This was always a moment I've overlooked, but upon revisiting I have a newfound appreciation for it.
It's the most self-aware thing Chris has ever done.
For that brief moment he becomes acutely aware that his sedentary lifestyle, his mooching, and the manner in which he presents himself is the problem, and he reinvents himself into some semblance of a normal person, albeit an eccentric one. For years we all jsut assumed Chris just didn't know any better, but this video right here is a window into the realization that he
DOES know better, and that if he had gotten real help with social interaction and put in the effort, he could have turned it all around. In another time, this could have been the ultimate mic drop, the perfect curtain call where he leaves us on this note and we're left to wonder whether he truly DID fool us all, or if he finally changed.
But he didn't, and despite this video demonstrating he knows what a normal life looks like, he doesn't
want to change, because his old life is comfortable and doesn't challenge him. In his old life, he's a loner with the world against him that he can fight back against. He's the anime protag of his own story.
That life is interesting, real life isn't. We've reached the point where it's too late, he's withdrawn into a shell and there's no digging him out of it. All we can do is sit back and see what happens.