It's hard to tell.
It could legitimately be Chris fucking up. It could be Chris' reputation has precluded him, and the staff were on a hair trigger. It could be minor, unnamed weens provoking him into doing something shitty (and the staff being on a hair trigger). The spergs on twitter make me think that's a possibility too. And then it could be this CJ person.
I hope it's the CJ person. If it's not (and we can't locate another ween at fault), then it's probably best to chalk it up to Chris' behavior. Not that it's proven that it's Chris' behavior, and there's still room for outside influence. But we wouldn't have any hard evidence for that, and it'd probably be best to just assign blame to Chris in that case.
It would do well for Chris to learn that he can't prove to outsiders without evidence, so he needs to be prepared for that.
Also this. Heh, Chris acts like how people paint Joe Biden acting. Except Chris isn't Joe Biden and he's not aware of that. (And it's creepy when Biden does it.)
I think the french analogy was apt. Americans think excessive kissing and contact is weird as shit. But I've definitely encountered... ethnics (to put it that way) in the US that hug and kiss, even when you're complete strangers.