How do you even learn about empathy? You either have it or you don't.
Ian described it as him "feeling for the pain and suffering of others."
You don't just wake up one day and be able to do that. You might become a nicer person, but you don't magically "acquire ability empathy."
What this dipshit doesn't understand is that he insinuated that at one point he did not "feel for the pain and suffering of others." That at 27 years old, he did not experience empathy. If someone were to be in pain and suffer, he couldn't feel for them, even at that age.
And by saying that, he's revealing himself as either extremely autistic or just a sociopath, but no matter what is fabricating what he perceives to be as "empathy" in an attempt to serve himself and his psycho retard strap-on wearing dyke wife.
That's why he thinks the skulls were "humorous", why he thinks the CPS call was warranted and harmless, and why he recently stated the only pathway back to friendship with Ethan would be through him suffering extreme pain that doesn't "necessarily" have to be via physical harm/distress. He can't help but feel for your hardship, unless you piss him off, in which case you deserve it.
Anisa and other retards like Hasan got in Ian's ear about what "empathy" is and after his fans turning on him due to Anisa's OF and influence on him + Sam Hyde, he had to capture a new audience that are "empathetic" and "tolerant" and all this shit. He sees this gay therapy speak bullshit all around him and imitates it like a retarded, raped chameleon because he's just fucking lost and has no integrity or autonomy.
It's entirely performative and I don't think he even understands his own intentions or actions; I don't think he's fully aware of why he's doing the things that he does. He's a fucking robotic entity in a skinhead's body getting around life like a lost puppy, just his basic senses and what he thinks will restore his tattered image online. He obviously doesn't give a fuck about anyone but himself. He's that mean bitch in high school who pretended to be a sweet peach and threw fits when that didn't work, as we saw following the failure of Content Cop H3.
tl;dr: his fans hate him for having a whore girlfriend and fucking over Sam and the "empathy" crowd likes him because of "misogyny" against Anisa and their disdain towards Sam Hyde; Ian therefore has to get one over on the "incels" and try to find any semblance of identity, popularity and self-respect. Anisa pegged him, and Sam broke him.