What causes some autistic people to become like chris chan?

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Like, is it their upbringing? If chris's parents were different, would chris have turned out different?

I think upbringing plays a part. If a child isn't socialised properly and/or suffers trauma, they're even more likely to end up ostracized by their peers. The ensuing loneliness mixed with internet access at a young age can lead to dark places.

Trauma in a crappy upbringing. Neglect or abuse.
Just crappy upbringing in general.

And yes, that particular individual would've been very different if the parents who raised that person is very different.

Past the clear social obliviousness and the unlucky infamy from stumbling in a particular side of the internet for being a particular fiction nut -- was this potential that even I couldn't pull it off.

Sadly, that's just isn't the case.
And it could've been worse.

Heck, there's also an example of someone just like that person; but without the autism, actually gone through the privilege of training in professional arts and has an actual power over the story.
Now that will be an interesting comparison.

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Questionable parenting and the trauma that it causes.

Who is Chris Chan?

^ Chris Chan is a so-called artist well known for creating "Sonichu", an "original" character who is Sonic crossed with Pikachu, who is the main character in a comic they made that looks like something I might have drawn when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old. Chris Chan says they became autistic because of an abusive babysitter (autism is most definitely not cause by childhood trauma or abuse), has made ablist, racist and homophobic remarks (then later ironically became a transgender woman), and committed acts of incest with their mother.

Basically someone I would not want to be seen as similar to due to having ASD at all.

They've also been bullied to no end by online trolls and been called an "lolcow", which is horribly cruel but doesn't excuse them assaulting their own mother.

Well Bob and Barb weren't great people to start with, and they basically coddled Chris and taught him to hide behind his Autism diagnosis as a way to excuse his sh***y behavior. Though constant online harassment isn't exactly good for one's sanity either...

Some people really enjoy attention and lack the social skills to differentiate between positive and negative attention. They don't always consciously enjoy it, but they end up addicted (I assume it's driven by how their reward system responds) to it regardless.

Trauma, poor parenting and other factors might contribute, but they're not universal among f****d up people.

Isn't he the dude who famously cried:

"Leave Britney alooonnnnee".

Or am I thinking of someone else?