I haven't checked if they are still there before I typed this, but if you go to his earlier YouTube videos they were actually a decent watch - a combination of hilarious (due to his over-acting) but sort of coming from the right place - emphasising willpower, freedom of choice, etc. It's the diametric opposite of what he's become
It's more amusing than you describe it.
In the old vids, he does all that whilst mentioning that he was incarcerated for essentially being the show pony that he'd grown out of in jail.
For me, my experience was seeing those vids, forgetting about him for a year or two until oh, yeah, there he is, back to being the show pony.
So for all his supposed philosophical enlightenment through jail, he just came back out and did the same shit again. Another fraud of a human.