A-Logging

The original A-Log in all his glory.

A-Logging in a nutshell. You don't even need to watch the video in question; the title and thumbnail is quite enough, thank you very much.

"Hey, at least it's not Chris-Chan doing it."

PROTIP: This article is about the term "A-Logging", not about Anthony LoGatto himself. Information on the latter should go to his Encyclopedia Dramatica page.

“	What Saddam did in the Gulf War was potatoes to what Chris has done.	”
A-Log providing a helpful example of A-Logging.

A-Logging is a term used to describe the practice of those who follow Chris who wish to inflict harm upon him, often physical, and often for perceived "crimes" that Chris is "guilty" of. Those who follow this practice are known as A-Logs. A-Logs are the extreme opposite to white knights; whereas white knights try to defend Chris from trolls and help him to improve his situation, A-Logs hold the belief that Chris is beneath contempt and deserving of whatever scorn and harm he is subjected to and then some. While once fashionable, it has become a view associated with people who wish to "trollshield" themselves, and therefore is looked down upon by Christorians.

The term originates from Anthony "A-Log" LoGatto, a YouTuber who is known for making what are often considered to be the worst commentaries ever made. He often goes on about how Chris is an awful person (and how he, A-Log, is better) who needs to have harm to be inflicted on him. However, A-Log is notorious for being known as "Chris-Chan 2.0" because of having several faults similar to Chris himself. Among other things, he has made poorly-written erotic fanfiction, a laughable college radio show, some awkward interviews at WolfDork.com, a leaked video with him doing an awful stand-up routine, and much, much more. It was these practices that led to A-Log becoming a trolling subject himself, and the inspiration of this very term. At one point, A-Log even received his own wiki called the "Logattopedia", which was relatively unpopular and very short-lived.

Motivations

There are a few motivations which are common in A-Logs, as they are the motivations behind the original A-Log's commentaries.

Justifications for trolling Chris

Some would argue that it is sinister and just plain wrong to mock a mentally deficient person such as Chris. As a result, some people justify trolling him by arguing that he is, in fact, a bad person who "deserves" to be trolled. One common argument is that "Chris gives autistics a bad name." Others will appeal to his debatable racism, homophobia, or sexism as excuses to troll Chris. By establishing that Chris is a bad person, it seems to justify that Chris not only deserves the treatment he currently receives, but also deserves physical and/or psychological harm inflicted on him.

While Chris has done some horrible things, including cursing his former potential sweetheart Megan Schroeder for trolling him (which of course, she obviously didn't) and running over Michael Snyder with his car, it is still somewhat ironic that A-Logs think the best recourse is to wish him death and curse him back.

Trollshielding

Often times, A-Logs do so to "trollshield", that is, to avoid becoming troll victims as well. They tend to have many traits in common with Chris; they are generally autistic, still live with their parents well beyond an appropriate age, are unemployed and/or are living off welfare, have trouble socializing and forming relationships, or are fixated on things aimed at children, especially cartoons and toys. Some perhaps have even more faults than Chris. However, A-Logs will argue that they are "at least not like Chris" and are fervent in their urge to troll Chris so people don't troll them themselves. Often times, as in the case of the original A-Log, this backfires and they find themselves becoming the subject of trolling.

Arguments against A-Logs

While Chris is far from perfect, it is generally accepted that calling for him to be physically harmed or abused like A-Logs do legitimizes Chris's sense of victimization, and makes the A-Logs themselves look sociopathic and amoral.

