Stefan Etienne May be the Computer system Community's Chris-Chan

Shortly adhering to the formation of communities on line, many of them are inclined to endure a purification system the place aberrations are culled during the fascination of preserving homogeneity. Vexed by a very poor showing, the tech enthusiast group has long been on Stefan Etienne's throat at any time given that the publication of your ill-fated “Verge Computer Build” in late 2018–that's a pretty long time to stay angry, and the reasons why are worth examining.

While the concept of systemic racism is completely lost on an audience that can't otherwise explain why it doesn't go out of its way to correct white creators nearly as aggressively or persistently, an interesting parallel arises wherein Chris-Chan's predicament isn't all that dissimilar–they're both characters loathed for their inadequacy as a projection of their detractors' own insecurities.

But to first understand why Etienne acts as a Chris-Chan stand-in for the tech fanatic community, one must first know why Chris-Chan was hated the way she was. Short for Christine Weston Chandler, the person in meme form has actually been the internet's strangest fascination to an almost obsessive degree–an autistic trans woman with a very public transition, her life was copiously cataloged and scrutinized, and given the precedent she set for being a bit oblivious, some have exploited that to thrust her down further embarrassment that she largely remained quite unaware of.

What subsequent analysis on the Chris-Chan obsession revealed, is that many used it as a way to cope with their own autism by comparing themselves to someone who makes them look less so–Stefan Etienne essentially Records daily, has actually been used by his harassers as a measuring stick to point at and say “I could never be as bad as this!”, bolstered by the tech community's standard slate of elitist attitudes. There's pressure within to be knowledgeable in almost everything, and to not be privy to all the details is considered sacrilege–that all manifested the nastiest in the aftermath of your Verge Computer Build, but it'll keep rearing its head whenever a community's purpose for existence starts to veer into perpetuity.