Chris in the media



Chris and Sonichu have occasionally made it to the attention of the media spotlight, in television, newspapers, magazines, podcasts and the Internet.

Chris's legendary status as the first mainstream lolcow also catches the attention of many Internet commentators and entertainers, who would often include him and his creations from as a tongue-in-cheek cameo to a major multi-part documentary.

Richmond Times-Dispatch
In 1993, the  newspaper ran an article detailing how Chris changed his name from "Christopher" to "Christian". This was Chris's first known appearance in media.

Sonic the Hedgehog Watch & Win Sweepstakes
Chris's second appearance in the media was a news report in 1994 chronicling Chris's first victory, winning a contest celebrating one of the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons.

Chris Chan in the PokéNews
In 1999, Chris made his third appearance in a news report on the growing success of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. He was 17 years old at the time, and he was playing Pokémon cards with kids as young as 8.

Nintendo Power Magazine
Twice, Chris has used the magazine Nintendo Power to get himself attention. First was a letter Chris wrote telling Nintendo how he used a video game to cure his fear of talking to girls. The second time detailed Chris's Animal Crossing video, though there he was known as Sonichu, not Chris.

Shojo Beat
Chris sent a letter to an anime-themed magazine that got published in its November 2005 issue. In it, he complains about JERKS taking away all the pretty boyfriend-free girls and leaving him to be a lonesome virgin. A response was published in the March 2006 issue, in which the writer instructs Chris on the error of his ways.

2007


On 14 July 2007, Chris and Barb were mentioned in their local newspaper, the Charlottesville Daily Progress.

2017


A decade later, on 16 September 2017, Chris was photographed by Daily Progress staff at a Cville Pride event.

2021
Chris would make the pages of the Daily Progress yet again on 2 August 2021, this time in connection with his arrest for incest.

Toucher and Rich
On 12 May 2009 Chris's antics became so famous that it sparked the interest of a radio podcast in. The whole media furor was sparked by the "I Got A Fish" video. However, most of the show covered Chris's videos addressed to Ivy.

Kevin and Bean
One of Chris's Captain's Logs is dissected by the hosts. Notably, the video in question required a full two minutes dedicated to disclaimers, as well as censoring of certain unairable acts.

Web Soup
Once again, Chris's "I Got A Fish" video was briefly featured, this time on 's  on 2 July 2009. While the segment lasted less than 30 seconds, Chris initially felt honored and used the opportunity to try to score some china, only to belatedly realize after he uploaded an entire video about it that shows like Web Soup are devoted to mocking people like him.

Save McIntire Park
In July 2009, Chris briefly appears in the background of a news segment about saving McIntire Park, Charlottesville. Later, Chris receives recognition at a council meeting for drawing a large sign.

Slylock Fox


On 25 September 2011, , a comic strip about comic strips published by King Features Syndicate, featured a black-and-white image of Sonichu in the "Your Drawing" panel. The illustration, which ran in thousands of papers nationwide, was accompanied by text, which read: "Today's terrific artist is Christian Weston Chandler, Age 9." The strip's author, Bob Weber Jr., admitted on the Comics Curmudgeon blog that he fully believed that the "artist" was 9 (rather than 29) when he selected the drawing out of the dozens that are submitted to the strip every week.

Opie & Anthony
On 27 May 2009,  on, which was broadcast to 18.5 million units, did a commentary segment on Chris's video response to drinking his own cum and shitting his adult diapers. It is unknown whether he's realized that his autistic antics have technically been broadcast to low earth orbit.

Houston Press
On 12 July 2012, the  published an article on Rex Nabours III of defunct folk punk band Guwange and his attempts to raise money for sick children. Nabours was quoted in the article saying "I did a Christian Weston Chandler (the Sonichu guy) covers album earlier this year with the intent of giving any money I made off of it to Autism-related charities because the dude is basically blackface for autism".

