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THIS SERIES NEEDS TO END ALREADY. YOU ARE COMPLICIT IN THE HARASSMENT OF CHRIS. Letting this series run for over 79 episodes is absurd and completely unnecessary. Maybe this series does help deter SOME people from harassing cwc because it shows how horrible the trolls have been, but I think it causes a larger amount of people to become morbidly obsessed with her and go down the pipeline to become a troll that harasses her. Anyone that gets involved in the toxic and disgusting community of people who view cwc as entertainment has the potential to become a troll. I guarantee this series has much more of a negative impact than a positive impact and Geno should be called out on that more often.
@@bluepenguin6559 you do realize you're just enabling HIS behavior right. he's not actually trans - he's legitimately insane. also, stop defending a RAPIST please.
I've been listening to it at work, currently at episode 42-46ish. Good way to just turn your brain off and listen. Though, I was really interested in what I was missing visually so I'm restarting the entire thing
Everyone says that Chris’s story has no heroes, nor villains, but I think this isn’t right. Barbara is probably one of the biggest villains of his life. Not allowing him to grow up, pampering him, making him adapt her hoarding behaviors that messed up his life forever.
Rewatching this has me wondering how Geno managed to capture _grief_ so thoroughly. Maybe it's because Chris's entire life has just been an endless cascade of loss.
Make no mistake, Chris is a monster. But every time I see that video that kid winning the sweepstakes I can't help but tear up a little bit. Poor fella has no idea everything that he has to go through.
Thank you, who did the russian subtitles. And thank you who did this project. Just enjoying the quality west content. Stunning shit, cant believe that person actually exists till present, mind-blowing.
Good Ending: Chris listens to his father and becomes a successful weather scientist and enjoyer of retro items, opening up a UA-cam channel on vintage items.
I feel like this is me (minus the cop part) I've seen video about this guy show up in my tik tok and I know VERY little of what's currently going on. So I'm holding on like I'm about to go on a rollercoaster.
What I find most interesting is how Chris Chan has had so many tv and news appearances even before the sonichu infamy. It's almost like he was destined to be documented since childhood
Morphing Taxi his body language was different, though. In still pictures, medium-high functioning autistic people look normal, but on video, the illusion is shattered.
@Zac sesz "I saw one picture of him, analyzed it, and now I know his childhood.. and why they chose him" Lmao wtf? He looks and talks like any other normal child that age. The thing is, Chris just stopped aging mentally around 10-12.
Here’s a note to everyone watching this: your autism will not make you end up like Chris Chan Chris Chans autism mixed with abuse and his personal decisions made him who he is today
Also if your an autistic person watching this and you don't want to end up like Chris Chan you won't because you are already self ware of your behavior in order not to end up like him. If you keep on being a good person you won't end up like him. Also not everyone who gets abused will end up like the abuser, again if you are aware of your actions and you try hard not to repeat the actions of your abusers you won't end up like your abusers.
preach, I have an autistic niece and nephew, And a very autistic neighbor, Chris Chans behavior and transgressions have nothing to do with their autism. It’s possible to be both a horrible person and also autistic. It’s possible to be a predator and also autistic. People are placing way too much emphasis on the autistic part. It’s OK to empathize with someone for being autistic and it’s OK to have compassion and sensitivity to people who are on the spectrum not only that but with any mental illness or physical affliction but we can’t forget the horrendous things that this person has done and I’ve seen in the comments on a lot of Chris Chan videos autistic people expressing concern that somehow they are more predisposed to becoming a monster like this, and I’m gonna say it loud and say it clear for the people in the back: no, you are not autism does not create things like this! It’s not an excuse for things like this it’s not incidental to things like this don’t have that fear you are who you are. You may be someone with autism, but that doesn’t define you as a person that’s not your identity. You are a person with autism not an autistic person remember that
When I first started watching this series I was terrified of ending up like Chris. I have Autism and saw many things we had in common, and it scared me. But that fear inspired me to be a better and kinder person and fight against the worst parts of myself. It's just tragic that christory is what helped me become a better person.
@@sarairuiz2369 Oh boy. You are in for quite the ride my friend. This documentary series while sometimes hilarious is like watching a violent train crash that just doesn’t end but you can’t look away from it
@@nicolaslg1421 Ive watched it all already and my soul isnt drained, Im just amazed at the trainwreck that is Chris Chan, he is a fascinating individual but in a disturbing way
"I hope you will not misuse, waste, or destroy the many things I have collected for you" This documentary has better foreshadowing than Attack on Titan
The way they destroyed everything is disrespectful but don’t burden your kids with different collections of thousands of items , some with very little value and than request that they cherish and enjoy everything. I wouldn’t know what to do with it if my dad left me hundreds of vcr tapes and thousands of old magazines.
@@ДавайДосвидания-м4у Any normal person would just curate the collection, sell the excess for a decent price, and keep the legacy alive. Not that hard.
@@ImaTroper any normal person has a job and a life and they don’t have time to peruse such large collections of old magazines , recoding of all types and books to see what has meaning . Just learning about it to see what has value , and then taking the time to find a buyer or to sell it individually online , that’s a second job with the amount he had. Just the selling part would take such a long time. Now Chris never has done anything , he could have made a job out of it but to anyone with a life , that’s a nightmarish inheritance.
I'm strapped in and ready to go. The only thing that bothers me so far is anything to do with his mother, knowing what I know....It's super super dark.
Sure ,Chris did wrong,but people are treating this like it was the fucking Jonestown massacre. Chris doesn't even deserve prison,Chris can't be judged normally cuz her mind is way beyond lost,Chris needs a mental insitute and the right treatment. Sure,keep Chris in the institution for a long time if necessary,but putting Chris in the middle of common criminals who did crimes out of true evil and not because of mental problems is just cruel.
I have my Masters in Intellectual Disability/Autism and currently work as a head special ed teacher. I've watched this entire series because it is truly a remarkable case study of what happens when Autism and disabilities are not taken seriously from a young age. The story of Chris being locked in the toy room, his parents leaving him with a baby sitter, possible abuse from school staff, his dad paying girls off to be his friend, and everything else in Part I truly lay the groundwork for everything we see down the line. Chris had the unfortunate lot in life to be born in 1980s rural Virginia to an elderly couple that was not equipped and unwilling to get him the help that he needed, and a school system that wasn't equipped to help him either. If he had the proper support from a young age he could have lived a relatively healthy and normal life. I think about the teacher who he liked the most, she seems to have been the only adult in his life that actually treated him with dignity and tried to help him succeed (and truly believed he could have). People talk up Bob a lot, and while he was a sad man and earnest, he mostly wanted Chris to preserve his legacy and be seen as "normal" over everything else. Paying people to befriend him and ignore his disability doomed him to a life of delusion and agony. Every day I think about Chris and the work I do to help kids like him, and I try my darndest to make sure something like this never happens again. Truly gives me purpose tbh.
You talk like your discipline would have resulted in a different outcome, but you honestly can't say for sure if Chris had been born in 2023, and with all the theory and approach to autistic kids of today, if the outcome for Chris would have been any different.
@@jackrussell3084 You are 100% right, but Chris also did a ton of things in high school that were completely ignored by everyone involved, just something to think about. But yeah, every autistic kid has much better outcomes now over those born in the 80s.
@@jackrussell3084 Thing is, we'll never know what could or could not have been for Chris, but what did happen turned out to be one crazy fucked up life.
@@jackrussell3084 chris was definitely a bad person from the get go however terrible parenting, a lack of support and relentless bullying only exacerbated his issues. chris and everyone involved with chris’ life would have been better off if chris was actually taken care of.
So, I have a question. I have Asperger's, or what's considered "high functioning" autism. Compared to myself and other socially high functioning neurodivergent people I know, Chris Chan is a living dumpster fire. As in, every single decision they make leads to tragedy for either themself, those around them, or both. I don't see how someone like them could be considered "high functioning" in any sense. So would they still be considered as "high functioning" by today's standards? I mean, we have a lot more medical knowledge about those on the autism spectrum now. I feel like Chris Chan was only diagnosed as "high functioning" when they were little because they weren't entirely non verbal. So in your expert opinion, where on the "high functioning" to "low functioning" spectrum would you place Chris on?
@@ThomasWilson4 Except that Truman lived in a *nice* environment... A welcoming town, full of friendly people. They even provided a nice wife, job and home for him - none of which Chris has. Chris Chan's life is more like another film of the time called "Dark City", where the protagonist is being watched continually and his life controlled by dark forces who alter every aspect of his life. He cannot escape the city, and does not know what to do about it, at least to begin with. (This film was pre-Matrix and less well remembered.)
The sheer amount of records archived of this family is incredible. I wouldn't have at all expected that radio program Bob hosted to be recorded and released.
It sucks, but honestly, it's kinda whatever. I'd possibly do the same. He got no enjoyment out of them, so what exactly is the point in keeping them? If anything, it's possibly better because the collections could go to someone that actually cares about them. At least he didn't throw them out. I was given a random quarter collection some years back, but I really didn't care about it outside of the fact that it was money. So I've been using them as laundry money lately.
I'd rather that he sell them. Seriously. It's clear to me that Chris never respected his father's wishes in the first place and probably only remembers the letters from his dad because Geno put them all into videos. And while it's not like Chris will suddenly start cutting the hoard down just because he sold a part of it, it's better that those records and stamps find homes where they can be appreciated. Whether it be by people genuinely interested in collecting these things, or by people merely interested in Christory or those wanting to pay respects to Bob's wishes. I only hope he sells them for what they're worth. But knowing Chris he has no clue how to even start appraising what he has. And either sells it for far, far more than it's worth or criminally undercuts himself.
After a certain point, he knows, he just doesn't care because he has the white knights to wipe his ass for him every time. Up until the Barbussy incident.
fake friends are a nightmare , but figuring it out is a blessing . too bad he found out too late . (whatever he has done , being autistic kid , being fake friended is fucked , paying them even worse !) u better can know it by analyzing how they act around others versus u . fake friendships u can hold on to but they only hurt ya at the end .
It's kinda hard to say "most documented person" because Chris is only in his 30s and most of that documentation is from 2007 onward, so there's half of Chris's life we know relatively little about. Just look at how little time it takes in this series before we get to the trolling. It's also worth pointing out that documenting someone's life is more than just archiving their life. Besides this documentary, there are very few GOOD documentaries about Chris. Most are just 20 minute videos by orbiters jumping on a trend. There is very little informative text about Chris. Mostly news articles or the CWCki. As far as I know there are no biographies of Chris. To be fair, he's still alive, and that would be a lawsuit waiting to happen. Chris is probably the most ARCHIVED person in history. And eventually one day maybe he'll be the most documented. But it's unlikely. He just doesn't have the worldwide fame someone like Napoleon or Lincoln had. No historians or documentarians are out there looking to make a 5 volume biography of Chris.
