Chris and manipulation

“	For every trolling saga, there was a bunch of stuff happening in the background. [Chris's] reactions on youtube were highly inflated by troll girlfriends whispering shit to him behind the scenes. "Oh Chris, you're not just going to take that, are you? Chris, I need a man who can stand up for himself, not just a little wuss..." It takes quite a bit to whip Chris up into a frenzy. And it's hard to keep it going.	”
The Man in the Pickle Suit on how trolls manipulated Chris into performing in many of his rage videos.

Manipulation is a psychological tactic aimed at taking advantage of someone in order for them to perform a specific action. This has been a key technique used by Chris's trolls, his enablers, and his mother.

The CWC Procedure

It isn’t particularly difficult to trick Chris into anything. In fact, doing so proved to be as simple as 1 2 3. All any of his manipulators had to do was follow a simple 3 step procedure to convince him into doing anything they wanted him to:

1. Give Chris an offer for something he’d really want. Alternatively, feed into Chris’s beliefs.
2. Provide Chris with over the top steps he can take to take the offer or so that he can roleplay with you.
3. Watch him do it, and betray him. Rinse, Dry and Repeat.

The above procedure has surprisingly worked so well with Chris’s more successful trolls, it is humorously referred to as The CWC Procedure by Christorians.

As an example, Chris’s history of being manipulated began with him being tricked into crawling into a tight space by childhood friend Sarah Hammer when she told him that she found Casper the Friendly Ghost there. Sarah simply noticed that Chris had a fascination with cartoon characters being real, and knew this was the perfect opportunity to give Chris the offer of meeting him in person (step 1). She then told him that he could see Casper if he would crawl into the hole (step 2). Finally, she got to lock him in, and began watching the events that would follow. (step 3)

Behind the scenes of trolling

One of Chris's former trolls, The Man in the Pickle Suit, has often posted on Kiwi Farms on how trolls manipulated Chris behind the scenes. Hundreds of hours worth of calls between Chris and the trolls took place - much of it never released. Information was also omitted on the CWCki, which several trolls were members of, to paint a funnier picture of Chris - a side-effect of which has created a skewed impression of him to fans.

In the background calls, people would plant ideas in Chris's head and goad him into making videos. One such example is Twin Falling Towers, a 2009 video in which Chris invoked the 9/11 tragedy to diss Clyde Cash. The Man in the Pickle Suit described how the trolls talked to Chris behind the scenes to get him to make the video as:

be sure to mention that you think he's weak! call him weak, like some sort of big disaster, like a bridge collapsing. ooh, or compare him to 9/11! that'll embarrass him!

Trolls also exploited their knowledge of Chris's psychology to goad him to get angry in his videos:

Chris usually reacts to a specific stimulus, and has a short memory about those sorts of things. Like a goldfish. So in any video where Chris is specifically trying to act like Johnny Bravo, that was almost always in response to a request by us no older than 24 hours. We would hype Chris up about how he's being called a pussy, and how if he doesn't make a video soon, he'll lose the rights to Sonichu.

The Truman Show

Chris's situation with the trolls has been compared to The Truman Show, a fictional film with a plot about the main character being unaware he is living in a reality TV show.

Social engineering

“	Chris believes in crazy tv hacker stereotypes. That's why we always so easily told him we hacked into his phone or his email and blamed all our leaks on that. Our various troll girlfriends got away, scot-free.	”
The Man in the Pickle Suit

Trolls exploited Chris's naive nature to gain access to his accounts in order to leak emails or videos. After they had gained Chris's trust via a girlfriend persona, she would ask him for passwords and then blame any leaks that occurred on hacking. Chris would then change his password while simply handing the e-girlfriend the new one since he still trusted her.

Chris in-between trolling

“	Without stimuli like the trolls [goading him to get angry], Chris just kind of fell back into his natural state: being a manchild, playing with toys, and wanting his heartsweet to take care of him.	”
The Man in the Pickle Suit

Chris's mother

Barbara is often blamed for essentially being Chris’s original enabler, in that she was the one who made him puerile and egocentric in the first place. She is also deemed to be the one responsible for Chris constantly taking orders from random strangers without giving it a second thought.

See Also

• Trolls
• Enablers