Failosophy


MTV's show  mocked Internet idiots like Chris. While the show lasted a mere 3 months due to negative reception, one of his Tomgirl pics memorably and unsurprisingly showed up in the 4th episode of the show, viewed by almost a million people. Jump to 1:22 for his appearance.

Chris, unusually, gave a response via Facebook.

He provided more thoughts on the scene in LoveYouLongTime E-mails, 2013-2014:

Chris reached out to the show's host, Hasan Minhaj, to complain. Minhaj responded, saying that he had been told all the people whose photos were featured on the show had provided consent and apologized if that was not the case for Chris:

To this day, Chris has not followed up on this threat of legal action. The episode with Chris in it also remains available on iTunes.

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
In the pilot episode "Lakewood Plaza Turbo", Carol tells her son K.O. to defend the plaza "to the extreme", a direct reference to the cover of Sonichu #0. This was confirmed by the show's creator, Ian Jones-Quartey, who later stated that the reference was "even more blatant in the original storyboard".

WCAV-TV
A local TV broadcast gave a brief report on the fire at Chris's house that occurred in the early morning hours of 10 January 2014.

New York Magazine
On 19 July 2016, featured an article on its website, "Kiwi Farms, the Web's Biggest Community of Stalkers". The article was meant as an attack on Kiwi Farms, inaccurately describing it as a vague group across multiple websites instead a single forum community. However, in describing the site's origins and operations, it largely focuses on Chris himself and the "torment" he faced from trolls during his internet heyday. There is also a mention of A-Log and his fallout with other Christorians.

The article is notably one of the few pieces of positive press Chris has received since his rise to internet fame. In addition to attacking his trolls, the author, Margaret Pless, describes him in sympathetic terms such as "artist, gamer, and creative type" and fails to mention his horrific opinions, statements, or actions. Pless is also under the impression that Chris is legitimately transgender, and accordingly refers to him as "Christine" and with female pronouns.

Sonic Boom
On 10 December 2016, an episode of Sonic Boom called "The Biggest Fan" premiered on Cartoon Network. The episode features a character named Mark the Tapir that parodies the Sonic fanbase. Mark is depicted in the episode as a creepy, obsessive stalker who kidnaps Sonic and forces him to act out fanfiction that he wrote. While the character is likely intended as a general parody, he has many similarities to Chris in particular. He closely resembles pre-tomgirl Chris, and one scene seems to reference the "blue arms" debacle. Mark even orders an orange soda during one scene, though this is probably an unintentional reference.

Chris acknowledged the parody on December 13, 2016. He stated that he saw no resemblance between himself and the Mark character, and that he is "not mental or crazy like that at all."

The episode's writers, Doug Liebilch and Bill Freiberger, responded to questions on Twitter about the episode. Liebilch said that "He's not based on anyone specific. Just an obsessive fan character." Freiberger also denied that Mark was based on Chris, and unlike Liebilch, he knows who Chris is, stating "Mark is 100% NOT based on CWC. He is a general fan type. We've done many blue arm jokes in the series. Not a clue."

UVA Remembers Pulse
On 12 June 2017 Chris was interviewed at this event, quoted on text and video, by the same station which had interviewed him decades earlier for the Sonic the Hedgehog Watch & Win Sweepstakes.

Newsradio WINA
Chris was photographed at Cville Pride.

dodie
Sonichu makes a cameo in dodie's music video for "Monster", around the 45-second mark. He appears on a poster as one of the many monsters looking for love. The text on the poster (though partially covered by others) appears to say that he is "Looking for a boyfriend-free monster", indicating some familiarity with Chris's antics.

In the behind the scenes video, hosted by the music video's director, we are given a clearer picture of the poster at the 11:50 mark. The cameo, who was named "Mayor CWC", was claimed by the director to be included out of peer pressure.

chris†††
Vaporwave artist chris††† used two scenes from Sonichu #8 of Sonichu and Rosechu over a cross and over the American flag as the cover arts to his extended play sacrificial lamb and album deep dark trench respectively.

