Update on classic lolcow Ulillillia

96 2017-09-01 by snallygaster

For those of you who don't know, Ulillillia was a huge internet personality almost on par with CWC about 10 years ago. Suffering from severe OCD that caused him to fixate on video games in a way that completely disrupted his life, Uli's website was discovered by Something Awful, who did what they did best and obsessed over his every move. Eventually somebody even created a documentary about the tortured man.

A quick rundown about Uli:

Thought pattern is incredibly organized, as if he's writing up a technical document (it's hard to describe, you'd be able to pick it up by reading some of his writing)
Was obsessed with attaching a quantity to everything and otherwise describing them with video game terms
Most of his fears corresponded to things that harm or kill you in vidyagames (e.g. terrified of water because hitting water makes you die in many games), the rest correspond to various weird shit and minor life events
Interests outside of videogaming were traditional games and games he created
Used to keep an organized online journal of every dream he's had since 2001
Wrote one of the best outsider novels of all time (proud owner of a copy)
Had terrible hygiene, in part due to his fear of water
Exclusively ate pizza for years, lost 85 pounds after starting to 'degrease' it with napkins
Lived in his parents' house on welfare and rarely left
Tried to develop a video game with similar results to his novel
Ran a (now defunct) youtube channel wherein he found obscure bugs in games nobody cares about
Freaked out after a goon discovered his sister's camming site and sent him her nudes

You can find plenty more information about the guy. In short, it's well-established that he's very strange in a very unique way, and because of this he amassed a large following.

Well, it turns out that his life has changed quite a bit since his rise to fame, and even since the 2011 documentary was made. A quick rundown:

Moved out of his parents' house to a different state
Got a job as a cashier at Walmart, reportedly very happy and motivated in his job
Stopped playing so many videogames and deleted his yt channel (though there's an archive that also includes some of his progress)
Fixed his hygiene and fucked up sleep schedule
Conquered his fear of water, two of his big hobbies are now swimming and diving
Possibly got a gf (he was very adamant about his asexuality)

What's your excuse?

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1 SperglockHolmes 2017-09-01

What's your excuse?

I'm lazy.

You got pics of the sister's nudes?

1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-09-01

Yes. OP's sister https://www.reddit.com/r/fatpussies/comments/5wuij1/andrea_uk_any_love_for_an_album/?st=J71OXIDP&sh=2819e8bb

1 King-Achelexus 2017-09-01

OP*

1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-09-01

True.

1 snappleteadrink 2017-09-01

Mate how could you not mention that the book has hexadecimal color codes next to as far as I know EVERY mention of a color in the whole book.

1 YiffMeAssange 2017-09-01

You don’t??? Are you some kind of black(#000000)?

1 TinyJibble 2017-09-01

> tfw no vantablack hex zero gf

1 MelungeonQueen 2017-09-01

vantablack

F00000

1 TinyJibble 2017-09-01

Huh, wikipedia says #020003.

1 Works_of_memercy 2017-09-01

Haha, amateur, the real Ulillillia always includes alpha as well!

Knuckles resembles a human, but with differences. Knuckles is neither male nor female, though referred to as a "he". Three-quarter-inch-thick dark-violet-colored (FFA000E0) fur covers his entire body. He is only 25 1/3 inches tall, 4 inches wide and 2.5 inches deep. Knuckles gets his name from his large hands, 40% bigger than a human his size would have. A reflective, glittery greenish (FFA0FF00) haze a half millimeter across borders his pupil. Knuckles has no nose and a mouth 2/3 as big. Every other aspect of his is that of what a human would have for his size.

1 YiffMeAssange 2017-09-01

I think I’m unironically going to buy a copy.

1 nmx179 2017-09-01

It's like reading the secret language of angels

1 Works_of_memercy 2017-09-01

Just got home and bought a kindle release on Amazon, five minutes in -- the quote above is not representative of the style at all, it's actually pretty fluid and easy to read. Maybe easier than most more conventional authors, because while there are frequent digressions to describe stuff like the above, it's all very to the point.

1 Works_of_memercy 2017-09-01

Also, by the way, stuff like "FFA0FF00" is relatively easy to read.

It's a hexadecimal encoding of (transparency, red, green, blue) color components.

Hexadecimal means that instead of 10 digits it uses 16: the usual 0 to 9 plus letters A to F standing for 10 to 15. That also means that hex-digits in the second position should be multiplied by 16 rather than 10 to get the actual number, so for example "A0" means "'A' * 16 + '0' * 1" = 160. And the full range of each component is 0 to 255 (FF = 15*16 + 15)

Well, anyways, you see something like "FFA0FF00" and it means full opacity, 160/255 red, 255/255 green, 0 blue. So yellowish-green.

1 miraclebelly 2017-09-01

FFA0FF00

wut, that's literally just 100% transparent isn't it?

