The Rebirth Saga

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, The Rebirth Saga is the era of Boglim History where Josh would attempt to rebirth himself as a rockstar youtube content creator, mostly by doing the same things he's always done: Food hacks, go live, eat spicy chip, and lie about sex dolls. This era would span from February of 2017 to November of 2017, which would promptly kick off The Summer Saga.

• KingCobraJFS: Unbent, unbreakable, and coming unglued, Josh would return to content creation with a fresh set of eyes, re-realizing his dream of becoming the world's greatest rockstar bad BOY. His hair would continue to retreat from his forehead, coming to about mid-temple.
• KingKobraJFS: Not to be mistaken with the real deal, this gentleman would upload a series of Liquid Chris style videos to his own individual channel, claiming to be the original KingCobraJFS before his YouTube channel got deleted.
• Alex "Warlord" Campbell: The second Alex would make his presence known with an off-screen introduction to the Cobraverse, although it would be a tame beginning to a fiery end. Alex would be christened Warlord mid-saga and would continue to be an annoying prick that showed up in too many of Josh's videos during this phase.

• Alex Anderson: Alex would make a handful of appearances at this time, backing up Josh during the Second Serpent Mini-saga.
• Scrapper Steve: Steve would make a few appearances in this saga, including one where he would have a roundtable discussion about sickos with Josh, Warlord, and Alex Anderson.

Suddenly, in February of 2017, Josh would delete all videos from his YouTube channel. There are numerous theories as to what sparked this sudden destruction of several years of content - Josh is not unknown for flying into destructive rages over small inconveniences, after all. Furthermore, it is known that Josh had his passion for music reignited during his road trip to visit family over Christmas, and this may have been a way to abscond from the trivial matters of the past, and help push him towards his goal of becoming famous. Because of the sudden and bizarre nature of the aforementioned events, fans begin to speculate the true meaning behind Josh's removal of around 4 years of videos. This leads fans to notice that since “restarting” the channel, Josh has made no mention of his sex doll - as if none of it ever happened. This suggests that there may have been an intervention by Clint Saunders, or perhaps other outside influences.

After his return to YouTube, Josh would continue making his regular content without any difference apart from not referring to the sex doll escapades in any way, shape, or form. He would be plagued with a list of issues, including PhotoBooth(his video recording software) often sperging out on him. Apart from that, he would continue making questionable food reviews, and of course, uploading ol' reliable in KingCobraJFS' playbook: Shredding on his guitar. While this content was more of the same, his fans were sated by his uploads, as Josh's content was already arguably perfect. Also, Josh would start making more outdoor videos in this period, a genre of upload known for some of Josh's most famous moments.
Josh would also provide an update on his job search - confirming that over six months later, he has had a total of one job interview.

KingKobraJFS making a broadcast

In a bizarre turn of events, a similarly black-clad, mustachioed, long-haired Casper lookalike would start uploading videos to his channel known as “KingKobraJFS”, claiming to be the true and honest version of the channel from his identical apartment. Imposter Josh would upload visually similar videos on visually similar topics to Josh with a slightly higher production value, making use of some poorly-made green screen magic, a forbidden art form in the Cobraverse. Renouncing Josh as an imposter and showing off his powerful magical skills, Imposter Josh would call out Real Josh as a fake, claiming Real Josh was stealing his identity and that all videos lost in the Rebirth Saga Purge were in fact his.

Josh would not take this insult sitting down, and would sit down to make a video in response to this supposed callout post. Calling Fake Josh an “imitator” and decreeing that Fake Josh would not stop him from making videos. Fake Josh would simply continue to make videos visually similar to Real Josh for a time, making such classics as “Deep fried doretto”, and “beating the troll in a spicy food”. Fake Josh would continue to risk the ire of the Cobra's Wrath, pretending to receive gifts from “Vaypour” like a Gibson Les Paul guitar, believing it to be a sex doll. He would finally push his luck too far by completing the Deep Fried Doritos challenge that Josh had failed. In response to a guitar shredding video made by Fake Josh, Real Josh would make a video shredding on his guitar, with Homeboy Alex Anderson showing up to cheerlead and spuriously claim to be related to both famous outlaw Jesse James, Hulk Hogan, and Adolf Hitler. In the same video, Josh would claim that his widow's peak was growing back(It wasn't). Alex would also return in a later video making some mildly racist remarks in regards to some fried chicken.