You know why? Cause Chris himself dox the hell out of his own to the internet for whatever reason why. But can't blame him tho, he was very much autistic and bad people took advantage of that. The fault lies heavily on his parent for never properly addressing his issues and basically ignoring it his whole life. Could've taken him out of the internet, could've sent him to a mental hospital to help him but ofc not a single of those thing ever happened in his life.
@@JEMRocker Nah, that's taking accountability away from everyone around Chris and Chris themself. Chris def could have turned out slightly better with different parents imo
it's crazy to me how Chris talks more clearly as a teenager than he does currently as a 40 year old man. he can barely form sentences without muttering or stammering nowadays.
Probably because he was actually doing *some* socializing in high school. For the past 20 years the only social interactions he's had have been over the internet with people who are almost never who they say they are. (Outside of the rare convention visit, or GameStop trespassing) As shitty of a person as Chris is, can you imagine HALF of your entire life being spent never communicating with a "real" person?
edit: please stop coming back here for updating it, this comment is 7 months old. the jury when they realize they're only 1 episode into the 65 part documentary
I know he abused Megan and did that to Barb but I still feel bad for him He was abused and groomed as a child and didn't get help what to you expect? SOB STORIES ARE VALID
I think chris is a case of someone who was far too vulnerable to manipulation, and was preyed upon by horrible people and warped chris to become awful too. Not excusing any actions, but i think its a very very complicated situation.
The "Christian Weston Chandler Show" bit is so fucking haunting when you consider that Chris's life became the closet thing we have to a real world Truman Show.
Man, I was just thinking about that. Only real difference being that Chris was mostly aware of it, though since he constantly fell for so many trolls I guess you could make the argument he was unaware to a degree.
Also fitting that it was the first video he made of himself when he said that. It was the opening of the show. Whoever gave Chris a camera and taught him to film himself had no idea of the lovecraftian horror they initiated.
People always say that, but I think the similarities are only external. Chris Chan, differently from Truman, is an unlikable asshole whom we can only pity and despise
Jesus man that’s too true that it’s almost cruel. Tragic really. Like other commenter said, I believe he even referenced the movie. RIP Sonichu for the for coming years 😂😂
@@JBRewind Everything with Liquid Chris and Kacey and her "father" was pure Truman show. Everyone else just actors pretending and only Chris Chan thinking it's real, all broadcast for our entertainment.
imagine being in The Truman show, but youre Truman. Except that you know that there is no escape. No wall to break through, no director to lash out at. This is the reality that Chris Chan is living in.
Don't worry. It's counterbalanced by Chris being too stupid to realize, and too evil to be sympathetic to. We are already way past the point when we could pretend that all the things wrong with him come from his illness or from trolls.
Chris could have literally turned off his computer at any point in his life, but he chose not to. People love to blame the mean trolls for how he turned out but he has no one to blame but himself.
Yo, Geno. I know it sounds weird, but don't burn yourself out again, bro. I don't care if this shit takes 2 years to come out. Having Chris-Chan on your mind all the time isn't healthy and I think you said that in a stream once as well. Your music and doc on Music Censorship are great.
I’m really glad to see that Geno is having another crack at this series as it’s such a cut above other web documentaries. However, I share OP’s sentiment. Don’t ever allow a project to affect your mental state, that’s just not worth it.
Having chris chan on your mind for like 5 hours is very unhealthy. When I first discovered him I watched a few hours of video and when it came time to sleep I felt dissapointed in humanity and kinda like I had fleas
All what everyone else has said. Love your presentation of content--you chose a black hole for your first, but I will come back just to watch this level of quality of production on any topic you choose.
hearing that letter chris' father wrote is heartbreaking, he clearly loved his child and wanted to experience everything he could with him, maybe it's a blessing in disguise that he died before he saw what chris had become
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" I find no other quote or phrase to be as apt of a description for this story than that. There is no hope - no light at the end of the tunnel. This is as happy as it gets. It's all down hill from here.
The Dreaming Studio was so sad to me... Like, Bob just wanted to build things with his son and even made a plaque for it, only for it to become hoarding space and forgotten memories to Chris as he descended into madness.
Meh as a dad, I kinda think valuables you leave your kid aren’t necessarily supposed to be cherished. As long as the stuff gets sold for somewhere near what it’s worth and the proceeds go to make my kid happy in some way, it’s a success.
Hello everyone who is beginning their journey here after learning about his recent crimes against nature. This journey is long and arduous. You will want to stop. I must tell you now that this journey down the Chris Chan rabbit hole goes deeper than any abyss. All I can tell you is good luck and Godspeed.
Bob and bard refused to send Chris to a school where the staff is trained to handle children with autism because they refused to accept that Chris has a disability. if they had chris might be living a somewhat normal life today.
You have to understand the mindset that his parents grew up with and the climate around mental health at the time. It was seen as career ending in public fields if you even pursued diagnosis/treatment for it (Hipaa started in 1996), The mental institutions were closed down rapidly in the 80s, and also in the early 90's schools were pushing Ritalin like TicTacs. They were subjected to none stop propaganda from the media about mental health and ADHD was just starting to get clinically studied. Sure their son was weird but it could be played off as a Bobby Hill "The boy ain't right." way. They likely hoped his computer fascination would lead to a future where thats what he worked with. Hes a well documanted example of the many unfortunate cases of people falling through the cracks.
I was born with autism, and luckily the situation was taken care of when I was little. I was taken to multiple Special Ed. classes, and now, I feel as if my autism is only a mere inconvenience, not very much at that. I can function properly, speak properly, and I can do things on my own, I’m currently 14, going on 15, and it won’t be too long before I get my Driver’s Permit.
@@MrBoogiemoney The difference is that Christorians are genuinely funny, while Chris Chan is nothing but pure cringe material, shambling about in a roughly bipedal approximation of an ape.
no one: absolutely nobody: still nobody: not a single soul: literally no one: not even big chungus: random incel on 4channel:I DON'T LE WANT LE TO LE DIE XDDD [everyone disliked that] baby yeed: wait that's illegal brie larson: ok that was lowkey on point pickle rick: slaps roof of car luke did i ever tell you about the time i turned myself into a pickle? it was an epic moment. luke: is retarded CIA: Bane? sans undertale: hey don't google HP Lovecraft's cat name [OP googles hp lovecrafts cat name] CIA: congratulations you got yourself caught! stan lee: flies past in a spaceship ooooh i dont care what universe you're from that's GOTTA HURT [everyone laughed] keanu reeves: you're breathtaking! area 51 guards:i bet i can take keanu reeves keanu reeves: you sure about that keanu reeves: kills all area 51 guards area 51:wait thats illegal Everyone liked that CIA: am I joke to you? Alt right incels: there's no way star wars can be good agai.... Baby Yeed: hold my beer Big chungus joined the chat Drumpf has left the chat 4channeler: 'Yeah, I'm thinking this is kind of epic based pilled, maybe a bit of a coom moment?? Idk think I might post a frog.
Entertainment junkie they only collect information, now the trolls and hackers take screenshots of convos and that's weird to an extent but the Christorians just use what's already available because people want to know.
Well, this whole thing just took a massive turn for the worse. Who would have thought that an animatronic bear mispronouncing a name would lead directly to incest.
incest and sexual assault. their mother is 80 and has dementia and was described to not know what was going on half the time, I think it counts as elder abuse.
I think God has left us on this spinning rock to live in a hell of our own creation, one we spent two thousand years making in defiance of what we were told
@@Soulraven2735 Oh no, I get that Chris's life is utterly depressing. It's just that I find that it loops around from being soul-crushing to achieving a type of vantablack comedy that's too implausible for absurdist fiction. It's hard to really imagine that a real person not only underwent the sort of trials that Chris did, but experienced insane levels of delusion that she experienced. There is truly no human being like Chris, and I'm not sure if the conditions will line up in a way for there to be another like her ever again.
It is actually really fucking sad because deep down inside I think bob wanted to bond with his son. Barb turning it into a place to dump her shit was terrible.
RIP The Internet Lumberjack. Despite his emotional distance as a father, Bob was the only thing keeping Chris together. The Tomgirl saga would never have happened if Bob was still alive. He has no one to feel ashamed of disappointing. Barb really is a disgusting person, and enables his degeneracy.
That letter from Chris' Middle School teacher was weirdly prophetic, as years later, Chris basically became an open book and almost intentionally gave aggressors information on how to upset him.
His address, his house, and his identity, and he doesn’t have the intelligence or maturity to fully combat his own “enemies”...why didn’t he ever have the internet removed from his life?? He’ll be cut off from entertainment, but at least he’d be free from all these instigators. If only he didn’t directly give the trolls his weaknesses and his pet peeves, he wouldn’t be harnessed so much.
@@anarchimation1448 Chris is like a drug addict, he would have found another way to connect if he wanted. Also, he's a grown highly-functional (wo?)man, he *should* be responsible for his own life
It always was. We were just waiting for what the crime was gonna be. Unfortunately, nobody saw the signs of his most heinous act until it was too late.
This video wildly swings from deeply depressing and disturbing details about Chris’s life, and anecdotes that would be super sweet and wholesome, until you remember that it’s Chris Chan and this all ends horribly. Truly surreal
Man, this is one of the times i wish i had a time machine to stop a crucial event from happening, finally decided to watch this series, this is an amazing thing you've been making.
That whole thing were you had something and you're super jazzed about it and it's gonna be so fun. But then nothing comes of it. Such a depressing feeling, and I don't know why.
@@noahmay7708 It's knowing that you've lost it, the potential for something great. Slipped from between your fingers, or lost because you were too careless. A parallel for Chris' life in general. I could hardly make it past the first five minutes of this video, knowing how well things could've gone for him but how poorly it all turned out.
This part of Chris’s life was so hopeful and shows just how badly he was failed by the education system and his parents. He was a fairly normal kid based on this video and while his autism certainly didn’t make it easy for him he had normal interests and hobbies and he could have made genuine friends if given the chance to. Love your work Geno, good to see you’re still going strong
consumer society is one of the core elements, what would have happened to chris without all of those toys, videogames, TV shows that kept him in a child like state ?
To be fair, despite his dad's achievements, neither of his parents gave adequate help that Chris needed despite their good intention. He wasn't a normal child but they expected him to grew up as such, didn't teach him necessary life lessons or social skills for him to function, refusing to allow institutions to intervene. If he wasn't allowed to be obsessed with cartoons or video games (which normal children enjoys and would naturally grow pass that phase unlike Chris), a lot of problems would be prevented.
It's wild to think that, at least in the early stages, all it would've taken to prevent some of the horrible stuff later on was for either Chris himself to stop uploading every part of his life on the internet or for his parents to take away his internet access for at least a couple of months.
Bob abandoned his entire first family and Barb abused Cole and kicked him out at 17, so I think it’s safe to say they were both terrible parents and neither of them ever should’ve had children.
