This. That is beautifully put in pinpointing this weird shift in Richard. I honestly think if he had been late with one or two, most people didn't mind. Because he gave updates in autistic detail... Then the workload became too much of a burden. Coming up with half-baked ideas, hiring artists, spending money to mail, having no home to call his base... He just got lazy, and sloppy, and one late project turned into two, into four, into every single project became late.
Want to know which campaign was the last time Richard saw 100k? in 2022, Critical Drinker's book (and even that one didn't make it to 100k before the closing). I looked through every campaign he did since then and now he would be lucky to get Brian's measly 40k (for transparency, his final Jawbreakers did make it to 50k at closing and now sits at 62k
If you look at the project, the overwhelming purchases came from the Drinker combo. 1818 out of the 3025 backers bought the CD combo. Even the Stallone pack got a pittiable 77 backers on its own.
This is what Richard wrote to introduce Drinker to the audience
This is a pretty strong endorsement. Odd, Richard didn't seem to think he was just a hateful Englishman who deserved to have his Country nuked for not liking movies, and talking about the message... So what happened? I don't know for sure, but maybe the fact that Drinker's books got out before everything else, maybe the fact Drinker's name sold most of those comics, maybe some Froggit got in his ear about toeing the line if he wanted to stay in good graces with the CG mafia? Who knows. Because it's clear to me that cutting ties with those people is proving to be less lucrative the more it goes on. He had overlapping fans with EVS and the CG crowd, same with the FNT crowd, and even though all the FNT crowd has done was... not like something Richard likes, whereas CG actively engages in gayops and attempts to shut down fellow indie businessmen, he chose to stick with CG. Hm. Well, you don't gain any extra fans from CG since they are already here - but you DO lose a whole lot of fans from FNT who would have been fine for you to disagree, but stay out of the shit-slinging, and now see the one-sided attacks as unhinged - I'm sure that totally won't fuck up your bottom line when it comes to your next 4 year long project endeavor Richard. Good business move there, retard.