Mailbag
On 19 November 2009, the sysop of Cwcipedia created a new page for Chris to answer fan-E-mails. This mailbag marked the first time the words of other humans appeared on Cwcipedia, which up to that point had been all Chris all the time.
The mailbag quickly overflowed from it's original page into a series of numbered pages, each one containing a random assortment of fanmail for Chris to respond to with his own special brand of Honest content. This quickly became the best way to ask Chris any manner of questions about his deeply disturbing life.
Insight
This direct line into Chris's thoughts allowed curious trolls a brand new way to find the answers they so desperately sought: Asking politely. Through these messages, several aspects of Chris's personality were either exposed or reinforced.
- Chris absolutely despises being corrected. Repeatedly, Chris insisted that Asperger's syndrome was "nothing" like autism, and refused to even look at information that would suggest otherwise, outright saying that he was "closed-minded" on the subject.
- Chris's aversion to certain words is as strong as ever. While Chris has apparently got over using the word "dick", his reliance on CWC-isms remains unchecked, the most notable example would be referring to a swastika as a "four-boomerang-shaped symbol".
- Chris is fully aware of the fact that he's plagiarizing. When speaking about his inspiration he said that his ideas were sometimes "borrowed from a tv show or movie". He also treated fan suggestions as though he was going to take every single one of them rather than coming up with his own ideas, at one point giving a fan "permission" to submit a character for Chris to use in a future story.
- Chris sure does hate gay people. It's inconsistent though. When Chris isn't going on about how he's going to cure homosexuality, he's making vague attempts at damage control, saying things like he wouldn't hate a guy "for just one reason".
Censorship
Perhaps the most telling part of the Mailbags are not Chris's answers, but the letters Chris refuses to answer. In the first few mailbags, all e-mails that did not lavish adequate amounts of praise on Chris were promptly deleted. A few that did lavish praise on him were also deleted, because they were written by people who Chris found objectionable. These "unwanted" individuals generally consisted of gays, blacks, and atheists. A couple of other individuals were silenced when they confused Chris with the other, better Chris. Finally, one e-mail was only partially deleted, because the author stated that he was not fond of Michael Bay's Transformers movies.
In later Mailbags, Chris deleted less mail, notably after a few messages called him out on his suppression of the press. His choices for deletion however, became more erratic, deleting messages from people who wanted to actually help him, or from people asking serious honest questions. Eventually Chris added a Rejected Mailbag page to the Cwcipedia, as a place for e-mails he rejected, saying that they had "offensive, or mislabeling, content that I, Christian W. Chandler, would not care to respond to". Oddly, he then typed full responses to several of these "rejected" letters, making the whole thing pointless.
See also
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