Charles

Charles’ trademark pictures are enough to leave the most hardened debater speechless

May, 2001. A high school student looking for Dragon Ball Z pictures for a school project stumbles across OtakuBoards. He decides to join to spam, going under the most random name he could think of; The Great White Frying Pan Man.

This, of course, is the story of Charles. He quickly grew attached to OtakuBoards. When the forum went down to upgrade to v3, he changed his name to Crazy White Boy as the character limit wouldn’t allow TGWFPM anymore. He was the instigator of the petition that closed the Newbie Lounge, and, in March of 2003, Crazy White Boy became Site Administrator and changed his screen name to Charles. He was Site Administrator up until early 2005, when he retired due to inactivity, handing the position over to Desbreko and Dagger.

However, May 21st, 2006, he was begged to rejoin the staff as Moderator of Play It and deigned to accept. He later became CATegory Moderator (possibly through nefarious methods) of Hardwired.  The capitalised letters refer to a group called cAttitude, begun by Charles.  When Hardwired was consolidated and Charle’s position was no longer necessary, he took an extended break from OtakuBoards until he returned in late March, to accept a role as Otakupedia Curator.

As this old signature shows, not just anyone was worthy of Cattitude membership.

Charlie is not only known for his work on staff but also by his unique writing style and witty sense of humor. His poems are some of the best and his stories never cease to amaze. One of his most prized works is his RPG titled Project Gamer which had two major installments: Project Gamer and its sequel Project Gamer 2, arguably two of the best RPGs OtakuBoards has ever seen. PG was based on video games, not anime. Each person played a video game character in a very large world made up by the members. There was a website for the RP (which still exists) that had a store, character biographies, and the like.

When the Battle forum was still around, Charles and fellow member Heaven’s Cloud started the rap battle trend. Ever since then, rap battle threads popped up all over the place and Charlie put many of them to shame with his skill.

Charles’ trademark is the ‘one-picture post’, a tradition that began in his Site Administrator days, when he would close threads with a picture of a gavel. He and Mitch would call themselves “The Hammer Brothers” and the gavel became their signature. Sometimes the picture he posts has words, but whether it does or not, it’s always hilarious. Many people have tried to copy this style of humor from Charles, but in the end they usually fail. In addition to the one-picture post, Charles is well know for making short animated banners for various uses. From closing threads as can been seen here: Super Smash Bros. Melee to poking fun at his own unique sense of humor: Charles Goes To Court This along with his clever use of one-picture posts has earned Charles the nickname ‘God of Internet pictures’ among fellow members of OtakuBoards.

Charles also proved how influential he was when he ran a successful campaign to eliminate the dreaded Newbie Lounge.

Charles has many interests, including cats, video games and watching pro wrestling.

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