about, even if they're casual gamers themselves. Chances are they'd know more about a theoretical case where someone sharpied over the crossguard lightsabre on an Episode VII display than Sonic's arms. That, and testimony from internet folks, trolls or reliable sources, doesn't necessarily hold up in court.

what sort of person would waste an Orange Julius on some ho

Probably the same sort of person who would risk serious jail time over the color of Sonic the Hedgehog's arms..

@zest

Having had both sorts of things in my eyes, I'd say any kind of defensive spray hurts at least 10 times more and can last hours. Getting rum in the eyes stings a lot for a few minutes but once you flush it out you're fine. And drunk.

If memory serves, I think he got thrown out of Target last month for pulling this same shit.

I guess being the punching bag of every other online idiot would make one paranoid. I mean, shit, they were even going through his garbage.

Not that this excuses his behavior. Vandalism and assault, caught on video no less. His freedom is gone, and that may be for the best.

I suspect that he's a bit too deluded to get to that state of paranoia. Still evil as shit that people will take on harassing a mentally and emotionally incapacitated 30+ year old and call it legit all because they feel they can say he should know better.

Jail is hell. Don't think it's for the best. What he needs is mental health, not the dehumanizing environment of jail.

I should clarify, he probably has been in a similar state, but doesn't understand the full view of the state. So he'd be presenting blurbs and pieces of that kind of paranoia, but not the full scale.

Shoebox is correct

No, the Snyder incident was back in 2011 and he had a year's probation.

Apparently Chris's probation wasn't supposed to end 'til 2015.

http://cwckiforums.com/threads/chris-chan-sighting-at-gamestop -with-video.6732/page-7

~Enormous Red Straw (A little below half the page)

"As Chris revealed to Colin circa September 2014, his probation for the Snyder incident doesn't expire until June 2015:"

Yikes. One of my neighbors violated his probation (drugs) in a sting at a college (surprise, selling drugs..) and I think he'll be locked up until 2020, and this was back in 2011. It was sad because I helped his mom move out all his stuff. He'll probably get out early for good behavior (really laid back guy like most drug dealers) something tells me that Chris Chan might be in there for a long, long time. :(

Didn't even think of the violating probation thing. I wonder how he'll survive in the big house.

Yeah, the forums are definitely giving me the same ubiquitous sense of self-entitlement and politically incorrect, I'm a special special cynical snowflake vibe that floats around the orgasm pools of congealed righteousness.

Why is it racist? As far as I'm concerned you can be any color and 'chimp out'. Besides that super racist chimpout website, I've never really been familiar with it as a racist term.

I suspect it's racist because it goes directly with the double standards that a lot of closet and open racists have when using gentrification for their views. It doesn't sound that racist to me, but it's like George Carlin's Richard Pryor skit. It's not about the word, it's about the people who use that word. Since there's bigots using the word as a pejorative, there's a lot less gray area to give the use of it any slack.

The CWC forms are full of horrible people trying to convince themselves that they're not horrible.

Devoid of any context, epithets involving apes/monkeys are usually thought to be targeted at minorities due to years and years of comparing them to such. From cartoons to justifications for slavery, racism, etc., dark-skinned minorities were compared to various primates to denote them as being sub-human.

Blame the white people who started the trend.

Five stars for the bottomless vortex of self-righteous Internet hypocrisy that always begins with "Well at least I'm not as bad as tge guy who looks at the guy who looks at the guy who looks at the guy."

You are all here for the freak show as much as anyone on tge CWCipedia. At least they're honest enough to admit it.

I've watched maybe 3 CWC videos in my life, tops. They're sad and depressing.

I'm here for the freak show in the comments.

I find the people on the cwc forums to be for lack of a better term disgusting. Who in their right minds would treat this guy as mentally competent? And yet they feel the need to judge this person by his deeds as if he is, and all the crazy stuff he does are all because he's a lazy coddled and manipulative man-baby and all this would be solved if he only got a JERB. The man clearly cannot learn from his mistakes, there's no rational reason for his actions: he falls for the same ploys by trolls and bullies who then say "he's falling for the same tricks because he's such an awful person and he gets away with everything" while not realizing that he falls for these tricks because he's fucking autistic.

On a side note every chris chan video I see causes my bully instincts to kick in, that alone is a red flag to me that makes me question the moral righteousness of those who hate him so much.

One thing I should mention, I've felt pretty sheltered most of my life and if it weren't for a few events in my life, I would've been just as bold and stupid as Chris-Chan.

Sexy Duck Cop, please don't go about that stupid circular apologetic logic about a forum that assumes having ambiguously offensive words out in the open will make anything easier to spot. That's just stupid and makes you look like a righteous cunt.

