Shoenice22: Meet the man who will eat anything on camera

"A lot of people think I'm a complete idiot, but I'm actually a professional idiot with decades of experience."

And with that declaration, Shoenice22, known to the American healthcare system as Chris Schewe (or "Oh Crap, Not This Guy Again" depending on who you ask), has forever won his way into my heart.

Schewe's particular claim to professional idiocy lies in his proclivity for eating all sorts of things otherwise classified as inedible on camera.

This is actually why he's famous. His YouTube channel, wherein he posts digital records of himself consuming everything from painter's caulk and Elmer's glue to a stick of Old Spice deodorant (ensuring that he's definitely not the man you wish your man could smell like), has attracted millions of views and over 200,000 subscribers.

Schewe says he got his start early, swallowing grass and pebbles as a youngster, then graduating to baking soda and even a tampon.

Though his activities may strike rational human beings as destructive, attention-mongering or downright stupid, there's a bit of a method — and sad backstory — to this madness.

Oddity Central notes that Schewe isn't just consuming entire cans of Crisco in a vacuum.
After serving in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, the former U.S. military man felt deeply disturbed by his exposure to Iraqi children perishing from hunger.

He resolved to raise awareness about world hunger by creating his stomach churning videos, a mechanism that allows the 43-year-old to spread the word about the issue to the millions of people who regularly tune in to watch him attempt to digest the BBs in a BB gun. As mainstream advertisers know, this is not an easy demographic to capture.

He's also the product of a difficult childhood. The Florida resident is open about the fact that his father didn't play much of a role in his early life and that his mother suffered from alcoholism. More recently, his wife ended their marriage after his chosen life course proved too intense.

But Schewe appears to take solace in the attention he gets from his videos and regularly takes requests from fans, many of whom encourage him to chow down on things like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards and lit birthday candles.

As you can probably imagine, there are a few concerns for his health. A few dubious websites have even published false and morbid reports of his death.

Then there is the camp convinced that Shoenice is a giant fraud, staging his edible exploits for attention and profit and that there's no way he could have survived the ingestion of a can of motor oil.

While that debate continues to bounce around the ether, there's one certainty: he's definitely met his goal to get us talking about him.