The First Eviction Saga

On October 27th, 2020, Josh was informed via a phone call from Clint Saunders that he was being evicted from his first apartment in downtown Casper. This segment of Josh's life story is characterized by personal disputes, legal issues, and significant community interaction that culminated in his eviction from his first apartment, a sequence of events that highlights the complexities of internet fame and community dynamics.

• KingCobraJFS: The victim of eviction, Cobes is about to get a harsh reality check about the consequences of his actions.
• Clint Saunders: The bearer of bad news, Clint would also assist(do all the work) in regards to moving Josh, helping him find a new apartment, and clean the former one up.

• Josh's former landlord: A landlord who had put up with Josh's non-stop antics, ranging from spraypainting to destroying the building, and was SICK OF IT!

On October 27th, 2020, while streaming Josh was informed of his lease termination. During the stream he received a phone call from his father, Clint. Josh picked up the phone with a casual “what's up?” Clint can be overheard replying “Well, a lot's up, Josh,” which has subsequently become an oft-repeated meme in the Cobraverse. This development was a direct consequence of the accumulated complaints about noise and disturbances reportedly stemming from his apartment. Despite his attempts to maintain a positive public front, the stress from these events was evident in his subsequent YouTube videos where he expressed frustration and hinted at ongoing legal and residential challenges.

Above: Josh sulking after Clint's call

In 2018, Josh officially started his homemade magical wand business on Etsy, Cobra Craft Wands. As a purveyor of magical conduits, he would make a habit of spray painting wands over his trash can in an effort to avoid damaging his carpet further. This effort was unfortunately unsuccessful, as many pictures from fans who have been to Josh's apartment would show that the carpet near his workbench was sadly covered with spray paint. Fans also further speculated on the condition of Josh's respiratory system, as he would spray paint his wands indoors exclusively, within a closed space with no ventilation and without the use of a respiratory safety mask. In an effort to fight the growing fumes and complaints, Josh claimed he would put towels or blankets underneath his doors, to try and prevent fumes from leaking out into the hallway of his apartment. Little did Josh know, not only did this further damage his respiratory system by increasingly consolidating the fumes to his small apartment, but the spray paint fumes where going up and into the chimney of an old fireplace that was behind his workbench and were creeping into the studio apartments above his, making one tenant leave due to regular and heavy VOC fume sickness and making others completely uninhabitable.

On top of the spray paint on Josh's carpet, trolls pretending to be fangirls claimed that when Josh would expose himself and masturbate for them, he would ejaculate on the carpet near his computer. Trolls quickly discovered this information and began using it to troll Josh using Streamlabs DTTS. Josh would never confirm or deny that he did in fact ejaculate straight onto his carpet.
In 2020, Reddit user Sjdfhgghjfsdjghsfdgh found an old review online that had been posted for Josh's apartment building. The previous tenant in question mentioned the exorbitant amount of toxic fumes in the building, hinting at a tenant spray painting in their apartment. Many fans questioned the authenticity of this review, assuming that the review was created by a fan or a troll of Josh's in effort to get him in trouble with his landlord or the building owner. It seems that it wasn't after all.

In September 2020, Josh made mention that workers were coming over to do dry repairs in his bathroom. Many fans speculated that this and the swatting could have been a foreshadowing to Josh being evicted from his apartment. Repairs were always a regular occurrence when they were requested, however this time (and for probably the first time) they were mandated without informing Josh of their arrival prior. Some speculated that they were simply “getting ahead” on repairs before evicting/not renewing Josh's lease. This practice is a common one among slumlords.

On October 27th, Josh went live with the title “fan mail”. The first half of the livestream consisted of him opening gifts fans had sent him, while sparsely interacting with his fans via Streamlabs donations. Josh received a rare call from Homeboy Scotty, asking Josh if he had any “legal tobacco” because he was currently out. Josh remarked that he was also out and he was, in fact, live on YouTube at the moment. When Scotty found out Josh was livestreaming, he abruptly ended the call, saying he would call him later.

Shortly after the call with Scotty, Josh said exclaimed that he was receiving a call from his father, Clint. As soon as Josh answered the call, it was clear that this wasn't an ordinary call based on the tone of his father's greeting. Josh walked away from the camera into his kitchen, initiating some small talk. Then, from out of nowhere, Josh exclaimed: “WHAT? WHY? BUT I DON'T WANT TO BE EVIC-I CAN STOP SMOKING INSIDE!”

After 8 years of repeated warnings, after almost a decade of solid and consistent abuse of his apartment, Josh was being evicted.

