The Christory of Chris Chan: Part 1 | Red Thread

Red Thread

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Within the vast and unsettling landscape of internet culture, very few figures have captured the collective fascination quite like Chris Chan,
0:40.3	now known as Christine Weston Chandler, and originally born Christopher Weston Chandler.
0:47.6	Otherwise known as a low cow, essentially meaning someone who is easily baited, gullible,
0:52.9	and milked for laughs on the internet,
0:56.2	Chris Chan is regarded as the most documented man on the internet.
1:00.9	This is a story that spans nearly three decades chronicling the transformation of a troubled,
1:06.8	but relatively ordinary child, into a phenomenon that would define internet culture itself.
1:13.4	And that is not an exaggeration.
1:16.2	But to tell that story, we need to begin at the start on this week's episode of Red Thread.
1:23.1	Welcome everyone to Red Thread.
1:25.3	I'm very pleased to have you all here.
1:27.1	And I'm also very pleased
1:28.2	to tick off a bucket list wish of Jordans, which is to do a Lord of the Rings trilogy on Christian.
1:37.0	So very excited to get going with that one. Jordan, pleasure to have you here, as per usual.
1:43.1	Oh, it's a pleasure to be here. I've got to say,
1:46.2	Jackson, I really feel like I'm an apprentice and you are a tradie. We are finally...
1:53.0	That's a way more masculine, like, what do you call it? Comparison there. I thought when you said
2:00.3	apprentice, I thought you were going the Star Wars direction because I'm a virgin.
2:04.5	I mean, it's very apt to we're talking about Chris Chan's way.
2:07.6	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
2:08.2	We really shouldn't be talking about carpentry and plumbing.
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