Pokchu

I can't hear you over the sound of my gaydar alarm going off.

Pokchu (Benjamin Purdom, Brenda Banks) is a big-nosed, cross-dressing furry drag queen, and former Encyclopedia Dramatica sysop, who is best remembered for getting his lily-white ass sued by the parents of Robert Pierson in 2008.

The threatened lawsuit

Back in 2008, Pokchu decided it would be a good idea to create an article mocking a murdered young man and his grieving sister, all while under a screen name that was easily tracable to him.. As anyone with reptilian-level brain function could have predicted, the shit quickly hit the fan when the victim's parents came across the Encyclopedia Dramatica article. This led to Pokchu's mother attempting to have her son's article removed or censored.

From: Barb <[email protected]> 
Date: February 7, 2008 12:00:03 PM EST 
To: [email protected], [email protected] 
Subject: The Robert Pierson Article on ED 
Dear ED Site Administrators: 
I am writing to you on behalf of my son, whom you know on your site as Pokchu, and who is now in legal dire straits due to this 
article: 
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Robert_Pierson 

In its current state, it is far less than an inflammatory ridicule of both a murdered boy and his mourning sister. However, because
of its original content and the fact that Pierson's sisters were able to correctly deduce that my son is the author, the police came 
to our house last night and spoke to my husband and me as well as our son about the grave situation. We are very concerned, and 
because we know you like our son, I hope you are concerned as well. 

In Pennsylvania, where we live, we now have hate-crime legislation that could be used to bring charges against our son for this 
article and federal statues regarding computer use could also come into play. He risks being a convicted felon at the age of 15
because of this article. That is how serious this is. He cannot simply deny that he wrote the article; his user name is too closely
and definitely associated with his identity, so that ship has sailed, I'm afraid. 

You wrote, "Writing internet articles is not something worth pursuing against a 14 year old who has no assets." That's not quite true. 
He has assets: his parents. We face losing our house and all of our savings if we need to pay for legal counsel to defend him in 
court, and a 15 year old boy risks losing his place in a wonderful high school and going to juvie. Repeatedly reposting the 
original article content is compromising his ability to make things right and alle 

Right now you face the possibility of soon receiving a Cease & Desist order from the Piersons' lawyer if you do not stop reinstating 
the offensive content that our son has deleted/altered; the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and/or Illinois could charge you with 
corrupting the morals of a minor for misleading our son into believing that the previous content did not violate both state and 
federal hate crime laws, and for failing to police your own site and reposting del 

All you need to do to avoid all of the above is to stop reinstating the original content. Please do us all a favor and allow the 
current content to stand; then we may have a chance of doing some damage-control with the Pierson family and defusing a very tense 
situation that could still have a permanent negative effect on our son's life. 

Sincerely, 
Barbara Purdom

Disgraced

This formerly beloved E.D. member is now considered to be among the ranks of the Disgraced Encyclopedia Dramaticians, both for going MIA after the drama and for selling out E.D. to r9k.

Current status

Pokchu, after leaving E.D., promptly spiraled into a life of being a cross-dressing gay furfag. The fast descent of the once-proud member is akin to a drunkard hitting rock-bottom, and being found unconscious in a gutter clutching an empty bottle of Wild Irish Rose. Pictures of this man-child can be located on his Weasyl account. Weasyl, a site Pokchu once co-owned, is the retarded younger cousin of FurAffinity, with all the furfaggotry and none of the traffic. The site is relatively new too, as though the world needed another furry art site.

Pokchu auditioned for American Idol in 2012, making a complete joke of himself, to the point where he was mocked by the show's narrator just before his singing was shown. He was described as ill-prepared, and audibly belched after being asked to state his name and age.