She was just as much a Trump-voting conservative then as she is a boy now.
Indy circa 2016 just enjoyed being an edgelord on the internet. She made videos like "MAGA slut takes BBC", "Fucking your annoying SJW classmate", and videos based on Shadman art.
IIRC it was around then that she moved entirely to PH because Manyvids kicked her off for saying the n word.
To throw my own armchair psychoanalysis into the ring: she's a fundamentally unhappy person who feels compelled to completely reinvent herself every few years based on the zeitgeist of the time. One of her earliest ventures into online porn was a DDLG-focused Tumblr blog, something she will happily tell you she hates now but was all the rage on Tumblr back then.
I also think the fact that she's talked about having an eating disorder in the past is even more cause for alarm when she declares her intentions to make drastic and permanent changes to her body based on self-image.