it’s also important to note that the trolling that was brought upon chris chan ultimately worsened any prior mental health issues they had, by having flocks of ppl pretending to be fans, love interests and villains. Not only did it give Chris Chan a fake sense of importance (fake as in orchestrated) that ultimately made them more egotistical but also more paranoid, to the point they were passive-aggressive towards anyone who interacted with them (I’m using they/them to refer to classic chris and trans mtf chris simultaneously) and making them an overall aggressive person. They were absolutely wrong in many occasions (being homophobic, sexist, racist, ecc…) but it doesn’t excuse the people who were active participants in their mental decline, enabling certain fantasies that ultimately made them psychotic then turn around and acting all moral like “chris you shouldn’t do that” while they egged him on the whole time. They took advantage of a deeply mentally ill person who is also autistic for their own entertainment and then people act as if they didn’t contribute to the person that Chris chan is today. If there was no trolling Chris could’ve been helped appropriately (excluding the Bob and Barb factor) and they could’ve been radically different, but all the trolling did was close them off to any kind of help or prospect for the future while slowly making them find comfort only in their own imagination.