Attempting to goad Real Josh further into wrath, Fake Josh would do the Wendy's T-rex burger challenge - a challenge Real Josh had promised to do once he had reached 4000 subscribers, but never actually did. Real Josh would be unfazed, introducing new Homeboy and well recognized Boglim History major player: Alex "Warlord" Campbell. Ominously, Alex would make his first appearance on one of Cobra's birthdays: Although this was a rare case of a birthday going well for Josh, Warlord's first appearance in Josh's birthday video, even in name alone, clearly was an ill omen waiting to rear its ugly head.

Josh would finally have enough of the Fake Josh's attempts to steal his audience away, and would cast a powerful spell on Fake Josh, banishing him to an unlisted YouTube playlist. During a “Shawn and Saunders” segment on his channel, Fake Josh would suddenly devolve into a coughing fit, and scalp himself as the video glitched.
Fake Josh's curse on the Real Josh would reflect back onto him, his green screen failing, and Fake Josh would find himself with a wand in his own mouth, moments before Real Josh would splatter Fake Josh's brains all over his own precious green screen. Finally, the nightmare of the Second Serpent was over. In the end, there was only room for one King Cobra in Casper.

Warlord would continue to make appearances in Josh's videos, and generally would get on the nerves of Cobra fans: Warlord was a habitual liar, and generally annoying. In early April, Josh would also announce that Homeboy Scotty and his girlfriend Tina were expecting their first child, and Josh was to be its godfather. Hilariously, this would not stop Josh from smoking in Tina's presence, and spilling his monster on camera.
Josh would also make several unlisted videos at this time of him and various homeboys smoking weed, usually through a bong, at a time when weed was illegal in Wyoming. These videos would not see the light of day until 2020, when Josh privated and un-privated all of his videos, instantly premiering a ton of weed smoking videos at that time. Although Warlord would continue to piss off Josh's fans and generally cause a disturbance on video, Josh's other fair-weather-homeboy Alex Anderson would regale the Cobraverse with stories and generally joke around. Also during one of these nightwalks with Homeboy Alex Anderson, Josh would make his beliefs on transgendered people known, making it clear he would misgender them regardless.
On April the 23rd, 2017, Josh would release a video “random topics and ranting about school lunches” where not only both Alex Anderson and Warlord would appear, but also 70 year-old drifter, Scrapper Steve. Steve and both Alexes would spend a fair bit of time buttering Josh up about how attractive he was, and talk about how much they hated sickos. In fact, Alex Anderson would recount a story of how he beat up a pedophile while he was in county jail, and would mention that he knew some people on the Registry.

A few days later, Josh would announce the tragic passing of The Floral Throne, after he punched a hole in the top cushion during a sperg rage. Deciding it was unsalvageable, Josh would seek out a new throne for the time being, and would speak of this in his video “no more chair” where he would also say the famous line “I'm so good at guitar, it's a wonder I'm not swimming in pussy right now, just sayin'.”, followed by something that sounds like the ukulele player from SpongeBob SquarePants was having a seizure. Josh would sit on his guitar case until a week later when he would make the switch to The Black Executive, a gift from a friend.
Also during this time, Josh would start making appearances on KeeperCast, a small podcast where he would make a 20 dollar paycheck every time he showed up.

