In April 2009, BoxxyChan.tk was founded. It was one of the first websites entirely devoted to Boxxy, and all images on the site were supplemented by thumbnail pictures of Boxxy that accompanied each post. The site eventually became deserted due to inactivity. After the rival fan site IHeartBoxxy was founded, Unichan was discovered. After BoxxyChan lost its domain name due to inactivity, the site was spammed with advertisements, rendering the site completely unusable.
Founded in late May 2009 by two avid Boxxy fans with the aliases Overbeing and Athynkronos, IHeartBoxxy was the replacement of BoxxyChan. In early June 2009, a new secret forum was created and named The Council Chamber. The idea was that it would be a site wherein the most trusted members of IHeartBoxxy could discuss certain things that would never be made public to the average visitor. At first, the initiative seemed like a good idea in that any information or pictures found would only be shared with the people who were deemed to have enough integrity to not brag about the new material, and therefore anything that they did would not affect Catie in real life.
The situation started to go downhill once several of the councilors began to brag about the secret pictures and information that they had gathered in the public IHeartBoxxy chat room. The thread which led to its creation was kept public, and the forum group councilor was also viewable by the normal users, so even though the council chamber itself was inaccessible, everyone knew who they were and that they had something that they weren't sharing. Eventually, the council's reckless bragging would lead to the event known as the July 12th.
The site was ridiculed for being too strict in policy after the repentant Eyrev took over as the moderator. Much of this wasn't because the policies were really strict but simply because they were made by Eyrev himself. The site was also criticized by anonymous users at the other rival site Unichan for their hoarding of information and pictures for their rules and policies, which were deemed Nazi-like by many.
Unichan was created by a user with the aliases Chaz and chuckstudios. Originally founded as a school project which his friends could utilize, there wasn't much activity on Unichan. Eventually, it was deserted after there were no new posts in over a month.
In late June, a link to Unichan was posted on BoxxyChan's board with the message "Spam this board with Boxxy." Many users posted a couple of Boxxy threads and then promptly departed. A user posted a link on BoxxyChan and asked, "Why don't we move in here?"
The idea caught on like wildfire, and users quickly made Unichan their new haven. Links to the site were posted on /b/ by the new Unichan users. It wasn't long before Unichan was filled with Boxxy threads and became one of the biggest and most important Boxxy fan sites.
Later, the site Killwebs tried to take down Boxxy websites in what was dubbed Operation Counter-Strike, echoing Anonymous' successful attempt at taking down 4chan. Unichan became the first target. Killwebs took down Unichan for a few hours late in the night with a Denial-of-Service attack. Chaz later upgraded the server and reloaded the site. Killwebs never tried to attack it again.
Unichan stayed online until someone in November, when Chaz lost the server. After a few months without Unichan, links to a new Unichan were posted on /b/ and other sites. It's currently unkown who the owner of the new Unichan really is. Today, Unichan is more active than ever. With little to no place else to go, many Boxxy fans manifest there.
The event known as the July 12th was a watershed in the BoxxyGate affair. Two short videos containing footage of Catie were released. She was virtually unrecognizable, and the perceived weight gain would later be determined to be the result of water retention.
The videos were obtained by an IHeartBoxxy user, Shamage. On a social networking site, he sent friend requests to people who he suspected knew Catie. He then perused their pictures and videos for any images that he could find of her. He didn't leak the said videos. Rather, he sent them to several people on the IHeartBoxxy council, several of whom started boasting about it on /b/.
On July 12th, after a few weeks of tension and rumors of new Boxxy videos, a link to IHeartBoxxy was posted in a thread on 4chan during another heated discussion about the new videos. Angry posters then inundated IHeartBoxxy and attempted to find Shamage's personal information and threaten all of the IHeartBoxxy users, many of whom had no knowledge of the videos prior to July 12. As the threats became more serious, an admin at IHeartBoxxy uploaded the two videos onto YouTube. Catie herself appears only briefly in either video. Nevertheless, they caused a storm of intrigue.
