CWC's Sonichu Site!



CWC's Sonichu Site! (full title: The Official & The Originial [sic] From Christian Weston Chandler the Sonichu and Rosechu Site!) was Chris's homepage for the Sonichu franchise. It existed in various incarnations from 2000 to August 2009, and was a regular target of hacking by trolls following Chris's discovery in 2007. Half a decade later, Chris's Facebook friends helped him make a new site, which was pretty much non-functional and error-ridden during its astonishing 10-day life.

Design
Chris liked to harp on how he took two HTML classes and likes to construct his page on Netscape Composer, a mercifully discontinued software product. It is fairly obvious that either the HTML classes didn't teach good web design principles, or Chris slept through those sections.

The main hub of the Sonichu site was the front page. Chris dumped everything on the front page, all of the content centered. Chris also added things to the page in random places with little thought as to where they would go, and didn't really have the time and energy to update the page. In its later incarnations, the page had mentions of Animal Crossing material, Chris's changes to the comic, and had "Copyright CWC and Nintendo", long after the end of the Miyamoto Saga.

Chris's site also boasted that it was a member of the "Super Sonic Webring"; closer inspection reveals that Chris's site is not listed as a member of the webring, and Chris failed to insert the correct codes (i.e., he failed to put in his member ID, leaving "_SITE_ID_HERE_" in the links) – this simple failure to follow very simple setup instructions may have been why he was not approved as a member, as Webring owners usually checked this. His Fastcounter link is also broken. In its earliest incarnations Chris had a MIDI playing in the background, just to get that old Web 1.0 feel.

Sonichu-Fans (2008)
Sonichu-Fans was a small sub-site of Sonichu.net, created by PandaHalo, and meant for use by Chris's fans. Chris introduced it with:

Most of the site's features were never really created. Its most notable feature was "Sonichu fan chat", a Java IRC applet that connected to Rizon's #sonichu channel. In the days following its introduction, Chris appeared in the fan chat in person a few times.

Sonichu and Rosechu's Luv Shack (early 2009 – May 2009)
After the nuclear winter following the release of Sonichu #8, Chris had made a solemn promise not to release any more naughty imagery. Naturally, he had to break this vow when he found out about the Sonichu Girls forum and wanted to impress the members.

Earliest Appearance
In terms of content, Chris's Sonichu site was at first almost identical to CWC's Pokésite 2. There were links to game reviews, his Sonichu's News Dash!, his original Sonic cards, and most importantly, a link to his "About the Author" page. Guests could listen to a remixed version of "Sonic Boom" The main visual portrayed Sonic and Sonichu as equals, and the centered text didn't even play up Sonichu. It read simply:

As Chris created new minor sites over the years, such as his Hot Wheels page and his Bionicle site, he provided links. In 2002, he added something called "The Sonichu Chronicles Slideshow." In general, he does not seem to have given much attention to the site during its first several years.

The influence of the Love Quest
In 2003 and 2004, Chris's life became focused on the Love Quest, and in early 2004, he reinvented the Sonichu Site as a platform for advertising himself and his artistic geinus.

The reinvigorated News Dash, of course, was more than anything else a tool to acquire a girlfriend. Chris also added his romantic fantasy Sonichu & Rosechu… The Genesis of the Lovehogs. His "About the Author" section was updated to include one of his first lists of qualifications for a sweetheart. He also highlighted Sonichu's first appearance in Nintendo Power magazine, and the later "personal ad" in the magazine in which he discussed his noviophobia. By 2006, the central visual on the site was a cartoon representation of Chris himself, and the "About the Author" section was the first and most important link, given priority even over issue #0 of Sonichu.

Links to new issues of Sonichu were added as they appeared. At a moment of writer's block, he wrote:

Upon Megan's rejection, he temporarily lost inspiration, and had to note:

As with all his sites, he used the site to scream about Adam Stackhouse and the Parappa Contest.