The phone call can essentially be boiled down to this: Clint told Josh that the main reasons why the owner of the apartment building was evicting him was because of the estimated $6,000 worth of damage Josh has done to the apartment. Other issues were the constant accumulation of toxic fumes from spray painting when making wands, which allegedly made one resident so sick that they had to leave and driving way another prospective renter when they were shown the place. There was also mention of Josh's last two livestreams being part of the reason for the eviction. Clint also brought up the touchy subject of his progressively worsening alcoholism, emphatically suggesting that perhaps he's dependent on alcohol and he needs counseling. Josh predictably didn't agree that he was an alcoholic or that he needed professional help, only that he needed to make better decisions. It's worth noting that when Josh was first set up with his apartment 8 years ago, Josh was made aware that this was his only shot at independence; If he had failed to make better decisions, he would be placed in a home.

While there was no single event leading to Josh's eviction, his list of transgressions against the South Center Apartments began from the moment of his arrival. His habits of spray painting his wands indoors, riding his bike in the hallways, smoking indoors, spilling a myriad of ashes, food hacks, alcoholic beverages, and various other fluids on the floors, playing his electric guitar at all hours, and his occasional tantrums along with his host of questionable homeboys drew the ire of his neighbors and subsequently the apartment owners from the very beginning. This culminated in the infamous “fan mail” video on October 27th, 2020 in which Josh received a phone call from his father informing him that his lease has been terminated due to the significant damage Josh had inflicted on his apartment. Due to Clint's intervention with Josh's landlord, his lease was terminated in stead of a true eviction.

Two days after receiving the news, Josh released a video titled “I wasn't evicted I got a term of lease” on October 29th, 2020. In this video, Josh denies any responsibility for his eviction and repeatedly argues that he isn't being truly evicted due to the termination of his lease. Josh reveals that his ultimate eviction was due to his neighbors complaining stating that they “got sick off the fumes” referring to his indoor spray painting habits. Despite this admission, Josh argues that his neighbors had never complained since the inception of his Wandmaking business and that his landlord was allegedly satisfied with the condition of his crafting area during previous inspections. Josh bemoans that the apartment is targeting him for his autism and cites the COVID pandemic as another reason that it's unethical for him to be evicted. Ultimately, Josh believes that the trolls made false complaints to his landlord to get him evicted, despite being directly told that his neighbors were literally and figuratively sick of his boglim activities.

Josh's landlord cited two livestreams of Josh's that contributed to his eviction, “Fuck incels” and “chillin”.

For context, Josh had been in the habit of watching opinionated YouTubers such as Sydney Watson, Roma Army and playing their videos during his livestreams and 'reacting' to them. Josh's fans would either instantly tune of his livestreams when he started playing one of these videos or donating using Superchat to interrupt the video and troll Josh. What Josh calls “reaction” videos is more akin to “listen and agree” videos. These are done in a vain and very transparent attempt to ingratiate himself amongst female-led causes for the purposes of having intercourse with women. Josh went live with the livestream called Fuck incels late at night on the 26th of October. The livestream itself was a carbon copy of other livestreams of late. Josh watched a video by Roma Army called Who Are Incels & What Threat Do They Pose To Mens Rights Movements? and learned about incels. The livestream started off with Josh promising to “react” to the Roma Army video but then did some vocal covers of the band Hammerfall with his Mr. Microphone. In between the vocal covers Josh would add comments such as “Fuck Eliot Roger!” while making assumptions that “all incels have small male genitalia.” As the livestream progressed, Josh got more and more drunk on his drink combo of Pinnacle Vodka and Bang Cotton Candy Energy Drink. Josh ended the livestream extremely drunk after making the joke that “all incels should dig up Eliot Rogers' corpse and fuck him if they worship him so much.” Josh finished watching the video by Roma Army and abruptly ended the livestream after becoming very intoxicated, struggling to stay awake.

The next day, Josh's second livestream was a lot more concerning to Josh's landlord and tenants of his apartment building. Josh went live early in the morning at roughly 10:30AM with a livestream entitled chillin. Josh said he was very hungover but was still sipping on the concoction he made the night prior (Vodka and cotton candy energy drink.) Josh spoke a little about his rant about incels and then filmed the cooking video banana bacon Reese's cheeseburger. Josh spent over an hour of the livestream in his kitchen off camera making and recording this new cooking video. Josh returned to his chair, ate his burger and was pleased with the outcome of his burger. For the last 15 minutes of the video, Josh decided that he wanted to smoke his hookah and prepared the apparatus while talking with his fans. Josh then proceeded to pull a blow torch out of nowhere and began heating up the coals for his hookah. Many of Josh's fans where shocked that he even had a blow torch, never mind using one in his small apartment with paint cans resting on his workbench a few inches away from his head. Josh smoked his hookah and then ended the livestream.

