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The broadest possible definition of a stream chan that we can give is "a chan is a character drawn for Joe's streams". But this definition includes things that clearly aren't chans too, so for the sake of deciding which characters to make chan pages of on this website, it helps to create a more precise definition. The Chan Alignment Chart poses a framework for arriving at such a definition. It asks that we decide how lenient we want to be in terms of what a chan must look like, and in terms of what a chan must originate from, and then tells us which characters we would have to consider to be chans in that case. Joepedia takes the form neutral / theme neutral stance, meaning we consider FAITOW-chan, [[Dryer-chan]], Gnome-chan, and [[Norm-chan]] to be chans, but we do not consider [[Trash-chan]], [[~~Eric and The Wheel|~~Eric]], [[Pickle Nagito]], [[Jomseph]], or [[Beacoi Osfnoe]] to be chans.

The broadest possible definition of a stream chan that we can give is "a chan is a character drawn for Joe's streams". But this definition includes things that clearly aren't chans too, so for the sake of deciding which characters to make chan pages of on this website, it helps to create a more precise definition. The Chan Alignment Chart poses a framework for arriving at such a definition. It asks that we decide how lenient we want to be in terms of what a chan must look like, and in terms of what a chan must originate from, and then tells us which characters we would have to consider to be chans in that case. Joepedia takes the form neutral / theme neutral stance, meaning we consider FAITOW-chan, [[Dryer-chan]], Gnome-chan, and [[Norm-chan]] to be chans, but we do not consider [[Trash-chan]], [[Eric]], [[Pickle Nagito]], [[Jomseph]], or [[Beacoi Osfnoe]] to be chans.

One of the more surprising results of this decision is that Trash-chan is not a chan, despite being a character drawn for Joe's streams, being an anime girl, and even having a name ending in "chan". The reason she is not considered to be a chan is that she is Joe's character that he made in Code Vein. Rather than being the '''''embodiment''''' of something from a streamed game, or being '''''themed around''''' something from a stream, she literally '''''is''''' something from a stream, meaning she violates our theme neutral constraint. Eric is a similar case: He is a name that randomly cropped up on a stream which Joe then started treating as a character, and then people started drawing him, with the design taken directly from a character from Gravity Rush. This again means that he literally '''''is''''' something from a stream. In contrast we have Jom who, despite not being an anime girl, is a character that is themed around Joe, and Joe is "something from a stream", therefore Jom doesn't violate our theme neutral constraint. But because he's not humanoid, he violates our form neutral constraint, meaning he is not a chan. But various fan artists have drawn their own one-off designs of Jom-chan, which we would have to consider to be chans.

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=== 2019 ===

Since 2019 was the year that chans rose to prominence, Joe decided to host his own Chan of the Year award during his re-stream of the 2019 Game Awards.<ref>{{YTCite|channel=Joseph Anderson Twitch Archive|gC8YHfFpIs0|time=274|title=2019 Game Awards Stream}}</ref> He announced the nominees in a showcase video narrated by his wife Lili,<ref>{{JoeYT2Cite|Iq1XEegpsLk|title=The First Annual Chan of the Year Award}}</ref> and then he got chat to vote for the winner in a Twitch poll. The nominees were Undo-chan, Edge-chan, Bandage-chan, Trash-chan, and Bike-chan, and the winner was Bike-chan. However, going by the form neutral / theme neutral stance, Trash-chan shouldn't be considered to be a chan, and therefore shouldn't have been nominated.

Since 2019 was the year that chans rose to prominence, Joe decided to host his own Chan of the Year award during his re-stream of the 2019 Game Awards.<ref>{{YTCite|channel=Joseph Anderson Twitch Archive|gC8YHfFpIs0|time=274|title=2019 Game Awards Stream}}</ref> He announced the nominees in a showcase video narrated by his ex-wife Lili,<ref>{{JoeYT2Cite|Iq1XEegpsLk|title=The First Annual Chan of the Year Award}}</ref> and then he got chat to vote for the winner in a Twitch poll. The nominees were Undo-chan, Edge-chan, Bandage-chan, Trash-chan, and Bike-chan, and the winner was Bike-chan. However, going by the form neutral / theme neutral stance, Trash-chan shouldn't be considered to be a chan, and therefore shouldn't have been nominated.

