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 key technique used by Chris's trolls and his mother.

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!

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.