He was a lot closer to DOTY material before he had his heart episode and Sparkles banished him to the cat box room. Back then he was into insane rants and keyboard tough-guy talk, nowadays he is just a beaten and embittered old man.
That was all before he was aware he had an audience.
Ever since he's been aware of that, he's tightened up, inhibited up.
That's why, in a perfect world, the primitives wouldn't even know we exist, and would continue to act their natural primitival ways. But alas the horse is long gone from the barn now.