Chris is not Hitler

While the CWCki certainly does not justify Chris's actions over the years, what A-Logs must understand is that Chris, while not exactly a likable person, isn't guilty of "crimes" that must be punished with violence or abuse. We really shouldn't need to point out that Chris being compared to people like Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler is at best hyperbolic, and at worst, utter insanity. Hitler was responsible for the death of nearly 11 million civilians during World War II. Chris is just a gullible idiot who spends his time mass debating, finding new sweethearts, rambling about blue arms, and playing vidya. While he is quite prone to rage and has a noted tendency to dish out death threats, he is too lazy, weak and incompetent to actually carry them out. When taking Chris's child-like mental state into account, it's also quite possible he doesn't fully understand the gravity of what he wishes upon people when making death threats, especially when he's blinded by anger. There are only a few notable events in Sonichu and CWCville where Chris's fictional actions are violent. Also, A-Logs tend to turn to the October 2011 GAMe PLACe incident to try and portray Chris as a truly violent individual. More likely than not, Chris's actions on that day were the result of his mother's influence, non-existent driving skills, and sheer blind panic rather than outright malevolence. Likewise, Chris's macing of an employee and vandalizing Sonic Boom displays while banned from GameStop stemmed from his overreaction towards a simple design change, rather than an actual craving for causing a felony. Additionally, if we were to believe Chris, he was aiming at the employee's shirt rather than his face, and was simply issuing a warning shot in case the employee tried to detain him. Also, Chris may have threatened to glitterbomb Sega headquarters and even sent them one bomb, but consider the fact that no more reports of him doing this have surfaced, and that his attempt at glitterbombing was hilariously pathetic.

There's no legal defense over attacking Chris for real

Perhaps the best reason against A-Logging is the legal liability (i.e. being charged and possibly convicted of stalking, terroristic threats, assault, or a myriad of other possible charges). Whatever feelings you may have about Chris, there is no legal defense for taking the law into your own hands and subsequently ending up with a possible life-altering felony conviction. In addition to this, part of the charm of watching Chris is in his eternal rage over a nonexistent enemy. Committing actual violence would only justify Chris's paranoia.

Chris's beliefs are simply ignorant, not supremacist

While his views on race and homosexuality are politically incorrect, they hardly seem to suggest Chris is an amoral monster. One must consider that Chris was raised by and has spent his entire life around 2 elderly, disturbed rednecks. Of course he has socially unacceptable views on race and sexuality--they were given to him by people whose every word he has unquestioningly accepted since he was young. Aside from this, Chris's discomfort around black people is arguably more from failing to understand social norms. Chris simply doesn't understand that one does not announce to the world one is discomforted by African-Americans; this is far from the outright ideology of white supremacy that your average neo-Nazi would have. Chris has no history of actually going out and lynching blacks or other minorities that discomfort him. Chris's notable offenses have been applying stereotypes to and picking on the black kids who defeated him in TCGs at the GAMe PLACe, as well as using "Jew" as a pejorative against Michael Snyder, who Chris inaccurately thinks is Jewish, and snapping a pic of a black woman and putting it on his Facebook without her permission. One of Chris's grievances, if you can call it that, is that non-white women don't fit his ideal vision of a sweetheart, which he constantly fails to properly articulate; it is entirely possible for a non-racist white man to not be sexually attracted to non-white women. Chris has also used the racial slur of "nigger" in a few of his means of communication, though he shows some degree of reservation where he uses this word. During the Lars Call, Chris showed great apprehension towards using the word "nigga" and only did so when Lars gave him implicit permission. One of the most famous instances of Chris's use of the word "nigger" is in his video confronting Surfshack Tito on his trolling efforts. In this video, Chris's racism is often found humorous as Tito is Hawaiian, not black. Moreover, Chris's usage of the word in Don't Trust Any Homos Over There is the result of it being an adaptation of a song from the racially-charged show The Boondocks, and pure laziness to change every racist part in the song to homophobic parts. When one examines Chris's use of the word, he does not show any understanding of the complexity, history, proper context, or underlying implications of the slur. He simply repeats it blindly as he knows it that it is edgy and offensive to the colored.

In regards to his homophobia, while his reasons are ill-informed at best, not to mention that he has had no known positive experiences with homosexual men, or at least those he perceives to be, Bob is the likely source of Chris's dislike of homosexuals. Remember that Chris has had very little friendly interaction with anyone, never mind true homosexuals. In short, Chris is not the Westboro Baptist Church--he doesn't go around picketing the funerals of dead gays, nor is he head of a power-lobbying group against LGBT individuals in Washington. He's just a redneck who's too indoctrinated by his parents and unused to minorities, or the concept of people being different to him, to know better.

