It's a tactic i've seen time and again with furfags too, where people who find themselves in the more deceitful and degenerate parts of the subculture start questioning their identity or morals, with many times them getting encouraged by 'friends' to change their identity or compromise on their morals.

They tend to run pretty leftist and 'anti-bigot', so there's a lot of overlap in the methods used in the case of this person and AHS.