New York Magazine
Chris is briefly mentioned in a July 2016 article on Kiwi Farms.

PopKill
Incelcore artist PopKill created a song comparing himself to Chris in 2021, and it was released as part of his titular album.

I've got no damn plans I'm just like Chris-chan My life's in the can I'll never be a man on my own I can't stand I need a helping hand My life never began Cause I'm just like Chris-chan

I'm smelly overweight I'll never procreate I'm an incel, filled with hate My life began too late I'm an incel, filled with hate My life began too late

Paradise PD
In the Paradise PD episode "Top Cops" (12 March 2021), an image of Sonichu's head can be seen on the back of a fake Pokémon card. This was confirmed in a now deleted tweet by animator Perry Hull, who added it as an Easter egg after learning about Chris by watching Chris-Chan: A Comprehensive History.

Smiling Friends
In an interview with The Create Unknown podcast, Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack, showrunners of Adult Swim cartoon Smiling Friends, revealed that they had planned for Chris to be offered a voice cameo in an episode of the show. Chris was to voice a grease puddle in a brief one-off role in the episode "Who Violently Murdered Simon S. Salty?". However, contractual issues at the studio - which would have forced them to cast him in multiple episodes - cancelled their plans to offer Chris the role.



The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls
On June 17th, 2021 The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen revealed on Twitter that the card for the character "Broken Isaac" would be illustrated by Chris. Following the events of the month after, the artwork was replaced by a drawing by McMillen's daughter.

Cambridge University Press
In their textbook "Colloquial English: Structure and Variation" listed a threatening comment Chris made to Tito as an example of slang.

Fark.com
The Internet portal linked to ECV 00095 on 5 May 2009.

"You don't need to search any longer, the creepiest person on the internet has been found"

- A Farker

Heavy.com
Chris tops the site's list of 20 Worst Internet Losers, posted 13 July 2010.

"There could be no other choice to close out this list. Christian Weston Chandler, aka Chris-Chan, is like every horrible thing about the Internet made flesh. Lives with his parents, sponges off the government and uses the cash for PlayStation 3 games and sex toys, walks around the mall with his Game Boy looking for girlfriends, posts incoherent YouTube videos of himself humping an anime bodypillow and yelling “Oh, Julie,” the list will go on forever. C.W.C. is the ne plus ultra of Web losers."

- Heavy.com, 20 Worst Internet Losers

Something Awful
Something Awful is a comedy website where Chris was first revealed to the world on October 26, 2007.

The last episode of 's “Webcam Ward”, hosted by the team behind Retsupurae, is a commentary on ECV 00002.

Also, the first episode of The Flash Tub's "Gaming Guyz", while not mentioning Chris outright, directly references his medallion, and how Sonic cured his autism in Part 12.

SpliceToday.com
An article posted on 6 January 2011 on this multimedia blog decried Chris's latest exile from the Internet. It sums up Chris's history and behavior while sharing a personal account of the author taking steps to improve his life in order to distance himself from the similarities he saw between Chris and himself.

"It’s a little sad, and a little beautiful, and somewhere out there, Christian Weston Chandler is heating up his Hungry Man lunch in a supermarket microwave (because his kitchen microwave has been buried under old Christmas decorations) and playing his Nintendo DS, and maybe ogling a salesgirl from across the produce section before he approaches her awkwardly and uses a pickup line that he misread from the Internet, and I wish I could continue to see it all."

- SpliceToday.com, Come Back, Christian Weston Chandler

Nicole Richie's twitter
On 5 December 2009 American socialite posted on Twitter an image of Chris in his mother's underwear and humorously presented it as a picture of, brother of her then-boyfriend (now husband).

Sega Acknowledges Sonichu
On 13 January 2012, Sonichu was briefly mentioned during a "Free Stuff Friday" video on Sega of America's YouTube channel.

While this is not TRUE and HONEST Sonichu merchandise, it does show at least some Sega employees are aware of Sonichu's existence. Jump to 3:50 in the linked video.

