ShayeSaintJohn

Shaye Saint John is a fictional character and art project created by Eric Fournier. The character appears in several videos and short films directed by Fournier.
== Shaye Saint John ==
Shaye Saint John's backstory was that she was a supermodel who became disfigured in a train accident, resulting in the loss of her arms and legs. This led to her having to use mannequin parts as prosthetics. The character's first appearance was in Fournier's 1999 film, 'Strange Dolly'. In October 2006, Fournier along with Indicant Pictures released a DVD titled The Triggers Compilation. Which contained 10 films, also known as triggers, starring the character.
==Viral Spread & The Internet==
=== Website (2001 - 2017) ===
In 2001, Fournier created the website shayesaintjohn.net, which featured art galleries, a shop, and Shaye's live journal. The website is noted for its unusual imagery. The website would be taken down around late 2017, due to its domain being expired.
=== YouTube (2006 - 2017) ===
On August 30, 2006, a YouTube channel named Elastic Spastic Plastic Fantastic was created. The channel would upload all Shaye-related content from 2006–2007. The disturbing and unusual nature of the videos led to their virality, becoming some of the first "creepy videos" on YouTube. In 2008, Fournier stopped uploading to the channel due to him wanting to work on other projects involving Shaye, such as making music with his old band featuring the character.
Shaye Saint John would become even more viral around the early to mid-2010s, when many YouTubers who made horror-related content or list videos discovered the channel. With one of the videos, HAND THING, becoming the most well-known.
On December 18, 2017, the ShayeSaintJohn channel was deleted by YouTube. The channel had around 88,000 subscribers at the time of its deletion. Despite this, many reuploads of Shaye's content can still be viewed, as well as archived channels dedicated to uploading all videos that were on the previous channel.
==Eric Fournier==
Eric Fournier † (September 9, 1967 – February 25, 2010 [aged 42]) was born in Bloomington, Indiana. In the 1990s, Fournier was a member of two punk bands, The Blood Farmers and Skelegore. He was the lead singer for both bands, respectively. During his time with those bands, he would make frequent trips to Los Angeles, where he became interested in film making, which led to the creation of Shaye Saint John.
In 2000, Fournier's work would be discovered by Carl Crew, an actor and screenwriter who had a massive background in the field. Crew would go on to work with Fournier in a few short films as well as with his company, Wesselmania, until 2010.
Fournier passed away on February 25, 2010, at the age of 42, in Palm Springs, California, due to internal bleeding caused by years of alcoholism. Years after Fournier's passing, documentary director Larry Wessel, who met Fournier in 2008, launched a Kickstarter campaign for the film 'Eric and Shaye'. Which would be a documentary film about Shaye Saint John as well as the personal life of Fournier. The documentary premiered on October 31, 2016.
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