Eh, may as well come clean with it since all is said and done. The whole Chunky AT debacle was pretty much 50% experiment/50% leak bait. Experiment part was because I wanted to see how many people would parrot one guy's outlandish claim, and as it turns out, plenty of people did claim to actually see Chunky and his banana rain, despite me having made up the entire thing. Additionally, there was a lot of fun stuff that came out of it in the end like the Chunkfoot images and #ChunkyWatch.
The 50% leak bait part was for using it as a criteria to bust leaks, because after Chunky made the rounds, there were a sizable amount of leaks that included him amongst AT's in the game, and unless I'd gotten stupidly lucky in my choice of just-barely-believable AT's, I could personally know that leak was a fake and move on to another one.
I do feel bad about it now, and was going to confess to it earlier, but I was curious to see how big it was going to get, and every time I was going to say something, I'd see a leak with him in it, or someone asking something like "So did we ever find Chunky Kong" and I'd stifle a laugh and let it keep rolling.
I apologize if I unreasonably got anyone's hopes up or bothered them with this stunt. Chunky was supposed to be a week long joke at best and it all just got out of hand. Hopefully I didn't get anyone too bent out of shape about it.