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-The broadest possible definition of a stream chan that we can give is "a chan is a character drawn for Joe's streams". But this definition includes things that clearly aren't chans too, so for the sake of deciding which characters to make chan pages of on this website, it helps to create a more precise definition. The Chan Alignment Chart poses a framework for arriving at such a definition. It asks that we decide how lenient we want to be in terms of what a chan must look like, and in terms of what a chan must originate from, and then tells us which characters we would have to consider to be chans in that case. Joepedia takes the form neutral / theme neutral stance, meaning we consider FAITOW-chan, [[Dryer-chan]], Gnome-chan, and [[Norm-chan]] to be chans, but we do not consider [[Trash-chan]], [[Eric and The Wheel|Eric]], [[Pickle Nagito]], [[Jomseph]], or [[Beacoi Osfnoe]] to be chans.
+The broadest possible definition of a stream chan that we can give is "a chan is a character drawn for Joe's streams". But this definition includes things that clearly aren't chans too, so for the sake of deciding which characters to make chan pages of on this website, it helps to create a more precise definition. The Chan Alignment Chart poses a framework for arriving at such a definition. It asks that we decide how lenient we want to be in terms of what a chan must look like, and in terms of what a chan must originate from, and then tells us which characters we would have to consider to be chans in that case. Joepedia takes the form neutral / theme neutral stance, meaning we consider FAITOW-chan, [[Dryer-chan]], Gnome-chan, and [[Norm-chan]] to be chans, but we do not consider [[Trash-chan]], [[Eric]], [[Pickle Nagito]], [[Jomseph]], or [[Beacoi Osfnoe]] to be chans.
 One of the more surprising results of this decision is that Trash-chan is not a chan, despite being a character drawn for Joe's streams, being an anime girl, and even having a name ending in "chan". The reason she is not considered to be a chan is that she is Joe's character that he made in Code Vein. Rather than being the '''''embodiment''''' of something from a streamed game, or being '''''themed around''''' something from a stream, she literally '''''is''''' something from a stream, meaning she violates our theme neutral constraint. Eric is a similar case: He is a name that randomly cropped up on a stream which Joe then started treating as a character, and then people started drawing him, with the design taken directly from a character from Gravity Rush. This again means that he literally '''''is''''' something from a stream. In contrast we have Jom who, despite not being an anime girl, is a character that is themed around Joe, and Joe is "something from a stream", therefore Jom doesn't violate our theme neutral constraint. But because he's not humanoid, he violates our form neutral constraint, meaning he is not a chan. But various fan artists have drawn their own one-off designs of Jom-chan, which we would have to consider to be chans.
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 === 2019 ===
-Since 2019 was the year that chans rose to prominence, Joe decided to host his own Chan of the Year award during his re-stream of the 2019 Game Awards.<ref>{{YTCite|channel=Joseph Anderson Twitch Archive|gC8YHfFpIs0|time=274|title=2019 Game Awards Stream}}</ref> He announced the nominees in a showcase video narrated by his wife Lili,<ref>{{JoeYT2Cite|Iq1XEegpsLk|title=The First Annual Chan of the Year Award}}</ref> and then he got chat to vote for the winner in a Twitch poll. The nominees were Undo-chan, Edge-chan, Bandage-chan, Trash-chan, and Bike-chan, and the winner was Bike-chan. However, going by the form neutral / theme neutral stance, Trash-chan shouldn't be considered to be a chan, and therefore shouldn't have been nominated.
+Since 2019 was the year that chans rose to prominence, Joe decided to host his own Chan of the Year award during his re-stream of the 2019 Game Awards.<ref>{{YTCite|channel=Joseph Anderson Twitch Archive|gC8YHfFpIs0|time=274|title=2019 Game Awards Stream}}</ref> He announced the nominees in a showcase video narrated by his ex-wife Lili,<ref>{{JoeYT2Cite|Iq1XEegpsLk|title=The First Annual Chan of the Year Award}}</ref> and then he got chat to vote for the winner in a Twitch poll. The nominees were Undo-chan, Edge-chan, Bandage-chan, Trash-chan, and Bike-chan, and the winner was Bike-chan. However, going by the form neutral / theme neutral stance, Trash-chan shouldn't be considered to be a chan, and therefore shouldn't have been nominated.
 === 2022 ===