Baron Von Bad Beaver: I don't know if there's any on the forums, but there are people out there who have become so jaded by all the people self-diagnosing themselves with autism as an excuse for their shitty behavior (and those genuinely autistic people who also use it as an excuse) that they have come to believe that high-functioning autism doesn't exist.

Also: If you claim on the forums that it's all because of CHris's autism, you'll be called a white-knight. And if you claim it's all because of CHris himself, you'll be called an 'A-Log'. And they are not good at finding a middle ground. I think a lot of them just want the story of Chris to end - there was probably much groaning when he didn't get put in a mental hospital or group home the first time he went to court, and such a thing will probably never happen.

FREE BLOWJOBS WUHHHHHH

Close, but I don't think John Waters would put some one with this much lack of style in on of his movies.

Chris is John Waters stripped of all pretense. I'd love to see Mr Waters try and tackle a Sonichu film, but I'm afraid that Chris would be too much, even for him.

Cognitive, you may enjoy this:

http://youtu.be/QOQNXv0g77I

And yet Christian has already lived your skit before you could write it. It's like The Simpsons bathed in tragedy.

Exactly. And he filmed that Pink Flamingos tribute in 2010, before he officially started crossdressing!

Chris is truly a visionary artist.

It is pretty sad all around for just about everyone involved.

Good thing the security guard isn't a furry so we can laugh at the assault.

Jesus christ, shut the fuck up Spikesotiouaeiou

MAKE ME, GAYLORD

I would but you're a furry.

Who is laughing at the assault exactly?

I wonder if they'll take his vagina of his soul ring away.

It's already gone. Apparently he got a couple infections, and had to remove the piercing in early December.

Jesus, I'm so glad I'm not his PCP.

Missing a sarcasm tag?

Barbara is a shitty person in her own right and horribly abused Chris' half-brother, the New York-based film critic Cole Smithy.

He's facing Class 6 Felony charges, and the first thing he says is:

"To preface what has happened recently, I simply remind everyone that Sonic The Hedgehog's Arms Are Not Freaking Blue!!!"

I also love the part about hiding all the merchandise at Toys R Us and Best Buy.

That was extremely painful to read. I don't think it's going to get any worse unless Barbera does anything. Chris-chan seems like he has a pretty big wall covering him.

The replies on his facebook seem like they're from pretty down to earth people. I know it's facebook so they could be from anywhere (only one of them so far appears to live near him in his home state) but it's good to know that he has some supportive friends during this time.

Like, think about something that you're really passionate about, and it changes completely, like when Dylan went electric. In that case, someone just shouted out "Judas" and that was that, but other musicians routinely get pelted with beer bottles and such by their old school fans after they've "sold out," and in some cases get their equipment fucked with. It might seem strange to us (and definitely the employees at GameStop,) but to Chris, Sonic as Sonic was a large part of his world, and now all the art, toys and whatever else he has isn't right. I'd imagine a lot of MLP fans would be pissed if they changed Applejack's hat from brown to red, and eventually someone would do something about it.. I dunno.. I'm not condoning his action but I can sort of put myself in his shoes by proxy.

Bronies got really mad about changing Twilight from a unicorn into an alicorn, but to be fair, the issue was not so much the cosmetic change, but rather the shift in group dynamics. The show worked, in part, because there was no one "star" character; all six of the mane ponies were treated equally, and were just as important to the plot - you could have a favorite pony, and she'd be just as badass as the rest of them. Now Twi was always in danger of being treated as first-amongst-equals, as being a little too special and yoonique, so when she became a magical MareySue alicorn goddess for realsies, fans were legitimately worried that the show was about to go full Animal Farm. Fortunately, the writers salvaged things in Season Four: they knocked Twi down a few pegs and gave her very few showcase episodes, but the Season Three finale was still without a doubt the worst episode in the entire series so far (even counting Equestria Girls).

As for me, I'm sort of mad that NRS killed off Kitana, and will probably NOT buy the new Mortal Kombat game unless they bring her back. I've also stopped buying Elder Scrolls titles since they removed Acrobatics as a skill. I would never go so far as to conduct violent guerilla culture-jamming operations, of course, because that's stupid... or maybe I'm just lazy? As I said earlier, Chris is a man of convictions. His convictions may be petty, they may be misplaced, but he is the sort of person who is willing to fight and die for his beliefs. That's admirable! That is, I think, what really elevates him above most other eccentric internet people, what causes so many people to flock to his forums and hang on his every word. He's Ed Wood, a hopeless hero with no talent but boundless determination and an unshakeable vision. Sure, he's crazy, and that Facebook manifesto is... wow. Hoooollly shit. But I ask you all: how many of *us* would face Felony charges with the boldness and clarity of purpose that Chris is displaying?