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====== Wellness check(s) ======

^  Wellness check(s)  |
| {{:incidents:casper_s_finest.png?nolink&400|}}//Casper's finest, once again forced to determine whether the BOY was still among the living.// |
| **Event style:** Recurring police / emergency-services response |
| **Location:** [[places:615 South Center Street]], [[places:Conquistador Apartments]], [[places:Unit 27 N Forest Drive]], and elsewhere |
| **Important characters:** [[characters:KingCobraJFS]], [[characters:The Trolls]], [[characters:Casper Police Department]], [[characters:Clint Saunders]], [[characters:NakedAndLaughing]] |
| **Summary:** Viewers, trolls, family, or bystanders repeatedly contacted police or emergency services to check on Josh after suicidal statements, drunken blackouts, domestic disturbances, or other worrying behavior. |
| **Event Genre:** Drama, Horror, Comedy, Trole Warfare |
| **Results:** Normalized police contact in Josh's life, increased his paranoia, blurred genuine concern with harassment, helped create the //"I'M SICK OF IT!"// cobraism, and eventually became one of the darker recurring motifs of late-stage Cobraverse content. |
| **Sagas:** [[sagas:The Wandmaker Saga]], [[sagas:The New Apartment saga]], [[sagas:The Puff Saga]], [[sagas:The Second Eviction Saga]], [[sagas:The Trailer Saga]], [[sagas:The Wasted Saga]], [[sagas:The Final Saga]] |

**Wellness check(s)**, sometimes called **welfare checks**, are a recurring class of Cobraverse incident in which police or emergency services were called to verify the condition of [[characters:KingCobraJFS]]. Unlike [[incidents:Cobra gets SWATTED|SWATting]], which involves a deliberately false and dangerous emergency report, a wellness check is theoretically a call made out of concern that someone may be injured, suicidal, dangerously intoxicated, or otherwise unable to care for themselves.

In the Cobraverse, this distinction became blurry almost immediately. Josh's content regularly featured heavy drinking, suicidal statements, firearms, extreme emotional outbursts, domestic chaos, and long stretches where he appeared to pass out or disappear from camera. Some viewers contacted police because they genuinely believed he was in danger. Other troles did so because it was a reliable way to interrupt a stream and provoke a meltdown. After years of this, Josh came to view nearly all outside intervention as harassment, even when the concern was plainly legitimate.

The wellness checks are not one single event, but rather a pattern: a police knock, Josh getting upset, a follow-up rant, and the audience arguing over whether the call was necessary or an example of **tapping the glass**. That pattern would follow him from the South Center era all the way to the end of his life.

===== Wellness checks vs. SWATting =====

A wellness check and a SWATting are not the same thing, although Josh often treated them as part of the same general persecution by [[characters:The Trolls|the Troles]].

A **wellness check** is usually a request for police or emergency services to verify that a person is alive, safe, and not an immediate danger to themselves or others. In Josh's case, this usually followed a stream where he was visibly drunk, suicidal, passed out, acting erratically, or involved in a loud domestic dispute.

A **SWATting** is a malicious false report intended to bring an armed police response to someone's home. The most infamous Cobraverse example is [[incidents:Cobra gets SWATTED]], where a troll falsely reported a violent domestic emergency at Josh's address, leading to a full police response live on stream.

The important distinction is intent. Calling for help because Josh is visibly pointing a gun at himself is not the same thing as calling in a fake murder threat. However, years of prank calls, DoorDash harassment, fake accounts, and police visits conditioned Josh to interpret almost every knock at the door as an attack by the trolls. Deliciously ironic, but most definitely not what's up.

===== Early precedent: Cobra's suicidal content =====

Wellness checks became a recurring feature later in the Cobraverse, but the behavior that prompted them had existed for years. Josh had a long history of posting suicidal or self-destructive content, including [[incidents:Cobra's "Suicidal" Incident]], where he drunkenly talked about ending his life while handling a blade. That older video does not appear to have resulted in a documented police response, but it foreshadowed the exact kind of content that would later make viewers reach for the phone.

