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Spoiling is trivially easy -- just mention that you like to torture kittens in your spare time.
Without such drastic admissions, are you really asking whether someone's opinion of you can radically decrease without you doing anything that seems out of the ordinary to you? I guess, but you also have to keep in mind the difference between what the other person things and what s/he is willing to show.
For example, let's say Alice and Bob meet. Alice doesn't really like Bob but she is polite so she doesn't show it in an obvious fashion plus she hopes that maybe Bob isn't as bad as he looks. After a bit of time Alice's opinion of Bob is still the same but now she sees less reason to be polite and have decided that yes, Bob is as bad as he looks. From the Bob's point of view it looks as if Alice took a sudden dislike to him, but from Alice's point of view she just allowed herself to show her true attitude which didn't change much.
Depends on who you're talking to, my reply would be along the lines of "cool!"
Presumably not a sincere reply...?
Imagine a situation where Bob asks Dave: Dave? Why didn't you come to my birthday party on Monday? Dave replies: "Monday I was busy torturing kittens."
In most cases, if someone would tell me that they torture kittens in their spare time I first impulse wouldn't be to conclude that they are actually torturing kittens.
The kind of person who can openly joke about torturing kittens in their spare time is likely high confidence. In some social contexts that joke will still get you looked down upon. Knowing what kind of jokes are acceptable and having the ability to push to that limit demonstrates social savviness.