Catherine Wayne is an American

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and voice actress best known for her character Boxxy in her highly energetic

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s. Her rise in popularity began in late 2008 and early 2009.

Career

Online work

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

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. 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 in an excitable

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style about various topics and experiences. The presence of the videos was divisive on

, with factions claiming to either support or oppose Boxxy, leading to various

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s and hacking incidents. This led to a

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on 4chan itself, shutting the site down for several hours. Participants went elsewhere, launching a " Twitter bomb" that May. On

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, 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

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. 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

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's holographic message to

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. 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

account (''ANewHopeee'') 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

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s. On June 17, 2011, Wayne made a third YouTube account (''Bodaciousboxxy'') 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''".

Other work

Between December 2013 and December 2014, Wayne was a host for the Animalist streaming series for Discovery Digital Networks. In 2017, Wayne voiced the character Marsha for

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's ''

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''. In 2018, Wayne lent her voice to ''BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm'', an

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satirizing various aspects of

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. She is credited with both conceptualization and voice-over work as the game's protagonist.

Personal life

Wayne is of Greek descent.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wayne, Catherine 21st-century American actresses 4chan phenomena American YouTubers American voice actresses Comedy YouTubers Internet memes introduced in 2008 Living people Viral videos American female YouTubers YouTube vloggers Year of birth missing (living people)