Has anyone here heard of Chris Chan?
Just discovered this person thanks to a sordid news story about them that broke a few days ago.
To make a long story short, Chris Chan is a person who was born biologically male, and is living with autism. As a child, Chan became obsessed with characters like Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog and created a combined character based on both of them, going on to write and illustrate amateurish comic books while harboring delusions of grandeur. He gathered an internet following through his weird behavior.
Of course, Chris fell victim to trolls and being extremely naive, was coerced into making outrageous statements and performing obscene acts online, usually by trolls who pretended to be women who claimed to be interested in pursuing a relationship. Chris became an internet legend and slowly lost all grip on reality.
About 5 years ago, Chris came out as transgender and now prefers to be known as Christine.
Recently, Christine, who still has male sexual organs, confessed to a troll that Christine was having a sexual (ie. raping) relationship with his, or her, dementia-suffering 80 year old mother, and was promptly reported and arrested.
I have seen a lot of odd, disturbing things in the news in the last few years, but the Chris Chan story is one of the most pathetic and saddening.
That being said, the Chris Chan story is not nearly as surprising as one would like it to be. 20 years ago this stuff would have been beyond belief. Now, it's just one more sign that our society is sick and crumbling very rapidly.
People like Chris Chan are what happens when you push the envelope too far. Chris is the end product of the Progressive Liberal vision.