There was a period of time, I wanna say around 2017-2018, where Darfliny introduced Cobra to watching a lot of grifter shit. It would have a cascading effect on everything going forward from that point.
This was a tipping point for him because while he’s always done the same shit he’s doing now, he did it in his own way and that’s what made it really special. He did gender relations off and on in his videos but they always appealed to his local area and it was always about his struggles with getting older and not being able to find a lady. It was always his theories on why shit sucked for him. He ALWAYS did cooking videos but it was just a way to pass the time and they were genuinely just him trying to cook a normal dish or something he thought was a little wacky.
Ever since he was consumed by the grifter shit and more importantly the views and money he saw them getting, he’s attempted to mimic and emulate these grifters by chasing their success. Anything he says now about most subjects is not genuinely his thoughts on the matter because they have fuck all to do with his life, it’s something he’s heard another YouTuber say. His reaction videos are essentially him just letting them say it for him with some tepid comment attached to it. All of his cooking videos are now is just shit he’s seen someone else do but with Doritos on it.
Cobra at his best is just a guy sitting in front of the camera and telling the world how he navigates life in his own weird way. It didn’t always make sense but it made sense to him. What you see now isn’t Cobra, what you’re doing is watching Terrerence Popp via a mentally retarded proxy.