Believe me, that was my reaction when I found out that's how he went. I initially saw the incident mentioned in another thread without who was responsible mentioned and didn't connect the dots because while he was a blatant troll he usually didn't dabble in anything quite so strange.
But lo and behold, the straw that broke the camel's back was...trying to hide a tan.
Then again at one time during his trollmultuous reign he popped into a conversation discussing how people without avatars are fishy saying something about not having an avatar proving you were superior because you'd carve a legacy through one's deeds instead of aesthetics or...something I'm super wildly paraphrasing or misremembering entirely but basically it could only have conceivably applied to him entirely because of his infamy. And, uh, his lack of an avatar of course.