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{{quote|He now regularly speaks and is on friendly terms @Null, @Marvin and I as a result of all of this and we've been actively monitoring his accounts so that something like [The Idea Guys] doesn't (or is less likely) to happen again, as well as coaching Chris on how to better handle/protect his social media.|The Captain<ref>[[The Chris-Chan Extortionists]]</ref>}} | {{quote|He now regularly speaks and is on friendly terms @Null, @Marvin and I as a result of all of this and we've been actively monitoring his accounts so that something like [The Idea Guys] doesn't (or is less likely) to happen again, as well as coaching Chris on how to better handle/protect his social media.|The Captain<ref>[[The Chris-Chan Extortionists]]</ref>}} | ||
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{{see also|Megan Schroeder}} | {{see also|Megan Schroeder}} | ||
On 17 [[October 2018]], Chris made a tweet saying that if | On 17 [[October 2018]], Chris's CWCSonichu [[Twitter]] account made a tweet saying that if Chris got enough donations, he would visit his former friend [[Megan Schroeder]].<ref>[[October 2018 social media posts#Donation drive to see Megan]]</ref> As it was during the [[2018 Twitter account compromise]], it is unclear whether Chris or Lukas had been the one to post the tweet. The Captain then DMed Megan, informing her of these tweets. Megan responded by telling Captain that she had guns, and asked him to relay that to Chris, which he did. CWCSonichu then declared on Twitter that he would not be visiting her.<ref>[[October 2018 social media posts#Megan's got dat stick]]</ref> | ||
{{quoteboxnavy|I spoke with Megan, told her about the tweets and she said she has guns and asked me to let him know. | {{quoteboxnavy|I spoke with Megan, told her about the tweets and she said she has guns and asked me to let him know. | ||
Latest revision as of 20:34, 30 March 2026
| “ | He now regularly speaks and is on friendly terms @Null, @Marvin and I as a result of all of this and we've been actively monitoring his accounts so that something like [The Idea Guys] doesn't (or is less likely) to happen again, as well as coaching Chris on how to better handle/protect his social media. | ” |
| The Captain[1] | ||
| “ | If I was mentally ill, then the Captain would be too, because he has personally met Magi-Chan, and a whole lot of other people have seen him with me as well. There is no mental illness amongst us; all this is real. ⚡️💙⚡️ | ” |
| Chris, showing the issues with validating his beliefs[2] | ||
| The Captain | |
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| Information | |
| Name | Jack |
| Also known as | Captain Jack J-chu SpaceMonkey |
| Gender | Male |
| Saga | Guard Dog |
The Captain, real name Jack[3] (last name omitted), is a former online acquaintance of Chris and is most known for ending the influence of the Idea Guys over him in 2018. Following that, The Captain acted in an advisory role over the next year, as part of a group dubbed by observers as the Guard Dogs, and he also kept Kiwi Farms updated with many of his interactions with Chris. The Captain eventually retired from helping Chris, his last known contact in April 2019.[4]
Early involvement
During the winter of 2015-2016, The Captain had been recovering from heart surgery and found himself with spare time. He found out about Chris and began reading up on him. After reading about Megan, he began chatting with her on Facebook and became friends with her. He also tried to trick Chris into adding him on Facebook by making a video, but the plan didn't work. On 11 March 2016, The Captain (under the username SpaceMonkey) posted a Kiwi Farms thread in which he asked feedback on making a potential interview with Megan and possibly her brother John with the aim of clarifying rumors from their past, although the interview plan did not materialize.[5]
Guard Dogs
The Guard Dogs, who protected Chris from people similiar to the Idea Guys. The Captain was one of the more active members of the group, calling and texting Chris daily to advise him on topics, along with monitoring his accounts.
While almost all of their interactions weren't publicized, it can be wagered that they are similiar to the Null DMs, where it mostly consists of Chris spewing CPU nonsense, with Null trying to steer the conversation back to a more desirable topic. The Captain has described some of his phone calls with Chris, including one where Chris covered the receiver to randomly start screaming[6], and another where Barb interrupted to scream at Chris.[7]
On 16 September 2018, The Captain wrote on Kiwi Farms that he had finally broke it to Chris that his delusions aren't real.
| Chris reaches out to me every few days or so but stopped the daily communication when I straight up told him the a alt-dimension stuff was a bunch of nonsense and I only used the ring flashing signals thing to get him to trust me. Even then he kept reaching out and I finally just said "leave me alone until you're ready to help yourself and drop the dimensional delusional nonsense."
