I'll be blunt: I have virtually no doubt this guy is alive. The evidence of his death is so scattershot it's basically a rumor, and the evidence he's alive (or was until 2006 at least) is more concrete than evidence of the FUCKING SHOW ITSELF. This is not some huge leap. This is a guy who, allegedly, had a big budget who moved to a part of the world that has notoriously corrupt governments and police agencies, and even the actual description of his death says it looked mysterious ("blood next to the body") for a supposed suicide. Pretending that this guy--who was at the very least a borderline sociopath who conned people nonstop, which EVERYONE said about him--somehow was able to pay off a corrupt police office is somehow "implausible" is just...no, just no. He's alive.
What freaks me out about this is, what the Hell were these people doing? This is like that MortisDotCom thing, where the moment you start to look at the evidence things get more and more and more sinister. Allegedly, according to at least two different people associated with the show, this was some kind of cult of personality and, quote, "it was all about Chris".
"All about Chris"? What did this guy miss a T on the end of that? The way some of these people talk about this con man is so odd, even my GF who knows nothing about this whole underworld of lost internet stuff, when I showed her that video she cocked and eyebrow and said, "This sounds like the Manson Family". Some of these people are so defensive about him it's like they're shielding their child, some of these people sound like they want to dance on his grave, and at least two people (maybe the same person? considering it was a burner account?) literally said "I've said to much!" when asked. Like they were speaking in hushed tones. This is so bizarre. And then little weird things like, when he says "it was a lot darker than a soap opera". Whuh? Or when the woman says, "you can choose your murder weapon"...excusez-moi??? This sounds like some kind of weird stuff. And the way everyone is so skittish about talking about it, or tries to hide in the shadows, or talks about it in such outlandish terms.
"We'll never get back those halcyon days in Canada. If you weren't there, I can never describe it to you. If you were there, you don't need to be reminded of it!"
Oookaay.
I can't even begin to imagine what CR6 actually was, the show I mean. Or why it imploded so hard. Or why they seem to have all cracked up, because that is...just not how normal people talk about a failed webshow pilot. It's not, I'm sorry. That's how people talk about being in love in a teen drama. This is genuinely the most bizarre story I've ever heard outside of a movie, and frankly it sounds like the plot of a Murder She Wrote episode. If I had to guess, not about the show but the actual mystery behind it, this all sounds like some kind of money laundering or ponzi scheme that either hugely backfired and collapsed or was abandoned after it was over, and everyone was in some kind of bizarre cult of personality (their words not mine) formed around this quasi-delusional con man. The show may have just been an excuse. A literal burner webshow. Frankly I'm stunned no one has made this into a movie. Unless you count Gone Girl, which frankly seems like a gender-swapped version of this guy's life.
Jesus Lord, I thought The Most Mysterious Song and YYBI were the be-all end-all of crazy internet rabbit holes. This is a rabbit hole inside of a rabbit hole inside of a wormhole.
) for a supposed suicide. Pretending that this guy--who was at the very least a borderline sociopath who conned people nonstop, which EVERYONE said about him--somehow was able to pay off a corrupt police office is somehow "implausible" is just...no, just no. He's alive.