It’s actually scary how much documentation Chris has on him I did not expect such high detail. I wonder if that adds to his madness knowing every move he makes is known
This feels like rereading a mystery novel… Noticing all the foreshadowing that was right in front of you but you didn’t have the info to understand it at the time…
I have been following CWC since like 2012 or something but completely forgot about him during the weird pseudo-trans saga. It’s time to catch up again before the finale.
Honestly im surprised he didn't offed himself or went into a shooting spree considering how people in the united states like to bully others to the breaking point.
This shit hurts to watch. Like it genuinely hurts. It’s like watching a train heading towards a cliff at full speed. You know what’s going to happen, and you can’t stop it. You can only watch in horror.
30:00 I watch content like this out of genuine sympathy for Chris-chan, but Jesus Christ this segment of the video has some of the most unintentionally perfect comedic timing I've ever seen. Chicachu was funny enough on its own. Plautistic fucking killed me
"The only Pokémon in the world with autism. It can disable its own attacks" The only thing funnier than Chris' misadventures is his consistent brutal roasting of other autistic people despite being autistic himself.
Hearing that letter that he’d written for his son that he most likely knew was the last child he’d be having is a serious heartstring tug. When he says “yourself and your children” that shit was genuinely heartbreaking.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 I think that those letters show that for all his faults Bob was a decent person. He obviously cared very deeply for Chris. We don't know what happened with his other kids. Even if he was at fault, we can still empathize
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 I believe, though I may be wrong, that the letter was written before they knew that Chris was autistic. Bob was hoping for a normal kid, a kid who could be a proud legacy. I would love more documentation on Bob from before Chris, I know that autistic children often have one of two results on the parents. They either break the parents and bring out their worse traits that may have never otherwise surfaced, or they show just how good the parent is. I've witnessed both first hand, and have heard many similar stories. It isn't universal, and while I can recount two extremes, I know many many cases in the middle exist. I witnessed one of the most loving people I've ever met turn into a monster under the stress of her autistic daughter, which resulted in her being abandoned by her husband, until she decided to poison herself, her daughter, and her non-autistic teenage son at dinner. Her son only survived because he was in the middle of a depression after his first girlfriend left him and he didn't eat much. I remember him coming around to see me after I heard the news, asking if I could give him a place to crash and store his things until he could find a way cross country to his grandparents'. He showed me the note his mother left, and the journal detailing everything she went through with her daughter. Begged me to read it and mark the parts I felt were most important to make sense of it because he was scared and confused. It was heart breaking, you could read as the woman was twisted into being a monster just trying to find a normal life for her daughter until she came to hate the daughter, and, realizing what she turned into, herself, and decided her son must have turned into the same kind of monster, and none of them should live. Yet, to leave you a happier note. I also witnessed the most white trash, drug addicted, welfare abusing people you can imagine have their fourth kid, and the kid turned out to be autistic, and realizing that the kid would never be able to fend for itself, turned themselves around. They both got educated, they both found jobs, they are putting their other kids through school now, and they are doing all they can to take care of and find the best life for their autistic son. Not a normal life, but a good one. I think that often is the difference in mindset that turns people into monsters. The monsters always seem to want a normal life for their autistic child above all else, while those who turn out decent just want a decent life for their kid.
@@squirrel_killer- to be fair, most parents of autistic children today have access to medical support or information to help understand how to best care for the child. Bob thought he knew better than professionals, and his decisions made Chris’ life growing up way more difficult than it had to be. And like you said, he probably loved Chris and wanted the best for him despite how he turned out. That said, Barb and Bob’s parenting was just one piece of the horrifying 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle that is Chris Chan’s life story. Second point: I assume you’re talking about extremes on the autism spectrum near the end, because there are a lot of kids with milder forms of autism who can lead normal lives, with some adjustments. That said, mild autism can still set back a child if their mental health needs aren’t taken care of, because they still face hurtles that that people without autism don’t even have to think about, and teaching them the tools to come to terms with it should be a parent’s first priority. No parent is perfect, and raising kids with special needs can be difficult for a lot of people, but there’s only so far those excuses can go to justify parent’s missteps, however well-intentioned. That’s also why I commend those parents you mentioned for cleaning up and doing right by their children. It takes a lot to admit when you need to change for the betterment of your family, and even more to follow through with it. My condolences to your friend, that first story was heartbreaking. I hope he’s doing well after everything that happened.
For his entire life Chris has been pulled down by the weight of autism and too many people around him weren't able to understand that. Bob had no such problems. If I put in more effort than everyone else, while being judged on my mediocre results, I would feel misunderstood and develop delusions too.
Seeing Chris as a little kid who just wanted to be loved hurts, imagine being a child with dreams of being somebody big, without knowing you'd become the laughing stock of millions 20 years later. It's truly painful seeing him in such an innocent state, he didn't deserve this
yea i finished the documentary a few days ago and rewatching the first episode is one of the most spine chilling things i’ve seen in a good while, it hurts to see an ambitious kid turn into a monster
I sincerely think her parents set her up for failure. If she had parents who actually knew how to care for an autistic child and didn’t feed in to her delusions she would have just ended up an autistic trans woman who posted some strange crossover comics on the internet. She probably still would have gotten bullied just for being autistic and trans, but she probably would have dealt with it a lot better. Or at least her parents would have intervened.
@@SirSandvich like that other dude said…40 hours is just the beginning. You’ll spend way more time on the farms, cwcki, and any other source you can find.
@Towely Smokes true but those same things, especially the stamps, have (hopefully) ended up in someones collection where theyll be taken care of, and in turn passed on to another generation, and so on. its probably the best thing that couldve happened to them, even if it wasnt bobs original intention
@Towely Smokes bobs letter means less to me because it's essentially just his justification for hoarding crap. A straight razor is an heirloom, a cherished record or stamp could be an heirloom, but a boat load of stamps and records and other assorted shit? Not really. Bob was a hoarder and couldn't throw shit out, and entrusting it to Chris made him feel better.
@@Velothi I think you'd be hard pressed to find a couple where only one of them is a hoarder. Bob doesn't seem like the kind of man that would just put up with living in his wife's labyrinth of garbage
@@Lexi-vp5kk there are books for parents to documents things about their children, like when they first walked, their first word etc. Maybe Barbara and Bob had one of those or they just told him after he asked them and he mentioned it in a video or somewhere else.
@@Lexi-vp5kk really? Most parents I know love talking about what their kids' first words were. Mine were papa and I apparently really loved the 3 Stooges.
It hurts so much seeing these childhood photos of him. He looked so normal. He *could* have been normal. His parents failed him. The school system failed him. And as he aged, he ultimately failed himself. God, I need a drink.
I actually have the opposite effect from watching this, moreso in later episodes where worse happens, but I see this and I get this nice appreciative feeling for how good my life is in comparison. Also frequently gives me the urge to do something productive, more effective than a self help book imo.
I came damn close to being like this. I had social workers help me and my parents took charge and both my parents helped me a lot in overcoming my autism. I recognize and sympathize with the feelings he had then, but he unfortunately didn't have anyone to help him move past them. Instead, he degenerated into the absolute mess he is now. Barb is 78 this year, with her poor health she isn't likely to be around for much longer and I don't think CWC can feasibly support himself.
If he had better parents he would have been a functioning member of society today And then there was a trolls although I freely admit Chriss brought so much of it on himself What does it say about these adults that were trolling him getting their jollies off of psychologically torturing a grown man with the mental capacity of a child
His parents set him up for failure and he took that set up and went beyond full force with it. I think pre 2007 he could've been saved. See a good therapist or psychiatrist, lose some weight, get his mind together, get a part time job, etc. Once he gained access to the internet more so UA-cam it was all over. I think the trolls are also to blame for this mess. They made an awful situation a million times worse.
its scary, just imagine how different he would be if he was brought up better and got the help he needed. you have to watch every excruciating detail of the downfall but you know things could've gone so much different its like when a story flashes to an event in the future and flashes back and you can only watch as a character slowly declines and IF ONLY someone could have helped very similar to a Greek Comedy
@@firstnamelastname5596 I think that's an interesting thing to ponder over. Perhaps if we actually got to view our own lives from a different perspective like this, we'd notice some signs of what's to come. Maybe we'd be living life a lot differently.
Expecting your kid to keep your stuff is extremely egocentrical and childish. If anything, this (the collection being sold to someone who probably actually wants it) is the best outcome.
Finally here because the "Chris-Chan does an earth-shattering evil" contingency I made for myself has happened and now I feel comfortable watching this whole series.
Despite being a Christorian for over seven years, I came back to watch this in light of recent events. I'm not gonna lie, hearing Bob's letter to Christian (after all that has transpired) almost made me cry; If he only knew.
Trully... we are in the worst timeline... there where so many times that things could have gone diferently.... starting from the moment that he had the horrible babysitter that locked him up, to the moment that a silly arts projected prohibited copyright charachters... trully a butterfly effect in action.
@@AlisonChains13 well... after a tragic tale and things going down hill his mental health got worse and worse and he ended up rapping his elderly mother that had dementia. Its.... just sad he had a hearing regarding his bail today. He won't be abble to get a bail.
Chris' dad was such a good guy. I genuinely respect him, what he stood for, and his ideals (At least in terms of the mountain thing referenced in the video, the collections, etc). So looking back I feel horrible about the man, and realize that this kind of thing probably happens more than we'd like to think. Very depressing
@@amoniousbt1110 I thought I knew what I was gett8ng into. I watched the entirety of the last series before it was taken down. But then I realized, this is barely the tip of the iceberg, after learning what Chris has been doing recently. I'm legitimately c9ncerned for their well-being, even if most all of it was his own fault.
@@drockman92 All we can do is sit and pray, Chris needs divine intervention if he will even accept it. It's like his ship with him on it sunk into his toys and... Um, madness a long time ago. Re: Tip of the Iceberg: Yeah, I once dreamed Chris killed someone over a Sega Saturn back in the day (95 / 96) and hid the bones in the game system's box. Sigh. I'm not making that up, Chris has been in more than a few of my dreams.
@@AC3electrosphere In the same dream (before the bones part,) I wondered what Chris would do once his Mom dies. The dream seemed to say he'd _call her to tell her she's dead._ This sounds like something out of Beavis and Butthead.
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THIS SERIES NEEDS TO END ALREADY. YOU ARE COMPLICIT IN THE HARASSMENT OF CHRIS. Letting this series run for over 79 episodes is absurd and completely unnecessary. Maybe this series does help deter SOME people from harassing cwc because it shows how horrible the trolls have been, but I think it causes a larger amount of people to become morbidly obsessed with her and go down the pipeline to become a troll that harasses her. Anyone that gets involved in the toxic and disgusting community of people who view cwc as entertainment has the potential to become a troll. I guarantee this series has much more of a negative impact than a positive impact and Geno should be called out on that more often.
@@bluepenguin6559 hey pal, you just blow in from stupid town?
