CHRISTIAN WESTON CHANDLER

Sonichu is a webcomic created by the infamous artist, vlogger and trolling victim Christian Weston Chandler, better known by its nickname Chris-chan. The comic, which follows the adventures of eponymous Electric Hedgehog Pokemon (fusion of Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog) has gained a notorious reputation online due its overal low quality, poor originality, the introduction of autobiographic elements to the story and author’s self-insert.Sonichu was characterized by bad drawing and its unoriginal (most of it was ‘borrowed’ from Pokemon, Sonic, Dragon Ball and Excel Saga while certain dialogues were taken directly from countless other sources), chaotic story. It was widely ignored before Chris’ video-blog and personal life gained internet infamy, and comics departed from their original storyline to describe Sonichu’s sex life, (among other content, which Chris claims is suitable for work) and the author’s own personal problems (mostly connected with inability to find ‘a boyfriend-free girlfriend’).Paradoxically, Sonichu is not the main character of the series. Since Sonichu 2 (actually the third issue, first was Sonichu 0), most of its story focused on Chris. The author portrayed himself as superhuman, extremely intelligent, blessed by God (literally), major of CWCville (which is supposed to be utopia, though while judged by objective standards is an extreme case of totalitarian communism), and has his own super mode which is activated by a magic maguffin. Wonder where he got that idea…round 2007, Sonichu and Chris were discovered by trolls, who ridiculed both the comics and Chris’ behavior. This was soon followed by an Encyclopedia Dramatica article. Upon its discovery, Christian attempted to convince ED to remove the page. When this failed, he began vandalizing parts of the article in attempt to better his image. He also began to post pornographic artwork of his own creations as a means to protest against it. While this artwork mostly portrayed Sonichu characters, there was one in particular that portrayed him performing a sexual act with a friend from his real life (which later resulted in said friend breaking off contact from him). This led to extensive trolling by ED and 4chan (especially /b/ and /v/). As the time passed, the trolling community became obsessive about ruining Chris-chan’s life (or rather those parts of his life he couldn’t ruin himself) which resulted in its isolation from the rest of the internet community.