Josh's tendency to combine alcohol, weapons, self-pity, and livestreaming created the perfect environment for wellness checks. He often wanted to be seen as a dangerous gothic bad boy, but the audience increasingly saw an intoxicated, mentally unstable man with access to firearms and very little impulse control.

===== Notable checks =====

==== The Wandmaker-era suicidal drunk check ====

One of the earliest specifically documented wellness checks occurred during [[sagas:The Wandmaker Saga]]. According to the [[characters:Casper Police Department]] article, Josh became "unbelievably drunk" and violently suicidal during a livestream, prompting a viewer or troll to call in a wellness check. 

This incident is important because it helped establish the pattern that would repeat for years: Josh would do something alarming on camera, someone would contact authorities, and Josh would frame the intervention as proof that his trolls were out to ruin his life. It also helped cement the phrase //"I'M SICK OF IT!"// as one of the classic Cobraisms associated with police and welfare-check interruptions.

A preserved clip titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD_nOyQGbus|KingCobraJFS - Wellness Check/Spergout After]] appears to document the aftermath of one of these incidents. As with many Cobra clips, the original stream context can be difficult to reconstruct due to deleted videos and reuploads.

==== June 16th, 2021 wellness-check clip ====

Another preserved clip, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wURFEkLK7AQ|KingCobraJFS Wellness Check (16/6/21)]], indicates a welfare check took place on June 16th, 2021. The exact full-stream context should be reconstructed from archive material before making stronger claims, but its existence shows that wellness checks had become a recurring part of Conquistador-era content.

By this point, Josh was living in the [[places:Conquistador Apartments]], drinking regularly, smoking indoors, doing long livestreams, and increasingly relying on donations and audience interaction. This meant that any stream where he vanished, passed out, or became too drunk to communicate could quickly turn into a police visit.

==== December 10th, 2023: "Viewers worried you fell down" ====

A deleted stream from December 10th, 2023, preserved on Rumble as [[https://rumble.com/v40k24c-kingcobrajfs-dec-10-2023-chillin-deleted-stream.html|KingCobraJFS Dec 10, 2023 "chillin" *DELETED STREAM*]], includes timestamp notes for a police knock and welfare check around the four-hour mark. The archive description lists:

  * 4:04:20 - Police Knock
  * 4:04:40 - Police Welfare Check
  * 4:05:15 - "Viewers worried you fell down"

This is one of the cleanest examples of a late-Conquistador welfare check resulting from the stream itself. Josh's long livestreams often involved drunken rambling, dead air, and moments where he would leave frame or appear to pass out. To the audience, this could be either funny, boring, or genuinely alarming depending on the situation. To police, it was yet another call to check on a local internet boglim.

==== February 2024: The first Jessica visit ====

The first visit from [[characters:NakedAndLaughing|Jessica Boyle]] in February 2024 introduced a new kind of welfare-check chaos. During the infamous "Ended my Dry Spell TWU" stream, Jessica appeared on Josh's channel in person for the first time, openly behaving in ways that alarmed both viewers and trolls. The stream included sexual harassment, intoxication, arguments, Jessica reading chat, a wellness check, and Jessica yelling at police.

This check stands out because it was no longer merely about Josh drinking too much or falling asleep. There was now a second volatile person in the apartment, and that person was perfectly willing to scream at police, argue with chat, and escalate situations that Josh was too drunk or passive to control.

The aftermath of this visit also made Josh appear increasingly trapped in his own content. The trolls had always been able to get to him through chat, donations, and phone calls. With Jessica physically present, they now had a new pressure point: provoke her, watch her provoke Josh, and wait for the police to show up.

A later clip titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFAZxNRL1I4|KingCobraJFS AFTER POLICE WELFARE CHECK: "LEAVE JESSICA ALONE!"]] preserves one of Josh's post-check defenses of Jessica. In typical fashion, Josh responded to concern by insisting that the trolls were the real problem.