@@bluepenguin6559Why in the hell are you trying to defend a rapist?
@@bluepenguin6559 you do realize you're just enabling HIS behavior right. he's not actually trans - he's legitimately insane. also, stop defending a RAPIST please.
The fact he took his mother to prom was foreshadowing on another level
Kinda makes me wonder if nearly everything concerning he and Barb was all leading up to what transpired in 2021?
Chris Chan is basically Oda
@@akagi279 lmao you did not say that
@@lianus8724 caught me off guard too lmao
I thought that the journal written in 3rd person like a documentary was foreshadowing but oh geez this was worse.
Starting this documentary is bigger commitment than getting married
he is well documented for a reason
I've been listening to it at work, currently at episode 42-46ish. Good way to just turn your brain off and listen. Though, I was really interested in what I was missing visually so I'm restarting the entire thing
more fun in my opinion now a days most of the time getting married is like shooting yourself in the foot
I finished it
@@chirnosansI don't think we're done
This honestly needs to be a Netflix doco. It really fits their style of criminal series content
Netflix is utter trash.
leokimvideo its you
I watched your videos when I was a kid! Are you interested in Christory?
Oh wow, suprised to see you here!
Agree
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the story of Chris Chan is one with no heroes. Only Villains.
And victims.
A tragic comedy full of bad people
There have been some antiheroes, aka the trolls that genuinely tried to help Chris out, but like you said, no real heroes.
Idk. Liquid was pretty harmless, poor Megan Schroder just tried being a friend, Michael Schneider just wanted to run his store
@cheese and crackers holy fuck, i don't even like 40k that much, but that joke is a thing of beauty
"He went to prom and his date was his mom"
Spat my coffee out hard with that one
Everyone says that Chris’s story has no heroes, nor villains, but I think this isn’t right. Barbara is probably one of the biggest villains of his life. Not allowing him to grow up, pampering him, making him adapt her hoarding behaviors that messed up his life forever.
i’d say bella is a villain too
Yeah, but she has been extremely victimized too...
@@intheskatepark Bella is also a desperate tryhard edgelord while barb is the OG supervillain
And bluespike
@@kaycosette dude bluespike was fucking evil.
I used to live within like 20 minutes of where he lived and seeing him in my childhood game stop is trippy as hell 1:35
Rewatching this has me wondering how Geno managed to capture _grief_ so thoroughly. Maybe it's because Chris's entire life has just been an endless cascade of loss.
Make no mistake, Chris is a monster. But every time I see that video that kid winning the sweepstakes I can't help but tear up a little bit. Poor fella has no idea everything that he has to go through.
Thank you, who did the russian subtitles. And thank you who did this project. Just enjoying the quality west content. Stunning shit, cant believe that person actually exists till present, mind-blowing.
Тоже выражаю благодарность за русские субтитры
Time to watch it again let's gooo
Good Ending: Chris listens to his father and becomes a successful weather scientist and enjoyer of retro items, opening up a UA-cam channel on vintage items.
Some poor cop is currently going through this to catch up with Chris's whole story. Poor soul doesn't know what's coming.
Makes for easy investigation though!
I feel like this is me (minus the cop part) I've seen video about this guy show up in my tik tok and I know VERY little of what's currently going on. So I'm holding on like I'm about to go on a rollercoaster.
@@Sausage709 Don't mind me, I'm just here to see how scarred you end up.
I imagine the entire Greene county legal apparatus are in for quite the ride. Just how many “JULAAAY” calls do you think they’ve gotten?
Bro I’m so scared to go on people are describing it so scarily😭
40 minutes? I already know all about Chris why am I here...
Edit: I knew nothing
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@@bodacious44 The anime Lucky Star
And this was only the beginning
there's over 24 hours worth of content now
*HOW?*
@@ionceateapinecone It's CWC. There's going to be at least 50 hours of stuff before we catch up to what's going on now.
“Locked in a room full of toys... in the dark... alone.”
And there he remained.
Deep
Makes sense from a trauma standpoint
I think that's how he will go sadly
Oh shit
Damn..
What I find most interesting is how Chris Chan has had so many tv and news appearances even before the sonichu infamy. It's almost like he was destined to be documented since childhood
History has its eyes on him.
But the question is: Who lives, who dies, who tells his story?
Morphing Taxi his body language was different, though. In still pictures, medium-high functioning autistic people look normal, but on video, the illusion is shattered.
@Zac sesz "I saw one picture of him, analyzed it, and now I know his childhood.. and why they chose him" Lmao wtf? He looks and talks like any other normal child that age. The thing is, Chris just stopped aging mentally around 10-12.
@Zac sesz Get over yourself, Zac.
The Truman show 2?
Here’s a note to everyone watching this: your autism will not make you end up like Chris Chan
Chris Chans autism mixed with abuse and his personal decisions made him who he is today
Also if your an autistic person watching this and you don't want to end up like Chris Chan you won't because you are already self ware of your behavior in order not to end up like him. If you keep on being a good person you won't end up like him. Also not everyone who gets abused will end up like the abuser, again if you are aware of your actions and you try hard not to repeat the actions of your abusers you won't end up like your abusers.
preach, I have an autistic niece and nephew, And a very autistic neighbor, Chris Chans behavior and transgressions have nothing to do with their autism. It’s possible to be both a horrible person and also autistic. It’s possible to be a predator and also autistic. People are placing way too much emphasis on the autistic part. It’s OK to empathize with someone for being autistic and it’s OK to have compassion and sensitivity to people who are on the spectrum not only that but with any mental illness or physical affliction but we can’t forget the horrendous things that this person has done and I’ve seen in the comments on a lot of Chris Chan videos autistic people expressing concern that somehow they are more predisposed to becoming a monster like this, and I’m gonna say it loud and say it clear for the people in the back: no, you are not autism does not create things like this! It’s not an excuse for things like this it’s not incidental to things like this don’t have that fear you are who you are. You may be someone with autism, but that doesn’t define you as a person that’s not your identity. You are a person with autism not an autistic person remember that
If you are an autistic person, you are guaranteed to end up like chris chan. There is no conveivable way to avoid this.
true
When I first started watching this series I was terrified of ending up like Chris. I have Autism and saw many things we had in common, and it scared me. But that fear inspired me to be a better and kinder person and fight against the worst parts of myself. It's just tragic that christory is what helped me become a better person.
Chris's prom date being his mom is the ultimate Chekhov's gun
more like chekhov's fucking arsenal
Chekhovs Barb
@@Shawn_Babcock Barb’s Gun
Nah bro 💀
The foreshadowing is truly amazing
I’d like to believe Christian’s Lawyer is watching this documentary series for research right now
I think it's quite possible. And if it's true, Lord help him, because it's gonna drain his soul.
@@nicolaslg1421 why? Im just star watching this
@@sarairuiz2369 Oh boy. You are in for quite the ride my friend. This documentary series while sometimes hilarious is like watching a violent train crash that just doesn’t end but you can’t look away from it
@@nicolaslg1421 Ive watched it all already and my soul isnt drained, Im just amazed at the trainwreck that is Chris Chan, he is a fascinating individual but in a disturbing way
You could dig ditches or scrub toilets for a living, but at least you're not Chris Chan's defense attorney right now.
To everyone who just started watching this, you're in for a wild ride...
edit: Well, looks like the ride has temporarily been shut down!
thanks, I think it helps that I know who he is.
I am scared now.
Thanks kaneda
@@danjoredd Where are you at now?
@@danjoredd Might be best to watch at a slow pace.
"I hope you will not misuse, waste, or destroy the many things I have collected for you"
This documentary has better foreshadowing than Attack on Titan
😭😭
Imagine holding the eotena onslaught in high regard 💀
The way they destroyed everything is disrespectful but don’t burden your kids with different collections of thousands of items , some with very little value and than request that they cherish and enjoy everything. I wouldn’t know what to do with it if my dad left me hundreds of vcr tapes and thousands of old magazines.
@@ДавайДосвидания-м4у Any normal person would just curate the collection, sell the excess for a decent price, and keep the legacy alive. Not that hard.
@@ImaTroper any normal person has a job and a life and they don’t have time to peruse such large collections of old magazines , recoding of all types and books to see what has meaning . Just learning about it to see what has value , and then taking the time to find a buyer or to sell it individually online , that’s a second job with the amount he had. Just the selling part would take such a long time. Now Chris never has done anything , he could have made a job out of it but to anyone with a life , that’s a nightmarish inheritance.
Dammit. I thought we learned our lesson the last time we criticized someone for their art skills.
Chuck Bucy
I think I just got this.
Chris Chan begins WWIII with his Sonichu army.
art?
DrNormie bro hitler was a failed artist, and he started ww2. What’s Chris going to be doing in ten years?
Ok
A bunch of true crime fans are about to get a crash course in Christory.
Lmao right. I’m both and that was my first thought
thats fuckin me
@@pEmvy Welcome to the family.
I'm strapped in and ready to go. The only thing that bothers me so far is anything to do with his mother, knowing what I know....It's super super dark.
Sure ,Chris did wrong,but people are treating this like it was the fucking Jonestown massacre.
Chris doesn't even deserve prison,Chris can't be judged normally cuz her mind is way beyond lost,Chris needs a mental insitute and the right treatment.
Sure,keep Chris in the institution for a long time if necessary,but putting Chris in the middle of common criminals who did crimes out of true evil and not because of mental problems is just cruel.
I have my Masters in Intellectual Disability/Autism and currently work as a head special ed teacher. I've watched this entire series because it is truly a remarkable case study of what happens when Autism and disabilities are not taken seriously from a young age. The story of Chris being locked in the toy room, his parents leaving him with a baby sitter, possible abuse from school staff, his dad paying girls off to be his friend, and everything else in Part I truly lay the groundwork for everything we see down the line. Chris had the unfortunate lot in life to be born in 1980s rural Virginia to an elderly couple that was not equipped and unwilling to get him the help that he needed, and a school system that wasn't equipped to help him either. If he had the proper support from a young age he could have lived a relatively healthy and normal life. I think about the teacher who he liked the most, she seems to have been the only adult in his life that actually treated him with dignity and tried to help him succeed (and truly believed he could have). People talk up Bob a lot, and while he was a sad man and earnest, he mostly wanted Chris to preserve his legacy and be seen as "normal" over everything else. Paying people to befriend him and ignore his disability doomed him to a life of delusion and agony. Every day I think about Chris and the work I do to help kids like him, and I try my darndest to make sure something like this never happens again. Truly gives me purpose tbh.
You talk like your discipline would have resulted in a different outcome, but you honestly can't say for sure if Chris had been born in 2023, and with all the theory and approach to autistic kids of today, if the outcome for Chris would have been any different.
@@jackrussell3084 You are 100% right, but Chris also did a ton of things in high school that were completely ignored by everyone involved, just something to think about. But yeah, every autistic kid has much better outcomes now over those born in the 80s.
