Chapter 4

Sunday, August 29, 2010



Chapter 4

Between January 17th and January 18th, after the crashing of 4chan via a Denial-of-Service attack, a splinter group of approximately eleven people from /b/ had formed with the intention of halting the Boxxy craze sweeping the Internet. This group was called the Center for Boxxy Control and Restriction, or CBCR, and their mission was to finish what Operation Valkyrie had started.

CBCR: Center for Boxxy Control and Restriction

The founder of this group went by the user name Eyrev. His other aliases include Zarithas and The WoW Lawyer, while his real first name is Ian. He recruited members for the CBCR by advertising on the talk page of the entry on Boxxy on the Encyclopedia Dramatica.


Eyrev's avatar.

Eyrev's role in the recruitment of members for the CBCR on the Encyclopedia Dramatica is commonly misinterpreted. According to Eyrev himself, all he had really done was add in a block of text, with XenuAstley inserting the flashing banner. The green highlighted text was due to the text not being there prior to five or six revisions.



Eyrev advertises on the Encyclopedia Dramatica.

CBCR Members

* Eyrev: Founder
* Vodderz: The CBCR’s 2nd-in-command and Chief Investigator.
* Redcups: Investigator.
* Anon77: Investigator. This person was directly responsible for hacking Boxxy and stealing her MySpace, YouTube, and e-mail.
* y0uth: Investigator. Google cache/archive master.
* A20Address: Investigator.
* GastricPenguin: Mentioned by Boxxy for remixing her videos, friend of Zarithas, used for contacting Boxxy. He divulged several of her messages.
* WTSnacks: Technical expert who took on the name of a banned 4chan moderator.
* Mancini: Investigator, operative of Operation Hunter.
* BBC_Soundsystem: Logger; monitors the *chans for leaks and other things
* Jack: Systems Administrator, technical expert, FTP server admin.
* Candlejack: Leecher. This person was used as a scapegoat when Cate’s personal information was leaked.

Through much detective work, an old YouTube account named S4TISF4CTION was discovered featuring a girl calling herself Boxxy, who, although much younger, bore a striking resemblance to Boxxy, minus the eyeliner.


Boxxy: the confirmed match.

The channel contained two videos, one of which was dated from December 2006. The match was confirmed via facial comparison with "FOAR EVERYWUN" and a video posted on the channel S4TISF4CTION.




From the information on the YouTube channel, Boxxy’s MySpace account was discovered. As it is nowadays, the MySpace account is currently empty with the user name nothing more than gibberish. However, she was caught by the Google cache which stored the page as it appeared on November 1st of 2008, including the first page of photos. The said page contained art relating to Gaia Online along with the user name MoldyLunchBoxx, Boxxy’s Gaia Online account. It was also revealed that Boxxy was not above twenty as was speculated, but rather, only sixteen years old, and that she lives in California.

With the information at hand, the CBCR was able to crack her email password and subsequently hack into her YouTube account. From there, they changed the background to red, privatized her three videos, and replaced them with one threatening her to not make another video again, lest they release all of her dox, i.e., personal information. It should be noted at this point that the CBCR had not found Boxxy’s full name, phone number, and address. They were merely bluffing at the time.

It was a bit vague as to specifically which member of the CBCR leaked Boxxy’s personal information, but conversations with a former CBCR member have revealed it to be XenuAstley.





The testimony of a former CBCR member.

The motivation for this was more than likely the result of over zealousness mixed with plain malice that got carried away. Since Anon77 had already found her email, it would have been fairly easy for WTsnacks to find the rest by using it to find an IP address or possibly a phone number online.

The above testimony reveals that there was a schism within the CBCR as to what to do with Boxxy’s account, with each side having a differing view. Parts of the CBCR’s video were also edited out and left on the cutting room floor.


Hacked.

Whatever the result, this action promptly garnered 1,000 comments within the hour and was the hottest topic on YouTube for the day. The CBCR had succeeded and removed the “cancer.” They had expected to be named the heroes of the Internet. The backlash which followed thereafter sent members of the CBCR running like puppies with tails between their legs.



The comment section for their video became inundated with supposed IPs of CBCR members. For reasons currently unknown, the CBCR’s video was removed and Catherine’s videos were restored to public broadcast. Two days after on January 20th, Boxxy’s account was suspended. This is more than likely the result of her writing a request to the administrators of YouTube to do so to avoid more attacks and confusion. It is now in possession of Google. It's currently unknown whether Boxxy will ever be able to retrieve her former YouTube channel.



As a direct consequence of the enormous backlash against them, Eyrev caved in and delivered an apology to Boxxy and everyone else for everything which had happened. At the time, one could have inferred that Eyrev was being a hypocrite to the extreme in sending this apology. After all, he did instigate and create the online witch-hunt against Boxxy, which had the effect of scaring her off the Internet. At the time of this apology, he tried to defend the actions of himself and the CBCR, but only wound up contradicting himself and making a bigger mess of things.


Eyrev's apology.


Eyrev attempts to defend himself on The Byzantinist’s blog.

Shortly after the collapse of the CBCR, Eyrev created another group called the Organization for the Suppression of Boxxy-related Events, or OSBE. After the leaking of Boxxy’s dox, this group was formed as a sort of misinformation committee where red herrings in the form of fake last names and fake addresses were leaked in order to discredit Boxxy’s real info.

However, this group spent much of its time deleting all paste bins of Boxxy’s dox that were found and also getting them deleted from various forums and sites. However, the OSBE had absolutely nothing to do with the story of the suicide of Boxxy, whose surname was falsely given as Gomez, as the result of harassment from Anonymous members and stalkers.



In conclusion to this entry, it should be said that the Linda Tripp of the BoxxyGate affair, Eyrev, the one who had inadvertently caused her downfall, has genuinely turned over a new leaf and exceedingly regrets the tragic events that occurred and admits that the actions and results of the CBCR’s initiatives were atrocious at best.

Despite wanting Boxxy off the Internet, he and the majority of the group had never intended, much less wanted, to interfere with Boxxy or harm her in real life. Boxxy's dox being leaked represented both a lack of foresight and misplaced morals on the part of all of the members of the CBCR. Whatever the arguments or excuses, not one of them had any right to do what they did.

The choices they made deprived Boxxy of having a regular life, at least until the Boxxy obsession dies down completely. It also deprived the Internet as a whole of a major source of love and joy. Each choice we make brings a lesson following the consequences of that choice. The lesson Eyrev learned was a painful one, and it is one that will haunt him for the rest of his life.

Perhaps this is all to be expected in the twisting and turning grassy knoll of Internet stardom. With great fame comes great enemies, no matter how innocent those enemies intend to be. The past is history, and it can never change, no matter how much one wants it to.


By Anonymous

Boxxy is a teenage girl whose YouTube videos caused an Internet sensation in early January 2009. This website chronicles her mysterious tale.