Josh would announce on the 7th of may via Facebook that he had gotten a dishwashing job, and would start the next Tuesday. Josh would make a video about this new job with Warlord the same day, talking about the pay(10 dollars an hour) and how he would use the funds to get his shotgun fixed, “among other things”. He would mock his trolls for failing to keep him down, and would mention that Warlord had helped him get the job to begin with. Josh would also mention that getting a job meant that Homedad Clint would finally return Josh's debit card, possibly aware of Josh's poor spending habits.
It did not take long for fans and trolls to piece together his job's location - The Office Bar and Grill - mostly because Josh nearly immediately developed a crush on a waitress working there by the name of Dani, and having beef with the head chef, Melissa.
Josh would collect his first paycheck later that month, and immediately spend it on his typical vices. Making a video that same day, Warlord would steal the spotlight by coming across as particularly flamboyant, which somehow would segue into Josh reminiscing about the woman he cheated on during his relationship with Stephanie.

Mid-May 2017, a dark miracle would happen: During a thunderstorm in Casper WY, KingKobraJFS, the imposter Josh, would rise from the grave to torment Josh once more. Fake Josh would even show up on KeeperCast, talking smack about Real Josh, once again calling him a fraud. In an attempt to prove that HE was the true and honest King Cobra, Real Josh would make a video with Alex Campbell, now christening himself Warlord for the first time, called “fuck you kingkobraJFS”. Josh would call Fake Josh “Delusional” and would attempt to prove his identity by having notable meth addict and convicted felon Warlord vouch for him. Josh would also claim that the waitresses at The Office preferred him over the dishwasher who had been there over a decade, another of Josh's many dubious claims.
After this video, Josh and Warlord would smoke some weed in an unlisted video.

Josh would end the month of May complaining about his neighbors on video during a bike ride, who were in turn dissatisfied with the smell coming from Josh's apartment, which he claimed was “incense”, occasionally a word used as slang for cannabis. He would also complain about a time his neighbors had extremely loud sex, and he didn't complain. This is made far more amusing when Josh would claim the very next day to have had sex with one of his neighbor's of-age daughter, Tammy. Josh would further claim that Tammy got scared off when Josh told her he loved her. We here at Boglimpedia are sure it wasn't just because she turned the lights on and had serious post-nut clarity.

At his wits end with PhotoBooth, Josh would delete it, meaning that the only method of recording videos would come from his phone for the time being. Josh would start getting extremely short-tempered, which would lead to a particularly infamous video where Josh would drop phone while Riding Bike, leading to a particularly loud “GOD DAMN IT!”. Other notable moments of fury include him getting enraged by hiccups interrupting his video rant. Despite this, Josh would eventually make it to full time work at The Office Bar and Grill as a dishwasher

After finding a black-and-green wig for Fun Size Felicia, Josh would attempt to give his sex doll a bath, using instructions from a fan to use heavy duty anti-bacterial dish soap. However, Josh would make a fatal error in his choice of soap. Silicone reacts very poorly to certain types of soap, and due to a serious mistake, Felicia's skin melted off during the bath, perhaps as karma for the numerous sex toys Josh had destroyed over the years by hand or by…Other means. If Josh had used Tactical Soap instead, Felicia may still be with us to this day. Josh would move on from Fun Size Felicia, but would still egg his fans on into sending him a new one, with a two thousand dollar price tag.

Josh admits to the deed.

You may think that this all sounds rather plausible, even for a story from Josh. That's because it's not. Texts between Josh and ExhumedVisions(one of Josh's close supporters) would surface, where Josh would admit to cutting Felicia into pieces and throwing her in the trash. Josh would justify his actions by saying that he had “anger issues twords women for rejecting me” and took it out on Felicia. Furthermore, Josh would admit to fantasizing about murdering and having sex with the corpses of women.

After the tragic murder of Fun Size Felicia, Fake Josh would make a video wearing a black and red wig, playing the role of Felicia and calling out Real Josh for his actions. In the video, Fake Josh would refer to Real Josh as Andrew, claiming it was his real name, and revealing “the truth” behind the events that transpired, saying that she “left him”, and that she's staying with a friend for the time being. She would also claim that Josh forced her to smoke spice numerous times, and that he “got a little freaky” with Shon the Dummy.

