DStecks

DStecks is a Canadian YouTube personality who donated $1,000 to Chris in September 2015.

He gave the money through a listing on Chris's Etsy shop, so Chris was obligated to produce 100 pages of the Sonichu comic in exchange, although he failed to do so. Chris reached a milestone in laziness on 8 March 2017 by going for 500 days without working on the comic. He eventually ended the hiatus two months later, after 561 days, through no involvement from DStecks.

Bad Reviews on Sonichu
DStecks had been following Chris for years and has accounts on both the CWCki (joined February 2010, with a lengthy list of edits ending in June 2015) and Kiwi Farms (joined May 2013).

He first reviewed Sonichu on his Bad Reviews YouTube channel in September 2010, and would make many more episodes on it over the next five years. On December 2015, he uploaded the last of his reviews on Sonichu, having reached the end of Chris’s comic output.

Donation
On 5 September 2015, one day after Chris returned to Sonichu 11 by uploading 11 pages to his Facebook, DStecks donated $1,000 USD through a donation listing in which Chris had advertised that, for every $10 donated, he would make one page for Sonichu 11.

DStecks discussed the donation in the video below (at 20:30):

DStecks left a comment for Chris:

Chris had this to say in response to this remarkable generosity:

DStecks commented about his donation on Kiwi Farms:

On 16 November, DStecks received his medallion and Amiibos from Chris.

He displayed them in Bad Reviews 32: A Sonichu Christmas.

Motives and criticism
DStecks seemed to have some remorse from gaining popularity to his YouTube channel as a result of mocking Chris's comic, saying "I can't take back what I've done, but in one specific way I can", to explain why he was "personally financing the continuation of Sonichu 11". He also seemed to want to end his association with Sonichu on a high note, as he said that, due to being the "executive producer" of Sonichu, he would be unable to review Sonichu 11 without "a violation of ethics" (although he would betray that point only a few months later).

DStecks also gained criticism for his inability to review the comic without stating his own personal beliefs and political views. As he called out both the trolls and others for their motives, such as calling Asperchu the biggest attack on Chris due to the comic itself being attacked and believing that Leary deserved some backlash despite it being a parody. He stated he was ashamed of his generation due to Gamergate and used Anita Sarkeesian footage to prove a feminism point (albeit sped up).

His donation is controversial with Christorians, as some believe that he honestly wanted Sonichu 11 to continue and was naïve about Chris's laziness. Others argue that this weenish move validated begging in Chris's eyes.

Arthur Spatchcock, in the following year, commented about his opinion of DStecks and the donation:

While ostensibly for a good cause, DSteck's overly-generous donation ultimately had little effect on Chris's finances (nor his habits regarding money in general). DStecks is sometimes used by commentators as an example of Weenery and White knighting at its most inane, with copycats attempting to pay Chris large sums of money to have him perform or provide to their liking, only to receive very little, if anything, in return.

Outcome
Chris, predictably, failed to deliver on his end of the deal for the comics, delivering only 16 pages out of the 100 promised. His last upload for Sonichu 11 was on 25 October 2015. It’s unknown if DStecks discussed the matter any further with Chris.

As for DStecks, he went back on his word not to review Sonichu any further by uploading a video reviewing Sonichu 11 on 24 December. He claimed that "there was some remaining Sonichu I did not finance, and thus can still review without violating journalistic ethics." However, this was a lie, as the review contains the 16 pages Chris had uploaded after being paid by DStecks.

Arthur Spatchcock later spoke with Chris about the donation and learned that he bought a bed with it - one of Chris's more practical purchases, but this did nothing to advance the comic.

Much later, in June 2017, Chris recommenced uploading comic pages, this time behind a paywall on Patreon, completing Sonichu 11 after nearly eight years of developmental hell and moving on to further books. In 2017, Chris was far more productive with producing pages than he was in 2015, due to his interest having naturally shifted back to the comic - further proving that it is a bad idea to try forcing content out of Chris, especially by wasting $1,000 on the effort.

In the comic


DStecks appears as "Danny Steckle" in Sonichu 12, in a set of panels drawn in June 2017. At CWCville's SLGBTQ Pride Festival, Danny is greeted by Angelica, who thanks him for his generous donation to the soup hotels, mentioning that new beds and food were acquired with the funds.

Gallery
Below are screenshots of the donation which DStecks had included in his announcement video.