It's stupider than that. He is an exceptional individual who lives with his mother that tried to "make a living" by buying stacks of books made on the indie scene courtesy of CG. He decided to do this with credit cards because he's a genetic dead end who will die alone and starving to death. This put him into stupid amounts of debt and basically nuked any chance of him making money, made all the worse by the fact that the Indiegogo books are already at their premium value IMO as a consumer (seriously, 25 plus shipping is max price IMO for novellas like that).
It probably doesn't help that he stores them like shit; no seriously what type of exceptional individual opens his stock to the elements like that?
Then, once Ethan actually showed finished books, he decided to use the main thread with its 2 million + views to try and make a personal army to both force refunds and open a market for him to try and get people to buy the shit that's hogging space in his room. The problem is he became a greedy exceptional individual and refused to take the refund, because he wanted the books and art that he paid for as well as it. He then chimped when he was laughed at and told to fuck off for such a pathetic grift.
Oh, and his own family think he's a waste and is disappointed in him never growing up, there's that too.