After his livestream ended, Josh again went live again on YouTube with a livestream titled “we need to talk”. Josh recapped the events of the last livestream and repeated that he heard the property owners of the apartment building saying to the press that they would not be evicting any of their tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sadly for Josh, the property owners were not evicting Josh but choosing not to renew the lease on his contract, meaning he was being asked to leave and not being evicted. Josh said that the main two reasons for him being kicked out his apartment was due to him smoking indoors and the paint fumes. Josh also misread/misheard the quote from the property owners of his apartment building in relation to evictions and that this rule only extended to tenants not being able to pay their rent on time.

Josh said he needs to save every penny he has, but he was still planning on going to Frosty's and getting a pitcher of Bud Light. Josh again repeated that the option to move back in with his parents is still available, but he doesn't want to and that he will be taking a few days off YouTube to focus on finding a new apartment.

Josh discussed the possibility of Josh's dad purchasing a small house for Josh, but he would be his landlord and there would be strict rules. Josh would also fall back to using his autism as a defense mechanism and wish people would just leave him alone, even though he was wrong and admitted he was in this situation. Josh also got a donation telling him that he was almost 30 years old and needed to get a real job. Josh was defensive and said no matter where he got a job, trolls would find out and get him fired, so he will be sticking to his wands.

Later that same night, Josh livestreamed again with the stream name “I got evicted”. It is believed that Josh named his livestream this to gain the attention of his audience and to be able to cover what transpired. Josh would go on to repeat what he said in the last two livestreams and also get a lot of supportive comments from his fans via Streamlabs donations. Josh had time to think about his situation and was very optimistic and confident that he would find another apartment in town close by.

Josh received a troll donation referencing when Josh said he would stab Homeboy Scotty's sister Carolyn and Stephanie back in July 22nd 2018 in a Facebook livestream he deleted but was saved. Josh said the troll was full of shit and that they weren't there and didn't witness the event. Josh also said that he loved Stephanie and still kicks himself to this day that he ruined their relationship.

Josh ended the livestream saying that he will be learning from his mistakes going forward and thanked his fans for tuning into the livestream.

On October 29th, Josh livestreamed for a short time with a livestream called “I wasn't evicted I got a term of lease”. In this livestream Josh used his aspergers as a crutch by asking how someone could kick someone with autism out of an apartment during a pandemic. Josh also said that it was his neighbors fault for not telling him that the spray paint fumes were causing the issue and that he only smoked in his apartment when he was making videos. Josh then ended the livestream by saying that he was looking for an apartment that allowed smoking indoors and were better ventilated, so he can continue spray-painting wands in his new apartment. Josh also said that he was either going to win the lottery and build his dream house or find a new apartment.

Josh's fans were furious and thought that Josh skirted all responsibility and used his autism as an excuse for being kicked out of his apartment and didn't seem to learn much anything from this situation.

Later that day, Josh began listing the nine wands and a staff he had been working on over the last few weeks. Josh listed the wands for $34 and the staff for a whopping $334. Josh says the reasoning behind charging more for the staff was because he made no profit from the two staffs he sold in the last batch. Predictably, Josh's wands sold out instantly after being listed but the staff remained unsold. Many fans believed that this could potentially be the last batch of wands Josh would be making in a long time so the fans very eager to buy one.

Roughly 5 hours had passed and the crystal staff remained unsold to Josh's displeasure. He went live again very late into the night with a livestream called “Im lucky”. Josh despite saying he will be trying to save all the money he can to pay for his next apartment, decided to go to Frosty's Bar and Grill and buy a burger and fries. Sadly, Frosty's were out of ranch. Throughout the livestream Josh was pushing hard for his staff to sell and even said he would throw in a free 'People suck, I need a beer' shirt that was sent to him and was too small for him to wear. Josh began texting Fangirl Kate, took down the bells hanging from his steam pipes and then went outside to smoke his cigarette and ended the livestream prematurely. Josh's staff was bought by a fan the very next day.

On October 30th, Josh went live with a livestream called “chillin” where Alex and Josh drink beers and talk about Josh's eviction. Josh also congratulates on Alex's news that Callie Voight will be giving birth to a boy and Alex was happy and excited. Josh once again skirted responsibility and said that if his neighbors had an issue with him spray-painting in his apartment then they should have spoke up and told Josh to stop doing it if they had an issue. Josh also made mention again of his landlord Susan not mentioning his spray paint cans when she would inspect his apartment.

