User2: Your house needs to set fire and you need to dieee!!! Make a video for me?!? User4: User1 your gross! I guess if you like screwing 13 year olds An adorable high school girl that became an internet sensation in the beginning of via multiple videos posted on Youtube and other websites. She exudes love and innocence in a unique, charming manner, often bringing joy and happiness to those with a pure heart despite the jaded world we currently live in.
She made a YouTube video for another Gaia member 4DD1 [10] featuring the character which lay dormant for months until December 27th , when it was shared on I-Am-Bored. As of April 27th, , this account has , subscribers and more than 25,, views, with an average of 20, views per day. While many of these threads went unarchived, search for Boxxy on Chanarchive [13] yields results as of April The group broke in to Boxxy's YouTube account, making all of her videos private.
They also uploaded a video explaining that she should never make another video and disclosing her personal information. After receiving negative backlash for these actions, the group made her videos public again and by January 19th, , uploaded a second video apologizing for the hack. On January 19th, , the Guardian [12] published an in-depth chronicle of 4chan's response to these videos, stating that Boxxy spam and flame wars had filled the image board to the point where 4chan users launched a denial of service DDoS attack on themselves on January 10th, out of protest.
The same day, Boxxy's videos also appeared on Fimoculous [14] , Buzzfeed [15] and Videogum. Boxxy is also represented on other websites: A Boxxy Facebook fan page [18] has more than 25, likes, there are a handful of single topic blogs [21] [22] [23] [24] , and a Tumblr tag [25] associated with photos or videos of her. There are more than Boxxy-related threads on Reddit.
On December 10th, , all of the videos on the YouTube account boxxybabee [3] were removed due to a copyright claim by someone named Lia Dawson. Dawson proceeded to reupload Boxxy's three videos to her own YouTube account [27] , noting that the they had trademarked "Boxxy" and "Boxxybabee.
The copyright claim was ruled false [28] and boxxybabee's channel was restored. Following her exchange with 4chan, Boxxy abandoned most of her online presence until November 18th, Wayne returned with an eBay auction [6] selling a messenger bag from the Japanese manga series InuYasha. The same day, she posted a photo to Unichan [30] , an image board specifically for her fans, with a PayPal email address asking for money.
On January 10th, , Wayne posted a video revealing that she had some personal issues causing her to stay away from the internet and that there would be more Boxxy videos in the future. Boxxy was an internet character played by Catherine Wayne, also known as Catie, who first rose to popularity on YouTube in the late s.
She published her first video to her YouTube channel Boxxybabee in January and quickly became known for her heavy use of eyeliner and side-sweeping fringe. The Boxxybabee channel and videos are still available to view, with the channel still having , subscribers.
AMore than a decade after the channel was created, it has amassed more than 50 million views. Rickrolling , anyone? But sometimes memes go even further: they turn anonymous individuals into mini-celebrities for no discernable reason. Which is why the story of Boxxy , an unidentified young woman who went from being just another unknown YouTuber to causing civil war on one of the world's biggest websites, is so bizarrely fascinating.
You'd be forgiven for missing this over the past few weeks, but if you've been surfing the darker corners of the web in recent weeks you might have come across Boxxy videos about her have racked up millions of hits on YouTube and wondered what the hell was going on.
A year ago a young, unnamed and heavily-eyelinered young woman who hung around on Gaia Online made a video. She went by the handle of Boxxy. Nobody's sure. Was Boxxy herself behind it?
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