Huh, I remember watching the Vice doc on this guy years ago. The piece portrayed him as a really dumb but ultimately well-meaning guy with a tragic background who was just kind of a sad pathetic teddy bear sort who wasn't a danger to anyone but himself.
Figures he'd turn out to be a piece of shit.
That was ultimately the problem with Vice Doc, it did portray him in that manner and it brought him droves of mislead fans, around 2015 was when he really started to get fucked beyond belief, though. And it shows through the videos you can see around on archives of his deleted videos. At one point he was so toasted that he shaved his eyebrows and then drank them down with a diluted mix of shaving cream and vodka, a pathetic ditch effort at gaining some views. He looked like this for 6 months, even as a jaded teenager it went beyond just amusement, it was this gloomy mixture of pitiful sadness.
A misconception a lot of people seem to have is that Shoenice WAS at some point this earnest character, a gentle giant with a heart of gold. At some point alcoholic slams became his niche, he realized that and was downing a bottle a day for Youtube. Some thing that this changed him into the character he is now, but I honestly think that he was always like this. Shoenice is a pathological liar, he lies about everything to the point that he hardly even has an identity anymore, and it isn't very hard to tell when he is lying. Remember the school yard days when that one crusty kid would blatantly lie about the most mundane shit for your attention, and then they would just dig a deeper whole in a desperate ditch effort? That is who Shoenice is, I actually remember this sequence ON the Vice Doc where they were walking near a random farm house and Shoe points it out and pretends he used to live there.
The Vice Doc definitely pushes a forced narrative, I'm sure the shitty "auteurs" were made well aware of the true Shoenice as they were producing the film. Compare literally any sequence from the documentary to this video uploaded almost a year prior where Shoenice rides around on a bike disturbing the public for the "epic trolling" by trying to lie to strangers about random celebrities dying.
And on a fucking bicycle, god I can't take this guy seriously.
This one is even worse, where he preys on getting people to come close to his window with the expectation of a question, and then swears at them and drives off. And this was all happening before Shoenice was considered a wasted drunk by the community. He never really changed, he's always been this way and I'm sure his family left him because he was a piece of shit.