I did ask who gave him the Fanta idea and he simply didn't reply. He does still trust me but I refuse to get deeply involved at this point. If he just won't straight up tell me I'm not making up another story about CPUs and Magi-Chan sending coded messages to get him to spill it. I helped catch Wise and Boyd, assisted Null and Marvin in combing through his social media, etc. My good deed is done.[8] |
Despite seemingly retiring from protecting Chris, he returned only a few weeks later, after Chris made a tweet where he mentioned moving to Hawaii to attend a protest against Donald Trump. The Captain discouraged this in DMs[9].
Stopping the Idea Guys
In April 2018, Chris would face the worst of the Idea Guys's manipulative tactics, with them threatening to kill characters in CWCville, unless Chris gave them large sums of money. This got to the point where Chris started to sell his belongings on eBay in order to keep up with their requests. One of these items was the Amnyfest Ring, which he put on sale on 14 April for $10,000[10]. For obvious reasons, no-one bought this.
On April 17, The Captain asked if he could buy the ring for $200, which Chris accepted. The Captain initially bought the ring for what seemed to be cosmetic reasons, with no ulterior motive. However, he was shortly after contacted by "some people close to Chris," who told him that Chris was being manipulated, but was refusing to give them any details about it. Captain's suspicions were also raised upon seeing Sonichu Special 5, where all the Sonichu characters were seen saddened by Chris giving the ring away, which tipped him off that the sale was involuntary.
Despite the transaction being over, The Captain continued talking to Chris, enabling his delusions in order to gain his trust. Eventually, Captain sent him a photoshopped image of the ring glowing, telling Chris that it was sending him Morse code messages. He followed this up by a note in his notepad that read, "The CPUs have been hacked. Don't trust the CPUs," and claimed that was the secret message.
| Not even a few days later (the day after it came in the mail), I find out about Chris' odd behavior (see the Wise and Boyd post) and think to myself what could I do to help?
So it dawned on me - Chris is really big on shamanism and symbols (thanks @Marvin) so I simply told him that the ring was sending me morse code messages and that the idiots in Discord were lying to him. So I did a five minute photoshop of the ring glowing and sent it to Chris as well as a piece of notepaper where I wrote "The CPUs have been hacked. Don't trust the CPUs" claiming that was the morse code message.[11] |
After this, he had a 20-minute phone call with Chris, where he told Chris that the ring was in fact the "Reality Stone," a magical object that could instantly transform CWCville into whatever he wanted it to be. Captain reasoned that while this was once again enabling, it was a necessary evil, as the existence of the "Reality Stone" blocked out all trolls who tried to mess with CWCville, as Chris could instantly undo the damage. Chris trusted the Captain, and gave him his Discord and all his other accounts passwords, so he could "scan for viruses."
| It was a way to quickly and easily shut the trolls out. The ring is sending me messages: the Discord fags are bad. Also, the ring is reallllly the reality stone, and you can use it to "undo" everything that they've done! It got me (and subsequently Marvin and Null) in, and the trolls out, all in a 20 minute phone call. Within an hour they were shut out of everything and we had full access to every aspect of his social media.[12] |
When Captain logged on, he was completely appalled by the obvious manipulation and extortion by the Idea Guys. He quickly told Marvin about the situation, who started coaching Captain on how to talk like Chris, so he could communicate to the Idea Guys while Marvin formed a plan. Chris also coached The Captain, by giving him info on himself so Captain could imitate him better. The Idea Guys became skeptical of The Captain at one point, and told him to write a message on a dry erase board to prove he was really Chris. The Captain told Chris to write on the board, which Chris did, and Captain forwarded the images to the Idea Guys. Eventually, Marvin built a script to rip all the chat logs from the Discord, and The Captain went completely silent in the Discord, leading to the Idea Guys freaking out.