During the same day that the July 12 videos were leaked, The Boxxy Forums were created as a direct response in conjunction with the YouTube channel BoxxyReturns. These forums were used as a means of retreating when IHeartBoxxy's policy became too annoying and restrictive. It was also after Eyrev began to use his moderator status to compile dox on users who he suspected of cyber-stalking Catie. Another different between the two was that The Boxxy Forums were more public and accessible for a time by anyone who signed up.
The new videos of Catie had sparked enough attention to lead to another watershed, an event known as BoxxPeace. This was expected to be a complete disaster like its predecessor, BoxxMeet. A group of fourteen people met at a park in Catie's town, and they headed off to investigate one of the addresses that Catie was believed to be residing at. The known attenders had the aliases Big Red, NinjaTheory, Russian Girl, Derek, Flowerfag, and there several others whose aliases are unknown.
Once they arrived, they were stopped by a chair barricade. Big Red pushed the chair aside and rang the bell. While waiting, he caught a glimpse of someone with dark hair running past a window. A blond woman answered the door, and Big Red asked for Catie. The woman told him that she lived alone and that he had to leave. Before Big Red and the group left, they placed a set of flower pedals spelling out the alias Anon, short for Anonymous.
Later, they met Catie's ex-boyfriend Dan, and they proceeded to ask him about accusations of him deflowering her, but he was unwilling to answer the questions on-camera.
Niki was the first person who knew Catie personally to come to the community as a whole. She knew about Boxxy and the trouble that Catie had been through, but she joined anyway. Niki's involvement began when she uploaded a video of Catie and her peers dancing to "Thriller" for their school performance, The Princess and the Porcupine. At this point, she discovered that the video had been mirrored by BoxxyReturns. The new title implied that everyone save for Catie were faggots, and Niki commented protesting otherwise.
The owner of BoxxyReturns came to be known as Addmin on a message board that Niki eventually agreed to join. Many fans then bombarded Niki with questions via private messages. Niki told many stories about Catie, defending her against hateful and defamatory comments. She posted regularly and made full use of the chat room, often going on web cam while talking freely to those who were available. Several people gained her trust, one of which was Cali4nia, the leader of Killwebs. Niki would also come to trust Eyrev, until she found out about his involvement with the CBCR.
On October 1, Niki allegedly contacted Catie to explain what had been going on and then asked whether there was anything that she could do to help her, now that Niki was a part of the community and held leverage over it. Catie appeared to say that if Niki could close down the forums, as well as Unichan, it would help her immensely.
During that next day, a meeting was held on Skype with all of the administrators of the forums and image boards related to Boxxy. The consensus of this meeting came to be that they should comply with Catie's wishes, no matter how painful this may be for them. Many administrators were uncertain about whether they had heard the truth of her desires, although the forums were shut down, while Unichan came back up a couple of days later.
Niki and Killwebs had become close when she began to spend more time in the Killwebs chat room than the one of The Boxxy Forums. Killwebs had been looking up Niki's information and eventually initiated private calls between each other. Niki discussed Catie with him and eventually granted him access to pictures of Catie working on school plays, which have since been leaked. After Killwebs had collected enough information and recordings, he made a video consisting of much of her dox. Niki has not been heard from since.
In early August 2009, a user with the unpronounceable alias asdfghjkl; made a thread claiming to be a friend of Catie. Some users asked her many questions, and many others called her a troll. She asked questions such as, "What do you want from Boxxy?" From the overwhelming response, it was clear that everyone wanted something from her.
Later, the initiative for a Valentine's Day video came about by a large post on Unichan with the basic idea of Boxxy fans recording footage of themselves praising Boxxy and then apologizing to Catie.
On March 11 2010, the videos from the channel BoxxyBabee vanished. Upon clicking on any embed of any of the three videos, a message would appear: "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation." Mirrors of the three videos remained untouched.
On Unichan, Anon77 claimed to have fooled YouTube staff into believing that he was Catie returning to state that the channel was hacked and asked for the videos to be removed. He even went as far as to make a video with an edited picture of Boxxy with a note asking for the channel back.
YouTube user Boxxology claimed to have personally lobbied to get the videos taken down. He believed that many of the comments underneath the videos were repulsive and misogynistic. The true reason for the removal of the videos is currently unknown.
