William Elliott Waterman
William Elliott Waterman | |
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Full Name | William Elliott Waterman |
Nicknames | Billy, Waterhead, Watermelon |
D.O.B. | 1 March 1986 (age 38) |
Gender | Male |
Nationality | American |
Race | White |
Occupation(s) | None |
- "William" redirects here. For William Spicer, husband of Sarah Nicole Hammer and character in Sonichu, see List of Sonichu characters#William Spicer.
William Elliott Waterman (born March 1, 1986) is a Facebook friend of Chris who lives in Woolwich, Maine. He is sometimes called Billy by family and friends, and affectionately nicknamed Watermelon or Waterhead by trolls.[1] William comments on Chris's Facebook posts with support, occasional advice, and off-topic remarks. He can be considered a white knight and is often seen as an enabler of Chris's actions.
William came to prominence after his 7 August 2013 Facebook post, where he called out trolls over their treatment of Chris. The post was prompted by his name appearing on the CWCki.
Chris and William apparently met online, through William's cousin and one of Chris's most well-known enablers, Anna McLerran. William's aforementioned August 7th post indicates that they never met in person, and Chris initiated the friend request after correspondence with William. It is unknown when William and Chris first met, but William's first activity on Chris's Facebook timeline is from May 2013.[2] A post from 3 August indicates that William discussed Chris with Anna, who told William about how far back she and Christian go.[3]
In late 2015, Chris removed William from his friends list. The reason for the unfriending is unknown, but was presumably related to his activity on Kiwi Farms where he claimed to be a troll and attempted to enter a partnership with Alec Benson Leary. He has since been re-added.
William's Facebook comments to Chris are often short and off topic. For example, after Chris found out his high school gal pals weren't TRUE and HONEST, he posted a rant about having no local friends and included pictures of Pokémon cards of Cubone and Yamask. Instead of responding to Chris wrote about, William said he liked the Pokémon.[4]
On occasion, however, William attempted to give advice to Chris, which was promptly ignored. For example, on 9 June 2013, Chris posted a rant about Megan Schroeder, to which William replied, "Chris, why are you demonizing Megan? I don't think she actively did anything with the intent to make others see you the way they do. Why are you harping on something from 2007?" He followed this up by telling Chris, "I think if you were just grateful you have a friend who loves you, and didn't waste time thinking about the bad, you would be feeling a lot better."[5] On 29 May 2014, William told Chris he was being greedy for asking people to give him more Lego sets.[6]
At times, it appeared Chris was alienating William with some of his Facebook posts. On 7 October 2013, Chris commented on William's profile picture suggesting that William is attempting to look like Chris with his long hair. This prompted one of William's friends to accuse Chris of trolling and stated that William looked like that since high school.[7] Nearly two years later, Chris retracted his statement on another profile picture. William also seemed to be alienated by Chris's intense hatred for the franchise Sonic Boom, all just because of an arm color change. Throughout 2015, William continued to comment on Chris's Facebook, but was noticeably unwilling to defend Chris for his actions, and even jokingly compared him to Christian Gray from Fifty Shades of Grey.
Calling out trolls
On 7 August 2013, in response to his Facebook activity being posted to the CWCki, William posted a long rant on Facebook about him and Chris:
7 August 2013 Hello, trolls. I've seen that I'm not exempt from you plastering what I say to Chris onto your archives and announcing it on your news feed, so I'll address you all directly in an open statement. |
Chris liked the post.
Kiwi Farms
As William began to squeal louder and louder for attention, his various apparent issues also came to the fore. In November 2015, he joined Kiwi Farms under the name "VikingBoyBilly" (which recalls to mind Chris's similar habit of bragging about his supposed ancestry) and unexpectedly contacted Alec Benson Leary, who entertained his bullshit for perhaps longer than he should have.
During the course of his inane prattling, William made several false assumptions. He tried at first to goad Alec by proving himself to be the better man. William, of course, was completely blindsided by two factors: first, he was seemingly baffled by Alec's disinterest in proving his worth to a stranger on the internet, second, as he failed to prove himself to be better than Alec in any case, instead providing incredibly damning information about himself. William also tried to bargain with Alec, offering him a favourable review of Asperchu, again, under the false assumption that Alec gave a shit, as he had not added to the comic in years. He also tried to turn Alec against the administration of Kiwi Farms, apparently in an attempt to take advantage of a culture of byzantine cut-throat politics that only exists in his imagination.
As aforementioned, William also revealed quite a bit about himself in the exchange - namely that he's an idiotic, annoying, attention-whoring Clyde Cash wannabe with some sort of "epic trolling plan", and also that he's far more autistic than most had initially assumed. Much like his cousin, Anna, he also revealed he has done very little with his life, bragging about having a transcript, which is essentially nothing more than proof that he hasn't finished education. Also much like Anna, he was unable to make anyone give a shit who he was or what he had to say, for all his efforts.
Unfriended and refriended
A few days after the Kiwi Farms debacle, William was unfriended by Chris on Facebook. The exact reason why Chris removed him from his friends list is unknown, but a Facebook post made around the same time implied that Chris recognized William as a "hater" who was trying to control his life.
By June 2016, he had been re-added as a friend by Chris and continued to make off-topic comments. In a post where Chris went on a tirade against his estranged brother for not serving as an ATM for himself and Barb, William redirected the topic to himself by picking a fight with Kim Wilson and also posted about his autistic interests.
Sources
- ↑ http://i44.tinypic.com/2z4a7iw.jpg
- ↑ 2013_Facebook_Posts#This_cold_is_really_weighing_me_down
- ↑ http://i.imgur.com/Vzyfg48.png
- ↑ December 2013 Facebook posts#Friends
- ↑ June_2013_Facebook_Posts#Just_re-watched_your_DVD_with_a_friend.
- ↑ May_2014_Facebook_Posts#Chris_NEEDS_MOAR_FUCKING_LEGOS.
- ↑ http://i44.tinypic.com/2z4a7iw.jpg
- ↑ http://i.imgur.com/qSCNJkR.png