Not even a little in this situation. Maybe take your head out of your ass and stop spreading lies. He literally addressed this head on.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2nz9v/comment/m7nr5ym/

His reply in text form:

It’s the year I was born, and also a lucky number in Taiwan where I am from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#%3A~%3Atext=Number+88+symbolizes+fortune+and%2Csupermarkets+often+contain+many+8s.