Catherine Wayne, or simply Catie, is the person known as Boxxy, recognized by many individuals who used YouTube during its early days. She is an online personality, vlogger, and voice actress best known for her hyperactive vlogs. Her famous YouTube channel has long been silent, but she is still on the internet.
Who Is Boxxy?
Boxxy was a figure that gained fame in the late 2000s on YouTube and Twitter. Wayne filmed two videos on Gaia Online addressing her buddies in January 2008 and published them to YouTube under the username boxxybabee.
Later in the year, the videos were reposted on the website i-am-bored.com and then on 4chan. She made a third video in response to the recognition of her first two videos.
Wayne is seen in the videos wearing a lot of eyeliner and babbling about many subjects and encounters. This became her signature style and format that made her famous.
How Did She Get Popular?
The recordings caused controversy on 4chan, with divisions claiming to favor or condemn the character. This resulted in some flame battles and hacking occasions.
A DoS attack happened on 4chan, forcing the site to go offline for several hours. Her YouTube channel also got hacked. On the entire web, there were numerous spoofs, parodies, and remixes made out of these events.
She launched a more contemplative video to a different YouTube account on January 10, 2011. Here, she discusses that Boxxy is a made-up persona and that Catie is just an actress. She was also referenced in a local Fox 11 broadcast on internet trolls on January 19, 2011.
What Happened to Boxxy?
The Guardian, which was reacting to Catherine’s presence online at the time, documented the division of netizens in an article. Wayne took a break from YouTube during this time, but she returned in 2010 with a new channel.
It was named ANewHopeee. This was also the channel in which she explained the character she made online. Until 2015, the actress continued to post on her new channel, including vlogs and question and answer content.
She created a third YouTube page, Bodaciousboxxy, on June 17, 2011, and continued to upload clips. She alleges in a video that the Boxxy in the January 2011 video is not the actual character but a girl who looks very similar to her. She was reportedly hacked by a persona named Svetlana.
What Is She Doing Now?
Wayne has ventured into other ventures after her YouTube days. She hosted the Animalist streaming show for Discovery Digital Networks from December 2013 until December 2014.
She voiced Marsha in Billy Dilley’s Super-Duper Subterranean Summer in 2017. Isabelle Ruins Everything also featured her. Then, her voice starred in BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm, an independent role-playing game that satirizes numerous facets of internet culture, in 2018.
At 29 years old, Catie is still an active voice actress. She’s no longer on YouTube, but she’s still on Twitter. Aside from this newfound profession, she is also selling NFTs. She listed FOAR EVERYWUN FRUM BOXXY NFT in OpenSea. Apart from this, nothing is known about her personal life.
