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| ====== The Couch Chris Saga ====== | ====== The Couch Chris Saga ====== |
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| ===== Introduction ===== | ===== Introduction ===== |
| ***[[characters:Stephanie]]:** Playing only a minor role, Stephanie would appear on occasion as Josh's steady, albeit long-distance girlfriend. | ***[[characters:Stephanie]]:** Playing only a minor role, Stephanie would appear on occasion as Josh's steady, albeit long-distance girlfriend. |
| ***[[characters: Clint Saunders]]:** Homedad Clint continues to be the driving factor behind Josh doing anything with his life, this time around ensuring that Josh gets a little bit of independence and freedom in his life. | ***[[characters: Clint Saunders]]:** Homedad Clint continues to be the driving factor behind Josh doing anything with his life, this time around ensuring that Josh gets a little bit of independence and freedom in his life. |
| | ***Kayla:** A girl Josh double-teamed with Chris for a cigarette. Pregnant at the time. |
| | ***[[characters:The Trolls#Matt Ciampi]]:** The leader of the Casper ZDF, a doomsday prepper cult, a homewrecker, and an overall sex pest. |
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| ===== Set up ===== | ===== Set up ===== |
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| During his time off work, Josh would spend much of his time hanging out with Chris, a high school friend. In this time, one of the few videos saved of this time, "Relationship Advice", would be uploaded to the channel. In it, Josh would talk about his long-distance relationship with Stephanie, the kind of hijinks he and Chris would get up to, and his numerous suicide attempts. Out of these suicide attempts, two were alarmingly recent: The first when Josh walked out onto the highway at night after Chris' van broke down, thinking he would be unable to make it into work the next day, and the second when he attempted to strangle himself with his amp cord, which reportedly did nothing after ten minutes. | During his time off work, Josh would spend much of his time hanging out with Chris, a high school friend. In this time, one of the few videos saved of this time, "Relationship Advice", would be uploaded to the channel. In it, Josh would talk about his long-distance relationship with Stephanie, the kind of hijinks he and Chris would get up to, and his numerous suicide attempts. Out of these suicide attempts, two were alarmingly recent: The first when Josh walked out onto the highway at night after Chris' van broke down, thinking he would be unable to make it into work the next day, and the second when he attempted to strangle himself with his amp cord, which reportedly did nothing after ten minutes. |
| While professing his feelings quite heavily for Stephanie in the same video, a while later Josh would cheat on Stephanie with a girl named Kayla in exchange for a cigarette. While Josh did come clean, it would be some months later. Stephanie would opt to stay in the relationship for now. Josh would later disclose that the girl in question was //pregnant at the time.// | While professing his feelings quite heavily for Stephanie in the same video, a while later Josh would cheat on Stephanie with a girl named Kayla in exchange for a cigarette, double-teaming her in Chris' van when Chris got a flat tire on the highway. While Josh did come clean to his girlfriend, it would be some months later. Stephanie would opt to stay in the relationship for now. Josh would later disclose that the girl in question was pregnant at the time. |
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| ==== Family tension ==== | ==== Family tension ==== |
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| During Thanksgiving, Stephanie would come back to Casper to visit her family, and Josh. Her visit would be documented in numerous videos including one on her birthday(November 18), where Josh would admit to not having the money to take her somewhere nice, and having phone calls with various people while Stephanie watched him. The video would end with Josh attempting to hide his fully erect Cobra Jr. from the camera. | During Thanksgiving, Stephanie would come back to Casper to visit her family, and Josh. Her visit would be documented in numerous videos including one on her birthday(November 18), where Josh would admit to not having the money to take her somewhere nice, and having phone calls with various people while Stephanie watched him. The video would end with Josh attempting to hide his fully erect Cobra Jr. from the camera. |
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| | On one of many occasions, Josh would be late for work after he missed the bus. Despite being an hour and a half late, his manager understood.\\ |
