AIO or does this guy want something from me

I’ll start by saying I’m pretty confident that the way I actually responded to him was reasonable. What I’m asking about is if my fears are justified and to what extent.

A few months ago this guy responds to an Instagram post of mine, and I responded to him. This happened a couple times and we got into casual conversations where we talked about shared interests and stories from our day to day lives.

The reason I engaged at all was because he shares some of my important values and I don’t have many people like that who I know in real life. Anyway, it was pretty fun for a few weeks exchanging messages sometimes.

Then, he sent a message about how he gets exhausted from texting because he wasn’t raised with this technology and he requested that we voice call sometime. I was slightly reluctant because that felt personal, but I agreed to it.

Between then and when I got around to calling him, he sent voice messages instead of texts. In one of these messages he said “You really amaze me. I feel like I’ve met my match intellectually.” to which I physically cringed. What an oddly personal thing to say to a teenager. That’s when I started noticing the “glazing”.

Anyway, I politely reminded him of my age and that I don’t want to get super close with him for that reason, which he respected and backed off. I went back to feeling fairly safe.

When I got around to actually calling him, we had a pretty pleasant conversation. He complimented my intellect several times, which, not that I don’t appreciate the compliment, but I felt were a little odd to say to a teenager so I took mental notes.

I thought to myself that I enjoyed this friendship more before I noticed the pattern of compliments, so I only messaged him briefly the next week.

Then, we called again, and I noticed the same thing. His dog had just died so I wasn’t weirded out by the personal conversation we had about grief.

I didn’t message him at all for the next couple weeks. During that time, I clicked on his Instagram story and he had shared a post about Elon Musk and he put the words “DEVIL F____T” (but he didn’t censor the second word)

Honestly I thought it was really funny that a grown ass man / self-proclaimed intellectual would publicly post something so unhinged but it did make me realize this guy isn’t really mature and thus may not understand the age gap issue.

I was kind of icked out by “I miss talking to you” so we had this conversation in the screenshots and to be fair he responded “I understand.” to my last message, but uh, the other stuff he said before was kinda odd…right?

Anyway, I haven’t talked to him since then, and I want to hear what y’all have to say.