@@jackrussell3084 Thing is, we'll never know what could or could not have been for Chris, but what did happen turned out to be one crazy fucked up life.
@@jackrussell3084 chris was definitely a bad person from the get go however terrible parenting, a lack of support and relentless bullying only exacerbated his issues. chris and everyone involved with chris’ life would have been better off if chris was actually taken care of.
So, I have a question. I have Asperger's, or what's considered "high functioning" autism. Compared to myself and other socially high functioning neurodivergent people I know, Chris Chan is a living dumpster fire. As in, every single decision they make leads to tragedy for either themself, those around them, or both. I don't see how someone like them could be considered "high functioning" in any sense. So would they still be considered as "high functioning" by today's standards? I mean, we have a lot more medical knowledge about those on the autism spectrum now. I feel like Chris Chan was only diagnosed as "high functioning" when they were little because they weren't entirely non verbal. So in your expert opinion, where on the "high functioning" to "low functioning" spectrum would you place Chris on?
The amount of documentation that goes into Chris Chans every movement is comparable to the Truman Show
Odd that some people imagine they're being gang stalked and this man actually is.
I was literally just thinking this to myself, "wow, ChrisChans life is basically the Truman show..."
@@ThomasWilson4 Except that Truman lived in a *nice* environment... A welcoming town, full of friendly people. They even provided a nice wife, job and home for him - none of which Chris has.
Chris Chan's life is more like another film of the time called "Dark City", where the protagonist is being watched continually and his life controlled by dark forces who alter every aspect of his life. He cannot escape the city, and does not know what to do about it, at least to begin with. (This film was pre-Matrix and less well remembered.)
@@anonb4632 That's what Dark City is about? I'll give it a watch again. Last time I watched it I only saw a couple of minutes and was confused.
Chris is technically a Walking Truman Show.
"at one and a half years of age, the Lord put the mute button on me". Not gonna lie, that was actually pretty funny and clever
A foreshadowing to his Authoritarianism.
Shame He didn't keep that button on.
@Serve the Flesh my dude writing from a 2nd person perspective
It's a neat little metaphor, but the poetic flow of it is really not very good.
Im very happy to be the 1000th like
The sheer amount of records archived of this family is incredible. I wouldn't have at all expected that radio program Bob hosted to be recorded and released.
I am surprised that someone found this.o-o
Hey, I know you, you’re the guy that helped make my PlayStation classic worth the money. Thanks, man.
Chris released it, which is why people have it.
Didn’t the records all get destroyed by the fire? Such a shame
@@jaypeterman9721 I believe Chris sold them off to the highest bidder on ebay.
the story of chris chan is like a modern greek tragedy.
Specifically Oedipus Rex.
@@colinr0380you beat me too it don’t forget the forcing someone to be your lover part too lol
A geek tragedy.
A Lovecraftian family degeneration story
Hearing how much Chris’ dad cared about his collection of stamps and records, and knowing that Chris sells them later on hurts my soul.
You can't hold on to everything.
@@SpecialBlanket you can try :
like his megatron pistol.
It sucks, but honestly, it's kinda whatever. I'd possibly do the same. He got no enjoyment out of them, so what exactly is the point in keeping them? If anything, it's possibly better because the collections could go to someone that actually cares about them. At least he didn't throw them out.
I was given a random quarter collection some years back, but I really didn't care about it outside of the fact that it was money. So I've been using them as laundry money lately.
I'd rather that he sell them. Seriously. It's clear to me that Chris never respected his father's wishes in the first place and probably only remembers the letters from his dad because Geno put them all into videos. And while it's not like Chris will suddenly start cutting the hoard down just because he sold a part of it, it's better that those records and stamps find homes where they can be appreciated. Whether it be by people genuinely interested in collecting these things, or by people merely interested in Christory or those wanting to pay respects to Bob's wishes.
I only hope he sells them for what they're worth. But knowing Chris he has no clue how to even start appraising what he has. And either sells it for far, far more than it's worth or criminally undercuts himself.
Being surrounded by friends that he can’t tell are fake, chris chan is literally living out my worst nightmare.
No kidding. A real-life Truman Show.
His mom had a worse one after bob passed
After a certain point, he knows, he just doesn't care because he has the white knights to wipe his ass for him every time. Up until the Barbussy incident.
fake friends are a nightmare , but figuring it out is a blessing . too bad he found out too late . (whatever he has done , being autistic kid , being fake friended is fucked , paying them even worse !) u better can know it by analyzing how they act around others versus u . fake friendships u can hold on to but they only hurt ya at the end .
Like Lorne?
“The most documented person” …they know the mix of his childhood dog and where he got it. This is already insane.
They call the people who got all of this documentation on Chris "Christorians." It's a fitting name.
To be fair, a lot of the information gathered about Chris is stuff that she freely provided
HE LITERALLY KNOWS CHRIS FIRST WORD THE MAN AINT LYIN
It's kinda hard to say "most documented person" because Chris is only in his 30s and most of that documentation is from 2007 onward, so there's half of Chris's life we know relatively little about. Just look at how little time it takes in this series before we get to the trolling.
It's also worth pointing out that documenting someone's life is more than just archiving their life. Besides this documentary, there are very few GOOD documentaries about Chris. Most are just 20 minute videos by orbiters jumping on a trend. There is very little informative text about Chris. Mostly news articles or the CWCki. As far as I know there are no biographies of Chris. To be fair, he's still alive, and that would be a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Chris is probably the most ARCHIVED person in history. And eventually one day maybe he'll be the most documented. But it's unlikely. He just doesn't have the worldwide fame someone like Napoleon or Lincoln had. No historians or documentarians are out there looking to make a 5 volume biography of Chris.
You know why? Cause Chris himself dox the hell out of his own to the internet for whatever reason why. But can't blame him tho, he was very much autistic and bad people took advantage of that.
The fault lies heavily on his parent for never properly addressing his issues and basically ignoring it his whole life. Could've taken him out of the internet, could've sent him to a mental hospital to help him but ofc not a single of those thing ever happened in his life.
Watching this doc for 77+ episodes, makes you wonder how all of this could have been avoided if someone did something when chris was still a kid
It's a fucking tragedy that mandated reporters weren't a thing back then
Nah man. chris has a darkness within him. I believe that.
@@JEMRockerhe's evil and aware. He did something vial and horrific, and knows it.
@@JEMRocker Nah, that's taking accountability away from everyone around Chris and Chris themself. Chris def could have turned out slightly better with different parents imo
Like PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD just let him put Sonic on the CD cover, you have no idea what the consequences will be if you don’t
"He went to prom and his date was his mom" Jesus christ. If only we knew what the future had in store for us
Do you think God lives in heaven because he too is afraid of what he created
@@officerxrp3261 Chris-Chan Sonichu is all that stands between us and Revelation
@@CalloftheBlademaster chris is the reason that bastard jesus refuses to return
Don't you all start this sht🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He the reason I stay in hell
"My name is Christian Chandler. I am here, and you're there."
I don't know why but I genuinely love that intro.
It's legit charming in a way. I love it
Oh, you're here too?
Thank you, RoachDoggJr
AYYY THE ROACH DOGG
@Ninten I agree ngl
To whomever is representing Chris-Chan in court: Hello
godspeed to them
Just plead insanity for him.
Please call all the trolls in as witnesses. That would be epic!
@@rockycomet4587 "Your honor, i would like to call Mr. Clyde Cash as a witness to the stand"
That poor individual lmfao
it's crazy to me how Chris talks more clearly as a teenager than he does currently as a 40 year old man. he can barely form sentences without muttering or stammering nowadays.
Probably because he was actually doing *some* socializing in high school. For the past 20 years the only social interactions he's had have been over the internet with people who are almost never who they say they are. (Outside of the rare convention visit, or GameStop trespassing)
As shitty of a person as Chris is, can you imagine HALF of your entire life being spent never communicating with a "real" person?
@@jakel7213 Hellish.
@@jakel7213its like his isolating himself to the point insanity
To be honest lots of people with autism can lose skills with age through autistic burnout, I have much worse social skills at 27 than 17
@@josephhughes1498 Wait really?
I'm on the spectrum that's why I'm asking.
edit: please stop coming back here for updating it, this comment is 7 months old.
the jury when they realize they're only 1 episode into the 65 part documentary
LMAO
😂😂😂
The entire jury’s gonna be on suicide watch before they’re even halfway through
We should give everyone in that trial state-funded shotguns just in case they need to be spared the pain
65 parts so far
Be warned, this is the most innocent the story of Chris will EVER get.
It starts out at its most innocent, but is now worse than ever
All of the videos in this playlist or just this video
@@Shrimplump.just this video
I know he abused Megan and did that to Barb but I still feel bad for him
He was abused and groomed as a child and didn't get help what to you expect?
SOB STORIES ARE VALID
I think chris is a case of someone who was far too vulnerable to manipulation, and was preyed upon by horrible people and warped chris to become awful too. Not excusing any actions, but i think its a very very complicated situation.
The "Christian Weston Chandler Show" bit is so fucking haunting when you consider that Chris's life became the closet thing we have to a real world Truman Show.
Man, I was just thinking about that. Only real difference being that Chris was mostly aware of it, though since he constantly fell for so many trolls I guess you could make the argument he was unaware to a degree.
Also fitting that it was the first video he made of himself when he said that. It was the opening of the show.
Whoever gave Chris a camera and taught him to film himself had no idea of the lovecraftian horror they initiated.
People always say that, but I think the similarities are only external. Chris Chan, differently from Truman, is an unlikable asshole whom we can only pity and despise
Jesus man that’s too true that it’s almost cruel. Tragic really. Like other commenter said, I believe he even referenced the movie. RIP Sonichu for the for coming years 😂😂
@@JBRewind Everything with Liquid Chris and Kacey and her "father" was pure Truman show. Everyone else just actors pretending and only Chris Chan thinking it's real, all broadcast for our entertainment.
that middle school teacher gave some VERY good advice he didn't listen to
Story of Chris' life - any good advice given to him and he deliberately ignores it
He never cared about anything BUT Nintendo or sega he was drawing sonichu as a senior
I dont even remember my middle school teachers names, much less their advice.
@mattwood2981 I remember some of my middle school teachers' names. Although, it's due to how unique they sound such as Fieldhouse.
imagine being in The Truman show, but youre Truman. Except that you know that there is no escape. No wall to break through, no director to lash out at. This is the reality that Chris Chan is living in.
Don't worry. It's counterbalanced by Chris being too stupid to realize, and too evil to be sympathetic to.
We are already way past the point when we could pretend that all the things wrong with him come from his illness or from trolls.
Dunno, feel like Heilberg did a pretty good job of shutting out the weens.
Chris could have literally turned off his computer at any point in his life, but he chose not to. People love to blame the mean trolls for how he turned out but he has no one to blame but himself.
@@The_child-catcher the man has the emotional state of a child.