==== March 2024: birthday police visits and eviction pressure ====

During Jessica's second visit in March 2024, the line between wellness check, noise complaint, and police response became even blurrier. Their arguments disturbed other residents at the [[places:Conquistador Apartments]], and Jessica's behavior in the laundry room and during the birthday domestic incident pushed Josh's housing situation toward collapse.

On Josh's birthday, March 26th, 2024, a fight over how to cook bratwurst escalated into a loud off-camera domestic argument. Jessica screamed, stomped, threatened to hit herself, and left the livestream running out of frame. Josh remained comparatively calm, but the incident was loud enough to draw attention. The police reportedly visited later that night off-stream.

Whether every police response in this period should be called a wellness check is debatable. Some were likely neighbor complaints, some were welfare-related, and some were part of the broader domestic chaos caused by Jessica's stay. What matters historically is that emergency contact became part of the eviction pressure that ended Josh's time in the Conquistador Apartments.

==== September 2024: The shotgun wellness check ====

The darkest wellness check associated with Josh occurred during the third Jessica visit in the [[sagas:The Trailer Saga]]. After Josh had already broken up with Jessica and tried to keep her away from his new trailer, she returned to Casper in late August 2024. Through a mixture of persistence, love-bombing, and Josh's inability to hold a boundary, she eventually made her way back into his home.

During this visit, Jessica recorded a fight between herself and Josh. In the most alarming portion of the incident, Josh retrieved [[objects:The Double Barrel Shotgun]] and pointed it at his own head while Jessica egged him on. The gun was apparently unloaded, and an audible dry-fire click can be heard in the footage. The lack of shells prevented a tragedy, but the situation was still one of the most serious moments ever captured in the Cobraverse.

After Jessica released an edited version of the footage, Josh received a wellness check from the [[characters:Casper Police Department]]. Unlike many earlier calls that could be dismissed as troll antics, this one was plainly justified. A man with a documented history of suicidal statements had just been recorded putting a shotgun to his head during a domestic crisis. Calling for a welfare check was not trolling; it was common sense.

This incident also shows the awful endpoint of years of desensitization. By then, viewers were used to police checks as a meme, Josh was used to treating them as harassment, and the trolls were used to laughing at nearly everything. Then the content crossed into a scenario where the danger was obvious, immediate, and very real.

==== August 2025: The final welfare check ====

The final wellness-check-related event in Josh's life was not funny at all. In August 2025, after complaining of feeling unusually sick and suffering stomach pains, Josh's father [[characters:Clint Saunders]] reportedly made an appointment to take him to a doctor. When Clint arrived, he found Josh unresponsive. Josh was later confirmed dead.

Outside reporting on Josh's death described the discovery as occurring during a wellness or welfare check, while also noting that some details came from a now-deleted video by Clint and could not be independently verified in full. The publicly confirmed facts are that Joshua Fay Saunders died in Casper in August 2025 and that his death was announced by local authorities and reported by several outlets.

In a grim way, this brought the wellness-check pattern full circle. For years, people called authorities because they feared Josh might be dead, passed out, suicidal, or too drunk to care for himself. Most of the time, he came back on camera angry, annoyed, or smug that nothing had happened. The final check ended differently.

===== Effects on Josh and the content =====

==== Police knocks became content ====

Over time, wellness checks stopped being interruptions and became part of the show. The formula was simple: Josh would stream, something alarming would happen, someone would call police, police would knock, and Josh would later rant about it. The audience then clipped the rant, argued over whether the call was justified, and waited for the next one.

This dynamic fed directly into Josh's view of himself as a persecuted celebrity. Every police visit became proof, in his mind, that the trolls were obsessed with him. In some cases he was correct. In others, his own behavior was alarming enough that a normal viewer could reasonably worry for his safety.

==== The rise of //"I'M SICK OF IT!"// ====

The phrase //"I'M SICK OF IT!"// became one of the signature Cobraisms associated with these police interventions. Josh used it during major tantrums, including after wellness-check situations. The phrase captures the entire emotional register of late Cobra: outrage, victimhood, exhaustion, and zero meaningful self-reflection.

