I think they're trying to say that he became edgier and cooler, but he seems like he just turned into an angry douche.

One of the strangest things about women is that they seem to inherently suck the joy out of others as just a core component of existing. They're not doing it to gain some advantage or to become happy themselves, it's simply a state of being for them and they're quite often just as miserable as they're making everyone else around them.