A timeline of Chris Chan’s incest charge and dismissal, which came after years of online trolling that documented the creator’s relationship with her mother

As Chandler has said online in the past, she has lived alone with her mother since her father died in 2011.

Trolls who followed Chandler’s life on CWCki and later on Kiwi Farms repeatedly questioned Chandler’s relationship with her mother. Several threads on Kiwi Farms and articles on CWCki ridiculed Chandler for referring to her mother with pet names like “darling” and “dear.”

On October 15, 2015, Chandler and her mother attended a court hearing following an assault Chandler committed on a video game store employee the year before. As was common for many of Chandler’s trolls at the time, some of them attended the hearing in person in order to report back to CWCki. 

One such alleged attendee was a Chandler troll called “Marvin,” otherwise known as the “Man in the Pickle Suit,” who then posted observations about Chandler and her mother’s interactions during the hearing. Marvin runs the CWCki database of Chandler information (which still exists separately from Kiwi Farms, the forum originally derived from the CWCki forum) but has kept his real identity private. 

On July 30, 2021, a supposed Kiwi Farms user leaked a nine-minute phone call and a series of screenshots that they claimed came from a conversation they had with Chandler, with the user pretending to be a woman called “Bella.” The screenshots and phone call recording were later circulated by Kiwi Farms owner Joshua Moon, who goes by Null online and went viral on Reddit. Although it is believed that the call was made by one troll posing as “Bella,” this hasn’t been verified.

In the recording, a person purported to be Chandler gave graphic information about alleged assaults on her 79-year-old mother, saying that it had been occurring three times a week since late June.

The text messages also referenced Chandler’s mother having “memory problems.”

That same day, the leaked phone call and text messages went viral on social media, with Chandler beginning to trend globally on Twitter.

YouTuber Dillin Thomas, who had made content on Chandler in the past, later posted screenshots from a conversation they said they had with Chandler, where Chandler appears to confirm the allegations. 

Chandler later tweeted: “There is drama in the air today. Each and every one of you all are encouraged to withdraw from any and all dramas, gossip, rumors, and whatever else will, and already has, approached your way today.” 

After Chandler was moved to the Central Virginia Regional Jail in Virginia, a jail representative confirmed to BI that the facility had categorized Chandler, a transgender woman, as a male. 

Chandler said in a public 2017 Facebook post that she was a woman, saying that her correct pronoun was “she.” She has also spoken about her transition in YouTube videos. According to court records obtained by BI, she legally changed her name to Christine in May 2016. 

As BI reported, Chandler’s gender designation on the VINE custody request system, which transmits jail and prison records to the public, was changed from female to male shortly after her arrest. The jail did not give a reason for the change.

“I’ve had an interaction with inmate Chandler and it’s been fine,” the jail representative told BI in response to a question about Chandler’s well-being. “Everything is okay.” 

On March 27, 2023, social media users reported receiving notifications of Chan’s release via VINE.

Later that afternoon, Chandler’s VINE record was updated to show she was out of custody and released by a court order. 

Chandler was issued a transportation order on March 27, according to the Virginia court’s information system.

A Central Virginia Regional Jail representative confirmed to BI that no one with the last name “Chandler” was in custody on March 28. 

It’s unclear why the court ordered Chandler’s release. 

On August 18, 2024 — just over a year after authorities dismissed the case against Chandler — YouTube channel EWU Bodycam released bodycam footage of her arrest.

“Oh my fucking god what is this?” one officer can be heard saying in the footage after internet stalkers begin heckling Chandler.

“What the heck is going on right now?” another adds.

Chandler tells police in the video that she’s involved in a “celebrity scandal” and that people are “just blowing it out of the water.”

“Essentially, I am a decent and good individual,” Chandler says in the video. “I believe in everything that is right and positive and I am literally a goddess and that will be proven in the near days to come.”