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Boxxy (Internet Phenomenon)
Catherine "Catie" Wayne is an American Internet celebrity, vlogger and voice actress best known for her character Boxxy in her highly energetic vlogs. Her rise in popularity began in late 2008 and early 2009.

Career

Online work

In January 2008, Wayne recorded two videos addressing her friends on Gaia Online and uploaded them to YouTube under the alias boxxybabee. They were reposted to the site i-am-bored.com later in the year, and then eventually appeared on 4chan. Wayne responded to the popularity of her initial videos in a third video that was uploaded to her new YouTube channel, boxxybabee, in January 2009. The videos depict Wayne in heavy eyeliner rambling in an excitable stream-of-consciousness style about various topics and experiences.

The presence of the videos was divisive on 4chan, with factions claiming to either support or oppose Boxxy, leading to various flame wars and hacking incidents. This led to a denial-of-service attack on 4chan itself, shutting the site down for several hours. Participants went elsewhere, launching a "Twitter bomb" that May. On YouTube, the popular Boxxy channel was hacked and the source's identity outed. A number of spoofs, parody videos and remixes were posted throughout the web.

In March 2010, Urlesque named Boxxy number 104 on its list of "The 100 Most Iconic Internet Videos". She was left out of the top 100 list because her videos were relatively new at the time. In late 2010, Wayne began selling Boxxy items on eBay. On November 25, 2010, she uploaded an edited clip from the film Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope under the alias ANewHopeee. The original clip contained Princess Leia's holographic message to Obi-Wan Kenobi. Wayne replaced Princess Leia's speech with her own request for her fans' help in regaining access to her old account, boxxybabee.

On January 10, 2011, she posted a new, more introspective video onto a new YouTube account (ANewHopeee) in which she explains that Boxxy started as an exaggerated internet persona representative of her personality and interests at the time of the first recordings, but eventually grew into a tongue-in-cheek parody of her younger self in later videos. This video caused some discussions as to its authenticity. On January 19, 2011, Boxxy was mentioned in a local Fox 11 report on Internet trolls.

On June 17, 2011, Wayne made a third YouTube account (Bodaciousboxxy) and continued uploading a single video of herself. In this video, she claims that the Boxxy in the video of January 2011 is not the real Boxxy, but a girl who looks a lot like her, who was supposedly hacked by a character named "Svetlana".

Other work

Between December 2013 and December 2014, Wayne was a host for the Animalist streaming series for Discovery Digital Networks.

In 2017, Wayne voiced the character Marsha for Disney XD's Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer.

In 2018, Wayne lent her voice to BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm, an indie role-playing game satirizing various aspects of internet culture. She is credited with both conceptualization and voice-over work as the game's protagonist.

Personal life

Wayne is of Greek descent.

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Bobbie (January 20, 2009). "How Boxxy brought the web to its knees". The Guardian. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  2. ^ Jutras, Lisan (February 6, 2009). "The face that launched an online war". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on June 27, 2009.
  3. ^ Cario, Erwan (January 11, 2011). "Le grand retour de Boxxy" (in French). Libération. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  4. ^ Larrouy, Sophie-Marie (January 22, 2009). "Foxy Boxxy : celle qui parle pour ne rien dire" (in French). madmoiZelle.com. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  5. ^ Plafke, James (January 11, 2011). "Lord in Internet Heaven Save Us, Boxxy is Back". Geekosystem. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  6. ^ Phillips, Tom (January 22, 2009). "Voxy Boxxy's proxy war". Metro.
  7. ^ Hickey, Matt (May 20, 2009). "4chan legions game Twitter, bring back Boxxy". CNET. Archived from the original on January 28, 2013. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  8. ^ Phillips, Tom (January 21, 2009). "Boxxy, or How A Teenage Girl May Destroy The Internet As We Know It Without Really Trying". Metro. Archived from the original on January 24, 2009. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  9. ^ Weber, Lindsey (March 5, 2010). "Boxxy - #104 - The 100 Most Iconic Internet Videos". AOL. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  10. ^ "Things are about to get intense". YouTube. Archived from the original on October 7, 2021. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  11. ^ "Please subscribe & become a friend! New Autographs coming soon!". YouTube. Archived from the original on September 8, 2012. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  12. ^ "Trolls". Fox 11 News. January 19, 2011.
  13. ^ Plafke, James (June 17, 2011). "Lord in Internet Heaven Save Us Once More, Boxxy is Back Again". Geekosystem. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  14. ^ Carlson, Dunsten (January 4, 2014). "Remember Boxxy? Check Her Out At Her New Job". SocialNewsDaily. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  15. ^ "About Host Catie Wayne". Discovery Digital Networks. Archived from the original on June 28, 2014. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  16. ^ YouTube (December 16, 2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro9GQU_TguI Archived June 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ "Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer". IMDb. Archived from the original on October 7, 2021. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  18. ^ "BoxxyQuest:The Gathering Storm". Archived from the original on November 11, 2018. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  19. ^ @catiewayne (May 16, 2014). "@FateJacketX I'm Greek. :3" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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