Bagel Story

"The Bagel Story"
Sometimes the 'Bagel Story' is mentioned. It is a pressure release valve that a lot of people who knew Chris Niosi have that we need when things get too heavy when recalling all the other things hes done.
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Chris Niosi graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts (hereon known as SVA) in 2011. This story and the ones that follow all take place in 2011.

This was relayed by other students attending SVA at the time. I was friends with a few and we enjoyed Skype calls together at the time, they all confirmed this transpired. They all told the story with disdain. One person who told the story I have no real inclination to be nice to, but others I do not intend to inconvenience. I've sent this text to other people to verify.

SVA is highly regarded, and animation tours with studios looking to recruit was not uncommon, especially for people about to graduate. This particular animation tour had two runs, and Chris Niosi was on the first. This first run caused students to rush people on the second run that knew him with "PLEASE, you have to do something about Niosi!!"

In the middle of the tour they stopped briefly, and unprompted, Niosi had himself a sit. He pulled out a ziploc bag from a backpack he was notorious for carrying around, and inside was a bagel slathered in a disgusting amount of cream cheese. He starts eating. It gets incredibly uncomfortable. Noises. Everyone stops dead. Gnashing of teeth.

Chris Niosi then proceeds to start taking the animation company representative to task. What can the company do FOR ME? What's in it FOR ME? Why should I go with this company? Not realizing that he should be the one trying to impress his abilities on others as a job candidate, not the other way around.

Everyone else is mortified and distances themselves from him. The company eventually goes under, but word travels around fast in this industry, and this is one of several reasons why Chris Niosi is blacklisted from the animation industry. He is Definitely, Personally blacklisted from Titmouse.

This story has witnesses and he spent a lot of time trying to downplay and justify his actions to Liz directly.

If you've read all the stories, you know Chris Niosi has never wanted for anything. None of this has been about making Niosi homeless, his parents have funded Everything, he'll be Fine.

The "pay for my college!!" days on Newgrounds? He has never needed that money. But the friends he was stepping on the backs of to get in a higher position easily could have. They didn't ask.


Around this time are two other telling stories:

Chris Niosi went to a bigwig animation party, with big names in the industry, and immediately starts shittalking other animators that are up and coming. A patron of this event turns to Niosi and says:

“That person you’re shittalking? Has more talent in his pinky than you do in your whole goddamn body.”

Kirbopher goes silent and sulks for the rest of the party. He still shittalks at every turn, he hasn’t learned anything. Still does it to this day.

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[CW: Bodyshaming]
Also around this time, a friend of Chris Niosi's on the e-celeb side of things had recently lost a Lot of weight. Like, an absolutely amazing amount of weight, very fast. It occurred over the summer.

Chris Niosi spent a Skype call making horrible retching noises and expressing his disgust with this. He was talking at length about the loose skin that came as a result of this weight loss. Chris has the empathy of a rock.

I am really sorry if you are able to piece together the timeline and discover it was you he was talking about.