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| ***[[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. | ***Kayla:** A girl Josh double-teamed with Chris for a cigarette. Pregnant at the time. |
| ***Matt Ciampi:** The leader of the Casper ZDF, a doomsday prepper cult, a homewrecker, and an overall sex pest. | ***[[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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| 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 ==== |
| 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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| 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 ===== | ===== Sources Cited ===== |
