NOPE spoilers below
My favourite thing about Nope is how Jordan Peele presented behaviour created by trauma because you never really see it in horror movies beside a mention and maybe a little cry.
So to see Jupe so affected by the Gordy incident that it affected his behaviour with Jean-Jacket was fuckin fascinating. Like the whole reason he kept feeding JJ was because in his head, he related Gordy reaching out to fist bump him to their "bond".
He tried to establish a bond with Jean-Jacket via feeding, basically Learning Theory of Attachment, but this was due to his misunderstanding of why Gordy didn't attack Jupe in the first place. Because the table cloth stopped him from having direct eye contact with him.
And this misunderstanding created his one-sided bond with Jean Jacket. His hat stopped him from looking into Jean Jacket's eye.