Shortly after producing his DVD, he highlighted his new educational video, and indicated that he was starting to receive some ridicule for his opinions:

Chris discovers his fanbase
According to plan, by mid-2008 Chris believed that he had an extensive fanbase, and he started to make demands. In August he made a significant update to the site with a statement he also placed on his blog, a spiel about how amazing his game will be if you'd just take the time to flood the Nintendo and SEGA forums demanding it be made. Chris is careful to announce that he will be reducing his own presence in the story, shortly before explaining that the entire plot of the game will be about him:

His fans were instrumental in helping Chris win a Guitar Hero contest:

He also discussed his utilization of Little Big Planet to advertise Sonichu:

He was excited to learn that this effort paid off:

Trolls seize control
Soon, Chris believed that he was in contact with Nintendo, and reassured his fans:

When JK Productions got in touch in August 2008, he included a link:

But on 11 September 2008, in part because of opposition from his video game partner, he declared:

When Chris suffered a major hacking, he reassured his readers on 17 September 2008:

On 11 December 2008, he warned:

2009: The final months
In early 2009, Chris was contacted by the creative minds behind Nintendo and entered into discussions to turn Sonichu into a video game. In compliance with their wishes, he posted:

A short time later, he suffered one in a series of hacking attempts, and on 3 February he announced:

After yet another hacking of one of his domains, Chris wrote on 9 April 2009:

On 1 May he updated:

After one final hacking, Chris gave up on this site altogether and shifted his attention to Wikipedia and the CWCipedia.

Primordial origins (August 2000 – 2007)
The original incarnation of the Sonichu Site was hosted on the near-legendary free host for crappy personal web pages, Tripod, at http://sonichuchandler.tripod.com/cwcson.htm (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sonichuchandler.tripod.com/cwcson.htm). As the site was launched back when it was not yet a crime to violate aesthetics and common sense in web design, Chris's page blended right in. Before this, CWC's Pokésite 1 and CWC's Pokésite 2 had been hosted on AcmeCity (go.com), another popular host for ineptly cobbled-together personal pages.

Chris even reminisces about his "Sonichu Site Filing Facility Hosted by Tripod" in issue #10, not that it makes any frigging sense. It is probably just some sort of a comic-page manifestation of a psychotic break. He calls this "burning the Tripod bridge". The fact that trolls hacked the site must have been particularly traumatizing to Chris.

In the comic, Chris-Chan Sonichu defeats some devil trolls, moves his files away from Tripod, and bombs the crap out of the site. He then says, "Tripod was weak, in security, and it lacked the support for Flash media, anyway." In truth, Chris's site was hacked due entirely to his weak passwords and sloppy security practices. For example, in security questions, he has put in answers that could be looked up from the web; everyone knows his favorite film. Unfortunately, the CWCipedia didn't support Flash either – otherwise, his fans would have been thrilled to see what kind of craziness his two HTML classes could have inspired him to create.

sonichu.com
Chris was never able to use this domain after trolls registered it sometime in 2007, instead going for the domain below.

It has been used as a redirect to various sites, including a Sonichu-fan page, Chris' Encyclopedia Dramatica page, and Chris' sex tape on SlutLoad. The last known pre-CWCki usage of the domain was used as a redirect to the Asperpedia in January 2010.

On 7 November 2010, the CWCki acquired the domain and has since been used to house this very wiki, much to Chris' dismay.

sonichu.net (2007 – January 2009)
This was established in 2007, sometime after trolls registered the above domain (in Christian's words, "nothing but net").

On 8 January 2009, Chris emailed the password to Gregg Mays, who hacked the site and ended up prompting Chris to show his fangs. On the 12th, the site was restored after he made Chris make a video saying that he is straight. Four days after this, the site was hacked again by the now-named Clyde Cash, posing as Jason Kendrick Howell.

A day later on January 17th, the domain and password were put on eBay for auction and was eventually sold by January 27th. After being sold, the domain was used to feature a video of Chris practicing kissing with his hand, and by Late-February, was used as a Meatspin mirror site.

Sometime between late August to late September until around Early 2010, the domain was used to host a mirror of the site onetruecwcville.net, which was a parody CWCville homepage, until reverting back into a Meatspin mirror in February 2010. A year later, the website's domain expired, redirecting the domain to a holding page.

After its initial expiration, the domain was re-registered in February 2015 for a year and redirected to the website of the Sydney Christadelphian Youth Circle.

Currently, as of 2016, the domain is owned by Skenzo and redirects to various spam/scam websites.

sonichu.info (January 2009)
This domain was quickly established on 16 January 2009 to replace sonichu.net and ended up getting hacked almost immediately two days later. When the man takes you away, do not resist. The domain later redirected to sonichu.110mb.com.

As of 2012, the sonichu.info domain is owned by sedo.com, a parking domain site.

sonichuandrosechu.com (February 2009 – August 2009)
After a hiatus, on 4 February 2009, Chris acquired the domain and showcased the relaunched site in a video. This incarnation was most notable for seeing the debut of Chris's official Rule 34 section, Sonichu and Rosechu's Luv Shack, Which had launched on the 12th.