The trolls took advantage of that. Don’t defend them.
Not too accurate since hes actively trying his best to remain Truman. I wouldn't call it trapped
Yo, Geno. I know it sounds weird, but don't burn yourself out again, bro. I don't care if this shit takes 2 years to come out. Having Chris-Chan on your mind all the time isn't healthy and I think you said that in a stream once as well. Your music and doc on Music Censorship are great.
I’m really glad to see that Geno is having another crack at this series as it’s such a cut above other web documentaries.
However, I share OP’s sentiment. Don’t ever allow a project to affect your mental state, that’s just not worth it.
Im going to have a half hearted chuckle when he decides not to do any more period.
Having chris chan on your mind for like 5 hours is very unhealthy. When I first discovered him I watched a few hours of video and when it came time to sleep I felt dissapointed in humanity and kinda like I had fleas
Gotta take care of yourself before taking care of other things. Very important.
All what everyone else has said. Love your presentation of content--you chose a black hole for your first, but I will come back just to watch this level of quality of production on any topic you choose.
hearing that letter chris' father wrote is heartbreaking, he clearly loved his child and wanted to experience everything he could with him, maybe it's a blessing in disguise that he died before he saw what chris had become
From the teacher too. Seeing him as a young child is sad.
His dad genuinely seems like a good dude
he would have raised him right.
Man recent events have taken all the light and humor out of everything Chris-Chan related. It's a documentary of evil and darkness now.
Chris’ racist ideologies all stemmed from his father
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"
I find no other quote or phrase to be as apt of a description for this story than that.
There is no hope - no light at the end of the tunnel.
This is as happy as it gets. It's all down hill from here.
Ouch
Very aptly described
The Dreaming Studio was so sad to me... Like, Bob just wanted to build things with his son and even made a plaque for it, only for it to become hoarding space and forgotten memories to Chris as he descended into madness.
His mum turned it into a storage room. It’s clear to see that she took control of a lot of things in his life.
It’s a doc on Chris Chan, it’s supposed to be one of the saddest and most dreadful things you’ll hear about. But I agree completely
It hurts me how much Bob's stuff was not treated well
Meh as a dad, I kinda think valuables you leave your kid aren’t necessarily supposed to be cherished. As long as the stuff gets sold for somewhere near what it’s worth and the proceeds go to make my kid happy in some way, it’s a success.
Jack Straw well it wasn’t. All of Bobs stuff was sold for next to nothing.
Hello everyone who is beginning their journey here after learning about his recent crimes against nature. This journey is long and arduous. You will want to stop. I must tell you now that this journey down the Chris Chan rabbit hole goes deeper than any abyss.
All I can tell you is good luck and Godspeed.
Thanks for the advice 😂
Crimes against nature I’m dead
Yeah I had to stop watching, it was funny at first but then it just started getting really really horrible
Godspeed? We dont call it godspeed here.
We call Zap to the extream!!!
thank for the ominous advice bob dinkleburg
Bob and bard refused to send Chris to a school where the staff is trained to handle children with autism because they refused to accept that Chris has a disability. if they had chris might be living a somewhat normal life today.
Yeah, it's pretty sad ngl
this was the 90s and the parents likely believed the school would be like it was in their youth (a looney bin)
Well i mean, we don't know how well special education was in that school.
You have to understand the mindset that his parents grew up with and the climate around mental health at the time. It was seen as career ending in public fields if you even pursued diagnosis/treatment for it (Hipaa started in 1996), The mental institutions were closed down rapidly in the 80s, and also in the early 90's schools were pushing Ritalin like TicTacs. They were subjected to none stop propaganda from the media about mental health and ADHD was just starting to get clinically studied. Sure their son was weird but it could be played off as a Bobby Hill "The boy ain't right." way. They likely hoped his computer fascination would lead to a future where thats what he worked with.
Hes a well documanted example of the many unfortunate cases of people falling through the cracks.
I was born with autism, and luckily the situation was taken care of when I was little. I was taken to multiple Special Ed. classes, and now, I feel as if my autism is only a mere inconvenience, not very much at that. I can function properly, speak properly, and I can do things on my own, I’m currently 14, going on 15, and it won’t be too long before I get my Driver’s Permit.
Anyone else here after watching the body cam footage posted by EWU? What have I gotten myself into…
God speed
same
Yeah
The letters he gets from his dad and teacher are literally foreshadowing.
Its heartbreaking. His dad hoped he would have something with his life and hes wasted it. Becoming a failure in life is my nightmare.
@@johnbacon4997 If you are called John Bacon irl you already failed
@@yellowcactustvz4929 good roast
John Bacon if you are called John Bacon irl then you are already successful because I’ve heard hundreds are in love with bacon
@@johnbacon4997 Take comfort in the fact that no matter what, you can't fail worse than Chris did. Nothing is worse. Not even death.
Chris chan: breathes
Christorians: write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!!!
Facts! They're just as weird as Chris but won't admit it lol.
Hell, I'm a weirdo for enjoying this shit too lol
@@MrBoogiemoney The difference is that Christorians are genuinely funny, while Chris Chan is nothing but pure cringe material, shambling about in a roughly bipedal approximation of an ape.
@@TheRojo387 I will say that they definitely are funny. Lord help me, but they really are and I laughed and I can't get out of this Chan hole now.
no one:
absolutely nobody:
still nobody:
not a single soul:
literally no one:
not even big chungus:
random incel on 4channel:I DON'T LE WANT LE TO LE DIE XDDD
[everyone disliked that]
baby yeed: wait that's illegal
brie larson: ok that was lowkey on point
pickle rick: slaps roof of car luke did i ever tell you about the time i turned myself into a pickle? it was an epic moment.
luke: is retarded
CIA: Bane?
sans undertale: hey don't google HP Lovecraft's cat name
[OP googles hp lovecrafts cat name]
CIA: congratulations you got yourself caught!
stan lee: flies past in a spaceship ooooh i dont care what universe you're from that's GOTTA HURT
[everyone laughed]
keanu reeves: you're breathtaking!
area 51 guards:i bet i can take keanu reeves
keanu reeves: you sure about that
keanu reeves: kills all area 51 guards
area 51:wait thats illegal
Everyone liked that
CIA: am I joke to you?
Alt right incels: there's no way star wars can be good agai....
Baby Yeed: hold my beer
Big chungus joined the chat
Drumpf has left the chat
4channeler: 'Yeah, I'm thinking this is kind of epic based pilled, maybe a bit of a coom moment?? Idk think I might post a frog.
Entertainment junkie they only collect information, now the trolls and hackers take screenshots of convos and that's weird to an extent but the Christorians just use what's already available because people want to know.
Well, this whole thing just took a massive turn for the worse. Who would have thought that an animatronic bear mispronouncing a name would lead directly to incest.
The bear, he knew
@@turdeyeblind its a conspiracy!
I Think the first real problem was the babysitter episode
incest and sexual assault. their mother is 80 and has dementia and was described to not know what was going on half the time, I think it counts as elder abuse.
Duuuuuuuude, spoilers! 😂
and now it begins
And now he’s free
Ah yes, the post jail saga begins
well, this sucks.
Lmao get lost
Hi Fraser lol
After THIS FATEFUL DAY of July 30th, it's horrific to see how he took his mom to prom. Dear God, forgive us.
true
God is dead and we killed him. And if he saw this, he'd want to stay dead.
@Harry Bawsac All of them.
I think God has left us on this spinning rock to live in a hell of our own creation, one we spent two thousand years making in defiance of what we were told
I'm so horrified and repulsed I wanna burn the internet alive
There's one word that describes the entire life of Chris Chan:
Tragedy.
But then you realize... It's a comedy.
King Clark a comedic tragedy.
@@King_Clark Sure, the individual parts by themselves can be funny, but put together it is one of the most tragic stories regarding a real person.
@@Soulraven2735 Oh no, I get that Chris's life is utterly depressing. It's just that I find that it loops around from being soul-crushing to achieving a type of vantablack comedy that's too implausible for absurdist fiction. It's hard to really imagine that a real person not only underwent the sort of trials that Chris did, but experienced insane levels of delusion that she experienced. There is truly no human being like Chris, and I'm not sure if the conditions will line up in a way for there to be another like her ever again.
@@King_Clark I completely agree with everything you say
the "big C and little C" thing is literally the most depressing and precious thing in the world I'm crying
yes
m.ua-cam.com/video/YFGens0_W-U/v-deo.html
Where dreams were meant to be created, dreams went to die, the shed and its placard is probably the biggest contradiction in Chris's life.
Feelsadman
And that she’s was turned into more storage by Barb
It is actually really fucking sad because deep down inside I think bob wanted to bond with his son. Barb turning it into a place to dump her shit was terrible.
Man, that letter from Bob to Chris is as prophetic as it is depressing.
Guilherme Almeida He isn’t keeping it together
RIP The Internet Lumberjack.
Despite his emotional distance as a father, Bob was the only thing keeping Chris together. The Tomgirl saga would never have happened if Bob was still alive. He has no one to feel ashamed of disappointing. Barb really is a disgusting person, and enables his degeneracy.
@@crasheffort Amen.
Bob was wasted on Chris. It's a shame he couldn't have been someone else's father
@@dougandrews3741 Too true, my friend. You know what's funny? It may sound dumb, but this makes me appreciate every minute with my dad more.
That letter from Chris' Middle School teacher was weirdly prophetic, as years later, Chris basically became an open book and almost intentionally gave aggressors information on how to upset him.
His address, his house, and his identity, and he doesn’t have the intelligence or maturity to fully combat his own “enemies”...why didn’t he ever have the internet removed from his life?? He’ll be cut off from entertainment, but at least he’d be free from all these instigators. If only he didn’t directly give the trolls his weaknesses and his pet peeves, he wouldn’t be harnessed so much.
@@anarchimation1448 Chris is like a drug addict, he would have found another way to connect if he wanted. Also, he's a grown highly-functional (wo?)man, he *should* be responsible for his own life
@@its_drez Close? if it's not any closer to severe because it can't morph into it!
Chandler is a half-wit, plain and simple.
Mrs. Sanford’s advice is for everyone, that letter gave me more confidence and also helped me to combat bullying.
Tragic
Oh boy, the Chris Chan documentary is now a true crime series!
It always was. We were just waiting for what the crime was gonna be. Unfortunately, nobody saw the signs of his most heinous act until it was too late.
It always was
Remember this isn't Chris's first run in with the law
And wasn't his second either
@@MegaManXPoweredUp It wasn't exactly a suprising turn. Figured he'd had done this far longer ago than he had
this series makes me more epithetic for him
Beat me to it!!!
This video wildly swings from deeply depressing and disturbing details about Chris’s life, and anecdotes that would be super sweet and wholesome, until you remember that it’s Chris Chan and this all ends horribly. Truly surreal
It's like reading Romeo and Juliet and then you come to the realization that they're going to die at the end.
