I would want to say both since yeah, these aren't any different in terms of ridiculous, but I think the "extreme liberals who turned a hobby/random past time into their entire identity and act more nationalistic around it than your average turkey citizen" part is worse than anything.
I mean, furries are hypocritical liberals who are probably the prominent example of leftist ideology and how incredibly dysfunctional it can become when those "leftist" values turn more into justifications for being a public nuisance around everyone. They're very defensive whenever anyone has scathing criticisms of it. No one can't reasonably critique the tons of things that make the fandom get its reputation in the first place. YouTubers have to cherry-pick, dumb things down, and try not to sound too critical for fears of hurting the furries and their feelings that normies don't view them similarly to how your average fur would view another fur.
They're also like leftism as a whole—constantly bemoaning about being the beacon of acceptance and being the nicest community ever. Only to look through all the controversies and the fact furs eat their own at the drop of a hat.
Like with leftism, any fur with any "right-leaning values" will be ostracized and ex-communicated like your average Mormon wanting to leave the religion/ideology. If you have to parade about how "inclusive, caring, and kind" you and your community are, then there's a good thing you and your community's probably not that. Like with leftism, your community is the reason behind more people realizing how insane your ideology is and that "being kind and inclusive" doesn't mean accepting everything and anything and expecting people to take it normally. Being "kind and inclusive" means nothing and does nothing (because they don't follow that anyway!).
For Caden, he KNOWS this. He knows how overly accepting they are. Being LGBT is expected and normal there, but being transgender? You might as well win an Oscar because being trans is the golden gate of the community. That's what Caden took advantage of. He took advantage of the things you could get away with being trans in a majority LGBT community. All the validations, pats on the back, all of it. In hot water or controversy? Just use your transgenderism as a shield. Know your fans will care more about defending your pronouns than the fact you made a living fool out of yourself and worsened the already dug-to-the-very-core reputation furries already have.
I doubt he has a life outside the fandom. His entire purpose is being trans, a "gassy femdom" and being the (ironically) strong example of what happens when you give a trans person too much leverage. Of course, not all trans people are like this when they reach popularity (Goosework's an example because they never brought up their identity at all during the TADC craze, which I respect.) but never is that a 100% exception to the usual trans person gaining a huge following.
Though, I mean, if someone became an internet icon overnight and still cared more about delivering a series to an audience rather than making it all about them, then what excuse does Caden have? Doesn't matter, though. He's already drained himself, and his reputation only deteriorates further. Nothing he can do about it other than post more staged screenshots of the evil transphobia/homophobia and crutch around his trans identity until even his most vocal fans will grow tired of his antics.
In short, I still say it's the second one, but both can be agreed upon as being simultaneously worse. Furries are no different from being a liberal and all the numerous things they hypocritically do what they blame the right for doing. I've said it a thousand times, yes, but as long as it continues to be true, the reminders will continue coming.
