Oh dear, I hadn’t even thought about the deal signing photo. The narrative was carefully orchestrated from the outset - a hugely successful man, who could turn his hands to anything, struck down in his prime. That sort of thing appeals to so many different types of people, from grief tourists to those who so want to catch a break and believe anyone who may give them a glimmer of hope about how they did it. It’s very sad, and if it’s designed to prey on people it’s a really horrible thing. I didn’t follow Richard early on because whilst I felt sorry for him I didn’t like the way he spoke about things. I followed him for a little while, probably because he kept appearing on my feed or something, but again, I didn’t like the rants. Have to say I didn’t like the Tattle rants either, seemed really unnecessarily vitriolic sometimes (remember that was before we knew about the possibility of all these scams) but I think they fed off each other a lot. He loved the drama, until he couldn’t control it! But the deal signing photo was definitely meant to suggest he’d been signed by a publisher, as he had said he’d been contacted by publishers after posting stuff online. As someone said much earlier, I’m worried now this was all designed and manipulated from the outset when he saw how Bowelbabe managed to get people to part with their money in such huge amounts.