Ray William Johnson

He starts leaning into crazy conspiracy theories.

He claims that he has the ability to predict lightning strikes and volcanic eruptions.

One time he tells his wife, Gabriella, that airplanes are organic intelligent beings sent to greet him.

And all of this is happening during COVID.

So he also starts claiming that he found a way to map the coronavirus signals coming from within the earth.

Like, what?

And at some point during all this, Gabriella just gets fed up with all of Carl's crazy bullshit.

And she's like, screw it.

I'm not going to deal with this anymore.

And she goes to Netflix and she tells them all about what's been going on with him.

And she also files for divorce.

So the Netflix execs, they take all this information in and they realize that Carl either isn't going to be able to finish the project or has no intention of finishing the project.

Either way, in 2021, they inform him that they will no longer be funding his project.

However, but that he is free to take the project to another streaming platform and sell it as long as the new owner reimburses Netflix for the money that they've spent.

And again, Carl could reimburse them with the millions of dollars in Dogecoin money that he now has, but for whatever reason, he doesn't.

Instead, he just gets super pissed off and he goes and he hires a lawyer and he files a lawsuit against Netflix for breaching their contract.

But unfortunately for him, they go to arbitration and Carl actually loses.

And in fact, the arbiter rules that he actually owes Netflix $11.8 million.

Not only that, but federal prosecutors get involved and they end up charging Carl with wire fraud and money laundering for taking millions of dollars of Netflix's money and not spending it on the production.

And so, bam, he gets arrested.