1 Works_of_memercy 2017-09-01

No, it's opaqueness. FF means 255/255, 100% opaque.

1 miraclebelly 2017-09-01

Yeah so 00 would be 0% opaque right? I thought alpha came last but I dunno, I don't do web dev shit.

1 Works_of_memercy 2017-09-01

idk how it's usually, but here it obviously is ARGB.

1 snallygaster 2017-09-01

Unpacking the special features of the book would take wayyyyy too long

1 pm_me_ur_cats_toes 2017-09-01

What's your excuse?

I'm the sort of asshole who unironically posts on /r/drama.

1 YiffMeAssange 2017-09-01

Just out of interest, does anyone know what Chris-chan’s up to? I haven’t heard about him for a while.

1 chaosakita 2017-09-01

How long ago have you last heard about him?

He went to Bronycon last week.

1 snallygaster 2017-09-01

Oh shit, how did it go?

1 Pepperglue 2017-09-01

He got really inspired by going to bronycon and met all his equals. He started his antics of chasing girls again after getting a harsh rejection from Doopie.

LadyOfTheCosmo is his latest victim. Since LadyOfTheCosmo already has an idea of what Chris-Chan is like, no friendly banter was given at all.

1 snappleteadrink 2017-09-01

How the fuck is he still alive? Last I saw he had a festering wound in his taint and that was like two years ago

1 glmox 2017-09-01

friendship is magic

1 Jacks_Chicken_Tartar 2017-09-01

It seems like he has a few former-troll "handlers" now who, under the guise of being girls, give him life advice so he doesn't kill himself. This included getting him to see a doctor and making sure he was not going to die.

1 snappleteadrink 2017-09-01

I guess it's good to see they took partial responsibility for getting him this far in the first place

1 Jacks_Chicken_Tartar 2017-09-01

I agree, though I somewhat wish that Chris was left alone by the trolls and so on more. Then again, while Ulillillia when left to his own devices made a decent life for himself and overcame his fears, Chris when left to his own devices peppersprayed someone in the face because Sonic had blue arms. So maybe Chris just cannot be left unsupervised and it's not like his mom is capable.

1 SmugSocialistTears 2017-09-01

https://sonichu.com/cwcki

Not sure if you're retarded or not, so apologies if it's the former, but people have been documenting xir's every move for years

1 -absolutego- 2017-09-01

He's making Sonichu comics again and set up a Patreon because between his mom's hoarding and his bad habit of spending all their cash on McDonald's and Lego they're once again getting sued by a bank for unpaid loans.

There's been a couple funny incidents where he dug up old Chris-Chan memorabilia like the Sonic Totem and his striped shirt and tried to sell them on ebay, but they're either bought by weens who do immediate chargebacks or he never sends the buyers the item in question.

He's also been transparently crushing on an artist named Doopie and eventually I guess he sent her one too many creepy requests for pony fetish art that she finally told him to get lost. Kiwi Farms had a good laugh over that, IIRC Doopie even signed up on the site and joined in on the shit talking.

1 SpinningNipples 2017-09-01

Yea Doopie leaked emails Cris sent her iirc.

Also the Sonic Totem DID get buy, someone paid like $1k for it and posted pics on /v/.

Then Cris quickly dillapidated his earnings and went back to begging, as always.

1 The_Reason_Trump_Won 2017-09-01

What's your excuse?

This might be meanest thing said on this sub tbqh

1 TinyJibble 2017-09-01

Alexa, how much does a helium hood cost?

1 Cameleopard 2017-09-01

The cost really depends on your source for the helium. The old kits were in the $60 range, but if you're assembling it yourself the cost of the helium could bump that up quite a bit, into the vicinity of $200 or so.

1 scatmunchies 2017-09-01

Yeah, I thought snally was the nice mod.

1 rewind45 2017-09-01

Is the novel actually good? Like in a weird art kind of way?

I used to listen to his channel, it was actually very zen to listen to the obscure glitches. Hope hes doing well.

1 snallygaster 2017-09-01

It's really interesting but hard to get through unless you like reading through technical manuals. He seems to be doing great and apparently wants to move out of Fargo to Florida

1 rewind45 2017-09-01

Sounds unique, im gonna try to get myself a copy. Honestly happy for the guy, great he is doing so much better. 👍

1 snallygaster 2017-09-01

Would highly recommend ordering one on Amazon if you're into outsider art. It's really something else.

1 hlary 2017-09-01

i mean he had some good quality's as well before he cleaned himself up (heh) so its not that crazy

controlling his ocd is pretty cool tho

1 snallygaster 2017-09-01

imo it's one of the most dramatic transformations I've ever seen. He's obviously a very smart guy, but he was pretty much non-functional for most of his life and ruled by his crippling fears. The fact that he not only overcame them but turned his biggest one into an important, productive hobby of his is incredible.

