A recent ruling by a California court said that Jose “Chille” DeCastro was a normie, a private figure, not famous, not anything special and certainly not a public figure… unless. No. Well, maybe.
The blow to DeCastro’s ego on this one has got to be stupendous. He clearly considers himself a public figure because, besides running for governor, he’s got a history of declaring himself a public figure.
We can point to two huge examples that most anyone who has followed DeCastro has seen.
The first came when he was upset with Ironton, Ohio, and he was going to file his never-ending federal lawsuit against the police force:
He said, “When someone called me and said ‘hey, someone made a video about you or someone said something about you’ I just didn’t really care that much. I just didn’t really care. It didn’t really matter to me because it doesn’t matter at the end of the day. Changing the world requires that you are a public figure. People are going to talk about you no matter what you do, that’s why I can’t sue some of the individuals that I want to sue.”
Remember when he went after Kate Peter and sought a protective order? He literally said, “I became a national figure when I created the timeline that shows the history of lynchings in our country and compared them to the history of prison charges. I became a national figure.”
More recently, he’s talked about being famous in jail and how he can’t walk down the street without someone mobbing him or knowing him for his hugely popular YouTube videos. He’s even alluded to his great fame nationwide, telling his audience that they have to register to vote because they are needed to vote for him whenever he finally decides to pull the trigger on run for the Governorship of a state to be named eventually.
AND he was a former Power Ranger – the BLACK one at that – for a handful of minutes. Let alone, promoter of the jock sock and the Super Necessary Human. These might not have brought him the greatest fame in the world, but he’s known for them and being known and thinking you’re known means…
That proving you’re NOT known, you’re not famous and that you’re a pathetic lonely little man who walks the street at night, talking randomly to a handful of real people and 50,000 bots from Asia and looking for police to flirt, err, interact with who has no real fame or discernable social value past your graying hair, expanding belly and well… journalistic prowess?
Where were we? Oh yes, proving he’s not known just to win a lawsuit will be the hardest thing you’ll have to do.
And for that, on your birthday, Jose “Chille” DeCastro, we don’t envy you.
Here’s to the average guy, the average gal and person, those underachievers and never was, the failed Luke Skywalkers and masters of obscurity, welcome, welcome Chille “Flipping” DeCastro, you’re one of us now.
Happy birthday. Now call your mom to bring the soda pops and chips, it was your turn to bring snacks to bowling night. Don’t fuck this up, Chille, we’re on our way to league champions and you may be remembered… if we can beat Troop 5509 tonight!
