No. 1: Good analysis and theory totally valid mate. But it is still remarkable to breathe a strong air of suspense & mystery watching as the figures of each item (views, comments, upvotes & do$h) rose so fast on his first post.
No. 2: I agree with your appreciation and concur that he is actually a cool cat who wrote a very appealing and funny intro attracting and catching quickly great sympathy. I certainly was one of those who commented on his post and followed him right away with a certain euphoria of not feeling myself so alone in weirdo land anymore. :) I suspect, one of those lucky exceptions in this mystery movie.
No. 3: Yeah! indeed. Effectively the events of when he started his posts were 4 months ago. When it was too common to observe an epidemic avalanche of out-of-control bots upvoting everywhere, everything and every single crap all over around. Even me had a humble army of bots following & voting my posts with their heavy, strong and powerful 1% VESTS weight at the time. But in no measure close to have such an awful amount over 2200 bots behind. I actually doubt that so many bots have existed, were used or have been created at that moment.
As for his earnings, yeah, lotta things could have happened on the figures. Among many of them, he also could well have been heavily flagged, downvoted or banned for some reason. Since right now, curiously you can't find any statistical evidence on steemdb about the history log of the votes on his posts.

I suppose, most of the riddles still stands wrapped in some disturbing mystery. :D