Actually, the Uncle Jocko syndrome is a well-known one to primates. An Uncle Jocko is a primate who sucks up to human beings, jumps through hoops for them, and acts like a lovable goof for them just to please them and get ahead in life, thereby embarrassing and infuriating other primates. Uncle Jockos do all kinds of demeaning things, like wearing silly clothes and riding unicycles and posing for stupid "cute chimp" photos on greeting cards.

I think that's what the thread title is referring to, in all probability.

Rather than declining, my impression is that there are just as many Uncle Jockos around now as there ever were...although...maybe not as many as in the Golden Age of Hollywood movies, circa the 1940's & '50's. Some have called Bubbles an Uncle Jocko, but we won't know for sure till he testifies at Jacko's trial.