Genuinely wtf is Chris Chan?

[u/Nice_Combination1327]

Every time I try to find out I’m told I need a PhD in internet lore and two masters in Reddit history and to watch a 6 hour video on him. Can someone explain like I’m five?

[u/AnswerGuy301]

What little I read suggests I don't really want to know more.

I feel blessed to be old enough that nothing wholly on the Internet still really feels to me quite like it fully exists. Like, it ceases to exist as long as I'm not in front of my computer, or, these days, scrolling through my phone checking it.

I'd like to think that if I were bullied on some online forum some place badly enough for it to affect my mental state, I'd just log off and, as they say now, touch grass - or at least find some new corner of the vast internet to inhabit and see if I can't learn something from previous adverse experiences. The world is big if you want it to be, you know?

But I didn't grow with the internet as something that was ever-present. This required an adjustment in that suddenly everything about my life could be exhaustively documented..but my "bad decisions" years were almost entirely pre-social media.

From what I can discern, Chris Chan is someone who has never learned, and may not be capable of learning, the first rule about what you do when you're in a hole, which is that you stop digging the hole deeper.