Boxxy

About

Boxxy is the online pseudonym of Catie Wayne, a YouTube personality who became famous on 4chan in 2009. She claims ownership of the ANewHopeee^[1], bodaciousboxxy^[2], and Boxxybabee^[3] YouTube accounts.

Origin

In January 2009, a young GaiaOnline user named “BoxxyBabee” posted several hyperactive, seemingly innocuous videos to YouTube. Discovered via a post on i-am-bored.com, the division between Boxxy h8rs and those declaring her the “Queen of /b/” culminated in a borderline civil war on 4chan in March 2009, where almost every post on the board was about Boxxy. Some called her cancer -- others called her the cure.

Her most notable video during this time was titled “FOAR EVERYWUN FROM BOXXY”:

Center for Boxxy Control and Restriction (CBCR)

The CBCR was a group dedicated to ending Boxxy’s pervasive online presence, and was able to hack into her YouTube account in January 2009. They made all of her videos private, but left up one explaining that she should never make another video. Shortly after the group reportedly disbanded and made her videos public again.

Popularity Analysis

Boxxy search history spiked in January of 2009, correlating with the release of her first video.

Remixes

Parodies

“Lia Dawson” takedown

On 12-10-09 Boxxy’s videos were removed from her original “Boxxybabee” YouTube account due to a copyright claim by someone named “Lia Dawson.” Boxxy’s videos were reuploaded to Lia Dawson’s account.

The image used for Lia Dawson’s avatar is a piece of stock photography available on many sites according to Tineye search results.^[4]

Text from the Lia Dawson's videos read:

boxxy and boxxybabee are registered trademarks by Lia Dawson & Frank Lawson Network.

However, just as many have suspected, Lia Dawson turned out to be a troll. Boxxy fans raged.

Oulipo Trademarks

Oulipo is a creative workshop of writers and mathematicians based out of Montreal, CA with a trademark on “Boxxy” first registered in 2006, abandoned in 2008, and renewed again on December 2nd, 2009.^[5]

Account Suspension – 12/09

On 12-11-09, YouTube account Boxybabee had been suspended.

InuYasha Ebay Auction

After becoming Internet famous she abandoned most of her online presence until an eBay auction^[6] popped up on November 18, 2010. The item was reported to be “Boxxy’s own Collectible InuYasha shoulder mail book bag”, and was accompanied by this picture:

As of 5 PM eastern on November 19th, 2010 the bid was up to $ 800,100.

According to an article on the Urlesque:

Last night, she showed up on an anonymous imageboard called Unichan with a message encouraging people to… send her money?
Boxxy wanted to sell a bag on eBay. In order to drum up attention for the auction, she posted this photo on Unichan, an anonymous message board similar to 4chan. The photo included her PayPal info and a veiled invitation for the nerds of the internet to send her cash.^[7]

Return of Boxxy

Circa 9 p.m. on January 10th, 2011, Boxxy returned to YouTube with a video titled “Things are about to get intense”. In the first hour, the video accumulated over 2,000 comments, many of them hailing the “return of the queen.”

Video Description:

not really.
hope this restores a little faith.
did you know the less than sign is no longer allowed in descriptions?
that puts a huge hole in my descriptions.
less than three

In the video, she begins by sharing her thoughts on the accidental fame, like how she wanted to post a holiday special video on Christmas, but she couldn’t bring herself to return to her old character from two years ago. Aside from thanking her fans, she also announced that there will be a new video, although it won’t be in vein of Boxxy as we remember from two years ago.

A month earlier, on December 18th, 2010, catiewayne.com^[8] was created, hosting both a 4chan style 18+ image board and an all ages message board as a way for fans to connect with Catie directly.

Foar Svetlana From Boxxy

On June 17th, 2011, Catie uploaded a video to her bodaciousboxxy channel that mimics the hyperactive Boxxy character from her original videos that became popular on 4chan two years prior. The video was apparently made as a follow-up to a video uploaded on April 1st, 2011 to her YouTube channel “ANewHopeee”, where she wears a wig and pretends to be a character called “Svetlana”.

Both videos contain the following copyright information in the description field:

© 2009-2011 Catie Wayne (ANewHopeee/Boxxybabee/bodaciousboxxy)
All rights reserved.

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