Chris just cannot get a job

Some A-Logs contend that Chris is a bad person because he "steals" taxpayer money. What is almost always overlooked by A-Logs who make this claim is that it wasn't Chris who applied for social security disability; it was Bob who applied for and convinced Chris that he would make more off of disability than working at a minimum wage job. Realistically, Chris didn't have any say in the matter because Bob held all the purse strings when it came to Chris having food, shelter and clothing.

So why doesn't Chris "get off his lazy butt and earn his keep"? Well, because there are a couple of very difficult barriers that stand in his way that many A-Logs simply don’t take into consideration.

First, there is the bureaucratic red tape and regulations involved in someone who is on disability working full-time. Ironically, it isn't Chris sitting around playing video games day after day receiving a government check that would likely get him in trouble for disability fraud, it would be working full-time at a minimum wage job while still getting a disability check that would get him in trouble.

Second, there is the issue of Chris's lack of preparation in independent living skills as well as his lack of coaching in finding a job and being able to keep it. Moreover, given the existence of this wiki, and the fact that it is standard these days for employers to Google potential employees, it would more likely than not take someone working in human services or in the employment field (that has extremely strong networking and connections) and a job coach (on a long-term basis) to convince a sceptical employer to give Chris a realistic chance at successfully getting and keeping a job. In addition, given Chris's rap sheet, even under ideal circumstances Chris's chances at decent employment may be slim at best. Chris has been convicted for the events of 28 October 2011 and 26 December 2014, which would deter potential employers, regardless of his ability to perform to tasks they set him. While it may sound attractive to the uninformed to "kick his ass" when it comes to Chris working, in reality there are deep-seated issues that go way beyond the expertise of a few trolls, and no amount of A-Logging can change this.

Chris is just an idiot

Chris is not mentally retarded as defined by medical standards and as he claims. His IQ is within normal range. What trips him up is his lack of common sense. He actually believed that an attractive celebrity was interested in him sexually and that he was talking to her. He used to insist that he'd had many sweethearts, all very attractive women, and didn't find it curious that they all just died. He is an easy mark, not a criminal mastermind.

Most people can avoid the trolls

Chris does share traits with a lot of people, and some of these traits are quite disturbing and embarrassing. It's a fair assumption that a lot of people who are following Chris's antics are unemployed gamer losers, for example. A lot of people have seen Chris and uttered in their minds "Finally, here's someone who's far more pathetic than I am!"

But before you fall into the fallacy of believing that trolling Chris will save you from the same fate, remember that having embarrassing traits like Chris's doesn't automatically make you subject to the sort of trolling Chris has had. It may make you subject to ridicule, but what's more important is how you respond to the ridicule. You could be like Chris and get BLANGRY at every traitorous troll under lucricities, and give the trolls power over you just like Chris did.

Or you could laugh along with them at your own admitted faults, or even just ignore them and go about your business. Trolls generally aren't interested in people they can't coax a reaction out of. This vital recognition is something Chris never managed, and what set him down the path to perennial trolling in the first place. All in all, if you don't want to end up like him, A-Logging isn't the way to do it. But avoiding the myriad of mistakes Chris and A-Log make is.

The Hall of A-Logging Shame

In this section, the CWCki has compiled several comments (and plenty more to come) from A-Loggers on YouTube and elsewhere.

“	Obviously you've never heard of what he calls other people who are autistic, and that he calls people with Aspergers(such as myself) "fakers". he doesn't deserve some, he deserves everything for giving us a bad name. The trolls are also doing what they do to him for a good reason. it's not about the autism to them, but more of that he's a moron who is evil reincarnate and deserves to go back to hell. I don't believe you know what all CWC has done to us on youtube.	”
GamerXZ0, in a YouTube comment on an original upload of an A-Log video.

“	29 years ago today, satan was born and molded into the fucktardian PENIS we know & despise today! Should i ever see him i'm gonna destroy him worse than new jack did to mass transit!	”
ISLAVERDE29, another YouTube comment on an older A-Log video.

“	Hooray he's dead. Now he'lll be spending his eternity in hell while I go piss on his grave.	”
mxc82, again, another YouTube comment on one of A-Log's older videos, referring to Bob's death.

