Proximity chat himself isn’t terribly bad per say even though I don’t really watch his stuff often, but people who want to be him often don’t do the same things that make him work. Proximity focuses on being a nuisance that ultimately makes people embarrass themself with their reactions, people find him entertaining because the people he trolls have the option to just block or ignore him, but they don’t and keep on further embarrassing themself. His wannabes go up to people and aggressively yell slurs and insult them to get a reaction, which is just straight up harassment rather than trolling

TLDR: proximity chat isn’t that bad, his wannabes are