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WTFriday: The Adventures of Sonichu

Posted by Bob Mackey

Note to readers: WTFriday is a weekly feature where I find something stupid about video games and get you to laugh until it goes away. Please try to forget this is what I normally do every day of the week.

What is it about Sonic the Hedgehog that naturally includes him in all aberrant online behavior? This is the question we will try to answer today as we explore the mind of a manchild and try not to get lost or sign up for DeviantART accounts.  The manchild in question goes by the hacker alias of "Sonichu;" and for a brief biography, I'll turn to our friends at the Internet's bullying headquarters, Encyclopedia Dramatica:

Chris-chan (AKA: Sonichu, CWC, Christian Weston Chandler) is a self-proclaimed 26-year-old "high-functioning autistic" virgin man-child, and creator of his own awesomely drawn series of comics starring his brilliant crossover of Sonic and Pikachu. He is also incredibly arrogant, sexist, homophobic and racist. Despite being a complete loser, his standards for a "potential Sweetheart" are laughably high and specified. He is known to stereotype women, often thinking that they are unable to notice him at the mall because they are "too busy shopping".


In case you couldn't tell, the rabbit hole on this one is pretty goddamned deep.  But all you need to know is that some well-meaning fans have transformed his semi-autobiographical stories into a full-fledged multimedia experience, much like how Ken Burns combined banjo music and a few pictures of the civil war and ended up with PBS gold.  Here's the first episode:



The rest of the episodes can be found here. Now you have a reason to drink yourself into oblivion this weekend.  Go out and zap to the extreme!

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Roto13 said:

This can only end in suicide.

September 19, 2008 8:41 PM

Amber Ahlborn said:

Watch the knock against DA.  I have a paid account there and am happy to support the community, even though many members turn out the most atrocious fridge art.  There's also a lot of stuff there that's mind blowingly awesome.  I also have a Conceptart.org account but it's been dormant for ages.

September 20, 2008 12:38 PM

Bob Mackey said:

I understand what you're saying, but DeviantART is usually associated with...deviants.

September 20, 2008 1:38 PM

Jes said:

No, D.A. is usually associated with 16 year old dramawhores who can't take criticism.

This is hilarious, by the way. If I hadn't already started drinking, this would inspire a weekend binge.

September 20, 2008 10:04 PM

Paul Bunyan said:

This guy's pretty resilient. I've been following this stuff for almost a year now, and if he hasn't done it yet, I don't think anything can make him kill himself. We've got nothing to worry about. The lulz will continue.

October 5, 2008 3:51 AM

About Bob Mackey

For a brief period of time I was Bull from TV's Night Court, but some of you may know me from the humor column I wrote for Youngstown State University's The Jambar, Kent State University's The Stater, and Youngstown's alternative newspaper, The Walruss. I'm perhaps most well-known for my bi-weekly pieces on Something Awful. I've also blogged for Valley24.com and have written articles for EGM, 1UP, GameSpite and Cracked. For all of my writing over the years, I have made a total of twenty American dollars. It's also said that I draw cartoons, which people have described with words such as "legible." I kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby and am looking to do so again in the future.

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