I kind of feel sorry for him, though maybe I'm being naive and believing that at one point he might have been genuine on some level and it was the later flipping and flopping and constant chasing after attention that led to stupider and stupider stunts. Like at one point he was genuine and that managed to lead to some legitimate positive attention, but as that started to wane he wasn't happy with a smaller but loyal following and did stupid shit to try and continue having a larger audience. And each time it backfired and each time it effected him more and more until he just became this sad, pathetic, mentally ill dumbass, so much so that he would fake cancer.

Though maybe I'm grasping at straws and hoping because the alternative of him always being like this but with a disguise is just depressing and sad.