It also became funny because Josh would often yell it after doing the exact thing that caused the call. He would get dangerously drunk, pass out, handle weapons, scream about suicide, or let Jessica turn his home into a domestic warzone, then act shocked that anyone thought emergency services should be involved.

==== Paranoia and desensitization ====

Repeated wellness checks worsened Josh's paranoia. He already believed that trolls were responsible for almost every problem in his life. After years of police visits, that belief became easier for him to justify. A knock at the door could be a neighbor, a DoorDash driver, a cop, a troll, a landlord, or Jessica. His response became the same: suspicion and irritation.

At the same time, he became desensitized. The [[characters:The Trolls]] article notes that Josh had the cops called on him so many times that it barely made him flinch anymore. This is darkly funny, but also dangerous. Once emergency response becomes routine, both the subject and the audience may stop taking it seriously.

==== Genuine concern became indistinguishable from trolling ====

The biggest harm caused by malicious wellness checks is that they poisoned the idea of intervention itself. If trolls call police as a joke often enough, the target starts assuming every call is a joke. That makes it harder for genuine concern to be heard.

This mattered with Josh. He had severe substance-abuse problems, a history of depression, access to firearms, poor impulse control, and a tendency to stream his worst moments. There were many times where outside concern was not merely reasonable, but necessary. Unfortunately, because so much Cobraverse harassment was done under the guise of "concern," Josh learned to reject almost all of it.

==== No durable intervention ====

For the most part, wellness checks did not improve Josh's life. Police would arrive, confirm he was alive, perhaps talk to him, and then leave. Josh would rant, the clips would circulate, and he would return to drinking.

The closest thing to a lasting intervention came after [[incidents:Cobra Gets Arrested]], when Josh's drunken public-intoxication incident led to court-mandated or strongly encouraged mental-health treatment. Even then, Josh only briefly improved before returning to old habits. Later in life he again mentioned therapy, but by that stage his physical decline, substance abuse, and isolation were already severe.

===== Analysis =====

Wellness checks are one of the clearest examples of why the Cobraverse can be difficult to categorize as simple comedy. On one hand, Josh's reactions were often absurdly funny. A drunken goth wizard angrily yelling //"I'M SICK OF IT!"// because police came to verify he had not died on stream is peak Cobra content.

On the other hand, many of the reasons for the checks were genuinely serious. Suicidal statements, blackouts, weapons, domestic abuse, and severe intoxication are not just memes. Josh's life became content because he allowed almost everything to be filmed, but the situations themselves were often dangerous.

The wellness checks show the central contradiction of watching KingCobraJFS: the audience laughed because the content was ridiculous, but the content was ridiculous because Josh was deeply unwell. It is what it is, but what it was was often bleak.

===== Sources cited =====

  - [[characters:Casper Police Department]]
  - [[characters:The Trolls]]
  - [[sagas:The Wandmaker Saga]]
  - [[sagas:The Second Eviction Saga]]
  - [[sagas:The Trailer Saga]]
  - [[incidents:The NALpocalypse]]
  - [[incidents:Cobra Gets Arrested]]
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD_nOyQGbus|KingCobraJFS - Wellness Check/Spergout After]]
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wURFEkLK7AQ|KingCobraJFS Wellness Check (16/6/21)]]
  - [[https://rumble.com/v40k24c-kingcobrajfs-dec-10-2023-chillin-deleted-stream.html|KingCobraJFS Dec 10, 2023 "chillin" *DELETED STREAM*]]
  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFAZxNRL1I4|KingCobraJFS AFTER POLICE WELFARE CHECK: "LEAVE JESSICA ALONE!"]]
  - [[https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/youtuber-joshua-saunders-known-as-kingcobrajfs-dies-at-34-fathers-emotional-video-surfaces-101755879025155.html|Hindustan Times report on Josh's death]]

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