It lasted a little longer than the Sonichu.info site, but then Chris gave the password to Julie, with predictable results.

For many years, the site was down but by 2013 was put up for sale again. It was later bought and re-registered for a year in February 2015 (along with the sonichu.net domain) and redirected to the site of the Sydney Christadelphian Youth Circle.

As of 2016, the domain is held by cybersquatters and redirects to various spam/scam websites.

cwcville.com (April 2009 – May 2009)
After another pause, Chris relaunched his site at this domain on 9 April 2009, after purchasing the domain a few days prior on the 6th. Since Chris didn't know how to manage the mess of links he had created, some remained broken, such as the one to Sonichu and Rosechu's Luv Shack. Guests had to change the domain name to visit it. Da major update he made to this site was to paste his autobiography after it got deleted from Wikipedia.

On 15 May 2009, this domain was hacked as well, with it's content replaced with a photoshopped image of Chris at a gay pride festival, alongside a message that demanded the completion of Sonichu #9. A day later, the message was changed to one that slammed Chris for thinking he was really in contact with Vanessa Hudgens:

"Hey Faggot,

My name is Joshua Martinez, and I hate you. You are a fat, retarded, no-life who spends every second of his day drawing stupid ass pictures. You are everything bad in the world. Honestly, have you ever gotten any pussy? I mean, I guess it's fun making fun of people because of your own insecurities, but you just take to a whole new level. This is even worse than fucking an anime blowup doll. Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much perfect. I was captain of the football team, and starter on my basketball team. What sports do you play, other than "jack off to naked drawn animal people"? I also get straight A's,] and have a banging hot girlfriend (She just blew me; Shit was SO cash). You are a faggot who should just kill himself. Thanks for listening.

Pics Related: It's me and my bitch"

- The message directed to Chris

The website also displayed a picture of Joshua Martinez, which may have given the suggestion that he was the one who hacked the site. On the 17th, images of Venessa's nudes were added to the site alongside images of Josh and Venessa together, which gave a suggestion that they had some sort of relationship. The message was changed again, where Josh bragged about having sex with Venessa Hudgens:

"dame man no wonder u cant get a gf btw vanessa is real and she just mess with u lol. guess who just got laid lol."

- The message.

By the 19th, the site went offline and was turned into a GoDaddy holding page.

As of December 2010, the domain as been owned by the company Huge Domains, and the only times the domain was used again during this period was a redirect to a Christian book shop in 2012 and in February 2019 when the domain was purchased by a company called NameStrategies LLC, but in April 2019 it had been suspended and so has gone back to Huge Domains.

http://www.spergweb.com/SonichuOnline (November 2014)
On 20 November 2014, Chris's Facebook white knight Kenneth Engelhart created the first Sonichu website in five years, so that Chris would have a place where he could dump his blue arm ramblings. While this motive may at first seem in line with those of Chris's trolls – encouraging Chris to produce new content is a unanimous goal –, Kengle's reasoning was more unusual. A man in his 50s who still lived with his parents, Kengle's primary goal in life was to befriend Chris by giving him a safe space to vent his tard-rage. From the start, the site was barely functional and drenched in the amateurish 90s HTML stylings that only two unemployed adult autists could achieve. At least one page was made, Chris's partial biography, directly copied from his Wikipedia profile. Links suggested that the site would eventually contain Sonichu character profiles, the comics themselves, and other classic Chris content. Note that although the site was officially meant to be about Sonichu, Ken's priority was the vanity page about Chris himself.

The site also contained a forum with very strict moderation. Some users from Kiwi Farms made accounts so they could dick around, but the site collapsed before they could have their accounts verified. Presumably, Ken intended to coerce Chris into posting, but of course this never happened.

The page received DDoS attacks from weens almost immediately after its creation, and it provided the user with 404 errors. Ken had inexplicably hosted the site on the domain "spergweb.com." It is not clear why Ken chose this domain to host a site for Chris, a guy known for being a notorious Asperger hater, but this stupid decision resulted in Chris expressing a general distrust of the site. One of Chris's white knights at the ass-patting Keep Sonic Original festival assured him that the site was being "redesigned".

The website is now shut down permanently. Kengle confirmed this on his Facebook, claiming that he has "other things going on in life", what with his stamp collecting and all. It's more likely that Kengle saw Chris's complaint about the site as some kind of threat to their potential friendship and immediately nuked the site, so as not to offend Great Director Chandler. This makes Spergweb the shortest-lived website Chris has ever technically owned, lasting a mere ten days.