Bob likely feared being forgotten. However, I'd rather be forgotten than be a part of a story as harrowing as Chris chan
Holy shit it's like he made a wish with a monkey's paw and it totally fucked him over
@@thomashearne4670 TRUE!!!!!
@@thomashearne4670 is making a wish on a monkeys paw like making a wish on an eyelash? I’ve never heard that saying before, it’s very interesting!
@@mugimugitmnt872 it's in reference to a story called the monkeys paw, where the item grants the users wish but with some wildly terrible side effect.
@@BK-cu7ce ohhh thank you! I’ll read up on it
so we're getting a remastered version of the first one AND season 2? Oh Geno, you spoil us.
Wait, there were older versions of these videos?? How old is this series?!?!
I used to think Chris's life was a comedy, but now I realize, it's a fucking tragedy.
That or a fucking horror story
A modern day Greek tragedy of the autistic kind.
tragedy and comedy are reflections of each other, not opposites
has always been
No, chris chan’s life is a circus that is on fire
Man, this is one of the times i wish i had a time machine to stop a crucial event from happening, finally decided to watch this series, this is an amazing thing you've been making.
Canon event
Bob's open letter, Patti, and the dreaming studio, just kicks my heart in the balls.
That whole thing were you had something and you're super jazzed about it and it's gonna be so fun. But then nothing comes of it. Such a depressing feeling, and I don't know why.
@@noahmay7708 It's knowing that you've lost it, the potential for something great. Slipped from between your fingers, or lost because you were too careless. A parallel for Chris' life in general.
I could hardly make it past the first five minutes of this video, knowing how well things could've gone for him but how poorly it all turned out.
@@rowane965 Beautifully put, my friend.
Right in the S-Chu balls
Reading Bob's letter to Chris is so much more upsetting knowing what kind of person Chris turned out to be and the things that were done to Barb.
:(
fr
@@JeamineBret whittier cardinals?
Also, reading how much sentimental value the old man had for his stamp collection when I already know that Chris sold it for $80
He sold his stamps:(
I find eerily haunting how there's no difference between 11-year old Chris-chan and 37-year old Chris-chan's speech pattern
It Just Works because he has learning difficulties.
Same. It's like there has been no development of it in 27 years.
John Daniel Torrance ya... because this person has learning difficulties. What people are doing is cruel
@@sheawineland1445 Does he have learning difficulties? I thought it was just his interpersonal/social awareness that was affected by his autism.
@@MrLordstarboy he doesn't. He's just lazy and refuses to grow up.
This part of Chris’s life was so hopeful and shows just how badly he was failed by the education system and his parents. He was a fairly normal kid based on this video and while his autism certainly didn’t make it easy for him he had normal interests and hobbies and he could have made genuine friends if given the chance to.
Love your work Geno, good to see you’re still going strong
This series outlasted my marriage. That's both heartbreaking and incredible
you deserved better king
be strong, man!
I've just started this documentary and got married 2 years ago, let's see how it'll go...
i love it how both replies assume you’re a guy
@@yoymate6316 i don’t think a woman would be watching this
@@wackford ong 💀
I will never get over that somehow, someway, throughout this entire rabbithole, Sonic The Hedgehog is one of the core elements
Not only that But this dude was on tv as a kid for it. Why is this mans life so well documented??
consumer society is one of the core elements, what would have happened to chris without all of those toys, videogames, TV shows that kept him in a child like state ?
That's just No Good!
@Dead one eye: The immortal hur dur video gaym bad
@Dead one eye: The immortal lmao I was agreeing with you and making a remark about the other guy.
“If you show people your buttons, they’ll know how to push them” if only Chris actually took this advice.
He can’t, how does no one get that his whole issue is his inability to learn.
@@kentmiller808 Exactly, his own arrogance always screws him over.
I have never heard that saying and now I’m going to stick with it
the sad thing is that its not even really advice, its a coping mechanism
To be fair, despite his dad's achievements, neither of his parents gave adequate help that Chris needed despite their good intention. He wasn't a normal child but they expected him to grew up as such, didn't teach him necessary life lessons or social skills for him to function, refusing to allow institutions to intervene. If he wasn't allowed to be obsessed with cartoons or video games (which normal children enjoys and would naturally grow pass that phase unlike Chris), a lot of problems would be prevented.
It's wild to think that, at least in the early stages, all it would've taken to prevent some of the horrible stuff later on was for either Chris himself to stop uploading every part of his life on the internet or for his parents to take away his internet access for at least a couple of months.
Bob abandoned his entire first family and Barb abused Cole and kicked him out at 17, so I think it’s safe to say they were both terrible parents and neither of them ever should’ve had children.
I mean the fact Bob was literally paying kids just to hang out with Chris is so fucking off and it makes me sad
I don’t think him having interest in cartoons is even a problem. I just wished he could channel that into something else.
It’s actually scary how much documentation Chris has on him I did not expect such high detail. I wonder if that adds to his madness knowing every move he makes is known
it clearly does
His mind is arguably more jumbled than the jokers
I don't think he's capable of such level of self-awareness
He brought it on himself.
He willingly put tons of his personal information out there.
Of course.
It saddens me so much that Chris truly peaked in high school, emotionally and socially, even though his "friends" were paid ones :(
It’s crazy that a high school experience like that would be the low point in most people’s lives, but for Chris it was the peak
What Chris would tell ya? I know what. The Jew
God thats so fucking sad
It's Marry Lee Walshes fault honestly probably Billy Maze who knows
It puts everything in perspective.
This feels like a documentary leading up to a murder or tragedy
It's been one tragedy after another
*"Making a Sonichu"*
Thank god I'm not the only one who feels this😂🤦🏽♂️
@@SparkleDartHOME at first I thought Chris-Chan's life was a tragedy, but now I realized, it's a comedy
@@ussbased-a7074 Tragic Comedy
That letter from Bob telling Chris to cherish his collection is heartbreaking to hear after knowning what happened to it
Reminds me of a biblical quote, like casting pearls before swine
The sad thing is that it's not only his father possession is also historical stuff.
This feels like rereading a mystery novel… Noticing all the foreshadowing that was right in front of you but you didn’t have the info to understand it at the time…
I wonder how many others are rewatching this lol
I think it’d be a good idea to refresh my brain in preparation for what’s to come.
I have been following CWC since like 2012 or something but completely forgot about him during the weird pseudo-trans saga. It’s time to catch up again before the finale.
"don't show them your weak points chris!"
yeah he remembered that well
I forgot that he took his mom to the prom :(
Honestly im surprised he didn't offed himself or went into a shooting spree considering how people in the united states like to bully others to the breaking point.
This shit hurts to watch. Like it genuinely hurts. It’s like watching a train heading towards a cliff at full speed. You know what’s going to happen, and you can’t stop it. You can only watch in horror.
This man has a joker like origin story.
@@dumon4264 nah jokes origin looks like heaven compared to his
It's honestly tragic. His actions towards his mother are horrific, but from the start of this episode alone it's clear he never stood a chance.
I was expecting the train to slow down and stop but then i saw it fly off a cliff straight into prison
Shits wild
What's bad about watching a train fall off a cliff, maybe it was full of criminals?
There was a kid in my elementary school who got bullied into a psych ward and was held back a year. One of the main bullies got shot 4 years later.
Was it by the guy who was bullied?
karma's a beautiful thing sometimes
@@BalsamicJeebsespecially if you're the one giving the karma
Good
@@BalsamicJeebsdo stupid things win stupid prizes
i lost my shit when he showed us "Plautistic... a plant that is autistic"
so unintentionally adorable and hilarious 😭
30:00
I watch content like this out of genuine sympathy for Chris-chan, but Jesus Christ this segment of the video has some of the most unintentionally perfect comedic timing I've ever seen. Chicachu was funny enough on its own. Plautistic fucking killed me
"Constipation became diarrhea"
Albert Einstein.
That's just nonsense like the shit sonichu web comic
"The only Pokémon in the world with autism. It can disable its own attacks"
The only thing funnier than Chris' misadventures is his consistent brutal roasting of other autistic people despite being autistic himself.
Hearing that letter that he’d written for his son that he most likely knew was the last child he’d be having is a serious heartstring tug. When he says “yourself and your children” that shit was genuinely heartbreaking.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 I think that those letters show that for all his faults Bob was a decent person. He obviously cared very deeply for Chris. We don't know what happened with his other kids. Even if he was at fault, we can still empathize
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 I believe, though I may be wrong, that the letter was written before they knew that Chris was autistic. Bob was hoping for a normal kid, a kid who could be a proud legacy. I would love more documentation on Bob from before Chris, I know that autistic children often have one of two results on the parents. They either break the parents and bring out their worse traits that may have never otherwise surfaced, or they show just how good the parent is.
I've witnessed both first hand, and have heard many similar stories. It isn't universal, and while I can recount two extremes, I know many many cases in the middle exist.
I witnessed one of the most loving people I've ever met turn into a monster under the stress of her autistic daughter, which resulted in her being abandoned by her husband, until she decided to poison herself, her daughter, and her non-autistic teenage son at dinner. Her son only survived because he was in the middle of a depression after his first girlfriend left him and he didn't eat much. I remember him coming around to see me after I heard the news, asking if I could give him a place to crash and store his things until he could find a way cross country to his grandparents'. He showed me the note his mother left, and the journal detailing everything she went through with her daughter. Begged me to read it and mark the parts I felt were most important to make sense of it because he was scared and confused. It was heart breaking, you could read as the woman was twisted into being a monster just trying to find a normal life for her daughter until she came to hate the daughter, and, realizing what she turned into, herself, and decided her son must have turned into the same kind of monster, and none of them should live.
Yet, to leave you a happier note. I also witnessed the most white trash, drug addicted, welfare abusing people you can imagine have their fourth kid, and the kid turned out to be autistic, and realizing that the kid would never be able to fend for itself, turned themselves around. They both got educated, they both found jobs, they are putting their other kids through school now, and they are doing all they can to take care of and find the best life for their autistic son. Not a normal life, but a good one.
I think that often is the difference in mindset that turns people into monsters. The monsters always seem to want a normal life for their autistic child above all else, while those who turn out decent just want a decent life for their kid.
Yeah, that was so sad.
@@squirrel_killer- to be fair, most parents of autistic children today have access to medical support or information to help understand how to best care for the child. Bob thought he knew better than professionals, and his decisions made Chris’ life growing up way more difficult than it had to be. And like you said, he probably loved Chris and wanted the best for him despite how he turned out. That said, Barb and Bob’s parenting was just one piece of the horrifying 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle that is Chris Chan’s life story.