Chris saw the video and commented, ''I do not find that commentary funny at all. In fact, I feel pissed off to be ridiculed soo lightly.''

Maddox
Internet comedy writer, best-known for his website The Best Page in the Universe, critiqued Chris's first drawing of Sonic the Hedgehog on one of his side-projects, I Am Better Than Your Kids, as one of many children's drawings to help promote his novel of the same name. Like most other works on the site, Maddox gave the drawing an F.

Cvillepedia
On a wiki dedicated to Charlottesville culture and "celebrities", he has what can only be described as a tongue-in-cheek article.

Ensign Sue Must Die
Sonichu makes a cameo as one of the many "Mary Sues" in the Sonic Universe in the second story arc of the webcomic.

Cracked.com
Chris showed up on 's front page as #22 on 9 April 2014 as part of "25 Insane Subcultures You Won't Believe Actually Exist".

Chris would later be indirectly referenced again on 6 August 2018 as #2 of "24 Times Fans Completely And Utterly Lost Their Minds" for his Sonic Boom Protests, which led to the event that happened on 26 December 2014.

Smosh
Chris's Sonic Totem statue was featured on Smosh's site, via the 'Smosh Pit' section which mostly contains articles, countdowns, and memes. It was listed in the '22 People Who Tried Crafts On Pinterest and TOTALLY NAILED IT' article.

IMDb
Chris has his own IMDb entry page. To date he only has two credits, both in the "archive footage" category; the aforementioned =3 video, and the later WTFIWWY segment.

Wii U Daily
The website Wii U Daily (now known as Nintendo Today) has an article on the GameStop incident that occurred on 26 December 2014. Chris eventually found the article, then proceeded to go on a long rambling on Facebook on why the writer should respect him and his terrible ways--even going as far to call the writer a horrible male, despite the writer being female.

Reddit
There is an entire subreddit on the popular website Reddit entitled "r/chrischansonichu", which is predictably all about Chris and his shenanigans. However, it's marked as NSFW, making it difficult to find.

On 23 September 2014, the subreddit r/shittykickstarters linked to Chris's Kickstarter project for getting Legos.

On 1 January 2015, the Wii U Daily article about the 26 December 2014 incident was linked to another subreddit, r/rage.

On 1 September 2016, a post that promised a new Chris story every day of the following month was submitted to the now-defunct r/CringeAnarchy subreddit. The subreddit's background image was replaced accordingly with the classic picture of Chris staring creepily into the void.

Design & Trend
On 30 December 2014, the defunct website Design & Trend also posted an article about the 26 December 2014 incident. The article link was apparently tweeted 15 times, according to the website.

Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter
On June 10, 2015, a fan asked the official Twitter account of Sonic the Hedgehog (which has been verified and everything) if Sonichu will be playable in Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice. Their response?

"Maybe, but only if we give Sonichu blue arms, three scarves, and ultimately just redesign him as Big the Cat."

Two later posts also made minor mentions of Sonichu. The first was on March 9, 2016, in which Dr. Eggman attempts to cancel getting "Big the Cat facts" on his phone by texting his favorite Sonic character, but is told that his favorite Sonic character is Sonichu. The second was April 29, 2016, where "Sonichu" is one possible name on a "What's Your Sonic Name" chart making fun of the "original characters" in the Sonic fandom.

Crave Online Australia
Crave Online, a website showcasing various video coverage from games, films, sports, and others topics covered a convention in Australia called Supanova in 2015. A duo cosplayed as Chris and Sonichu, making a brief reference to Nintendo rejecting Chris's game proposal.

The Jimquisition
In his review of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 3D for the 3DS, Jim Sterling gives a list of reasons why the original Sonic 2 was an all-time classic. In this list, Jim mentions that the game is "a great way to meet boyfriend-free girls," and also makes reference to the blue arms controversy.

