Pretty much every party involved in it is awful tbh.
If it isn't the biggest harassment campaign on the internet, then it's at least one of them
My thought about the person herself is that while she's a pretty garbage person, it's very clearly a result of the world around her treating her like shit on every level for basically her entire life, she grew up in a horrifically abusive right-wing household just to end up in constant attack by the worst people the internet's had to offer, with those people shaping every aspect of her "growth" from that point forward, to the point of the 4chan harassers even going so far as to give her multiple fake friends and people trying to "help" her just to end up being part of the harassment campaign so that she can't even know who she can trust even among people she knows IRL
Just a shitshow on every level and it's undeniable that she's a massive victim here even if she hasn't exactly been a good person herself (but again, that's largely because of how she's been a victim the whole time)
(I think CWC still uses she/her? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, it's been absolutely ages since I last checked for obvious reasons, I don't like looking into this stuff lol)
An example of a person who should have been under care in a psychiatric facility, where they could be cared for and treated, but instead they were exploited and tortured as an internet lolcow.
This. My only 'thought' on the matter is it's going to make a horrifying sociological study. Like, some sociologist is going to lose sleep and probably eventually [REDACTED] themselves over their manuscripts and a whiskey trying to address how awful at every level the internet can be to those it deems "acceptable targets", and how that potential can possibly exist and line up with any kind of belief in human empathy.
And I'm not gonna be the socsh who does it, either; I stopped believing in a fundamental level of empathy in humanity years ago.
THE classic example of why internet freak show juvenalia can go real bad, especially on a long term scale.
There are very fundamental flaws with the idea that some people have done things that make them acceptable targets for random people's aggression. Best case scenario, a dozen different people deciding to take their frustrations out on them for personal satisfaction similtaneously ends up going nowhere. Worst case scenario, you get...eh...this. Some people shouldn't be paid much mind, and that's for the good of everyone involved. (Or anyone who could possibly be involved.)
In more of a political theory sense, a core precept of right wing culture is the idea that there are "acceptable targets" that society at large needs protection from. They'll often point at people they think "deserve it" as justification for their own existence and propagation, out of a stated fear that if they were to become normalized society would be significantly marred. Often times these acceptable targets are unsympathetic characters who've done something wrong and the scorn they draw from conservative elements can come off as very intuitive to a uninitiated passerby: Ultimately, their existence and the antisocial tendencies right-aligned actors see them as embodying are used as a "trojan horse" of sorts to attack anyone who even be characterized as having anything in common with them. With lolcows as examples to point to, the right and those that feed into the right have ammo to turn against anyone too visibly autistic, too visibly gay-coded, too visibly trans, kind of a "loser", or ultimately just a bit too geeky in general. There's a broader critique of conservative fixation on "D*generacy" to be made here.
People would not make such a huge deal out of it if it weren't for transmisogyny.
I won't negate that transmisogyny has added fuel to the dumpster fire that Chris Chan's story is but this is outright wrong. Chris Chan was already a huge deal ages before they came out as trans, which happened relatively recently, much time after the peak of their infamy.
It wouldn't be correct for me to say that at the start, but it's indisputable at this point.
For what it's worth, the harassment campaign was in full swing waaaay before CWC came out as trans, that was just extra fuel for the fire when it was starting to die down
Yeah, this was someone who was failed by everyone in their entire life, their parents, the school system, ultimately even themselves, refusing to do even the slightest bit of self-reflection or self-improvement. The saddest part of the Chris Chan story to me is people who actively tried to help them, only to be rebuffed and ignored, resulting in them eventually giving up on Chris. This could have been a fairly typical "lolcow" story, where they just get bullied off the internet and live a quiet life in anonymity. But instead we got arguably the most toxic display of trolling and manipulation ever seen on the internet, all because the trolls decided that this person was enough of an "acceptable target".
well...the development of events showed us many things:
-the homophobia was founded on mimicry and misunderstanding of sarcasm in TV more than rightist ideas from her old parents
-chris's trolls made a parasocial relationship with her, so the old trolling was subverted into a bizarre flavor of simping, giving her vast quantities of donations basically for no reason that pushing her to do more extravagancies (because she never finishes anything commissioned)
-her hipersexuality and failures to get a girlfriend in previous times made her a creepy pervert who abused her mother
chris is an idiot and her trolls became her simps
