Sonic Fanboy Arrested For GameStop Assault

GameStop Employee Maced In Shocking Assault By 'Sonic' Fanboy Over Sonic's Arms: 'Sonichu' Creator Jailed

By Christopher Groux, Design & Trend


Popular Internet meme creator Christian Weston Chandler was recently arrested after attempting to deface a "Sonic Boom" game display at a GameStop in Charlottesville, Va. He also assaulted a store employee with mace before forcibly exiting the popular games retailer.

The news comes to Design & Trend from Sega Nerds, which describes and provides video evidence of the entire incident. As discussed by eyewitnesses, Chandler reportedly entered the store and was asked to leave. It was revealed that Chandler had previously been involved with a similarly disgraceful incident at the same GameStop before.

After store employees tried to swarm Chandler to leave the premises, he protested and attacked one member of the group with a substance confirmed to be mace. You can watch a video of that exact moment of the assault below.



After being forcibly removed, rumors suggest that Chandler may have tried to carjack an individual outside of the shopping center where the attack occurred. However, that part of the story has not been officially corroborated.

What would cause one man to become so enraged with "Sonic Boom" that he must bring harm to a retailer and its patrons? As evident by Chandler's website, the man is a massive fan of "Sonic The Hedgehog." In previous blog entries, he expressed extreme discontent that Sega's popular speedster featured completely blue arms in the "Sonic Boom" game and its accompanying TV series. As fans of Sonic may, or may not, recall, the iconic hedgehog's arms are typically partially peach-colored like his face.

Since discovering this anomaly in early 2014, Chandler has taken it upon himself to embark on a crusade against Sega and the entire "Sonic" franchise. In fact, in the past, Chandler even sent death threats to prominent Sega employees mandating that the show's designers revise Sonic's arms or else.

These days, that frustration manifests itself in one particular "Sonic Boom" hater defacing every copy of "Sonic Boom" that he sees.

For those that haven't heard of Christian Chandler before, he's most known for creating the awesomely bad "Sonichu" webcomic series. As its name implies, the plot follows a character that's a combined resemblance of Sonic and Pikachu. In current times, its issues are known for their silly plots, sexual content and terrible illustrations. Chandler typically uses the "Sonichu" comic to lash out against Internet trolls that have caused him harm in real life.

As for the result of Chandler's mace GameStop assault, "Sonic's" enraged fanboy was jailed for a hearing that occurred yesterday. The results of that trial are not yet known.

Despite the fact that Chandler expressed his intense displeasure in an uncommon way, most industry critics agree that "Sonic Boom: Rise Of Lyric" was a poor addition to the long-running "Sonic" game series. Currently, it has an aggregate score of just 32 on Metacritic.

The Cartoon Network TV series of "Sonic Boom" has experienced peak and trough ratings since it debuted in November.

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Now that's sad, attacking random people because of a cartoon....

Thought you had the wrong video lol, thought it was a woman

I too, am disappointed with Sonic's appearance in yet another shitty video game.

This guy has obvious mental issues. /thread

I don't get it... why was he mad at a random Gamestop employee?

Because of Sonic's arms?

I worked got GameStop. It's a terrible work environment. Poor salary, understaffed, and 0 recognition. Add to it that the clients are a bunch of entitled nerds. They buy pc games without reading the requirements, then ask for a refund on opened product with used cd keys. Arguments happened several times daily.

Imagine working there every day, then getting maced for it. I don't care what "mental issues" this guy has. Put him in solitary and /toss the key.

I also saw a GS employee on Reddit say that they don't earn a commission for that ***they push on you every time you buy something.

By the way, the "do you want the 2 year extended warranty on that USB cable for $10.99?" is why I only go to a Best Buy as a very last resort. No, I don't want it, stop asking. >.> Off-topic, but still.

The local BestBuy people don't bother me about that stuff, but there's also the option of buying it online for store pickup while you're standing in the store, then just walking it over to the counter.

Yeah, we used to get commissions on those $2 warranties, then one day they decided to stop. Then they started handing out written warnings to people who's warranty sales went down. I was a manager, so it really hit me hard since I sold the most. Also, the look on my team members' faces when I had to tell them the news. Not fun.

I lasted there 3 years, then quit. I didn't even have another job when I quit, I just left and hoped I would find a job before I had t get married, 8 months later.

Popular internet meme creator? I hope he makes one like, Went into GameStop, assaulted a worker with mace, got arrested, ***was so cash.

Macing employees defacing video games just because of a color change for Sonic? LOL /fanboy indeed. Kinda makes me want to /laugh at the stupidity of this guy. Too bad they don't have Sonic games in jail haha. :P

ahh Chris-Chan Tran.. good laughs

Nerd problems

Love video games...hate gamers.

Super fanboys are like: I got 99 problems, but a girlfriend ain't one of them.

Wait till ffxi goes offline a nut will suicide bomb SE headquarters.

This made me laugh out loud for real.

But I dunno if fanboy is the correct term. You can be a fan of something with out believing the makers owe you something. This guy is so entitled that he thinks he can attack strangers to force other strangers to do his bidding.

He's like an evil dictator, but who still lives in his parents' basement. And I don't believe everyone who does this crap is mentally ill. Some people are just bad.

So I would go with "entitled piece of human garbage." A bit long, but it has nice ring to it, don't you think?

A "fan" and a "fanboy" are two very different things.

I am a "fan" of Cowboy Bebop.

I do not have a lifesize *** of Faye Valentine, however. Nor do I want one. So I am not a "fanboy."

GOTTA GO....to jail FAST

I want run up on Tanaka in a Fafnir onesie and scream SPIKU FLAILU then drop garbage abjurations.

You strike as more of a Gren type of guy.

Sonic has literally the worst fanbase ever. It attracts the worst of the worst, the creepy pedophiles, the furries and every other malcontent that you could hope to think of.

In short, Sonics fanbase is the ISIS of gaming. So bad, even the COD fanbase are calling for civility in light of these uncivilized barbarians.

I used to be a big Sonic fan then SEGA went to ***, the fans went insane and now should be euthanized one by one.

Well, I'm a fan of Batman. And if the opportunity presented itself, I would have a lifesize Batman statue in my home. If I could commute to work in a Batmobile that shot actual flames out the back, I could die a happy man. So then, I guess, that that makes me a fanboy. BUT, if did not go macing people at the local video store after that terrible, terrible Batman and Robin movie.

Filthy casual


Jokes asides, it sounds like too many people don't know who chris-chan is. This guy, he is a special case, even by internet standards.

The amount of people in this thread that need to go read about chris-chan and sonichu on encyclopedia dramatica is too damn high. Can't watch the video but this incident is over a year old or so? Guess they finally got around to arresting.

Or, maybe this loser is just not as popular as the news article made him out to be.

Internet famous yo right next to the chocolate rain guy.

Chocolate rain did a pepsi ad and was on south park. This guy wishes he was chocolate rain.