Adam Baldwin's twitter
On 5 December 2015, actor tweeted an image showing photos of various people who are either opposed or supportive of GamerGate. At the top of the image on its far left side, a picture of Chris can be seen. The tweet was later on deleted.

Gawker
On 5 May 2016, controversial gossip website wrote about deleted Wikipedia articles, including Sonichu.

Return of Kings
Chris has an article and is commonly used as an example of an "omega" on the Kings Wiki, the wiki of the controversial neo-masculinity group Return of Kings.

Zip Zap
German-American ranter Zip Zap made a slight nod to Chris Chan when comparing a pedophile named Manglenn to him, even adding "at least [Manglenn] doesn't recycle his own semen... not from what we know".

Milo Yiannopoulos
On 20 January 2017, former editor of Breitbart News Milo Yiannopoulos spoke at the University of Washington. The event, called Cyberbullying Isn't Real, contained a segment where Milo comments on how George H. W. Bush, a World War II torpedo bomber pilot and the head of the CIA, was considered a wimp when he ran for president. Milo then poses the question:

"What will happen when we have the first presidential campaign featuring a genderqueer furry who has videos of himself crying on YouTube because someone insulted his My Little Pony drawings? We know, don't we, what the first social justice president will look like."

- Milo Yiannopoulos, exhibiting a photo of Chris

A picture of Chris is then featured on the screen to illustrate Milo's point. Although there were no specific allusions to Chris, Milo gives an eerily accurate description of Chris's internet infamy, seemingly derived solely from the photo itself. Jump to 1:13:20 in the link.

Kotaku
In the Kotaku article What People Miss When They Use 'Autistic' As An Insult, writer Cecilia D'Anastasio points to Chris and Sonichu, along with the actions of trolls on 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica, as part of the reason "autism came to be associated with impassioned gamers." The article seemed sympathetic to Chris, though Cecilia acknowledged in a comment that many of his views are offensive and that she does not endorse them, but also claimed that "[Chris's] personal beliefs are not entirely relevant to my article’s main themes".

3GI
On 15 November 2018, a Youtuber by the name of 3GI released a trailer for Shrek Retold, a feature-length collaboration of the first Shrek movie. It featured over 200 contributors, each with their own style. One of them is none other than Chris himself. The collab was released on 29 November 2018. Chris's work is in the 0:55 mark.

A year later on 8 November 2019, 3GI released a trailer for their next feature-length collaboration, this time for Sonic Rebuilt, based on the 1996 OVA series of Sonic the Hedgehog. Like the previous project, Chris is one of the participants.

IGN
In a video by IGN, James Marsden, the actor playing Tom Wachowski in the Sonic movie is quizzed on his knowledge of Sonic trivia. One of the questions asked is if Sonichu is an unlockable character in Sonic Forces. Marsden guessed incorrectly.

Adam Ellis
Webcomic artist Adam Ellis released a comic depicting a baby Sonichu from the result of a sex session between Sonic and Pikachu.

Edmund McMillen
On May 26th, 2020 game developer Edmund Mcmillen, largely known for creating Super Meat Boy and The Binding Of Isaac held a livestream regarding his upcoming card game "Tapeworm". Within the background of the video, a framed photograph of Chris can be seen.

McMillen also follows Chris' Twitter account and has stated during a follow-up livestream that his favorite saga was the Megan Saga and the creation of the first few issues of Sonichu. He later commissioned Chris to create artwork for the Binding of Isaac: Four Souls card game, but the commission was rescinded on 1 August 2021, in light of the incest allegations.

Antoons
Former YouTube animator turned alt-right cartoonist Antoons replied to a detractor on Twitter who accused him of being a ripoff of Stonetoss, another alt-right cartoonist, with a collage of various Internet animation icons that date back to the early 2000s. Sonichu is visible in the upper right-hand corner.

Stonetoss
Speaking of, Stonetoss produced a comic depicting Chris in court after his 2021 arrest. Later on, another comic would show an episode of Chris Chan: A Comprehensive History being played in court.

