Ray William Johnson

And he ends up reaching out to a bunch of different independent animators to help him out with this project.

But the story that Randy wrote is about massacres and glorifying mass shooters and stuff.

So each animator he reaches out to reads this and they're like, uh, no thanks, I don't want to be a part of this.

And so he gets rejected over and over and over again.

And this just makes Randy retreat further back into this fictional cartoon world that he's created.

And over time, he starts believing that the Ghost Squad characters are actually real.

In fact, he starts falling in love with the character Ember, and he legitimately believes that she has feelings for him too.

Not only that, but he starts believing that where he truly belongs is not in this world that we all live in, but in the ghost world with Ember.

He also starts idolizing the two shooters who shot up the Columbine High School back in 1999.

Randy thinks that they're like big heroes and he gets all inspired by their actions.

Then, he starts wearing a t-shirt that says, Natural Selection, because that's apparently what one of the shooters was wearing on the day of the shooting.

Here's actually a picture of him wearing it.

And here he is wearing it again.

And then, to make it worse, in 2017, Randy, I guess, he asks his mom to take him to a gun shop to buy some shotguns, and she does, and he buys two of them.

And Randy is ecstatic about these two guns.

He vlogs about it and stuff.

After that, he writes in his journal, you were a fool to trust me with that shotgun.

Oh mother, if you only realized you just signed my death warrant by taking me to that gun shop.

After that, he rips out the page and he leaves this note lying around the house for some reason, but his parents never find it and they never read it.

Randy also starts uploading videos of himself target practicing.