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Boxxy Babee...not since Jesus himself have we seen so many playa haters and followers at the same time. If you don't know who Boxxy is, prepare to learn everything you ever wanted to know about the huge internet phenomenon.   The chronicle of her assent was so well documented by one blogger that we decided it was best not to reinvent the wheel and just pass along his detailed account of the situation.

"The story essentially begins back in April 2006 when 'Boxxy' joined the anime forum/game based site Gaia Online under the username 'M o l d yLunchboxx'. It appears Boxxy returned from a Gaia hiatus at the very end of 2007, and embarked on a posting spree which lasted a week. It was during this first week of January 2008 that she made two Youtube videos for two fellow Gaia users, '4DM1RALAWESOME' and another referred to simply as 'Ant'.

Boxxy's last login to Youtube was February 2008, and for Gaia Online, April 2008.

The story now takes a leap forward to December 27th, 2008, when, according to Encyclopedia Dramatica, the video 'FOAR 4DD1 FRUM BOXXY' was posted on i-am-bored.com. This was spotted by someone at 7chan, who embedded the video at the top of the random '/b/' board. 

This writer first saw FOAR 4DD1 on January 3rd, 2009, when the video was posted as a 'you rage you lose thread' on the /b/ board at 4chan, with the 'Expert' level afforded to those who would withstand the entire video without wanting to tear out their hair or hurt small animals. /b/tards saw what has been labelled 'the most insane display we've ever seen on youtube' and 'the cutest girl you've ever seen'. This was the true start of the Boxxy phenomenon.

Over the next couple of days, interest grew, and Boxxy threads began to populate /b/. Why had her videos lain virtually unviewed and untouched for 51 weeks only to be brought up now? Who was this girl? What was the cause of her unique behaviour - her vivacious mannerisms, head bobbing, jaw grinding, random accents and rambling? Was she really 21 as her profile stated? Speculation began. Some pulled out their wikiPHD and speculated, tourettes? ADHD? Drug abuse - cocaine, ecstacy, meth? No, just too much coffee, according to others, or simple acting up to the camera. Comparisons to Zed from Police Academy and Heath Ledger's Joker were immediate.

Regardless, a split already began to emerge at /b/. Half of /b/ appeared smitten, captivated by this pretty, wacky girl drenched in eyeliner, but the rest were having their patience tested. Whilst a group of /b/tards declared 'Operation Valkyrie' on Boxxy - intending to find, raid and destroy as much as possible - youtube, myspace, facebook, photobuckets, etc in search of an identity and the 'upper boob' sign mentioned in 41DD, others simply sat and dismayed at the whole effort. Why try and raid the accounts of someone who hasn't logged into any known accounts for almost a year? Many /b/tards resented the obsession with someone who was not only inactive, but a Gaiafag, emo and a camwhore to boot. As one naysayer put it, it was: 'proof that /b/ is full of 13 y.o boys'.

The known accounts, Youtube and Gaia, were quickly spammed with the Operation Valkyrie tag. Via analysis of so called 'Gaiafaggotry' forum posts, /b/tards extracted two pictures of Boxxy from her Gaia friends photobucket accounts, and threw out possible names.

On January 6th, someone claiming to be Boxxy posted two previously unseen photos on /b/. A troll, surely? The same day, her Youtube account disappeared and her Gaia account became inaccessible to the public. Was this the real Boxxy intervening, or simply trolls posting photos from photobucket under her guise, and hacking into her accounts and shutting them down? It was also on the 6th that a clearly fake Youtube account was created - 'Boxxyakamoldybread'. Even though the videos are clearly of lower resolution than the originals, some were fooled by this, and some probably still are.

Operation Valkyrie was rapidly being considered a failure. No myspace had been discovered, no email, no facebook had been delivered, aside from some obviously wrong semi-lookalikes. Her location was much debated, some claimed evidence of ties to various locales in California - Palo Alto, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Sacramento. Others said she was in Florida, or even Australia. Pinpointing her accent also proved fruitless. Despite a semi consensus on a Midwestern/Minnesota aspect, claims were put forward for 'anywhere down the West Coast', New York, the South, Alaska, England and parts of Eastern Europe - Poland and Bulgaria in particular.

The 'boxxy lovers' of 4chan were by now declaring her the 'Queen of /b/' and a instant new meme. The haters labelled this as a perfect example of a forced meme. To them, she was the epitome of the 'cancer killing /b/'. Battle lines were being drawn. Boxxy threads began to fill with spam posts of 'sage this shit' and 'die in a fire'. To many it was clearly a newfag v oldfag war, but there were deviations, with some self proclaimed oldfags siding with the boxxy lovers.