| The very next day, Josh would have his password to the Gothickingcobra52 channel leaked, and his channel - with all its content - would be lost. The very same day, he would create his third and current channel, KingCobraJFS. While this would mean Josh would have to start from scratch, this channel was the foundation for the current age Boglim, whether we like it or not. Josh's first video on this channel would be "re: a message to haters" to another YouTuber by the name of Raymon20Federation, a similarly regarded content creator in the YouTube scene where Josh would apologize for the strife, oblivious to the fact that trolls were attempting to start an internet slapfight between the two. | The very next day, Josh would have his password to the Gothickingcobra52 channel leaked, and his channel - with all its content - would be lost. The very same day, he would create his third and current channel, KingCobraJFS. While this would mean Josh would have to start from scratch, this channel was the foundation for the current age Boglim, whether we like it or not. Josh's first video on this channel would be "re: a message to haters" to another YouTuber by the name of Raymon20Federation, a similarly regarded content creator in the YouTube scene where Josh would apologize for the strife, oblivious to the fact that trolls were attempting to start an internet slapfight between the two. |
| === "I treat Stephanie right" === | === "I treat Stephanie right" === |
| Additionally, another troll would later call Josh's landlord in an attempt to get him kicked out, and another would try to bribe Chris into giving away Josh's address. The final wave on Josh's channel for the time being would come in a mass-flag that would cause a temporary ban on his channel. In the meantime, Josh uploaded to Chris' YouTube channel instead on the 11th of December, 2012. The majority of these videos have been deleted, save for a Cobra Classic: fun fight. | Additionally, another troll would later call Josh's landlord in an attempt to get him kicked out, and another would try to bribe Chris into giving away Josh's address. The final wave on Josh's channel for the time being would come in a mass-flag that would cause a temporary ban on his channel. In the meantime, Josh uploaded to Chris' YouTube channel instead on the 11th of December, 2012. The majority of these videos have been deleted, save for a Cobra Classic: fun fight. |
| === fun fight === | === fun fight === |
| | //for a play-by-play of this incident, check out the Incident page [[incidents:fun fight|here.]]// |
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| On December 17th, 2012, Josh would get completely and totally shitfaced, plastered, rat-ass drunk off of a bottle of Peach Schnapps in the afternoon. During Chris' video that evening, claiming he was possessed by his inner cobra demon. Josh would spend the video hissing and growling, and it would require the combined strength of both Chris and his brother Josh to keep him restrained. This heroic sacrifice had lasting trauma on the viewers, as we were forced to see Chris take his shirt off. | On December 17th, 2012, Josh would get completely and totally shitfaced, plastered, rat-ass drunk off of a bottle of Peach Schnapps in the afternoon. During Chris' video that evening, claiming he was possessed by his inner cobra demon. Josh would spend the video hissing and growling, and it would require the combined strength of both Chris and his brother Josh to keep him restrained. This heroic sacrifice had lasting trauma on the viewers, as we were forced to see Chris take his shirt off. |
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| Little changed for the better for Josh and Chris' relationship, with both taking verbal potshots at each other in the middle of videos. Unfortunately, Josh had to put up with Chris as Chris would drive Josh to work most mornings, so that Josh would not have to ride his [[objects:the bike|bike]](weather permittable) some three miles through Casper, Wyoming. This began to evolve into Chris taking over Josh's videos on occasion with various topics, completely overshadowing Josh on several occasions. | Little changed for the better for Josh and Chris' relationship, with both taking verbal potshots at each other in the middle of videos. Unfortunately, Josh had to put up with Chris as Chris would drive Josh to work most mornings, so that Josh would not have to ride his [[objects:the bike|bike]](weather permittable) some three miles through Casper, Wyoming. This began to evolve into Chris taking over Josh's videos on occasion with various topics, completely overshadowing Josh on several occasions. |
| This would finally culminate in Josh attempting to drive Chris' van in order to pay rent and buy a stick of butter, of all things. Josh would be pulled over by the [[characters:casper police department]] after his erratic driving nearly caused Josh to sideswipe a police cruiser. The Casper PD charged Josh for not having a driver's license and ultimately Josh was fined a few hundred dollars, a move that would cost Josh, both figuratively and literally. In the new year, Chris would lose his job at Wal-Mart after cutting himself with a box cutter, and the relationship with Josh would sour further. | This would finally culminate in Josh attempting to drive Chris' van in order to pay rent and buy a stick of butter, of all things. Josh would be pulled over by the [[characters:casper police department]] after his erratic driving nearly caused Josh to sideswipe a police cruiser. The Casper PD charged Josh for not having a driver's license and ultimately Josh was fined a few hundred dollars, a move that would cost Josh, both figuratively and literally. In the new year, Chris would lose his job at Wal-Mart after cutting himself with a box cutter, and the relationship with Josh would sour further. |
| | ==== The Beethoven sub-saga ==== |
