It's really hard to tell; there was fairly earnest and genuine stuff mixed in with a lot of very dry humour. He always came off as kind of entitled, for sure, a

It's really hard to tell; there was fairly earnest and genuine stuff mixed in with a lot of very dry humour. He always came off as kind of entitled, for sure, and at some point the 'jokes' started to come off as extremely poor taste. The trajectory of tech troll to weird financial/personal life advice to wife leaving him to full on reactionary along with his dealings with the AlgoExpert guy suggest there was always some level of seriousness and possibly mental illness in the mix.