Online I go by the name Choppi, but my real name is Lauren (sometimes styled as LAWren after my favorite character)! I’m 30 years old and from the southeastern US!

HELLO!!

Hi there! If you’ve ended up on this page, that means you’ve found me somewhere on social media! Thank you kindly for visiting and wanting to get to know me! Well… as this page is WORDSWORDSWORDS incarnate, so it should definitely do the job, at least… !

I unfortunately suffer from various health conditions, the most serious one being Cushing’s disease, which went undiagnosed and thus untreated wreaking havoc in my body for my whole life due to me not physically presenting with the typical outward appearance of someone affected by it. The negligence from begging previous doctors to please conduct further tests on me because SOMETHING was horribly wrong to have me wasting away in bed 23 hours a day in pain and cognitive impairment that had me unable to function in merely being able to actually LIVE and DO THINGS. I lost decades of my life as a result, years that were supposed to be the prime time of my life (especially in my twenties as I got worse) but were gone in a literal blink of an eye from spending most of my life unconscious from debilitating fatigue. Words cannot describe how horrifying it is to be corresponding back and forth with an online friend, only to see that your friend responded ONE MONTH AGO rather than the ONE DAY AGO that it felt like. The passage of time has been INSANE with this untreated disease, but THANKFULLY a doctor finally believed me and conducted lab work that finally got me properly diagnosed with Cushing’s disease. The treatment is supposed to be life changing, so I’m going to make my thirties the prime time of my life instead!!!

My biggest hobby in life has always been memorabilia collecting, which you can read more about [here]! When I start feeling better, the first thing I wanna do is get back into making video content on the collecting hobby full force!! (And that means sticking with it this time…)

I absolutely adore theme parks, my favorites of which being Disney Parks (in particular, Disney World) with Universal Studios (Orlando) being a close second. A dream of mine is to travel and visit every major theme park in the US!!! I visit Dollywood the most since it’s the closest one by me, and while it’s awesome, it just doesn’t hit the same as being surrounded by my favorite IPs, man!

But the next best thing to going to theme parks is arcades, of which there are a LOT of where I live, thankfully!

In mid-2018, I had the idea of becoming a Twitch streamer. To my surprise, it was a success. However, handling the pressure of doing streams every day was not a success. I loved doing it, but I just couldn't maintain it in the long run. Instead I'll be focusing on creating content on YouTube, where I can just upload videos whenever I feel like it and not have the pressure of keeping a live audience engaged.

This is a screenshot from my first stream in August 2018, before I pressed "go live". You can see the terror in my eyes.

K. Rool was brought onto the scene as a lucky charm to help keep me sane enough to complete Donkey Kong 64. It did not work. It did not work at all.

I also used to be a Twitch streamer, but I quit. Oops.

My name is

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(the logo says Choppi)

I am actually a Christian, I’m just very quiet about it. This is intentional. The whole purpose of spirituality is that it is supposed to be highly personal. It is your personal journey in finding yourself and figuring out life that is entirely between you and God. It is no one else's business to have any say in. I grew up around too many that would boast their religion, but never practice what they preach. Thus leading to my ‘less talk, more practice’ quiet approach. That is also why I never talk about my faith. In fact, you would never suspect that I was religious unless I outright told you. But I just did, so... surprise! But my DMs are always open for those who want to ask questions/talk about it!

DEPRESSING CRAP GOES DOWN HERE!!!

Get comfy for reading this giant

I like this pic. If only it wasn’t taken while hiding in my

Me once again hiding in my

This time while doing my best

I also have an eating disorder called ARFID (avoidant restrictive food intake disorder) which regulates me to eating only simple foods like bread, cheese cubes, mashed potatoes, etc. But my avoidance of food is also likely linked to my severe peanut allergy, which has made me terrified to eat anything out of fear of peanut particles having gotten into it. This is all due to a doctor freaking me out as a kid by claiming that my allergy was so deadly that if I went on a plane and someone opened a bag of peanuts, I’d be dead before the plane hit the ground from inhaling the particles. Holy childhood trauma, Batman!

My other half is named Joseph, whom I met online in late 2022! After months of talking, we met IRL on February 1st, 2023 and began officially dating! We moved in together in July 2023. We’re now engaged as of February 1st, 2025! Wedding TBA!

The other two major conditions I have are hypothyroidism and familial hypercholesterolemia, both of which are under control for the most part. My asthma used to be bad as a kid, but luckily it’s negligible now.

Mental health-wise I am consumed from the inside out by anxiety, depression, and OCD. In that order. The anxiety? More like super anxiety. My husband just wants me to allow myself to just chill out and relax for once, but how can that be when my default setting has always been to STRESS STRESS STRESS? 😭

And speaking of animals… I LOVE CHINCHILLAS!! Which led me to create my own little fan merch brand called CosChins, which is short for Cosplay Chinchillas! The website itself is a work in progress, but my Etsy store is online! I wanna start traveling to sell in artist alleys at conventions, too… ! But I gotta draw A LOT more designs first!!

I did a test run at a tiny convention, since I only had a few designs but wanted to see how it’d go. Was FUN!!

Animals have always had a special place in my life, and there is nothing that I take more seriously than their welfare. If I ever make it big enough to do fundraisers, my charities of choice will always be those for animals.

My first chinchilla, Chippi, was the light of my life, and she will always live on as the mascot and inspiration for my works :’)