A Theo Theory if you will: as @NothingICanDo said maybe Youtube s actually watcing him now. My reason to think it might be a case? Content creators can get a Community warning if you violate Youtube rules. I had one last year for a movie Clip that showed a naked Person and I didn't bother to censor it. Funny is that Clip was almost a year old at that Point and they only cared now. Anyways I got a Community Guideline WARNING and had to go through a YouTube Guideline "Seminar" (in reality just a few Texts and then later a short questionaire About what is allowed and whatnot) to try to get it removed. They denied my appeal (big shock) and put my channel on a warning status. This lasted 90 days (has since expired). Here is the kicker: if I had been found for more "violations" in that timeframe I would have gotten a Community Guideline strike, and even 1 strike is harsh. You loose the ability to stream, upload Videos and even upload stories (whatever that is) for 1 week. And if you get 3 Guideline strikes within 90 days your channel is gone. So maybe, just Maybe, he is currently under "Probation" so to speak. Of couse could be anything at this point but this 180 shift? Very suspicious. Or he is trying to troll the trolls by not giving us food.