1 glmox 2017-09-01

snally, that trailer reminded me, are you familiar with trappped's documentaries on weirdo youtubers? i watched his film on king cobra a while ago, and it was really shockingly good, really strange and awkward and fascinating. there's a sam hyde production credit on it since trappped works as an editor for mde or something, which makes the films even stranger since theyre so far away from that style. there's a really genuine, serious interest in the subjects as people (unlike mde's triple-ironic approach), mostly just observing, letting them talk, letting them show why they're sad and fascinating themselves. i feel like youd really dig it if youre not hip yet.

1 snallygaster 2017-09-01

Never watched any of those or heard about the producer specifically, but watching the king cobra one is on my to-do list. It sounds very compelling.

1 glmox 2017-09-01

definitely worth the watch, one of the better documentaries ive seen from this decade. i keep meaning to watch his one on hampow but i keep putting it off.

1 snallygaster 2017-09-01

Is it really like Gummo?

1 glmox 2017-09-01

there's similarities, but i feel like the comparison does a certain level of disservice to both films. it's definitely a fantastic portrait of a truly unique, truly marginal midwestern figure, which is the same basic terrain that gummo explores, but gummo is as much a portrait or a community (or lack thereof) and of a sort of transcendent concept of new weird midwestern americana, where trappped's film is totally focused on this one guy, not necessarily symbolic or not symbolic but somewhere inbetween, to an incredibly intimate degree.

i have a lot of opinions about these films lol

1 snallygaster 2017-09-01

man, you've sold this for me

1 glmox 2017-09-01

i'm glad, it's ridiculously up your alley

1 blacknblue12 2017-09-01

this was a great way to start my day.

1 Eskoe 2017-09-01

Wrote one of the best outsider novels of all time (proud owner of a copy)

Holy shit, I really like outsider art and this sounds great, is it actually still purchasable through that link, and does it support him?

Freaked out after a goon discovered his sister's camming site and sent him her nudes

1 snallygaster 2017-09-01

You can still buy it, and it does support him. Would recommend, it's unlike any other piece of creative writing you'll otherwise read.

EDIT: This was a really happy read, actually. Thanks for the post.

np np, just found out about what came of him today, and it's really heartwarming given how most broken internet people fare. He's always seemed like a very kind-hearted and self-aware person who was just crippled by mental illness, rather than a rotten person who's crippled by rottenness and possibly mental illness like most internet figures, so I guess it makes sense that he more than anyone would succeed. But the hurdles he had to overcome to get there were well beyond what the average person has to face.

1 bleasehalb 2017-09-01

He never went mean despite it being easy to in his situation. Honestly it must of been hell to be just aware enough to know there are crippling issues with yourself that are extremely hard to control so seeing him make is genuinely heartwarming.

1 Works_of_memercy 2017-09-01

The kindle ebook is $4.75 on Amazon.

1 Hydrium 2017-09-01

His Bubsy 3D videos was absolutely entrancing.

1 ndizzIe 2017-09-01

Holy shit, never heard of this guy besides his "bubsy 3d secrets" video. He said he spent over 500 hours just on that one level (it was his favorite)

https://youtu.be/09MzaJVH5b4

1 BussySundae 2017-09-01

Ulilillilia was divergent from CWC in that he acknowledged these limitations, and was generally a sweet person in his videos. A lot of channers liked to wax philosophically about him but I remember that he ate exclusively 'degreased' pizza.

Never knew about the goon that sent him his sisters nudes, that's kind of funny in awful way, but holy shit poor Ulil....

1 serialflamingo 2017-09-01

Ulilililia was the lovable version of CWC.

1 therealdanhill 2017-09-01

It's a shame he stopped working on his game in a way, even if it looked awful. He must have put thousands of hours into it, he worked on it for years.

Also, fuck "3verythingWorks" (they certainly don't work) for not releasing he documentary or just giving the footage to someone else to complete it.

1 snallygaster 2017-09-01

Yeah, it'd be nice if he finished the game, though he'd probably have to ruin all his progress and he's already published a book so fuck that

1 BrideOfAutobahn 2017-09-01

i'm glad he gtfo of whichever dakota he lived in and has been doing better. i followed up on him like six months ago and everything seems the same as what you wrote

i never understood why he had so many problems with youtube though

1 BumwineBaudelaire 2017-09-01

what's your source for all this because this sounds pretty /r/thathappened

1 Lil_sis 2017-09-01

This has all been pretty well documented over the years. There's tons of sources

1 JumbledFun 2017-09-01

TMZ is really blowing it not having you on staff snally

1 thebrokenbell 2017-09-01

He seems like he's a cool dude.

1 Pepperglue 2017-09-01

It is a very nice turn of events, and a very different turnout compared to Chris-Chan. Hope he is doing much better than in 2011.