The cobras would come face to face on a live episode of KeeperCast, which would be ultimately ruined by the host by not instructing Real Josh how to use Google Hangouts, causing a delay, and frustrating most listeners. Despite this, there would be multiple fantastic moments, including the dueling drink combos, Fake Josh claiming to be the true father of Homeboy Scotty's child, accusing one of Josh's friends of being a spice head, a shredding duel, a threat to sexually assault Homeboy Scotty, various can crushes from the Fake Josh, and ending off when Josh casted a seizure-inducing spell over the cyberspace. Shortly after this, KingKobraJFS' dad Klint would announce the sad passing of Fake Josh.

After fumbling another attempt at The Star Spangled Banner on Independence Day, Josh would announce that he was saving his paycheck money up to get his shotgun repaired, after promising to start doing so nearly 3 months prior - A record turnaround by Josh's standards. Josh would bang his head repeatedly on his desk after another Star Spangled Banner attempt.
After spending even more money getting his shotgun repaired, fans would begin to speculate that Josh was getting scammed. Running counter to this theory, however, is that Josh was squirrelling away money to purchase a sex doll(although this claim has not been substantiated due to Josh's poor spending habits).

Later that month, one of Josh's idols, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park fame, would kill himself. Josh would be distraught by the news, as Josh was known for fighting his suicidal thoughts, something he shared with Chester. Josh would make a video about it, ending the video by singing along to Shadow of The Day by the same band, which would get blocked by YouTube for copyright-infringing content. Josh would continue his commentary on Chester's passing through the month of August while also buying The Cobra Cane, for a whopping hundred and three American dollars. Josh would be initially displeased by this purchase, as it had been advertised as a cane sword, but did not have a blade. Josh would break it the very same day.
During one of his innumerable “night video[s]” at this point in time, Josh would suddenly and without provocation descend into an angry tirade about his ex girlfriend Stephanie, painting her in an extremely negative light. Josh would go on to call her needy and “a nympho”.

The Boy would start going live on Facebook streams in late August/early September. While the streams in the beginning were very similar to uploaded videos, Josh would eventually open up to his stream chat, going into more personal details about his life. This would be short-lived, as Josh made the mistake of brandishing his shotgun on livestream, and would receive a thirty day Facebook ban for his trouble. To combat this, Josh would continue to upload to YouTube, making more rant videos about Stephanie.
Fittingly, on September 11th, after many issues and assistance from Scrapper Steve, Josh would start streaming on YouTube, marking his first official YouTube stream. The stream would have a noticeable echo, and he would spend a fair bit of his on-air time ranting and fighting trolls.

On the sixteenth of September, Josh would make a video disclosing that a Troll had made a fake Craigslist ad using Josh's own name, phone number, location, and nude images. This would infuriate Josh to no end, receiving unwanted attention from gay strangers looking for a hookup. Josh would rebuke these offers while insisting he supported gay rights, and then saying “If two dudes kiss, I don't want to see that shit” in the same breath.
Josh would carry on in spite of this ad, and would begin work on his next album, Trails of the Abyss.

Josh would close out this saga by calling out YouTuber DragonLordFrodo for refusing to watch Josh's videos. Josh would roast DLF for the state of his house, his physical appearance, that he sodomized DLF's mother, etc.. Josh would be banned from livestreaming for four months on YouTube and receive a community strike on this video, which would spark a rant against YouTube. DragonLordFrodo would respond to this video, and would be generally confused by this outburst Returning to Facebook, Josh would stream multiple times a day, also disclosing that he broke another one of his spiked dog collars. During this time, Josh would also disclose that Scrapper Steve had divorced his wife, and was in a new apartment with some help from Josh.
Josh would end October in a rather boring fashion, doing a Halloween hangout with Homeboy Scotty and Scrapper Steve. However, this dull moment would take a turn when on November 9th, he would announce via Facebook that he had ended his dry spell with a girl named Summer.

While the sacrifice of all of KingCobraJFS' early videos cannot be stressed enough, The Rebirth Saga is best remembered as the most steady period in Josh's tumultuous life. Finding full-time employment, a new sex doll, and plenty of new friends along the way, this saga would be remembered mostly for the second sex doll incident, and the full introduction of Warlord.