Angry Video Game Nerd
On 15 March 2021 the Angry Video Game Nerd uploaded a review of Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown for the Gameboy Color. In the video, Grant Duffrin from 3GI can be seen wearing a Shrek medallion similar in style to Chris' Sonichu Medallion. One shot at the 12:10 mark reveals the back of the medallion and Chris's "Magi-Chan Sonichu" signature is visible.

Cum Town
Nick Mullen of noted podcast Cum Town is a Chris-chan fan and has mentioned him several times, most notably on the 2016 episode "How Many Y'all Like Sex".

Belle Delphine
Notorious e-thot Belle Delphine did a Chris-chan cosplay in April 2023, shortly after Chris' release from jail.

Death threats against Trump
On 9 November 2016, Chris made multiple death threats against President-elect Donald Trump.

Later that day, one of his Twitter posts was featured in an article by Alex Jones's Infowars website. The article was linked to on the Drudge Report. , former member of Louisiana's State Representatives and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, tweeted the article. Chris himself tweeted the article on 10 November.

Daniel "Keemstar" Keem, host of the drama YouTube account Drama Alert, tweeted at Chris and alerted the Secret Service.

Sky Williams, a YouTube gamer with nearly a million subscribers, retweeted Chris's post and added the comment, "k so this shit isn't okay - can we report this?". OneyNG, another YouTube gamer, also retweeted, saying "Chris Chan always knows what to say". Hundreds of retweets were made by their followers.

Conservative website HillaryDaily.com featured the tweet in an article on 10 November.

Incest charge
On 1 August 2021, Chris was arrested and charged with engaging in incest with his mother. Multiple media outlets reported on it.

Daily Mail
The Daily Mail reported on Chris' incest charges on 3 August 2021.

Dnes
Bulgarian tabloid Dnes reported on Chris' incest charges on 5 August 2021. The article refers to him with his former male name and uses masculine pronouns to refer to him throughout, also describing him as mentally ill.

Insider
The Insider reported on Chris' incest charges on 6 August 2021. Unlike other articles, the article seems well-educated and examines the history of Chris Chan back to 2007. Of note is that it includes the quote from Chris in 2016 saying he had dreams of fucking his mother.

CBS-19
The local CBS-19 of Charlottesville posted a news item covering the story, quoting a news release from the Greene County Sheriff. The article noted that Chris was charged with incest and held without bond and that additional charges were pending.

Newsweek
Newsweek posted an article, "Chris Chan Arrested for Incest in Virginia", quoting the Henrico County Sheriff, who stated that they were merely holding Chris until he could be transferred to Greene County. The article appears to have been partially created by bots, given the odd syntax used in places.

Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
On 7 August 2021, Chris's incest case was discussed by Fox News political commentator Tucker Carlson, who commented on the absurdity of Chris being sent to a female prison by the state of Virginia (the decision was later reversed, as Tucker notes). Tucker references Chris's incest charge and his 79-year-old mother's apparent dementia while images of a deranged-looking Chris from recent YouTube videos appear on the screen. The segment then goes on to talk about crimes of MtF transgender inmates in women's prisons. Carlson refers to Chris as "Chris Chan" and simply "Chan", seemingly believing that "Chan" is his legal surname. He also calls Chris a "YouTube personality".

Chris Jail Escape Hoax
Following a 4chan post falsely claiming Chris escaped from prison going viral on 28 August 2022, several outlets, most notable The Daily Dot and USA Today would publish articles debunking the claim citing confirmations from Central Virginia Regional Jail and Chris's lawyer David Heilberg, with the latter using the meme to justify the sealing of the case.

McPixel
On 25 June 2012, the indie game McPixel featured a homage to Chris' sexcapades with inanimate objects by having a special ending sequence depicting the titular character dry-humping a PS3 in the same stance Chris was.

