There are two schools of Christory on this. One is that "Chris is his own worst troll and is always funniest when left to his own devices." The other is what you state, that he's not that funny unless he's in the middle of a trolling saga.
Personally I submit that it might be better to look at it as his most extreme (
@TrippinKahlua) episodes are him acting without prompting from the trolls, like the stuff he gets arrested for or burning down his house through negligence, but that these events also happen so seldomly and the content otherwise is very dry without trolling. In other words, after Bob died (pbuh) the Chris Chan show was basically cancelled, except for some occasional awesome specials that are too few and far between.
I think my point is that people are always expecting a comeback or some new, big event. That's how it's been for years. A little after Bob died, I was having to tell people that Chris doesn't just make wacky videos for fun. Now I think most people accept that reality, so they're dialing back their expectations. But I still think people expect a bit too much from Chris. They think a comeback is always around the corner. It's not. The fun is just slowly dying.
Granted I don't know the full details about this so I can't really comment, and I don't know whether or not barb has a mortgage or outright owns the place but it does seem fair for her to take her cut for rent & utilities etc from a grown man living there (but again I don't know what I'm talking about so I trust your judgement on that, and fuck barb for taking advantage if that's what she's doing).
Well, like I said, contributing to the household expenses is fine. I just think that Chris yields a lot of control over his financials to Barb. If Barb's creditors (she's got way bigger debt than Chris) start pestering her, she'll drain Chris' bank account to get rid of them, with no say on Chris' part. It's not his debt, he pays his minimums. Also, I think Barb took out a retarded loan in his name to get their new car.
Not entirely unjustifiably.
I think we can all agree that if Chris won the lottery he'd spend it all within a week on Lego, fast food and other toys because he is, in many respects, a child.
Eh, but that's the thing. Barb made Chris into a permanent child by refusing to let him grow up. Barb gets mad when Chris tries to be independent. Bob hated that Chris and Barb cuddled together, but he couldn't do shit about it lest Barb chimp out on him, just like she did when he tried to clean up some of the hoard.
And I know it's hard to predict the future. I doubt they could've guessed that being a little over protective of their retarded son would turn into this. But here we are. I think Barb's personality traits (maybe butthurt about Cole leaving her?) made the situation a lot worse though.
Heh, and as far as Chris blowing lottery winnings, so do most people who wins the lottery. People living in trailer parks win the lottery and end right back up in the trailer park a few years later.
Although, I think people misunderstand Chris' finances. Financially, Chris is normal (or slightly below normal, he functions, at least). Chris is aware of his budget. He pays his bills. Chris doesn't just spend a shitload of money on legos for no reason. When he's spending retarded amounts of money, it's pocket cash that was not allocated for other purposes.
