I'll make it simpler.
Connal says some nutty things. We let him know it's nutty. He takes it quite badly. Man doesn't understand why we think its nutty.
Theo, who also says a lot of truly bad faith, out of this world nutty things that nobody really cares for, says nice things about Connal's nutty things. Birds of a feather flock together.
Connal walks down a path to appeal to the literal one person on the forum who says what he spends time typing as any value.
His "change" is not complicated.