The Captain later sent the ring back to Chris, due to his need for money and the fact that its sale was involuntary.
Lukas, Devil and Eva
After being asked why Chris was still communicating with him even after Captain stopped enabling him, The Captain made a post on Kiwi Farms mentioning "IRL friends" who enabled him. He's most likely referring to the Teen Troon Squad, judging by what he says.
| Basically he did what he's done to others (@LoveYouLongTime, @Marvin) before.. he ignores you for a couple weeks and then comes skulking back.
Right now I'm trying to coax him into telling his therapist(s)/mother/other IRL friends about what's going on so that they can delegitimize said ideas. Unfortunately, he has three other IRL "friends" that are openly endorsing said ideations so it's become a thin line to walk. If he were to go silent on me again it might very well be forever as he'd have said IRL "friends" to go back to that would continue this current mess. |
On 20 November 2018, The Captain announced on Kiwi Farms that he was taking a break.[13] This was his last post on Kiwi Farms.
On 25 December 2018, Marvin[4] logged into Chris's Twitter account, and claimed to be Magi-Chan in Lukas's body, with Lukas being the most prominent member of the Teen Troon Squad. "Magi-Chan" linked to a Pastebin, elaborately doxing Lukas, by posting his full name, home address, and phone number.[14]
As the doxxer was unknown at the time, Lukas accused The Captain of the dox, and attempted to dox him by posting his alleged age range and phone number on Twitter.[15] Lukas later deleted all of his tweets.
The Captain appeared on Kiwi Farms on 26 December 2018 to browse but did not post.
Other involvement
Contact with Megan Schroeder
On 17 October 2018, Chris's CWCSonichu Twitter account made a tweet saying that if Chris got enough donations, he would visit his former friend Megan Schroeder.[16] As it was during the 2018 Twitter account compromise, it is unclear whether Chris or Lukas had been the one to post the tweet. The Captain then DMed Megan, informing her of these tweets. Megan responded by telling Captain that she had guns, and asked him to relay that to Chris, which he did. CWCSonichu then declared on Twitter that he would not be visiting her.[17]
| I spoke with Megan, told her about the tweets and she said she has guns and asked me to let him know.
So that's exactly what I did. I don't want Chris shot.[18] |
After this, The Captain described receiving a "wall of text" about Megan.
| Currently receiving a wall-o-text about Megan.
Apparently her soul or something rests inside of a Nintendo console that was only released in Germany. All she has to do is state the name of said console and she will transform into a computer? Or the console? It really doesn't make much sense to me. This REEKS of Idea Guy influence.[19] |
A week later, Chris made a new video, Dimensional Merge Announcements, where he directly addressed Megan. He announced that she was "CPU Red Heart" and a goddess, along with more delusions he had about her. Chris texted The Captain, asking him to show the video to Megan, as Captain had previously communicated with her.
| This video legitimately makes me sad.
He's very muted here.. totally not like him at all. He did text me asking me to send it to Megan so I did.. I'm waiting for her response. Edit: She's genuinely touched and really liked whoever is posting as Donald Trump. She feels bad for Chris but will not be meeting up with him under any circumstances.[20] |
Liza, Patches and Sylvia
The Captain held the strong opinion that Chris wasn't abusing his cats, and wrote posts about the cats often on Kiwi Farms
| He's not abusing the cats, end of story.[21] |
However, his good will for Chris was challenge when he adopted three stray kittens who he named Liza, Patches and Sylvia. All three of them had pink eye, and he was clearly incapable of taking care of them. He later begged for money, claiming that he was unable to pay for their medicine, and had to use Patches's medicine for all of them.
The Captain was infuriated by this.
| Why do you think I'm posting it? I'm furious.[22] |
The Captain was contacted by a Kiwi Farms user who lived very close to Chris, and he offered to take them to a no-kill shelter. However, Chris refused:
| Someone on the forum who knows Chris from a local card shop offered to go to his house tomorrow and take them to a no-kill shelter.
