People have dropped Bojack Horseman comparisons in here before, so apologies if this one has already been posted.
No lolcow is complete without at least one poor fuck trying to fix him, trying
(and failing) to convince him to turn his life around, sucking up to him and forgiving his stupid, predatory, self-destructive behavior in hopes of gradually coaxing him into a positive change. Chris-chan's history is defined as much by the trolls fucking with and baiting him as it is by the people trying to shake some sense into him and lead him out of his delusions. Every fucking one of those people, throughout the past decade and a half, has learned the same painful lesson: That shining light into a black hole only leads to you going insane and/or getting sucked in.
It's a common theme in every thread on this site, because people who actually learn from their mistakes and actually try to unfuck themselves stop being lolcows. The threads about people who proudly cling to their worst behaviors, for years and years, are the threads that endure. Every one of those threads is like a television sitcom where the main character fucks up spectacularly in front of a roaring audience, suffers the consequences of that fuckup, then fucks up in the same way at the same time on the same day the very next week.
What we've been seeing in this thread is that Lou has been doing this shit for years, making enemies everywhere he goes by squeezing everybody around him for money to spend on luxuries and tantruming at the drop of a hat. There's no sign that this will change any time soon; even winding up with a life-threatening infection and type 2 diabetes just wound up getting used as a new self-label that he uses to e-beg.
Amusingly, and sadly, Lou still has friends who have seen his shit, know about it, and support it anyway because
Lou is getting better, honest, Lou said sorry, honest, Lou is tapering off, Lou will quit after this one last pack and then it'll be over. Those people continue to enable Lou's shit, just as one of the greatest tragedies of Chris-chan is that he has an endless supply of enablers going along with his insane delusions, playing into his fantasy world and making his fictional life real for him so he can ignore reality.
Granted, given Lou's toxicity, I suspect he'll burn the fuckalope eventually; the political climate will shift ever so slightly and those two will wind up at each other's throats. But then Lou will get a new brain-damaged autist who will support him unconditionally, and the cycle will continue.