Second point: I assume you’re talking about extremes on the autism spectrum near the end, because there are a lot of kids with milder forms of autism who can lead normal lives, with some adjustments. That said, mild autism can still set back a child if their mental health needs aren’t taken care of, because they still face hurtles that that people without autism don’t even have to think about, and teaching them the tools to come to terms with it should be a parent’s first priority. No parent is perfect, and raising kids with special needs can be difficult for a lot of people, but there’s only so far those excuses can go to justify parent’s missteps, however well-intentioned. That’s also why I commend those parents you mentioned for cleaning up and doing right by their children. It takes a lot to admit when you need to change for the betterment of your family, and even more to follow through with it.
My condolences to your friend, that first story was heartbreaking. I hope he’s doing well after everything that happened.
The saddest part was later on in the saga, when chris reads it and laughs at how dumb his dad was.
His dad is basically Alternate Universe Chris, Where instead of sinking into delusions. He did something with his life.
Lmao
@Danny Chesney bob is much better
@Danny Chesney dude, Bob is his dad, they're a lot alike you dumbass.
lmao what a joke. Bob was just as delusional
For his entire life Chris has been pulled down by the weight of autism and too many people around him weren't able to understand that. Bob had no such problems. If I put in more effort than everyone else, while being judged on my mediocre results, I would feel misunderstood and develop delusions too.
young chris speaking a language of part English, part Spanish, and part Algebra is so bizarre
It’s odd but very interesting. As a kid at least, he seemed pretty smart academically
Seeing Chris as a little kid who just wanted to be loved hurts, imagine being a child with dreams of being somebody big, without knowing you'd become the laughing stock of millions 20 years later. It's truly painful seeing him in such an innocent state, he didn't deserve this
yea i finished the documentary a few days ago and rewatching the first episode is one of the most spine chilling things i’ve seen in a good while, it hurts to see an ambitious kid turn into a monster
I sincerely think her parents set her up for failure. If she had parents who actually knew how to care for an autistic child and didn’t feed in to her delusions she would have just ended up an autistic trans woman who posted some strange crossover comics on the internet. She probably still would have gotten bullied just for being autistic and trans, but she probably would have dealt with it a lot better. Or at least her parents would have intervened.
Agreed. I still look at him as a victim of a world he was very much ill-equipped to make his way in.
Nobody deserves the life he’s had.
I miss eugenics.
@@rydz656 If eugenics were popular ypu probably would be dead
heres a fun experiment: make someone who has no knowledge of chris chan watch part 1 and part 85 without anything inbetween
😂
Should I?
You’re about to devote over forty hours of your life watching a documentary about this person. You can’t stop watching
Oh, yes I can. I'm outta here...
And fourty hours is just the first part.
Honestly glad I read this comment.
Just gonna skip this, I don't want to use 40+ hours on this.
@@SirSandvich like that other dude said…40 hours is just the beginning. You’ll spend way more time on the farms, cwcki, and any other source you can find.
@@SirSandvich It's disturbing but worth it
I started crying when the narrator read the letter his middle school teacher wrote for him. She truly cared about him.
Coming back to this after the more recent episodes honestly make it seem like foreshadowing.
@Towely Smokes true but those same things, especially the stamps, have (hopefully) ended up in someones collection where theyll be taken care of, and in turn passed on to another generation, and so on. its probably the best thing that couldve happened to them, even if it wasnt bobs original intention
@Towely Smokes bobs letter means less to me because it's essentially just his justification for hoarding crap. A straight razor is an heirloom, a cherished record or stamp could be an heirloom, but a boat load of stamps and records and other assorted shit? Not really. Bob was a hoarder and couldn't throw shit out, and entrusting it to Chris made him feel better.
@@akyde1552 nah man, barb was the hoarder of the trio
@@Velothi I think you'd be hard pressed to find a couple where only one of them is a hoarder. Bob doesn't seem like the kind of man that would just put up with living in his wife's labyrinth of garbage
“At 2 months of age he uttered his first words: monkey.” This is made me laugh so hard
Ok real talk though, how do we know so much about this dude that we know his first word? Like I don't even know my own first words.
guy knew life before his began.
@@Lexi-vp5kk there are books for parents to documents things about their children, like when they first walked, their first word etc. Maybe Barbara and Bob had one of those or they just told him after he asked them and he mentioned it in a video or somewhere else.
@@Lexi-vp5kk really? Most parents I know love talking about what their kids' first words were. Mine were papa and I apparently really loved the 3 Stooges.
“Mmmmm monke”
“And plautistic, a plant who is autistic” 💀 help
It hurts so much seeing these childhood photos of him. He looked so normal. He *could* have been normal. His parents failed him. The school system failed him. And as he aged, he ultimately failed himself. God, I need a drink.
I actually have the opposite effect from watching this, moreso in later episodes where worse happens, but I see this and I get this nice appreciative feeling for how good my life is in comparison. Also frequently gives me the urge to do something productive, more effective than a self help book imo.
I came damn close to being like this. I had social workers help me and my parents took charge and both my parents helped me a lot in overcoming my autism. I recognize and sympathize with the feelings he had then, but he unfortunately didn't have anyone to help him move past them. Instead, he degenerated into the absolute mess he is now. Barb is 78 this year, with her poor health she isn't likely to be around for much longer and I don't think CWC can feasibly support himself.
If he had better parents he would have been a functioning member of society today
And then there was a trolls although I freely admit Chriss brought so much of it on himself
What does it say about these adults that were trolling him getting their jollies off of psychologically torturing a grown man with the mental capacity of a child
What I found really sad was they never had a single freind even as a child his gal pals only hang out with him either out of pitty or payed to.
His parents set him up for failure and he took that set up and went beyond full force with it. I think pre 2007 he could've been saved. See a good therapist or psychiatrist, lose some weight, get his mind together, get a part time job, etc. Once he gained access to the internet more so UA-cam it was all over. I think the trolls are also to blame for this mess. They made an awful situation a million times worse.
The sheer amount of foreshadowing Chris Chan's life is surreal. Real lives so rarely follow storytelling conventions but this one does somehow.
it’s like if forrest gump was unbelievably fucked up
its scary, just imagine how different he would be if he was brought up better and got the help he needed. you have to watch every excruciating detail of the downfall but you know things could've gone so much different
its like when a story flashes to an event in the future and flashes back and you can only watch as a character slowly declines and IF ONLY someone could have helped
very similar to a Greek Comedy
Do all lives contain such foreshadowing, yet go unnoticed due to the lack of documentation?
@@firstnamelastname5596 I think that's an interesting thing to ponder over. Perhaps if we actually got to view our own lives from a different perspective like this, we'd notice some signs of what's to come. Maybe we'd be living life a lot differently.
Chris' worldview was so twisted by media tropes that he became a trope himself
Sonichu is like some weird demonic creature that ruined Chris life after he accidentally brought it into existence
SCP-982 aka Sonichu.
Sonichu really is a demon that should have been eliminated immediately.
a tulpa
reminds me of the film Monkeybone
@@slitbodmod im surprised someone knows about monkeybone, i was beginning to think i was the only person 😭
Hearing how much Bob valued his music and stamp collection is painful knowing what Chris ended up doing with it
What did he do?
@@fire.smok3 He sold them on ebay and spent the money on Lego sets
It's just stuff. What else was Chris supposed to do with it?
Expecting your kid to keep your stuff is extremely egocentrical and childish. If anything, this (the collection being sold to someone who probably actually wants it) is the best outcome.
im sentimental too but Bob is just fucking-mental if he thinks his progeny wants to keep all his crap.
"locked in a room, alone, in the dark, filled with toys" if that isnt dramatic irony i dont know what is.
That's manifested trauma
@@northwestclasspnw7974 It's like a scene from a horror movie or something.
I dislike your profile picture.
I was not prepared for "Plautistic, a plant which is autistic." Just fucking poetry.
🤣🤣🤣
ORIGINAL POETRY DONUT STEEL
Actually kinda funny tho
"The only Pokemon in the world with autism. It can disable its own attacks" FUCKING GOLD
When I was like 7 I had an imaginary friend I called Prepostrich the preposterous ostrich.
Finally here because the "Chris-Chan does an earth-shattering evil" contingency I made for myself has happened and now I feel comfortable watching this whole series.
Yeah I always had a vague notion of her but never had the energy to watch the series until now..
@Harry Bawsac ur weird.
@@T4SY4 they’re aren’t wrong, Chris faked being trans to get what he want
@@harrydubois6619 cringe transphobia
Same 👍
Despite being a Christorian for over seven years, I came back to watch this in light of recent events. I'm not gonna lie, hearing Bob's letter to Christian (after all that has transpired) almost made me cry; If he only knew.
True. Very saddening
And Null's letter after the house fire :(
Trully... we are in the worst timeline... there where so many times that things could have gone diferently.... starting from the moment that he had the horrible babysitter that locked him up, to the moment that a silly arts projected prohibited copyright charachters... trully a butterfly effect in action.
Sorry, very new here, what happened with him recently? I'm just now learning about this guy
@@AlisonChains13 well... after a tragic tale and things going down hill his mental health got worse and worse and he ended up rapping his elderly mother that had dementia. Its.... just sad he had a hearing regarding his bail today. He won't be abble to get a bail.
God...rewatching this and seeing Bob's dream shack with the sign of "Mr.C and Little C". It breaks my heart that everything has come to this.
Poor Bob
@@NautilusSSN571 The fact that Bob was quarantined on his death bed due to bug infestation is pretty fucking horrifying as well.
At least they both got to share mommy's C
I'm sorry
Chris' dad was such a good guy. I genuinely respect him, what he stood for, and his ideals (At least in terms of the mountain thing referenced in the video, the collections, etc). So looking back I feel horrible about the man, and realize that this kind of thing probably happens more than we'd like to think. Very depressing
@@whitehellfire8552 Bob was the real victim of this saga. Of Barb and Chris
This actually depressed me a little, knowing how it turns out later on.
Same. This series was my first exposure to Chris-Chan.
@@amoniousbt1110 I thought I knew what I was gett8ng into. I watched the entirety of the last series before it was taken down. But then I realized, this is barely the tip of the iceberg, after learning what Chris has been doing recently.
I'm legitimately c9ncerned for their well-being, even if most all of it was his own fault.
@@drockman92 All we can do is sit and pray, Chris needs divine intervention if he will even accept it. It's like his ship with him on it sunk into his toys and... Um, madness a long time ago.
Re: Tip of the Iceberg: Yeah, I once dreamed Chris killed someone over a Sega Saturn back in the day (95 / 96) and hid the bones in the game system's box. Sigh. I'm not making that up, Chris has been in more than a few of my dreams.
@@101Volts The dream part got me in tears haha It's horribly gruesome, but it's definitely something Chris-chan would do...
@@AC3electrosphere In the same dream (before the bones part,) I wondered what Chris would do once his Mom dies. The dream seemed to say he'd _call her to tell her she's dead._ This sounds like something out of Beavis and Butthead.
I know barely anything about this guy, so imma watch this WHOLE thing, the whole playlist
Wish me luck guys I think I'll need it for this one
Ohhh boy, your gonna be In a helluva rabbit hole.