Boxxy is a character performed by American Internet celebrity, Catherine "Catie" Wayne,
known for her highly energetic vlogs.
Her rise in popularity began in late 2008 and early 2009.
Her videos, under her YouTube account known as "boxxybabee", were initially made to be
posted to her Gaia Online friends.
History 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 excitedly about various things.
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 Organa'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
in which she explains that Boxxy is a made-up character and that she acts.
This video caused some discussions on 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 and continued uploading videos 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".
On July 21, 2011, Wayne made a new video called "Calm Down, Holden."
on the ANewHopeee channel stating that Boxxy and Svetlana are just characters created by
her and thanking her fans for all their support.
After a hiatus of almost six months, Wayne returned on October 25, 2012 with a new video
titled, "FOAR GURLS FRUM BOXXY".
In this video, she is cosplaying as Hatsune Miku for Halloween.
On February 14, 2013, Wayne posted a new video titled, "FOAR BOIS FRUM BOXXY".
On this video she is talking about Valentine´s Day.
One month later, on March 22, 2013, Wayne uploaded a new video titled "FOAR EVERYPONY
FRUM BOXXY".
This video features her talking about the animated television series My Little Pony:
Friendship is Magic.
Since December 16, 2013, Wayne is a host for the Animalist streaming series for Discovery
Digital Networks.
On January 9, 2014, Wayne posted a new video titled "FOAR TOM FRUM BOXXY".
In this video, she talks about Myspace and briefly mentions Tom Anderson, co-founder
of Myspace.
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