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| | On Christmas Eve, Josh would release a video titled "I might have been reincarnated from a famous musician" where he suddenly believed that he was a reincarnation of 18th-century composer Ludwig Van Beethoven. Although he would be corrected numerous times by Chris during the video, Josh said that he had been listening to the opening of popular Beethoven piece Fur Elise (pronounced "fur uh-less-ay"), and had felt something "weird", or a feeling of Deja Vu. Josh would attempt to learn the intro to Fur Elise on the guitar - a task he would continue to attempt for years to come. |
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| ==== The new guitar ==== | ==== The new guitar ==== |
| After feeling guilty about cheating, Josh would break up with Stephanie on Valentine's Day(Like a true gentleman). He would go on a rant in a video uploaded the same day titled "Happy valentines day", using rhetoric common with the "Nice guy" stereotype. Josh would attempt to recover from this self-inflicted heartbreak and garner more attention with The Secret Video, a video uploaded to an adult website where he masturbated to completion, then talks like any other of his videos. Josh would claim to make a new "secret video" every two weeks, although there is no proof that he's made more than one. | After feeling guilty about cheating, Josh would break up with Stephanie on Valentine's Day(Like a true gentleman). He would go on a rant in a video uploaded the same day titled "Happy valentines day", using rhetoric common with the "Nice guy" stereotype. Josh would attempt to recover from this self-inflicted heartbreak and garner more attention with The Secret Video, a video uploaded to an adult website where he masturbated to completion, then talks like any other of his videos. Josh would claim to make a new "secret video" every two weeks, although there is no proof that he's made more than one. |
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| The final video of the Couch Chris Saga would be one where Chris, who is dressed in what appears to be a secondhand army ACU, had bizarrely returned once more to sleeping on Josh's futon, only to be treated to a fusillade of troll comments directed at Chris and his behavior during the saga read off by Josh directly to Chris' face. Throughout the video, Cobra is ice cold to Chris and passive-aggressively confronts him while making remarks about Chris' lack of employment and constant weed smoking, while touting his own employment at Wendy's. Couch Chris would never be seen in a video again, marking the end of the saga, and the beginning of the Stephanie Saga. | The final video of the Couch Chris Saga would be the video {{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTZz9JJLsUs|"Talking with Chris Again"}} on February 28th 2013. Chris, who is dressed in what appears to be a secondhand army ACU, had bizarrely returned once more to sleeping on Josh's futon, only to be treated to a fusillade of troll comments directed at Chris and his behavior during the saga read off by Josh directly to Chris' face. Throughout the video, Cobra is ice cold to Chris and passive-aggressively confronts him while making remarks about Chris' lack of employment and constant weed smoking, while touting his own employment at Wendy's. Couch Chris would never be seen in a video again, marking the end of the saga, and the beginning of the Stephanie Saga. |
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| ===== Significance ===== | ===== Significance ===== |
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| The Couch Chris saga is a fantastic example of Cobra's very first taste of autonomy, and all the pitfalls that come with it. Much of Josh's habits in later years - Attraction to blondes, letting freeloaders overstay their welcome, doing dangerous things, and spending too much money on cigarettes and alcohol - would only have time to marinate in the coming years as the King continues to sink further into the mire of his own creation. | The Couch Chris saga is a fantastic example of Cobra's very first taste of autonomy, and all the pitfalls that come with it. Much of Josh's habits in later years - Attraction to blondes, letting freeloaders overstay their welcome, doing dangerous things, and spending too much money on cigarettes and alcohol - would only have time to marinate in the coming years as the King continues to sink further into the mire of his own creation. |
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| | ===== Trivia ===== |
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| | * Josh would release hundreds of videos during this saga, although roughly 175 have survived of an estimated //450//(If Josh uploaded on his usual 3-times-a-day schedule throughout). |
| | * The phrase "Chillin like a(rockstar) villain" was first used during this saga on November 27th, 2012. |
| | * Josh would acquire his Ouija board, several wands, and [[objects:The Bike]] during this saga. |
| | * Josh would replace his phone **one time** during this saga. |
| | * After Josh's parents returned from a vacation in Europe, they would gift him a pan flute. Josh would attempt to learn to play it, to no success. |
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| | ===== Sources Cited ===== |
| | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aErIWv4mXyg|Bitesize Cobra Videos' The Wendy's Saga - Part 1]]\\ |
| | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97LaevklxGo|Bitesize Cobra Videos' KingCobraJFS Documentary Part 4: Independence and Heartbreak]] |
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| {{page>:blurbs#The KingCobraJFS Story}} | {{page>:blurbs#The KingCobraJFS Story}} |
