>>97933867That barely scratches the surface of the breakdown John Campbell had toward the end of his kickstarter fiasco.
For one thing, he wrote an update to the project in which he claimed he (and several other moderately known webcomic and animator folks) were all knowingly feigning ongoing depression and sadness in order to garner a following and make money doing so.
When he caught backlash over that, he wrote another post claiming that he feigned the claim that he was feigning ongoing depression and sadness, because he knew the resulting backlash would be controversial and therefore bring more attention to his work.
Then he wrote a follow-up in which he more clearly laid out the emotional and moral issues he was having with even being an artist in the first place, and was suggesting we'd all be better off in a society where someone isn't required to produce something tangible and noteworthy in order to earn the right to maintain a living wage. It became a very strongly disconnected manifesto of sorts about how money toxifies the whole essence of society and how one values human life.
Also, he revealed that he went through a period of gender dysphoria and considered himself female. And he copped to having done lots of drugs (especially DMT) which had sort of unmoored his sense of identity.
He didn't just threaten to burn copies of his unshipped TBP, he actually did so, and posted video of the books burning. He ran out of money, but not because of bookkeeping screw-ups. He just used it to eat and house himself, and didn't bother with the mailing of the books eventually.
"Evils of capitalism" is kind of a misstatement of his form of mental breakdown. It was more a rejection of all current societal concepts of human value.
Long story short, he lost it.
