I love how Spamton works in the meta-textual sense. How he sees the audience supporting, in reality, how (some of) the audience sees him. There's something really cool to be said about how a chunk of people turned on him the second they saw contrary evidence, simply because they liked Tenna, and in fact, that also supports how, for Tenna, the audience is beloved. His lifeblood. But for Spamton, the audience is fickle. They're there for entertainment above all, and when they don't have that, they'll toss him to the curb. They'll laugh at him, they'll take everything from him, or at least watch as it is, and then they'll leave. Find entertainment elsewhere. Tenna was that for at least a portion of the people who "liked" Spamton and then turned on him when they had the opposing side's story, and I find that so weird, too. Tenna is often seen as sympathetic (not that he isn't), at least more so than Spamton, who was, for many, a passing phase on the way to something better, and I think... Isn't that kinda cool? When our attitudes feed into the greater narrative?
I think, sure, Spamton is scary and off-putting, but it's weird that there are a portion of people who were shown the other half and immediately went, "Oh, so he was full of shit", and not "I wonder why they both seem to think that's what happened?" It's kind of interesting in general to see how people take contradictions, but it's... especially so in this case, and I mean. Purely from a story-telling perspective, it wouldn't likely be a case of delusional thinking, because I just think that's a bit boring. I know my take on Ch. 2 was more like, "He has to think this happened for a reason." I said elsewhere I didn't necessarily believe him, but I think that he believes himself, and whether or not it's true isn't the point, because he really thinks it happened that way and is responding as though it is. Making it a delusion would be cheap. Even if none of it happened, though, the fact he believed it was telling, because it was like, Ok, say we don't believe him, that none of that is true. But why does he think it is, though?
My whole thing about the idea of Spamton lying was just, like... Something had to've happened, though, right? Maybe not that, specifically, maybe not what he thinks happened, but. If Spamton was lying, I didn't think he knew that. Like I thought he'd been fucked over and misled about it by a third party, not that he was telling it actually fairly straight.