Chris said no and that Magi-Chan has stated in "his" infinite wisdom that the animals are safer with him than anywhere else.[23] |
Chris started getting flamed from people online because of his irresponsibility.
| I'm not sure what's going on. Chris isn't answering my messages this morning. But I'm glad he's getting all of this heat. From what I could tell last night he was having an autismo breakdown under all the pressure.
Caught him lying multiple times in the last few days.[24] |
Eventually, The Captain was contacted by another Kiwi Farms user who offered to take care of Liza. She was an IRL nurse with a son who wanted an orange cat.
| She's a good person, a registered nurse, and that's all that really needs to be known.[25] |
The Captain also tried to get an adoptee for Sylvia, but Chris was strongly against it.
| If anyone local to Charlottesville wants the black and white female, let me know. I think I can convince Chris to adopt her out.
Edit: he is staunchly against the shelter.[26] |
Patches died shortly after, though The Captain reasoned that people weren't to be angry at his death.
| Chris has informed me that Patches died in his arms late last night.
He had taken him to the vet just the day prior and truly did everything he could to help the cat. I'm posting here before it makes it to Twitter to hopefully mitigate the obvious backlash that will come.. He did everything he could[27]. |
| He took it to the vet multiple times. Blame the vet for not admitting it if you want to point fingers.
Chris did everything right in regards to their care. Sometimes things like this just happen.[28] |
The Captain kept in contact with the nurse who adopted Liza, and gave updates to her situation on Kiwi Farms. It was also revealed that Liza was not a girl, but a boy.
| Liza is actually doing well after getting a regimen of antibiotics and such. His new owner suspects they actually have pneumonia and the conjunctivitis is simply a symptom.[29] |
Captain's final update revealed that he had renamed to Tingles[30].
| I'd like everybody to meet "Tingles" - the first verified survivor in the history of the horde since the shitty legendary film critic Cole Smithey! |
Chris's thoughts
In a tweet from 3 January 2019, Chris referred to the influence The Captain had on him, unwittingly pointing out the issue with enabling his fantasy beliefs, as Chris seized on The Captain's role-playing, which he had done when counteracting the Idea Guys, to claim that he was not mentally ill.
| If I was mentally ill, then the Captain would be too, because he has personally met Magi-Chan, and a whole lot of other people have seen him with me as well. There is no mental illness amongst us; all this is real. ⚡️💙⚡️[31] |
See also
- Guard Dogs
- Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)
- On The Captain, a user essay clarifying aspects of The Captain's role with the Guard Dogs
References
- ↑ The Chris-Chan Extortionists
- ↑ January 2019 social media posts#Accusing fan's OC of attempted assassination
- ↑ Null DMs#Personal space talk
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 On The Captain
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Potential Megan Interview
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Identity Crisis
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Barb
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Dropping the act
- ↑ Captain DMs
- ↑ https://archive.is/kgXSp
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Amnyfest Ring
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Reality Stone
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Taking a Break
- ↑ December 2018 social media posts#Magi-Chan doxxing incident
- ↑ File:Twitter-26Dec2018 - Lukas accuses The Captain.jpeg
- ↑ October 2018 social media posts#Donation drive to see Megan
- ↑ October 2018 social media posts#Megan's got dat stick
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Megan's Guns
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Megan is a Console
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Captain texts Megan
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Chandler Cats
- ↑ https://kiwifarms.pl/threads/twitter-11-2-kitties-are-sick-chris-lies-about-needing-funds.49578/#post-3933156
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Liza Updates
- ↑ https://kiwifarms.pl/threads/twitter-11-2-kitties-are-sick-chris-lies-about-needing-funds.49578/page-16#post-3936139
- ↑ https://kiwifarms.pl/threads/twitter-11-2-kitties-are-sick-chris-lies-about-needing-funds.49578/page-32#post-3944723
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Liza Updates
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Death of Patches
- ↑ https://sneed.today/threads/twitter-11-2-kitties-are-sick-chris-lies-about-needing-funds.49578/page-35#post-3947693
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Liza Updates
- ↑ Kiwi Farms posts (The Captain)#Liza Updates
- ↑ January 2019 social media posts#Accusing fan's OC of attempted assassination
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