“	Mostly because I was hoping the video would end with him getting shot dead. by the Ruckersville police. You can imagine how disappointed I am to find him still alive and kicking when the video is over.	”
CKO92 on YouTube, reacting over the Lego High School video.

“	You fucking brony piece of shit, go kill yourself. If i was your mother i would have an abortion.	”
randomletters on the Lego High School video.

“	Chris Chan u are the single worst human being who ever live. If it wasn't for u fellow autistics and Sonic OC creators like me would be respected by the world. What you have done is unforgivable. I hope Barb dies and you spend the last minutes of your life crying about how your a pathetic failure fuck you	”
OfficialSteroidHedgy, in a comment in Chris's YouTube account.

“	I hope you are ashamed that a retarded autistic person (just like yourself) killed 20 innocent kids....all autistic people should be wiped from the earth and aborted before birth since you are all evil i wish the worst fates that heaven and hell can bring upon you and all the other autistic pieces of shit like you	”
RealReplyGirl4Ever, in a comment in Chris's YouTube account- comparing Chris to a man who shot up an elementary school, saying that all autistics should be wiped from our planet, and advocating genocide.

“	Guess whose house burned down today. CHRIS-CHAN!	”
Bad Webcomics Wiki, gloating on their Facebook Page about Chris's house burning down.

“	HAHAHAHAHA	”
A response by the Bad Webcomics Wiki when a troll calls them out for the above.

“	Sadly, yes.	”
Another post from the Bad Webcomics Wiki's Facebook Page, when told that Chris survived the fire.

“	Words cannot adequately describe my utterly all-encompassing hatred and disgust for the grotesque entity that is Christian Weston Chandler. You Christian, are a shamelessly gruesome, inhuman monster. Everything you do and say only adds to your, almost incomprehensibly massive, list of atrocities. Were I to load up http://www.sonichu.com or some other Chris-Chan-related news source and saw that you finally died a death which properly corresponded to what you've inflicted upon this world, it would be the happiest day of my life. Happiest. Day. Of. My. Life.	”
ephewe, on I Love You, Catherine.

“	Listen, you fat, autistic piece of shit. I've tolerated you so far because you're going to be my new neighbor, but this is the last straw. You traipse around your yard carrying blow up dolls and singing awkwardly, not to mention I can constantly hear you screaming at your mother. I am serious considering finishing cleaning this lot and selling this property to someone better equipped to handle someone like you. I was well within the city ordinances with this controlled brush burn. Also, if I see any other videos of me on my lot portraying me in a negative light, I will take up a libel suit with you.	”
Mac Slims, trying much too hard to pretend to be Chris's neighbor.

“	God I fucking hate this piece of shit. I hope he dies.	”
JAZZ HANDS, on the GameStop assault video.

“	Why the fuck is he still alive!? God, I mean, the guy looks ridiculous, he is also racist and an anti-social idiot that attacks people for no reason, and now he's a fucking burglar!? What's next, he will become the next Hitler?	”
Rafael Gutierrez, on the GameStop assault video.

“	Yes people, THIS is the person Chris's trolls have been whiteknighting and pussing out on trolling because hes "had enough done to him" seriously, give me a break, this guy is an asshole and deserves anything that happens to him because its his OWN DAMN FAULT	”
TheMojoCorps, on the GameStop assault video.

“	shut up you fatass faggot. go jump off a cliff and die.	”
Boner Dix, responding to a YouTube comment left by Chris

“	Why can't this fucking freak of nature just die already?!!?!	”
Gogol ginn, on "The Best of Chris-Chan, Vol. 1"

“	Someone strangle this fucker to death. Please.	”
Darkside780 on CWC Music Video Holding Out For a Hero

See Also

• Weening, another type of failed trolling, and a key aspect of A-Logging

External links

• Anthony "A-Log" LoGatto on Encyclopedia Dramatica
• YouTube: The A-Log Archive
• An article from Forces of Geek about A-Log, and a more in-depth look on A-Logging.
• A good example of A-Logging on some wiki based on a completely subjective concept (also A-Log being called an "oppressed autistic internet celebrity")