Nancy the Happy Whore and the Perfidious Petrol Station
In this 2012 point-and-click adventure game, players can interact with an NPC resembling and talking like Chris who wants to become a hippy to go on his "Love Quest". If asked on what his dream girl is, he gives out a description reminiscent of that from the Attraction Sign.

Goat Simulator
The "Goat MMO Simulator" DLC pack adds a simulated MMO mode that parodies games such as World of Warcraft. AI-controlled goats and a simulated chat simulate the presence of other players, and their names are drawn randomly from a list of pre-generated names. 'Chris-chan' is one of the names on this list.

OK K.O.! Lakewood Plaza Turbo
An iOS/Android beat-'em-up based on the pilot of the Cartoon Network Show, ''OK K.O.! Let's be Heroes'' introduces certain characters with a short biography screen (including a quote). The one for Carol (the player character's mother) has her saying "Go out and defend our Plaza – to the extreme!" (clearly echoing the cover to Sonichu #0 and the pilot episode).

Worth noting is that OK K.O.! is intended for general audiences.

Heartbeat
In the 2018 RPG Heartbeat, a minor NPC character named "Crispy Boy", whose appearance and mannerisms are obviously based on Chris, can be interacted with in one of the game's locations.

Pokemon Clover
Pokémon Clover is a Pokémon romhack created by users of 4Chan's /vp/ board that pays homage to the various Internet cultures and memes, most notably 4Chan itself. The game references Chris multiple times. The Fakemon Mudslacks draws inspiration from Chris's DIRTY, CRAPPED BRIEFS and Sonichu, with its shiny form even taking his color. Two NPC trainers also take inspiration from Chris with one of them being Chris himself, who can be fought in a cave near Lake Virgin. His battle theme is Holding Out For a Hero.

Interviews
Over the course of Chris's life, he has experienced many fascinating events and received plenty of attention. Naturally, this piques the curiosity of others, and this has culminated in many interviews with Chris, whether through the Internet or in the flesh. As of October 2017, he will only do an interview if he is going to be paid for it.

An Interview with the Chris-Chan
On the 17th of October 2008, Chris was granted his first official interview since his rise to internet fame through PSN.

Chris-chan Discusses...
Chris-chan Discusses... is a series of interviews where Larry Bundy Jr., also known as Guru Larry, asks Chris questions that he usually avoids answering.

Arthur Spatchcock
Roughly eight years after the PSN interview, CatKnight/MasterDisaster AKA Arthur Spatchcock interviewed Chris, posing as an interested English entrepreneur.

Lil E
On 8 September 2016, a YouTube user by the name of Lil E interviewed Chris at The End Games. The same individual, this time using his BraveryJerk account, interviewed Chris a second time at Cville Pride 2016.

Merryweathery
On 4 September 2017, Twitter user Merryweathery contacted Chris for an interview. After abandoning the first take for being too boring, he recorded a second interview on 4 October, which he found to be superior, and released it a few days later.

Sachumo
On 21 October 2017, Sachumo the creator of the Documentary, conducted an interview with Chris.

CopperCab
After parodying Gingers Have Souls, Coppercab decided to parody his Chop Chop Master Onion's Rap Showdown and conduct an interview with Chris on 23 October 2017.

Copitz
After visiting Chris a week prior, Copitz interviewed Chris while visiting Charlottesville on 26 May 2018.

Count Dankula
Famed youtuber Count Dankula interviewed Chris on 5 June 2018 with questions from Kiwi Farms.

Jackson Dalton
In an effort to kickstart his YouTube channel, Jackson Dalton conducted an interview with Chris on 4 January 2019 and posted it as his first video four days later.

The Create Unknown
On 28 October 2020, The Create Unknown Podcast conducted an interview with Chris. The interview was initially behind a paywall before being released for free a week later.

News platforms reporting on the incest scandal
Ever since the leaked call, Chris has caught mainstream attention once again. This time however he caught the attention of the mainstream media on a scale never seen before. To get some overview, we have put together a table of every news platform that has reported on Chris we were able to discover so far.