It speaks volumes that he's so worked up over this one friend's death that it's apparently ripping him apart to even work on the album inspired by the death, yet he also just can't help but bring it up in every post about the album. In his words, this is a friend who had a pretty big drug problem and only quit for him (which any addict/friend of an addict will tell you is already doomed to fail; you quit that shit, you do it for you, but whatever), and was oh so inspirational to his life. One who chose to end their life for their own reasons and how dare she not stay alive for him, because it's all about him and his feelings and how dare she.
However, photos of ritually sacrificed children? You know, kids who had no fucking choice in dying? Nah, that's chill. Junko Furuta? A girl who was just minding her own business on her way home from work and became a victim of what is essentially "wrong place, wrong time", because she was picked at random. Someone's whose death and the circumstances leading up to it were so fucking harrowing, that I would be hard pressed to say there could've been too many worse ways to go. How about all those people whose very real, horrific circumstances were used as his samples? Like the young girl who called the cops after having found her sibling post-suicide?
Nah, fam. That's just aesthetic. For my sick beats and edgy album artwork. They did it for my 'gram.
If he's just using this whole "last album" arc to ditch the edgelord persona and actually get out of that mindset, then good on him for realizing it's time for a change, but I'm not sure how much I'd wager on that being the case. Not many troons are known for being able to resist the attention and limelight, and I'd say it's more likely he'll just rebrand as some other anime edgy-uWu artist with some other dead girl as his inspiration.
Also, that Patreon post reads like a teenager's journal entry and I hate it.
I miss the days when artists with actual mental issues kept that shit ambiguous and subtle. Nowadays, you aren't mental if you don't give a daily reminder to your followers.
Edit: A word.