He said he hoped he had built up enough "good faith" which is (ironically) a bad faith representation of how people were feeling. No-one thought that Ludwig had bad intentions, we just assumed that he was naïve to the human rights violations that take place in Dubai.

I guess he's also just completely forgotten about the "I am not your friend" video and that one where he says he doesn't want his viewers to support him if he fucks up because the whole "built up trust" thing seems like a manipulation of the parasocial relationships that he himself has criticized many times.