Some of it is for sure, especially when people get grouchy about “flair” and I haven’t listened to the clip with the prick comment tacked on but speaking strictly on the jewelry I think it’s more a generational thing. I didn’t wear chains when I played 10 years ago and now all my guys do, most multiple. Black/white doesn’t matter.
I wore the extended wrist tape and I had a coach 15ish years older than me tell me we were placing baseball, not boxing. No need for all the show.
I just think old people gonna old people as long as there’s a world that everyone ages in. They can’t be on broadcasts tho