On January 8th, another Youtube account was created - 'boxxybabee' with the two original videos re-uploaded. When this writer saw said account, it had no subscribers and 10 comments, with the message 'i'm awsum, new video tommorrow 01/09/09'. Was this legit? The videos were of the same resolution as the original, either someone had done some great ripping or the real Boxxy was back.

On the 9th, Boxxy delivered. She addressed 'recent events', said she was in fact free of drugs and personality disorders, and proved it actually was her posting her photos on /b/. Whilst /b/tards were scrambling to find her identity and spamming her accounts, she was there, watching.

The manic interest in this new video created chaos on /b/, with the majority of new threads devoted to Boxxy and her new video. This interest generated over 70,000 views within 12 hours, pushing the video onto the first page for most viewed of the day on Youtube. A day later, and the video had reached #1 with over 300,000 views, accompanied by hundreds of new subscribers every hour. It is obvious that most of these viewers would have no idea what Boxxy was talking about in her video.

/b/ was now at war. The slew of Boxxy threads were under attack, quickly filled with 'DIE IN A FIRE' repeated to the line maximum and posted 10 times in a row. Increasing numbers threw in the towel and declared they weren't visiting /b/ for a week, a month, or ever again. Identical chaos was occurring at 7chan, with the /b/ first page 100% filled with Boxxy at some points. On the 10th, with Boxxy now approaching 400,000 views and 10,000 subscribers, Operation Clampdown was declared. If Moot did not ban the users spamming boxxy threads on the 4chan /b/, the site would be brought down via a DDOS. 

As the attack time of 00:00 GMT approached, users began to charge their cannons. Some posted their desktops, with 4 or 5 nefarious programs open, prepared for zero hour. Within 30 minutes, 4chan became sluggish, and then crashed, displaying the desired 404. 4chan had essentially descended into civil war, with one side deciding to kill everyone including themselves, it was unprecedented.

The site returned hours later, and the 'cancer' instantly spread again, but not for long. The moderators had listened, and hoards were slapped with 2 day bans merely for mentioning the name 'Boxxy', or even posting in a thread about her. This appears to have been largely effective, though Boxxy threads are still relatively frequent on /b/.

On the 12th, Youtube 'celeb' Sxephil included Boxxy in the intro for his new video, and used her face as the thumbnail. Personally, I found it extremely cynical of Phil, a Youtube partner who makes money from views, to advertise his extremely boring video about Joe the Plumber with Boxxy's face. What a dick. Worse still, the exposure to his 310,000 subscribers sent several thousand more people to the Boxxy videos.

Entirely ignorant of the backstory you just read, a wave of Sxephil-sent users proclaimed 'wow, sxephil made you popular, thank him in a vid!'. No people, you're wrong. He did nothing.

So, that's the story up until now. Being a young female, Boxxy has unfortunately yet inevitably attracted reams of ridiculous and disgusting comments from the hormonally challenged, braindead Youtube masses, so it is hardly surprising she has not rushed to bring out another video and appears to go 24-36 hours between logins. 

There are many patently absurd theories about Boxxy. If you listen to the drooling idiocy leaking through the interweb, you'll be told she is in fact an actress hired by Gaia Online to promote their product (that's why she says she moved on to bigger and better things, huh, morons?), the whole thing is a giant trolling exercise meticulously planned by her and accomplices, the entire thing was perpertrated by 7chan users attempting to cripple 4chan, she's a paid actress akin to lonelygirl15, or most bizarrely of all, a claim has been put forward that she is a fraud mocking the mannerisms of a 15 year old girl who lives in Chicago, orchestrated by said girl's obsessed crush who is angry at his unrequited love. Some people actually believe this." -Byzantinist  http://boxxystory.blogspot.com/2009/01/rise-of-boxxy.html

And there you have it, the complete story.  Personally I don't see what all the rage is all about.  She seems like a perfectly nice girl with an exuberant personality that many are probably jealous of.   People seem to hate her because she doesn't hold anything back and makes a video of it.  Seems petty to me, but I guess that is the natural order of the interwebs.

On an end note if you want to learn more about Boxxy, Byzantinist seems to have the best blog around talking about her.  There are other posts on the blog that we will link on the references for your enjoyment. 

References

• Byzantinist - Rise of Boxxy
• Byzantinist - Fall of Boxxy
• Byzantinist - Valediction
• Encyclopediadramatica - Boxxy
• Wikipedia - 4chan