After the eviction, Josh temporarily moved back in with his father, Clint Saunders, as he sought new accommodation. This period was marked by a notable decrease in his social media activity as he dealt with the logistics of finding a new living situation and into the Conquistador Apartments.

On November 9th, during the livestream “chillin”, Josh announced to his fans live that he had spoken to a landlord in town and that he was fairly confident that he found a new apartment to move into. Josh called a landlord in town and the landlord told Josh to call him back in a few more days. Josh was pretty confident that he had secured the apartment and made mention of “working his assburgers off” and “sticktoitiveness” to find a new place. Josh said that he was getting lazy eye surgery on the 12th of November in Colorado and said he could be moving into his new apartment by either the beginning or end of the third week of the month.

After the livestream, Josh posted on Facebook saying that he got a one-bedroom apartment for $600 a month. Josh's dad Clint congratulated Josh and said that he will be seeing him on Wednesday to pick him up and take him to Colorado for his lazy eye surgery. Later on that day, Josh uploaded a video called “night video” where talked about his new apartment but said that he won't talk about how much it costs or where it is. Josh said that he will be moving his stuff in on Friday the 13th after he gets back from eye surgery.

On November 12th, Josh posted on Facebook that his lazy eye surgery was a complete success and that he was heading home and moving into his apartment on the weekend. On that weekend, Casper was hit with 80+ MPH winds so Josh's move was put on hold until the weather improved.

In all of Josh's livestreams around mid-November, Josh would make mention that he will be moving out to his new apartment soon and that he was just waiting for the weather to improve and that he was waiting on someone else that will be helping him move to free up their availability. Around this time Josh stopped taking his Tylenol pills he was using for his eye pain post-surgery for his lazy eyes and began drinking again.

On November 17th, Josh posted on Facebook that he will be streaming until the end of the week but would be taking a break off YouTube for a couple of days to move to his new apartment.

After many days of Josh telling his fans he would be moving into his apartment soon, Josh finally moved into his new apartment on Saturday, November 21st, 2020 at roughly 7:00 PM GMT-7. Reddit user and Field Agent thankyouworld posted a short video on the KingCobraJFS Subreddit of Clint closing up a UHaul van outside Josh's old apartment, while Josh casually walks back inside with a bag of Taco Bell.

During Josh's hiatus from YouTube, Alex Campbell mentioned during a video called “waking up with been juice” that Josh was getting his internet hooked up on the 24th of November.

On November 24th, after being away from YouTube for five days, Josh went live on YouTube with a livestream called “chillin”. Although only a limited amount of Josh's apartment could be seen, fans were surprised how clean his new apartment looked. Josh mentioned that he could smoke in his apartment but the only downside was that he had to paint his wands outside from now on. In relation to his wand business, Josh said that he needs to set up a PO Box before he can start selling wands again. A PO box would keep his new apartment address private so trolls can't mess with him or his new landlord. The biggest differences with his new apartment were that his dad bought him a new futon and a TV. Josh also had a new chair/throne to sit on and said it was an old chair his dogs used to sleep on back at his family home.

After moving into his new apartment, Josh would take a break and not upload as many livestreams or videos throughout early December. Behind the scenes, Josh was still cleaning his old apartment even though his lease was terminated and told to be out of the apartment by the 30th of November. Josh also said that his dad Clint was helping him clean the apartment in the beginning but Josh had to clean it on his own a few times. This would mean Josh would have to make a 40+ minute walk to his old apartment to clean it.

On December the 19th, Josh uploaded the video “Hardees barnyard monster burger”. In this video, Josh customized a burger from Hardees whilst his dad Clint was painting the apartment in the background.

On December 22nd, Josh tried to use the excuse that he used worked fast-food jobs in the past and that could have tracked grease into his apartment during a video called “night video”. Also during this video, Josh mentioned that the paint he and his dad used to re-paint the apartment cost roughly $200. At this point, Josh was coming up with any excuse he could to negate responsibility for destroying his old apartment.

On December the 23rd, Josh uploaded the video “done with my old place” where he showed off his old apartment completely empty with the carpet ripped out. Josh also saved some carpet from his walk-in closet next to his bathroom with the intention of selling it to his fans. Josh then made a follow-up video called night video. In this video, Josh announced that he was finally done with his old apartment and he was celebrating by eating a large, custom pizza from Pizza Hut.

This episode in Josh's life illustrates the impact that internet fame can have on personal life, particularly when online interactions cross into the physical world. The Eviction Saga not only affected Josh's housing situation but also reflected on the broader dynamics of community interactions, personal boundaries, and the challenges of managing online and offline personas in the age of social media.

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