I think he’s acting because he posts about things which would come with repercussions should they come to light in whatever passes as his social circle (as they inevitably would with him being a minor YouTube celeb), yet there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of such repercussions (i.e. ‘The kid whose ipod I accidentally beat me up’); his clothes seem like a costume; and it doesn’t really take that much acting ability to just mask your real mannerisms with a set of fake ones (a couple of friends of mine made a set of hilarious prank phone call tapes where they posed as adherents of some obscure sect named ‘Harry’ and ‘Krishna’ when they can’t have been older than 13), you basically just need a bit of empathy for that; as I said, I think the greatest difficulty in acting comes when having to fake ‘natural’ responses to scripted events – you basically have to re-learn your whole body language and how to consciously apply it, hence people who slip into a different character can seem to be really good actors when they actually aren’t, which is where the ‘everyone can act’ meme and the atrociousness of daytime soap actors comes from.
Also, I don’t see a reason to not think it’s an act.
Not that I’m adding to the debate, but doesn’t google ads just pick up on words used on the page? So it may have picked up on what may have been said in the comments.
It doesn’t in any way a jury could shake reasonable doubt from, but taken as a whole, the dude’s entire persona is a little hard to swallow. We can start with the idea that even if he lied about his real name to protect his identity, who among even the outcast rejects would willingly and with all sincerity choose to be known as Bernice Juach III? For an adolescent, insecure, allegedly Asperger’s-suffering male who’s just trying to fit in, choosing Bernice as an alias would only serve to further ostracize him, and he has to know that.